scholarly journals Predicting third wave of COVID 19 in Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-84
Author(s):  
Rony Maharjan ◽  
Dipesh Mangal Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Health Impacts ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Definite Time ◽  
To Come ◽  
Complications And Mortality ◽  
Second Wave

Nepal is experiencing second wave of COVID-19 infection leading to major health impacts and crisis. Despite the development of vaccine against COVID-19 and its wider coverage, many countries have already experienced third wave. After vaccination against COVID-19 antibodies has been seen to be present till eight months in different studies, evidences beyond that is yet to come. Looking at the trends of reinfections and mathematical models for prediction of COVID-19 infection, there is high chances that Nepal will face third wave, and children will be affected more due to unavailability of vaccine for this age group. There is no fixed definite time to detect when the third wave hit. From the health crisis experience during second wave, Nepal should stress on implication of various strategic and evidence-based measures for third wave preparedness and mitigation to minimize the morbidity, post COVID-19 infection complications and mortality.

‘Our bodies, our selves?’ The body as source in feminist theology

2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Barter Moulaison
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
To Come ◽  
Beverly Harrison ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis article is, in part, an effort to come to terms with the ubiquitous celebration of embodiment in feminist discourse, and particularly within feminist theology. It will begin with a brief introduction to some of the key concepts in feminist theology and its use of the body, beginning with the body theologies of those who might now be called ‘second-wave’ theologians – Carter Heyward and Beverly Harrison. From here, I will consider postmodern feminist challenges to the reified and essentialised body as I examine what I call the subversive body in third-wave or postmodern feminism, both secular and theological. Finally, I shall move from these to an alternative construal of the importance of the body through the consideration of Christian bodily practices. Such an alternative will allow me to reflect upon what it is to become a specifically Christian body through church practices. I shall then endeavour to return to the critical concerns raised by feminism about the subjugation of women's bodies in the church as I consider the resources that might be available within the tradition itself for critical and emancipatory practices toward women and other strangers within the Body of Christ.

scholarly journals Key Considerations: India's Deadly Second COVID-19 Wave: Addressing Impacts and Building Preparedness Against Future Waves

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihir R. Bhatt ◽  
Shilpi Srivastava ◽  
Megan Schmidt-Sane ◽  
Lyla Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Second Wave

Since February 2021, countless lives have been lost in India, which has compounded the social and economic devastation caused by the second wave of COVID-19. The sharp surge in cases across the country overwhelmed the health infrastructure, with people left scrambling for hospital beds, critical drugs, and oxygen. As of May 2021, infections began to come down in urban areas. However, the effects of the second wave continued to be felt in rural areas. This is the worst humanitarian and public health crisis the country has witnessed since independence; while the continued spread of COVID-19 variants will have regional and global implications. With a slow vaccine rollout and overwhelmed health infrastructure, there is a critical need to examine India's response and recommend measures to further arrest the current spread of infection and to prevent and prepare against future waves. This brief is a rapid social science review and analysis of the second wave of COVID-19 in India. It draws on emerging reports, literature, and regional social science expertise to examine reasons for the second wave, explain its impact, and highlight the systemic issues that hindered the response. This brief puts forth vital considerations for local and national government, civil society, and humanitarian actors at global and national levels, with implications for future waves of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries. This review is part of the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) series on the COVID-19 response in India. It was developed for SSHAP by Mihir R. Bhatt (AIDMI), Shilpi Srivastava (IDS), Megan Schmidt-Sane (IDS), and Lyla Mehta (IDS) with input and reviews from Deepak Sanan (Former Civil Servant; Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research), Subir Sinha (SOAS), Murad Banaji (Middlesex University London), Delhi Rose Angom (Oxfam India), Olivia Tulloch (Anthrologica) and Santiago Ripoll (IDS). It is the responsibility of SSHAP.

NAKED FEMALES AND SPLAY-FOOTED SPRAWLERS: BALLERINAS ON THE STAGE IN JACKSONIAN AMERICA

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Christopher Martin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
New World ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Going Public ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Public Exposure ◽  
To Come ◽  
Second Wave

