scholarly journals Higher Vaccination Rate Predicts Reduction in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission across the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacky Au
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vaccination Rate ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
Peak Viral Load ◽  
One Year ◽  
To Receive

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) began proliferating widely throughout the world in late 2019/early 2020, creating a global pandemic and health crisis. Although vaccines became available to the public approximately one year after the onset of the pandemic, there still remains much hesitancy surrounding vaccination even two years into the pandemic. One key concern comes from reports of breakthrough infections among the vaccinated that show comparable levels of peak viral load as the unvaccinated, calling into question the ability of vaccines to slow or prevent transmission. Therefore young, healthy individuals who are at low risk of serious complications themselves have little incentive to receive a vaccine that they are not convinced will protect others around them. To address this important concern, this article analyzes COVID-19 incidence in the United States as a function of each state's vaccination rate. Results show that states with higher percentages of fully vaccinated individuals report fewer new cases among the remaining unvaccinated population. These data add to accumulating evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations can indeed slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, and are an important tool in society's arsenal to put this pandemic behind us.

scholarly journals Managing Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Agility and Collaboration Toward a Common Goal

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masumi Ueda ◽  
Renato Martins ◽  
Paul C. Hendrie ◽  
Terry McDonnell ◽  
Jennie R. Crews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Face ◽  
Snohomish County

The first confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States was reported on January 20, 2020, in Snohomish County, Washington. At the epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and University of Washington are at the forefront of delivering care to patients with cancer during this public health crisis. This Special Feature highlights the unique circumstances and challenges of cancer treatment amidst this global pandemic, and the importance of organizational structure, preparation, agility, and a shared vision for continuing to provide cancer treatment to patients in the face of uncertainty and rapid change.

scholarly journals Flattening the Curve

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Power
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quick Response ◽  
Communication Plan ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Pandemic Response ◽  
Dialogue Theory

This paper explores Canada’s communications approach to the population during the global pandemic of COVID-19. Canada’s perceptive risk communication plan consists of quick response, transparency, and credible figures as representatives of information that are deemed the current principles of success (as of April 2020). The literature review inaugurates the necessary definitions for the topic and provides detailed information about the action Canada has taken in the 2020 pandemic, while the discussion evaluates and debates Canada’s communicative strengths while acknowledging areas for improvement. Following the tactics explored, comparisons are made against the United States’ pandemic response along with a review of practices to avoid in risk communication, such as blame. Finally, transformative dialogue theory is analyzed as a potential answer to the successful interactions between the Canadian government, authoritative figures, and the public. 

Public Policy Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Blood Supply in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. e1-e7
Author(s):  
William Riley ◽  
Kailey Love ◽  
Jeffrey McCullough
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Preparedness Planning ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated an acute blood shortage for medical transfusions, exacerbating an already tenuous blood supply system in the United States, contributing to the public health crisis, and raising deeper questions regarding emergency preparedness planning for ensuring blood availability. However, these issues around blood availability during the pandemic are related primarily to the decline in supply caused by reduced donations during the pandemic rather than increased demand for transfusion of patients with COVID-19. The challenges to ensure a safe blood supply during the pandemic will continue until a vaccine is developed, effective treatments are available, or the virus goes away. If this virus or a similar virus were capable of transmission through blood, it would have a catastrophic impact on the health care system, causing a future public health emergency that would jeopardize the national blood supply. In this article, we identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on blood supply adequacy, discuss the public health implications, propose recovery strategies, and present recommendations for preparing for the next disruption in blood supply driven by a public health emergency. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print March 18, 2021: e1–e7. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306157 )

scholarly journals A Continuum Deformation Approach for Growth Analysis of COVID-19 in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadra Hemmati ◽  
Hossein Rastgoftar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Circle Method ◽  
Growth Dynamics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vaccination Rate ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Continuum Deformation

AbstractThe COVID-19 global pandemic has significantly impacted every aspect of life all over the world. The United States is reported to have suffered more than 20% of the global casualties from this pandemic. It is imperative to investigate the growth dynamics of the disease in the US based on varying geographical and governmental factors that best manifest itself in each State of the Country. This paper utilizes a hybrid machine learning and continuum deformation-based approach for analyzing the stability and growth rate of the pandemic. To this end, principal stress values of the pandemic continuum body are obtained using Mohr’s Circle method and overlapping, moving windows of data are analysed successively. This helps in finding the correlations between the growth rate and Governments’ action/Public’s reaction. Government actions include “state of emergency”, “shelter at place”, and “phase declarations”. We also consider the vaccination rate milestones, which shows us the coordinated Governments’ action/Public’s reaction. Finally, a number of recommendations are made to the Governments and people for better management of future pandemics.

The “Propaganda State” and Sino-American Rapprochement: Preparing the Chinese Public for Nixon’s Visit

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Guolin Yi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
The Public ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Chinese Public

Studies of Sino-American rapprochement in 1972 have not sufficiently explored how the Chinese public, which had been taught to hate the American “imperialists,” learned (or was instructed) about the dramatic change. By analyzing Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily) and Cankao Xiaoxi (Reference News), an internal (neibu) newspaper circulated only among Chinese Communist Party cadres, this article examines how the Chinese government prepared the party and its people for rapprochement from 1969 through 1971. Reference News kept cadres posted about Washington’s overtures, Nixon’s expressed wish to visit China, and Mao’s willingness to receive him, among other items not shared with the wider public. Before official exchanges were agreed, the Chinese government conducted “people-to-people diplomacy” by inviting American “friends” and displaying them to the Chinese public through banquets, receptions, and ceremonies. People’s Daily, which offered intensive coverage to these visitors, was particularly important in promoting the atmosphere of friendship. Party leaders did not need the approval of the public and party workers, but they did take their response into account in making foreign policy, especially on dramatic changes. By evaluating the Chinese communication system and its handling of public opinion on relations with the United States, this article presents a more nuanced picture of the “propaganda state.”

scholarly journals DICK, Kirby and ZIERING, Amy. 2016. The Hunting Ground. The inside story of sexual assault on American college campuses. México: Hot Books, 188 pp.

