scholarly journals An Optimized Dietary Plan for Strengthening the Immune System During COVID 19 Crises

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Deepa Shivnani ◽  
Indra Shivnani ◽  
Dnyanesh Amle
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
World Health ◽  
Optimal Diet ◽  
Balanced Diet ◽  
Diet Plan ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Dietary Plan

The World Health Organization announced corona virus disease 19 (COVID 19) as a global pandemic. As the government has implemented various policies, the major challenge was to support immune system in general population who are under self-confinement. An optimal diet plan and nutritional supplements are advised to effectively boost the immune system during the COVID 19 crises. We have suggested an optimized dietary plan for an adult with adequate requirements. A balanced diet could help strengthen the immune system of individuals and prepare to fight against COVID 19.

scholarly journals Immune System Enriching Micronutrients: Essential Ingredient for Wellbeing in COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Shizma Junejo ◽  
Mehreen Lateef ◽  
Eme Paul Eze
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Omega 3 ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Nutrition Intake ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) onset a global pandemic. Consequently, there has been noticeable economic adversity globally and a significant loss of life. A strong functioning immune system is crucial for adequate defense against pathogenic organisms. The intricacy of the interplay between nutrition and immunology is wide ranging. In the context of novel corona virus disease, competent immune system requires adequate supply of essential nutrients including vitamin C, D, E, A, B6, B12, folateandtraceelements,includingzinc,iron,selenium,magnesium,copper to support innate and adaptive immune systems. Other nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids also support immune system effectively, specifically by helping to resolve the inflammatory response. Deficiencies or suboptimal status in micronutrients negatively affects immune function and can decrease resistance to infections. AlthoughmuchremainstobeknownaboutCOVID-19,itisimportantthat,toavertthelikelihoodof being infected with COVID-19, nutrition intake targeted towards boosting immune system is indispensable.

scholarly journals Democracy Backsliding as a Danger of Sustainable Development in the Post-Pandemic Period: Social and Legal aspects of Decision

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 06007
Author(s):  
Oleg Tkach ◽  
Оleh Batrymenko ◽  
Dmytro Nelipa ◽  
Mykola Khylko
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
World Health ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The article considers topical issues of the threat of collapse of democracy. Examples of the democracy collapse have shown the lack of free and fair elections in the world, which threatens the independence of the judiciary, restrictions on the right to freedom of speech, which limits the ability of the political opposition to challenge the government, to prosecute, to offer alternatives to the regime. The collapse of democracy in connection with the spread of COVID-19 is being considered, as the democratic spectrum has repeatedly resorted to excessive control, discriminatory restrictions on freedoms such as movement and assembly, and arbitrary or coercive coercion. Attention is drawn to the fact that the outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19 has led to the introduction in all countries of restrictions on the rights and freedoms of the individual in order to prevent the spread of this infectious disease, declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. Thus, the unusual nature of the COVID - 19 coronavirus pandemic poses numerous dilemmas to the public, governments, parliaments, the judiciary, law enforcement and many other actors when it comes to the need for effective protection of health and, ultimately, human life, as well as adherence to and ensuring the fundamental democratic principles of man and society.

scholarly journals Corticosteroids for COVID-19 Therapy: Potential Implications on Tuberculosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 3773
Author(s):  
Radha Gopalaswamy ◽  
Selvakumar Subbian
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
World Health ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Health Organization

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization announced the Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) as a global pandemic, which originated in China. At the host level, COVID-19, caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), affects the respiratory system, with the clinical symptoms ranging from mild to severe or critical illness that often requires hospitalization and oxygen support. There is no specific therapy for COVID-19, as is the case for any common viral disease except drugs to reduce the viral load and alleviate the inflammatory symptoms. Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), also primarily affects the lungs and has clinical signs similar to pulmonary SARS-CoV-2 infection. Active TB is a leading killer among infectious diseases and adds to the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. In immunocompetent individuals, primary Mtb infection can also lead to a non-progressive, asymptomatic latency. However, latent Mtb infection (LTBI) can reactivate symptomatic TB disease upon host immune-suppressing conditions. Importantly, the diagnosis and treatment of TB are hampered and admixed with COVID-19 control measures. The US-Center for Disease Control (US-CDC) recommends using antiviral drugs, Remdesivir or corticosteroid (CST), such as dexamethasone either alone or in-combination with specific recommendations for COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization or oxygen support. However, CSTs can cause immunosuppression, besides their anti-inflammatory properties. The altered host immunity during COVID-19, combined with CST therapy, poses a significant risk for new secondary infections and/or reactivation of existing quiescent infections, such as LTBI. This review highlights CST therapy recommendations for COVID-19, various types and mechanisms of action of CSTs, the deadly combination of two respiratory infectious diseases COVID-19 and TB. It also discusses the importance of screening for LTBI to prevent TB reactivation during corticosteroid therapy for COVID-19.

