scholarly journals Covid-19 prevention by adopting a healthy daily lifestyle

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 4207
Author(s):  
Monalisa Mahajan
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Virus Transmission ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Pharmaceutical Treatment ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Susceptible Population ◽  
The People ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The corona virus disease caused by novel coronavirus SARAS-Cov2 is a public health emergency of international concern. Numerous measures have been implemented in many countries to reduce the person to person virus transmission as well as the outbreak. The specific focus of preventive measures is more on the susceptible population of children, healthcare providers, and older people. Many of the people practice safety measures without proper knowledge as to whether these measures are sufficient or not to prevent the spread of the virusAs of this time there has no effective pharmaceutical treatment, there should be adopt a way of prevention that is much helpful than cure.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Future Challenges and Recommendations for Dental Settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. RV1-RV5
Author(s):  
Najmus Sahar ◽  
Pradeep Tangade ◽  
Vikas Singh ◽  
Surbhi Priyadarshini ◽  
Debashis Roy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Virus Transmission ◽  
Review Article ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The novel coronavirus outbreak is a contagious disease affecting the countries around the world. The quick advancing nature of pandemic has gripped the entire community making it a public health emergency. Infection control preventive measures are necessary to prevent it from further spreading. Medical practitioners, health care workers and Dentists are at high risk of acquiring and transmission of infection. The virus transmission occurs through respiratory tract, aerosols and droplets. Clinical manifestations of virus vary from mild to severe sickness. This review article mainly emphasizes on all the information collected to date on the virus, and future recommendations for dental settings to manage the further spread of this virus.

scholarly journals The Healthcare Providers-Patients Relationship and State Obligations in Times of Public Health Emergency

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-298
Author(s):  
Gloria C. Nwafor ◽  
Anthony O. Nwafor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
West African ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
State Obligations

The recent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (evd) in the West African sub-region sprung challenges on the healthcare providers in the observance of their ethical rules in dealing with their patients and the State in fulfilling its obligations to ensure that the rights of patients are respected in times of public health emergency. The ethical rules of medical practice demand that the healthcare providers prefer the interests of their patients to the preservation of self. The State is by law under obligation to protect and respect the rights of the patients in all situations. The paper argues that the responses by the healthcare providers and the States in the West African sub region in the wake of the public health emergency fell short of the demands of the ethical rules of the medical profession and the obligation to ensure that the rights of the patients are respected.

scholarly journals Postnatally Acquired Zika Virus Disease Among Children, United States, 2016–2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole P Lindsey ◽  
Charsey C Porse ◽  
Emily Potts ◽  
Judie Hyun ◽  
Kayleigh Sandhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Zika Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Virus Transmission ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Case Definition ◽  
Illness Onset ◽  
Clinical Signs And Symptoms

Abstract Background The clinical findings among children with postnatally acquired Zika virus disease are not well characterized. We describe and compare clinical signs and symptoms for children aged <18 years. Methods Zika virus disease cases were included if they met the national surveillance case definition, had illness onset in 2016 or 2017, resided in a participating state, and were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pediatric cases were aged <18 years; congenital and perinatal infections were excluded. Pediatric cases were matched to adult cases (18‒49 years). Clinical information was compared between younger and older pediatric cases and between children and adults. Results A total of 141 pediatric Zika virus disease cases were identified; none experienced neurologic disease. Overall, 28 (20%) were treated in an emergency department, 1 (<1%) was hospitalized; none died. Of the 4 primary clinical signs and symptoms associated with Zika virus disease, 133 (94%) children had rash, 104 (74%) fever, 67 (48%) arthralgia, and 51 (36%) conjunctivitis. Fever, arthralgia, and myalgia were more common in older children (12‒17 years) than younger children (1‒11 years). Arthralgia, arthritis, edema, and myalgia were more common in adults compared to children. Conclusions This report supports previous findings that Zika virus disease is generally mild in children. The most common symptoms are similar to other childhood infections, and clinical findings and outcomes are similar to those in adults. Healthcare providers should consider a diagnosis of Zika virus infection in children with fever, rash, arthralgia, or conjunctivitis, who reside in or have traveled to an area where Zika virus transmission is occurring.

scholarly journals Smart Pooled Sample Testing for COVID-19: A Possible Solution For Sparcity of Test Kits (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Usama Khalid Bukhari ◽  
Syed Safwan Khalid ◽  
Asmara Syed ◽  
Syed Sajid Hussain Shah
Keyword(s):  
Group Size ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Positive Ratio ◽  
The People ◽  
Global Health Issue ◽  
Sample Testing ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Pooled Sample