When artist-inventor Samuel B. Morse alleged that the Bowery Theatre performance of French ballerina Madame Hutin was “to all intents and purposes thepublic exposure of a naked female,” he was expressing an opinion that conflicted with that of other critics, who felt that the performance of French dancers would “put to shame our splay-footed indigenous sprawlers, and will greatly refine the taste in dancing in the play-going public.” In Jacksonian American, citizens who were concerned with the direction of the nation's culture engaged in a debate about the respective merits of the less-polished art created in the New World and the more refined offerings of the Old World that was played out in critical reactions to an increasingly popular theatrical form: ballet. Ballet gradually became an important part of American theatre during the first half of the nineteenth century as dancers appeared on stages in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston in front of the same audiences that attended the dramatic plays whose productions have received the bulk of academic attention. Three waves of European dancers came to the Americas during the period 1790 to 1845. The first wave (1790–1825) consisted of small companies who presented dance to a broad range of audiences, typically before other plays or during entr'actes. This article focuses on performances that occurred during the second wave (1825–40), when impresarios recruited established (though not top-tier) European ballerinas to come to specific theatres. These dancers brought the repertoire and styles of the Romantic ballet to America, including evening-length performances with fairy-tale plots and an emphasis on charismatic female stars, such asLa Sylphide.The first American ballerinas, Mary Ann Lee and Augusta Maywood, made their debuts during this period. The third wave (1840–5) consisted largely of “headliners” such as Fanny Elssler, who toured the country performing selections from their famous roles andpaswith a corps de ballet recruited from each city they visited.

scholarly journals Anticipating Third Wave of Covid-19 in India. How Much Prepared We Are?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Naveen Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Surveillance System ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Hospital Beds ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second Wave

The second wave of Covid -19 in India has made us witness as to how negligence from the part of everyone of us, be it people, Government or policy makers of healthcare system might bring the unwanted disaster in the form of Covid Tsunami. This has made us to see never ending queues of patients , relatives standing for hours for the want of hospital beds, oxygen, essential medicines and lastly but unfortunate for their turn for the cremations of loved ones . But now we can see the number of active cases are declining across the country. Amidst this positive observation in regard of second wave ,there is speculation erupting about the Covid third wave. We can appreciate a similarity in the way that the noble corona virus behave with the Spanish flu that had shaken the world in 1918. It had resulted in three waves with second wave was most deadly and long lasting than the other two waves. During the first wave where the infection was mostly of mild severity we had seen the disease affecting the elderly and immune-compromised patients more. In contrast to this, second wave resulting from mutant strains affected the younger population more and it was of larger severity with high mortality rate. Scientists and experts are now anticipating the third wave , taking the lesson from the Spanish flu and we must be better prepare for it. In order to prepare ourselves from a expected third wave of Covid-19, we shouldn’t repeat mistakes that we made during previos waves. We should refrain ourselves from dismantling our enhanced healthcare facilities, there should not be any sorts of shortage of oxygen , hospital beds, and drug that we have already witnessed. We must have an aggressive containment measure comprising of a really strong and pro-active surveillance system. This can be achieved by increasing the capacity of the existing surveillance system by identifying active cases early. We must ensure that we should follow “social vaccine” of proper masking, avoid indoor gatherings, and proper sanitization. Our vaccination programme needs a boost. We should vaccinate a large section of people before any third wave hits us. The more we vaccinate, the better prepared we are. As medical professionals, it must be ensured that proper scientific protocol must be implemented while handling Covid-19 cases. And last but not the least efforts must be made to fill up vacancies seen in our public health system, especially for frontline healthcare workers. As it is anticipated that the young children are more vulnerable to the forthcoming third wave, efforts are to be sought in order to start vaccination of the younger children in our country. Trials for which has already been started in India and across the world. Till the time vaccine is made available, the resources are to be mobilized to build up healthcare facilities catering the vulnerable age group in this third wave such as building up of more paediatric wards, paediatric ICU’s , training of healthcare personals in handling the emergencies for expected third wave .In addition to these efforts , more and more paediatric covid care centers must be set up at various parts of the country. Equally important is making arrangements for rehabilitation centers for the orphans. Countries like US, Singapore and UAE have already started vaccinating the children in age group between 12 to 15 years with Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine. It’s a high time that the government in India must consider for allowing “expedited approval pathway” to the companies like Pfizer for their Covid-19 vaccine for children. All these combined efforts from everyone may ensure that the country and world may remain well equipped against these subsequent waves of this deadly virus and pave the path of the triumph in the near future.

scholarly journals Nature and Magnitude of COVID-19 First Wave in Tamil Nadu, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
P Devi Priya
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Group 13 ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Case ◽  
Second Wave

The first case of COVID-19 Tamil Nadu was confirmed on 7th March 2020 in Chennai after aninternational travel from Muscat. The specific objectives of the study were to analyze the trends inCOVID 19 in Tamil Nadu from March 2020 to January 2021 and examine the pattern of it sex-wiseamong the age groups. The risk of COVID-19 was accessed with the computation of positive testrate, prevalence rate and fatality rate. The prevalence rates were highest in August, with a slightdownfall in September 2020 in the state. The positivity test rate was high in June and July. Then itstarted declining and has been one percent in January. About 83 percent of the occurrence of thevirus was among the middle age group, 13 percent among the elderly and four percent among thechildren. Intensifying immunity boosters, personal and public hygiene, vaccination on a large scaleprobably would contain the second wave and prohibit the third wave for the survival of humanity

scholarly journals The city and the virus

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110583
Author(s):  
Max Nathan
Keyword(s):  
Disease Spread ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Endemic Diseases ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places

