scholarly journals The impact of social ties and SARS memory on the public awareness of 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haohui Chen ◽  
Cecile Paris ◽  
Andrew Reeson

Abstract This study examines publicly available online search data in China to investigate the spread of public awareness of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak. We found that cities that had previously suffered from SARS (in 2003–04) and have greater migration ties to Wuhan had earlier, stronger and more durable public awareness of the outbreak. Our data indicate that 48 such cities developed awareness up to 19 days earlier than 255 comparable cities, giving them an opportunity to better prepare. This study suggests that it is important to consider memory of prior catastrophic events as they will influence the public response to emerging threats.

Author(s):  
Haohui Chen ◽  
Weipan Xu ◽  
Cecile Paris ◽  
Andrew Reeson ◽  
Xun Li

AbstractThis study examines publicly available online search data in China to investigate the spread of public awareness of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We found that cities that suffered from SARS and have greater migration ties to the epicentre, Wuhan, had earlier, stronger and more durable public awareness of the outbreak. Our data indicate that forty-eight such cities developed awareness up to 19 days earlier than 255 comparable cities, giving them an opportunity to better prepare. This study suggests that it is important to consider memory of prior catastrophic events as they will influence the public response to emerging threats.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 1458-1464
Author(s):  
Sweta Kamboj ◽  
Rohit Kamboj ◽  
Shikha Kamboj ◽  
Kumar Guarve ◽  
Rohit Dutt

Background: In the 1960s, the human coronavirus was designated, which is responsible for the upper respiratory tract disease in children. Back in 2003, mainly 5 new coronaviruses were recognized. This study directly pursues to govern knowledge, attitude and practice of viral and droplet infection isolation safeguard among the researchers during the outbreak of the COVID-19. Introduction: Coronavirus is a proteinaceous and infectious pathogen. It is an etiological agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Coronavirus, appeared in China from the seafood and poultry market last year, which has spread in various countries, and has caused several deaths. Methods: The literature data has been taken from different search platforms like PubMed, Science Direct, Embase, Web of Science, who.int portal and complied. Results: Corona virology study will be more advanced and outstanding in recent years. COVID-19 epidemic is a threatening reminder not solely for one country but all over the universe. Conclusion: In this review article, we encapsulated the pathogenesis, geographical spread of coronavirus worldwide, also discussed the perspective of diagnosis, effective treatment, and primary recommendations by the World Health Organization, and guidelines of the government to slow down the impact of the virus are also optimistic, efficacious and obliging for the public health. However, it will take a prolonged time in the future to overcome this epidemic.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nour Halabi

Throughout the Syrian crisis, the presence of material and symbolic boundaries to culture became a particularly salient element of the continuously unfolding political turmoil. As one terrorist group, Daesh, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, seeks to unite the vast area of the Middle East under the political, religious, and cultural administration of a “Greater State of Syria,” or “al-Sham,” this article revisits the historical spatial organization of Damascus and the construction of city boundaries and walls as factors that contributed to the cultivation of spatially grounded cleavages within Syrian and Damascene identity. In the latter section of this article, I reflect on the impact of these cleavages on the Syrian crisis by focusing on the public response to the siege of the Mouaddamiyya neighborhood.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Abdullah Osman Kocak ◽  
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Sinem Dogruyol ◽  
Ilker Akbas ◽  
Bugra Kerget ◽  
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Introduction. The 2019-novel-coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak has become a common problem for the whole world. Aim. To investigate the impact of the 2019-nCoV pandemic period in our country on emergency room admissions. Materials and methods. The study was designed as a retrospective cohort. The first case of pneumonia infected with nCoV in our country was diagnosed on March 11, 2020. Considering the date of March 11, 2020, emergency room admissions for two periods of 7 days were investigated, pre-COVID-19 and COVID19. Demographic data, admission diagnosis, vital findings, stay times in emergency room, terminations and emergency department mortality examined. A group of ‘geriatric’ patient populations were created to examine the admission characteristics of patients aged-65 and over. Results. The 3466 patients included in the study. The average number of daily admissions was significantly higher in the pre-COVID-19 period (350.4 ± 54.5), compared to the COVID-19 period (144.7 ± 20.2, p=0001). While the proportion of cardiac- caused admissions increased during the COVID period, the proportion of gastrointestinal-induced admissions decreased (p<0001). Hospitalization rates for both adult and geriatric patients increased during the COVID period (p<0001). Conclusion. Despite all the negativity caused by the outbreak, this period has been one in which the public is aware of unnecessary emergency room which has been subsequently lessened.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Greiner ◽  
Abraham Lee ◽  
Jake Checketts ◽  
Micah Hartwell

AbstractBackgroundPersons with rare disorders, such as tetralogy of Fallot, often feel socially isolated due to poor public awareness of the disorder. On 1 May 2017, Jimmy Kimmel aired a segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live! highlighting the impact of tetralogy of Fallot on his son and how the public can learn more about the disorder.MethodsWe tracked public interest in tetralogy of Fallot using Google Trends and Twitter after the episode and constructed an autoregressive integrated moving average algorithm to calculate search volumes had Kimmel not aired the episode.ResultsGoogle searches and the number of Tweets for tetralogy of Fallot increased by 3063.27% and 4672.62%, respectively, above expected.ConclusionsOur findings indicate that television talk shows may represent strong outlets for increasing public awareness of rare disorders.