BACKGROUND Corona virus disease (COVID-19) has severely affected a large number of people from all over the world. At present, there is no medicine available for its treatment. Adopting preventive measures to limit the spread of infection among the people is the best solution to this global health issue. The identification of infected cases and their isolation from healthy people is one of the essential preventive measures. In this regard, screening of the samples from a large number of people is needed, which requires many reagent kits for the detection of SARS-CoV-2. Data of COVID-19 testing for the screening purposes from various countries revealed that most of the tests were negative. Based on this data, the smart pooling of samples will reduce the kit consumption without affecting the outcome. OBJECTIVE The main objective is to find out an effective method for the conduction of maximum testing for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis with less utilization of reagent kits. METHODS The available data of COVID-19 testing from different countries were evaluated by applying the simulators for the calculation of smart pooled sample testing size. RESULTS The simulation results show that the Test to Positive Ratio (TPR) is directly linked with the number of tests needed to test a population of 10,000. It TPR is low, the required number of tests will be low, and if TPR is high, then the required tests will be high. If the TPR is below 30, a significant optimization can be achieved, resulting in performing fewer tests for every 10,000 population. The results also show that if the TPR is below or close to 10, a higher group size is more beneficial. Whereas a group size of 2 might be a better choice if TPR is 15 or above. CONCLUSIONS The smart pooled sample testing may be a useful strategy in the current prevailing scenario of the COVID-19 pandemic. The application of algorithms to determine the appropriate number of specimens to be pooled for a single test would be a cost-effective solution for the screening of the community. CLINICALTRIAL

How do primary community hospitals make early diagnosis of COVID-19:the experience from Chengdu,China (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Medical Unit ◽  
District Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Organization

UNSTRUCTURED The outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by World Health Organization since January 30, 2020 and the new coronavirus pneumonia was named Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) in February 11th. Novel coronavirus has been effectively controlled in China, but has spread worldwide and been epidemic in some countries. By March 30th, more than 600 thousand people were confirmed infected in areas other than China, and increased by more than 50 thousand people per day3. Our hospital is a district-level public hospital directly under the Jinniu District Government. Since February 5, our hospital has been listed by the Chengdu Municipal Government as the primary designated medical unit for treating new crown patients in Jinniu District.Recently, how to deal with COVID-19 more effectively and interrupt the transmission has become the concern of medical staff. Now we will share our experience on COVID-19 with you.

scholarly journals COVID-19: epidemiology and preventive measures in Jiangsu province, China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chen ◽  
JiaShu Liu ◽  
ChangRui Yang ◽  
Zi-sheng Ai ◽  
AiHong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Cure Rate ◽  
The People ◽  
Improve Cure Rate ◽  
Imported Cases ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Epidemiological Characteristics

Abstract Background: To investigate the epidemiological features of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) and the prevention measures in Jiangsu Province. Methods: Information of all novel coronavirus pneumonia confirmed cases in Jiangsu was collected from the official website of Jiangsu Commission of Health. All data were entered into Excel and Python3 for statistical analysis. Epidemiological characteristics of novel coronavirus pneumonia confirmed cases from January 10, 2020 to March 18 in Jiangsu province were retrospectively analyzed. Meanwhile, the preventive measures of Jiangsu Commission of Health and the people’s Government of Jiangsu Province were also analyzed. Results: 631 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Jiangsu Province, covering 13 cities in Jiangsu. Before February 1, the confirmed cases were mainly imported cases, and after February 1, community transmission cases became main part of confirmed cases. There were more male patients than females, and most patients were in the group of 30-70 years old, 49 patients (7.8%) with mild symptom and 572 patients (90.6%) with common type accounted for the majority. The cumulative mortality rate was 0% and the cure rate was 100%. Reasonable treatments, timely and effective preventive measures were taken to effectively improve cure rate and to prevent the spread of the epidemic, all measures ensure the health and life safety of the people. Conclusion: The preventive measures in Jiangsu Province were timely and effective, the epidemic situation in Jiangsu Province had been well controlled.

