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 The Effect of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Mitigation Strategies on Seasonal Respiratory Viruses: A Tale of 2 Large Metropolitan Centers in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C Sherman ◽  
Ahmed Babiker ◽  
Andrew J Sieben ◽  
Alexander Pyden ◽  
James Steinberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
The United States ◽  
Respiratory Viruses ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Reproductive Rates ◽  
The Impact

Abstract To assess the impact of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic on seasonal respiratory viruses, absolute case counts and viral reproductive rates from 2019–2020 were compared against previous seasons. Our findings suggest that the public health measures implemented to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission significantly reduced the transmission of other respiratory viruses.

Applying behavioral science to workforce challenges in the public health emergency preparedness system

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Lee McCabe, PhD ◽  
Carlo C. DiClemente, PhD ◽  
Jonathan M. Links, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Transtheoretical Model ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Emergency Preparedness

When disasters and other broad-scale public health emergencies occur in the United States, they often reveal flaws in the pre-event preparedness of those individuals and agencies charged with responsibility for emergency response and recovery activities. A significant contributor to this problem is the unwillingness of some public health workers to participate in the requisite planning, training, and response activities to ensure quality preparedness.The thesis of this article is that there are numerous, empirically supported models of behavior change that hold potential for motivating role-appropriate behavior in public health professionals. The models that are highlighted here for consideration and prospective adaptation to the public health emergency preparedness system (PHEPS) are the Transtheoretical Model of Intentional Behavior Change (TTM) and Motivational Interviewing (MI). Core concepts in TTM and MI are described, and specific examples are offered to illustrate the relevance of the frameworks for understanding and ameliorating PHEPS-based workforce problems. Finally, the requisite steps are described to ensure the readiness of organizations to support the implementation of the ideas proposed.

Die a Hero or Live Long Enough to Become the Villain: Mass Casualty Preparedness in Hospitals and Protecting Doctors from Liability during Mass Casualty Events

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Tseung
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mass Casualty Incident ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Mass Casualty Events

AbstractSince 9/11, the United States and the international community have emphasized the need to protect people from terrorist attacks. The Boston Bombing that took place on April 15, 2013, showed that even with all of the preventive measures in place, the United States is not immune from terrorist attacks. If there had been a bioterrorist attack in Boston instead of a homemade bomb, the amount of casualties would likely have been a lot higher. Many hospitals lack effective emergency preparedness plans that address bioterrorist attacks. One area that will help prepare nations during a mass casualty incident or public health emergency involves implementing effective mass casualty preparedness plans for hospitals. This paper analyzes mass casualty preparedness in hospitals and demonstrates the need to have legislation in place to protect doctors who treat patients during mass casualty events.

scholarly journals Public Emotional Diffusion over COVID-19 Related Tweets Posted by Major Public Health Agency in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Haixu Xi ◽  
Chengzhi Zhang ◽  
Yi Zhao ◽  
Sheng He
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
Emotional Intensity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Since the end of 2019, the ongoing of COVID-19 outbreak worldwide not only challenges the management capacity of governments on the public health emergency, but also tests the management capacity of governments on the public opinion and the governance capacity of dealing with social emergencies. To understand the impact on public emotion over COVID-19 related tweets posted by the major public health agency in the United States, this paper study the process and characteristics of public emotional diffusion in the tweets network by taking the four-official Twitter users of the public health system in the United States as an example. In this paper, we extract the interactions between tweets in the COVID-19-TweetIds dataset, draw the tweets diffusion network, propose a method to measure the characteristics of the emotional diffusion network, analyze the changes of the public emotional intensity and the proportion of emotional polarity, investigate the emotional influence of key nodes and users in the process of tweet emotional diffusion, and study the emotional diffusion of tweets of different tweeting time periods, topics and institutions. The results show that the emotional polarity of tweets has changed from negative to positive with the improvement of pandemic management measures. The public's emotional polarity on pandemic related topics tends to be negative, and the emotional intensity of management measures such as pandemic medical services turn from positive to negative to the greatest extent, while the emotional intensity of pandemic related knowledge changes the most. The tweets posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration of the United States have a broad impact on public emotions, and the emotional spread of tweets' polarity eventually forms a very close proportion of opposite emotions.

scholarly journals At-Risk populations and public health emergency preparedness in the United States: Nursing leadership in communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 699-703
Author(s):  
Mary Pat Couig ◽  
Jasmine L. Travers ◽  
Barbara Polivka ◽  
Jessica Castner ◽  
Tener Goodwin Veenema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nursing Leadership ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Public Health Emergency Preparedness ◽  
At Risk Populations

scholarly journals Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on Seasonal Respiratory Viruses: A Tale of Two Large Metropolitan Centers in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Sherman ◽  
Ahmed Babiker ◽  
Andrew J. Sieben ◽  
Alexander Pyden ◽  
James Steinberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Respiratory Viruses ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Reproductive Rates ◽  
The Impact

AbstractTo assess the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on seasonal respiratory viruses, absolute case counts and viral reproductive rates from 2019-2020 were compared against previous seasons. Our findings suggest that the public health measures implemented to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission significantly reduced the transmission of other respiratory viruses.

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