scholarly journals Impacts of COVID-19 on the Catch of Small-Scale Fishers and Their Families Due to Restriction Policies in Davao Gulf, Philippines

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edison D. Macusi ◽  
Stefenie Katrin V. Siblos ◽  
Martha Elena Betancourt ◽  
Erna S. Macusi ◽  
Michael N. Calderon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
World Health ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Catch Per Unit Effort ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Reduced Mobility ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in 2020 with countries putting up several measures to mitigate and flatten the curve of hospitalizations and death from travel bans to home confinements and local lockdowns. This pandemic created health and economic crises, leading to increased incidence of poverty and food crisis especially on both agriculture and the fisheries in many developing nations including the Philippines. The specific objectives of this study were to assess the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the catch per unit effort (CPUE) of small-scale fishers and to determine what factors could influence the volume of their catch during this time of pandemic. Moreover, this also investigated the impact of COVID-19 restrictions to fishers and their families. To do that we surveyed N = 200 small-scale fishers around the Davao gulf using semi-structured questionnaire and inquired on the impact of the COVID-19 to their fishing operation, catch, fishing costs, and their families. The collected socioeconomic variables, including emotional responses to the pandemic were then related to the CPUE and the volume of catch. The results show that fishers were highly affected by the pandemic due to the lockdown policy imposed in the fishing villages during the earlier phases of restrictions by the government. Fishers were affected in terms of the volume of their catch, also fishing costs, and emotionally as they were also frustrated due to the impacts of the hard lockdown. The restricted fishing access was found to have important and major set-back on the fishing operations of fishers and the same was experienced also by the middlemen given the low fish price and reduced mobility of the fish traders. COVID-19 also impacted the fishers, and their families through lack of mobility, food inadequacy, travel restrictions and their children’s education.

scholarly journals Just How Much Do We Know About Electronic Waste: Empirical Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Virginiah Onyara
Keyword(s):  
Virus Disease ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
World Health ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Legal Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Proper Disposal

This study aimed to find out if consumers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) in Nairobi, Kenya know about e-waste and its harmful effects, the available disposable mechanisms in the country and the legal framework for managing EEE. It also explored if consumers would desire to have information on e-waste and participate or be involved in its management. Primary data was collected from 98 residents of Nairobi via the online platform - SurveyMonkey tool, because the study was done during the corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic spread and the country was enforcing social distancing measures by the World Health Organization. Data was descriptively analyzed.  Results show that majority (84.2%) of the respondents understand what electronic waste is, 68.4% of the respondents know that e-waste has hazardous substances in them. 71% of respondents in the study however, indicated that they do not segregate it at source during disposal as is required by the e-waste guidelines. In the study, 73.7% of the respondents had no idea there existed any government efforts to guide or regulate its management. Most importantly, the city dwellers are willing to be involved in its management. This study, therefore, recommended that the government, through its regulatory bodies in environment, ICT and other relevant EEE regulators, to develop voluntary and mandatory legal, policies, guidelines and regulatory frameworks for managing EEE. The Government has to create proper disposal mechanisms, communicate effectively the challenges posed by inferior disposal methods and continuously engage the citizens in e-waste management activities.  Proper disposal and its eventual management can be part of consumer’s daily activity.

scholarly journals Vital Role of Technology on Fighting Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-117
Author(s):  
Dr. Jayendrasinh Jadav ◽  
Krishna Kulin Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
World Health ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The whole fights against the corona virus disease which is an infectious respiratory disease which has high transmissibility and has no medical therapy or vaccine which has been declared as the pandemic by the world health organization popularly known in short as WHO and is a global pandemic. The 21st century is the digital age and digitalization is the global trend. Technology has played a vital role in fighting with the COVID-19 Pandemic. The sudden world-wide pandemic forced to imposed lockdown during which there is digital surge. This research paper focuses on the vital role of technology in fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Online Public attention and interest in COVID-19 Vaccination in mainland China (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanzun Wei ◽  
Lisha Jiang ◽  
Xiaoyan Meng ◽  
Xi Wen ◽  
Xiangfu Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Age Distribution ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
World Health ◽  
Vaccination Program ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Trend Data ◽  
The Government ◽  
Health Organization