2018 ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Ana Vidu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
One Year ◽  
Hunting Ground ◽  
The Invisible

<p>The Hunting Ground started to initially be a documentary released in 2015 daring to present on the big screen, the sexual violence on the United States college campuses. The filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering were the Academy Award winners of the film “The Invisible war”, which tackles the sexual violence happening in the army context. While they were running along the United States college campuses screening “The Invisible War” and discussing about the silence perpetuated into the army, students were raising their hands from the public, claiming the gender violence also exits within the academy. According to its producers, The Hunting Ground is the consequence of directly interviewing around 70 people on camera and more than 200 in off-camera dialogues. One year after its first release, the documentary’s impact was uncountable. The visionary of this documentary at each university, contributed to trigger discussion about the issue of sexual harassment, started activism among its community and initiating change.</p><p><strong>Published online</strong>: 11 December 2018</p>

Coverage of The United States-Pakistan Relationsin American Newspapers

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-214
Author(s):  
Saqib Riaz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The Media ◽  
One Year

Abstract The relations between the United States of America and Pakistan have a significant impact on the world’s politics as well as in shaping the future of the globe. However, the relations between the two countries have been passing through a lot of ups and downs during the last seven decades. Media have a pivotal role in framing and shaping this ‘love and hate’ relationship. The purpose of this study was to investigate the coverage of the United States-Pakistan relations by the American newspapers because the media coverage shapes the public opinion. Two major newspapers of the United States were content analyzed for a period of one year with the help of Lexis and Nexis and the coverage of Pakistan was measured and analyzed qualitatively as well as quantitatively. The results of the study revealed that the American newspapers portrayed a highly negative image of Pakistan and most of the coverage about the bilateral relations was found as negative.

Reimagining the Delivery of International Student Services During a Global Pandemic: A Case Study in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 102831532110527
Author(s):  
Yovana S. Veerasamy ◽  
Ravichandran Ammigan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Student Services ◽  
International Student ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Virtual Mode

The COVID-19 global pandemic caught the United States and the rest of the world ill-prepared, and many institutions of higher education continue to wrestle with unprecedented challenges to provide effective support services to their students. This paper examines how a mid-sized university in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States reimagined the delivery of services to its international student population at the onset of the health crisis. The study employed a qualitative method and a case study research design to describe, from an institutional perspective, the shift from a traditional in-person service model to a virtual mode of support for international students as a result of campus closures and a switch to remote learning. Based on the findings, the authors offer five key considerations that can be crucial in effectively delivering International Student Services in an online environment. Implications for international educators and support staff are discussed.

scholarly journals Social Inequities Highlighted by the Prolonged Pandemic: Expanding Sick Leave

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-163
Author(s):  
Beth Rauhaus ◽  
Andrew Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
Paid Sick Leave

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of federal responses have been enacted in the United States to address the public health crisis, as well as the economic fallout and inequalities caused by the pandemic. A key feature globally in fighting the pandemic has been paid sick leave, as other nations have been successful in flattening the curve of infections by enacting emergency paid sick leave. This work explores best practices globally of paid sick leave used during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the theoretical framework of punctuated equilibrium, this work spotlights the increased need to address paid sick leave in the United States. This work contributes further to understanding how policymaking in a federal system of government occurs during times of crisis.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of state public health measures and number of COVID-19 cases in California, Texas, and New York (April to July 2020)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Khajenoori ◽  
Lina Kamil ◽  
Joyita Bhattacharjee ◽  
Ellie Feng ◽  
Sanvi Pal
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Health Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Global Pandemic

In response to the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, every state has utilized varying degrees of public health policies yielding different trends in the number of cases. Due to the lack of a unified approach taken in response to the global pandemic in the United States, we can look at the general trends in case numbers from different states in the context of the public health measures that have been implemented. Through the use of multiple databases, we collected data from each states health department websites and policy data came from the COVID-19 US State Policy Database on the CDR, as well as the KFF state policy database in order to graph the number of daily new cases in three different states while marking the dates when the certain policies were implemented. The scope of this particular review focuses on California, New York, and Texas, each of which have taken different approaches and are reflective of three different areas of the continental United States. The four policies that are analyzed include shelter in place orders, mask mandates, the closure and reopening of non-essential businesses, and the closure and reopening of restaurants for in person dining. To further understand the reopening strategies of these three states, we have utilized the “National Coronavirus Response: A Roadmap to Reopening” guide to compare the points at which each state decided to open considering testing capacity, contact tracing, and case numbers/trend in cases at that point in time. Based on this data, we comparatively analyzed trends in cases and policy measures, taking into account other factors like tracing and testing capacity to evaluate the appropriateness of each state’s measures in its overall goal of reopening. Overall, we have found New York which began as the hotspot for COVID-19 cases, to ultimately be the most successful state in regard to reducing the number of daily new cases and surpassing goals for contact tracing and testing. Conversely California, which began as a success story, has seen a sharp rise in cases after moving into phases of reopening. Similarly, Texas has also seen a rise in cases over recent months with the relaxation of public health measures before meeting the markers for reopening. Both California and Texas have been far behind on testing and contact tracing capabilities. Not only abiding by public health policy recommendations but also being consistent with these measures throughout the course of the pandemic are correlated with lower numbers of cases when comparing New York with California and Texas. This finding implies that for future pandemics, and moving forward with the current pandemic, extreme caution should be taken in timing public health measures and tracking cases.

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