2019 ◽  
pp. 321-340
Author(s):  
Anna Naplocha

This article deals with the issue of achieving the goals of ecological education in the context of the fable The Wolf Called Ambaras by Tomasz Samojlik and its influence on shaping pro-ecological attitudes of children and adolescents towards wolves. The fable The Wolf Called Ambaras by Tomasz Samojlik is part of the literature trend promoting pro-ecological attitudes within the framework of ecological education. The main educational goal included in the story of the fable treating the adventures of the young wolf is to provide young readers and their parents the knowledge about the wolves’ life as well as public awareness of the need to protect the wolf by shaping positive attitudes of people towards this predator. Helpful in this assumption is taking up the problem of overthrowing negative stereotypes about wolves, on which the form of answers as well as attemption of demythologizing them are individual scenes of the fable. The plot of the analyzed fable attempts to answer the three main allegations of people towards wolves, which often appear in social, political and ecological discourse: the issue of wolves attacks on people, the impact of wolves hunting on forest game population and the public perception of a wolf as a bad animal, one unnecessary in the ecosystem. In addition, the bibliotherapeutic character of the fable was indicated. Through identificaiton with the character of the fable, readers can overcome their own fears related to their weaknesses and complexes based on the desensitization.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan McLarty

Medicine has long been one of the lingering aspects of society yet to be fully disrupted by technological advances. Unlike media, banking and commerce which have adapted to the growing demand for convenience and accessibility from the public, the practice of medicine in many ways remains much unchanged from decades prior. The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) demanded an immediate shift in the way Canadian healthcare was delivered to reduce the risk of viral transmission from in person patient encounters. Cancer poses a large and ever-increasing impact on the Canadian population and healthcare resources. Brenner et al. (2020) estimated nearly half of the Canadian population will develop cancer in their lifetime in addition to the recent increasing yearly number of new diagnoses and deaths as the population grows and ages [1]. Cancer patients were initially an ideal population for telemedicine encounters during the pandemic. These patients often have additional comorbidities association with COVID-19 mortality and a diagnosis of cancer may further increase this risk [2]. As healthcare enters a second year within the new paradigm of virtual medicine, it is important to consider the impact and future of telemedicine on Canada’s ever-growing oncology patients.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
M. Subki Tahyudin ◽  
Abubakar Iskandar ◽  
M. Yamin Saleh

The focus of the research is the management of TPU in the city of Bogor, the purpose of this study was to determine the strategy of the City Government in the management of TPU, to investigate the implementation of the government's strategy of Bogor manage TPU and for mengetaui impact strategy Bogor city administration to the user community TPU. The method used in this study is a qualitative method by taking the informant of the two types of informants for Administrative manager of TPU and user communities TPU using techniques snow ball, TPU city of Bogor there are eight TPU, the study focused on four TPU them TPU Gunung Gadung, TPU Cipaku, TPU and TPU Dreded Blender. researchers showed that the provision of land in Bogor City TPU has not been ideal with the needs of the community cemetery. At this time the city of Bogor require five (5) hectares of TPU, the strategy of the City Government in managing the TPU results structured interview stated that the strategy pegelolaan TPU is expected to provide services to the needs of society in a cemetery that is desired and expected by the public, in the implementation of the policy as a strategy management of TPU, the management of TPU is not ideal with the regulations the City Government as the provisions of the management planned, many factors and constraints in managing TPU like availability of land in the city of Bogor is very difficult to get, quality and human resource capacity to be a factor to failure in managing the TPU, lack of socialization management policy to the community of the importance of the TPU management policy, as well as the lack of attention from the Bogor city administration for the management of TPU. the impact of management strategies TPU on society shows that the answer No 54.1% and 45.9% YES answer is public response to the TPU management policy means greater datipada answers No answer Yes to show people are not satisfied with the services provided by the City Government Bogor UPTD Funeral manage TPU.Keywords: Policies, TPU, Human Resources.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Singh ◽  
K Sharma

Abstract Background World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020 and characterized the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. India enacted such measures early on for effective mitigation and suppression to reduce community transmission, including an onerous national lockdown. The impact of the health system governance is quite apparent among all stakeholders including the public in such emergency contexts. Methods We compiled the daily data on the number of COVID-19 cases, recoveries and deaths from January 30th until June 16th, 2020. Different stages were categorized from post PHEIC declaration (pre-lockdown) phase to lockdown phases and unlocking phase as implemented. The several measures adopted by the national government were structured in four broad categories as Governance and socioeconomic, travel restrictions, lockdown and public health measures. These measures were compared during each phase. Results It was revealed that while the cases are rising the phased restrictions has helped in delaying the peak and remarkably interrupted the rate of transmission. The national average doubling rate was 3 days at the beginning which improved to 22 days. The basic reproduction number remained close to 1 during the last week of lockdown. However, the initial interruption of needed aid and technical support had negative social and economic impacts on the affected population. Conclusions As the situation abates following the measures adopted by the government, an articulate strategy of unlocking through increased testing and prompt isolation needs to be developed for more effective reduction and protecting the livelihoods allowing to further relax the lockdown measures. Key messages There is need for the local government to consider a strategic easing of the lockdown for protecting the rights of the most affected population. As the transmission rates are low, the easing of lockdown can be benefited from improved testing and prompt isolation.


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