BACKGROUND In December 2019, few cases of pneumonia were reported outbursting in the city Wuhan, Mainland China and soon became a global pandemic. With the vaccination approval in Mainland China, concerns over its safety and efficacy emerged. Since the Chinese Vaccine has been promoted by the Chinese government for months, and just got emergency approval from the World Health Organization. The Chinese vaccination program is yet to be identified from the perspective of local populations. OBJECTIVE To examine the perception, complaints, and inquiries related to the current vaccination program to identify public concerns or hesitancy with the leading search engine in Mainland China. METHODS The COVID-19 Vaccine related keywords were examined and queried on Baidu Index for the period 2019.01–2021.04. The searching popularity of each keyword was recorded to analyze the search trend and demographic distributions. Data of demand graph and trend data used for users' demand analysis. Daily Vaccination data were retrieved from the daily government report since 2021,03. RESULTS Seventeen vaccination keywords were retrieved and with a total BSI value of 13,708,853. The first vaccine enquiry emerged on 25th January 2020, and the searching trend APC is 21.05% (p < .05). With reference to the government announcement, the coefficient of correlation (r) values is 0.38 (p < .05). As to the age distribution, 39.22% of the search were from people aged 20-29 years and dominated the vaccine enquiry. Followed are the 33.00% from aged 30-39 yr, 14.34% from aged 40-49 yr, 9.27% from aged under 19 yr and 3.88% from aged over 50 yr. In the user demand section, the total valid BSI of the vaccine demand terms were 3,843,325,561. Over 54.93% of the demand term search were pandemic relevant, and the summed vaccine demand ratio was 44.79%. CONCLUSIONS The rising search population in COVID-19 Vaccination revealed elevating public interest and focus. Vaccine education programs and materials should be designed for teens and people aged above the 40s. Complaints and symptoms describing inquiries were low, but vaccine-related birth safety should be alerted and further investigated. CLINICALTRIAL Not applicable

scholarly journals Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arindam Basu ◽  
Craig Kuziemsky ◽  
Magdala de Araújo Novaes ◽  
Araujo Kleber ◽  
Fernando Sales ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World Health ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Times ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Systems Framework

Objectives: Telehealth implementation is a complex systems-based endeavour. This paper compares telehealth responses to (COrona VIrus Disease 2019) COVID-19 across ten countries to identify lessons learned about the complexity of telehealth during critical response such as in response to a global pandemic. Our overall objective is to develop a health systems-based framework for telehealth implementation to support critical response. Methods: We sought responses from the members of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Telehealth Working Group (WG) on their practices and perception of telehealth practices during the times of COVID-19 pandemic in their respective countries. We then analysed their responses to identify six emerging themes that we mapped to the World Health Organization (WHO) model of health systems. Results: Our analysis identified six emergent themes. (1) Government, legal or regulatory aspects of telehealth; (2) Increase in telehealth capacity and delivery; (3) Regulated and unregulated telehealth; (4) Changes in the uptake and perception of telemedicine; (5) Public engagement in telehealth responses to COVID-19; and (6) Implications for training and education. We discuss these themes and then use them to develop a systems framework for telehealth support in critical response. Conclusion: COVID-19 has introduced new challenges for telehealth support in times of critical response. Our themes and systems framework extend the WHO systems model and highlight that telemedicine usage in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is complex and multidimensional. Our systems-based framework provides guidance for telehealth implementation as part of health systems response to a global pandemic such as COVID-19.

scholarly journals AL – Islam learning at SD Muhammadiyah 2 Sidoarjo during the Covid 19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talitha Destiny Sasmithaningrum ◽  
Muhlasin Amrullah
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
World Health ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
The Government ◽  
Health Organization

After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, several countries began to implement various policies and recommendations. This policy and recommendation is carried out because it is to break the chain and also reduce the spread of the covid 19 virus. For example, in Indonesia, the government makes a policy to move at home. There are so many activities that are carried out from home, for example learning from home, working from home (WFH) for teachers and office workers. The purpose of writing this research is to find out how the learning model that exists in schools during the current pandemic. And explained how the usual learning at SD Muhammadiyah 2 Sidoarjo was carried out during this covid-19 pandemic. The research method used is descriptive qualitative research. That is a study that understands the problem of using what media during the COVID-19 pandemic, the advantages and disadvantages of online learning, the ability of students to use technology and students' understanding of online learning. In the research process this time using interview and observation techniques during the research process. In this study, it is explained what kind of learning model carried out by SD Muhammadiyah 2 Sidoarjo, such as when the level of the COVID-19 pandemic was still high, schools carried out full online learning so that it could run effectively, efficiently, optimally and could take place well. The learning media used are multimedia-based in the form of whatsapp, zoom, google classroom. With this research, we know how to find strategies in distance learning during the covid 19 pandemic so that the teaching and learning process runs smoothly like face-to-face learning.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) Current Status and Future Perspectives: A Narrative Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Di Gennaro ◽  
Damiano Pizzol ◽  
Claudia Marotta ◽  
Mario Antunes ◽  
Vincenzo Racalbuto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
World Health ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Perspective ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Health Organization

At the end of 2019 a novel virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing severe acute respiratory syndrome expanded globally from Wuhan, China. In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the SARS-Cov-2 virus a global pandemic. We performed a narrative review to describe existing literature with regard to Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, management and future perspective. MEDLINE, EMBASE and Scopus databases were searched for relevant articles. Although only when the pandemic ends it will be possible to assess the full health, social and economic impact of this global disaster, this review represents a picture of the current state of the art. In particular, we focus on public health impact, pathophysiology and clinical manifestations, diagnosis, case management, emergency response and preparedness.

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