Impact of Corona virus Outbreak on Climate and air Quality

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Jatai ◽  
Tanu Sharma ◽  
Karan Veer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ◽  
Distress Syndrome ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Symptomatic Case ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

All over the world, there is a new target of public health emergency looming the world along with an appearance and distribution of the novel coronavirus disease (2019-nCoV) also known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This Virus initially generated in bats and then after transferred to a human being over unknown animal playing the role of mediator in Wuhan, China in December 2019. This virus is passed by breathing or in contact with an infected person’s droplets. The Incubation period is between 2 to 14 days for COVID-19, that is the time between exposure of the virus (person becoming infected) and symptom on that person, is on an average of 5-6 days, however it can goes up to 14 days. Throughout this period, which can be also known as “pre-symptomatic” period, some of the infected patients or persons can be contagious. That is why, transferal from a pre-symptomatic case can happen before the symptoms onset. Where there is few number of case studies and reports, pre-symptomatic transferal has been documented via contact with someone who is diagnosed with virus and increase investigation of that particular clusters of total confirmed cases. The main problem is that the symptoms are just like the regular flu that are cough, fever, sore throat, fatigue and breathlessness. This virus is moderate or mild in most of the people, but in elder ones, it may proceed to pneumonia, multi-organ dysfunction and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Coronavirus has significant consequences on the Health system, mainly on cardiovascular diseases and on the environment.

scholarly journals Design of an Online Detection System for COVID-19 based on Attention Mechanism

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Liu ◽  
◽  
Wei Xiang ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Jintao Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Respiratory Infection ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Lung Ct

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory infection caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus infection that was discovered in some hospitals in Wuhan, China in December 2019. From a global perspective, COVID-19 epidemic is still in a pandemic period. Every country is taking timely preventive measures. Therefore, it is necessary to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) identification to assist radiologists in diagnosing COVID-19. This paper proposes a network model of dynamic self-attention machine for pneumonia images. The model adopts DPN92 and GCNet. It implements CR images and CT image classification of COVID-19. A COVID-19 detection system based on dynamic auto-attention machine is designed. The lung CT or CR images that meet the design requirements will be uploaded through the browser, and the background server will analyze and process the lung images, and finally output the detection category of the lung images.

scholarly journals A model of dual latency compartments for the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Oyo state, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
O. Adedire ◽  
◽  
J. N. Ndam ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Reproduction Number ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Transmission Dynamics ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
A Value ◽  
The People ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Effective Use

In this study, a mathematical model of dual latency compartments is developed to investigate the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 epidemic in Oyo state, Nigeria. The model consists of non-pharmaceutical control strategies which include the use of face masks, social-distancing and impact of mass-media on the spread of novel coronavirus in the state. Results indicate control reproduction number \(R_C = 1.4\) with possibilities of high constructive influence of mass-media. Thus, at the fitted values of \(\sigma _f = 0.1,\; \sigma _d = 0.1,\;\sigma _m = 0.6\), the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic is attained after 59,217 infectious quarantined individuals and 328,440 infectious but not quarantined individuals have contracted COVID-19 in about 439 and 443 days respectively from the date of the first incidence. Therefore, efforts on mass-media with programs that can inform the people on effective use of face masks, social-distancing and other safety measures can aid reduction of reproduction number to a value below 1 necessary for eradication of the disease.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Epidemiology and Preventive Measures in Jiangsu Province, China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chen ◽  
Jiashu Liu ◽  
Changrui Yang ◽  
Aihong Zhang ◽  
Zisheng Ai
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Cure Rate ◽  
The People ◽  
Improve Cure Rate ◽  
Imported Cases ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Epidemiological Characteristics

Abstract Background To discuss the epidemiological features of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) and prevention measures in Jiangsu Province. Methods Information on all novel coronavirus pneumonia confirmed cases in Jiangsu was collected from the official website of Jiangsu Commission of Health. All data are entered into Excel and Python3 for statistical analysis. Epidemiological characteristics of novel coronavirus pneumonia confirmed cases from January 10, 2020 to March 18th in Jiangsu province were retrospectively analyzed. Meanwhile, the preventive measures of Jiangsu Commission of Health and the people's Government of Jiangsu Province were also analyzed. Results 631 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed in Jiangsu Province, covering 13 districts in Jiangsu. Before February 1, the confirmed cases were mainly imported cases, and after February 1, community transmission cases became main part of confirmed cases. There were more male patients than females, and most patients were in the group of 30-70 years old, 49 patients (7.8%) with mild symptom and 572 patients (90.6%) with common type accounted for the majority. The cumulative mortality rate was 0% and the cure rate was 100%. Reasonable treatment, timely and effective preventive measures were taken to effectively improve cure rate and to prevent the spread of the epidemic, all measures ensure the health and life safety of the people. Conclusion The preventive measures in Jiangsu Province were timely and effective, the epidemic situation in Jiangsu Province had been well controlled and cured.

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