Cities around the world are the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic: both in the first wave, as the disease spread from East Asia, and now, as many countries enter a third wave of infections. These spatial patterns are still far from properly understood, though there is no shortage of possible explanations. I set out the emerging theories about cities’ role in the spread of coronavirus, testing these against existing studies and new analysis for English conurbations, cities and towns. Both reveal an urbanised public health crisis, in which vulnerabilities and health impacts track (a) urban structural inequalities, and (b) wider weaknesses in institutions, their capabilities and leaders. I then turn to ‘post-pandemic’ visions of future cities. I argue that this framing is unhelpful: even with mass vaccination, COVID-19 is likely to remain one of many globalised endemic diseases. Instead, ‘pandemic-resilient’ urban places will require improved economic, social and physical infrastructure, alongside better public policy. Describing such future cities is still highly speculative: I identify five zones of change.

scholarly journals Vulnerability to misinformation and Covid-19 infodemic in French-speaking Belgium (French version)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grégoire Lits ◽  
Louise-Amélie Cougnon ◽  
Alexandre Heeren ◽  
Bernard HANSEEUW
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
French Version ◽  
Different Types ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Risk Practice

The main objective of this report is to test the hypothesis that the adoption of an active information-seeking practice related to the health crisis on social networks can be understood as a risk practice in the Covid-19 infodemic. A second objective is to identify the existence of different vulnerability profiles in the infodemic and to understand the information practices associated with these different profiles at risk of misinformation. The approach adopted is therefore firstly a comparative approach between different types of profile. It is not a question of carrying out a longitudinal study representative of the evolution of the French-speaking Belgian population's experience of the crisis. The CoviCom survey is a four-wave questionnaire survey that was conducted in French-speaking Belgium between 30 March 2020 (i.e. 12 days after the entry into force of the first containment in Belgium) and 29 March 2021. In total, the survey collected 10,148 responses to the four waves of the survey (April 2020 containment, May 2020 decontainment, November 2020 second wave epidemic and March 2021 third wave epidemic).

Third Wave Feminist Analysis of a Second Wave Feminist's Art

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Zenovich ◽  
Shane T. Moreman
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Feminist Art ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Second Wave

A third wave feminist approach to feminist oral history, this research essay blends both the visual and the oral as text. We critique a feminist artist's art along with her words so that her representation can be seen and heard. Focusing on three art pieces, we analyze the artist's body to conceptualize agentic ways to understand the meanings of feminist art and feminist oral history. We offer a third wave feminist approach to feminist oral history as method so that feminists can consider adaptive means for recording oral histories and challenging dominant symbolic order.

scholarly journals Contextualising evidence-based recommendations for the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satchit Balsari ◽  
Zarir Udwadia ◽  
Ahmed Shaikh ◽  
Abdul Ghafur ◽  
Sushila Kataria
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
Second Wave

scholarly journals Fidelity to an evidence-based model for crisis resolution teams: a cross-sectional multicentre study in Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Hasselberg ◽  
K. H. Holgersen ◽  
G. M. Uverud ◽  
J. Siqveland ◽  
B. Lloyd-Evans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Crisis Resolution ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Core ◽  
Crisis Resolution Teams ◽  
Fidelity Scale ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Evidence Based Model

Abstract Background Crisis resolution teams (CRTs) are specialized multidisciplinary teams intended to provide assessment and short-term outpatient or home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission for people experiencing a mental health crisis. In Norway, CRTs have been established within mental health services throughout the country, but their fidelity to an evidence-based model for CRTs has been unknown. Methods We assessed fidelity to the evidence-based CRT model for 28 CRTs, using the CORE Crisis Resolution Team Fidelity Scale Version 2, a tool developed and first applied in the UK to measure adherence to a model of optimal CRT practice. The assessments were completed by evaluation teams based on written information, interviews, and review of patient records during a one-day visit with each CRT. Results The fidelity scale was applicable for assessing fidelity of Norwegian CRTs to the CRT model. On a scale 1 to 5, the mean fidelity score was low (2.75) and with a moderate variation of fidelity across the teams. The CRTs had highest scores on the content and delivery of care subscale, and lowest on the location and timing of care subscale. Scores were high on items measuring comprehensive assessment, psychological interventions, visit length, service users’ choice of location, and of type of support. However, scores were low on opening hours, gatekeeping acute psychiatric beds, facilitating early hospital discharge, intensity of contact, providing medication, and providing practical support. Conclusions The CORE CRT Fidelity Scale was applicable and relevant to assessment of Norwegian CRTs and may be used to guide further development in clinical practice and research. Lower fidelity and differences in fidelity patterns compared to the UK teams may indicate that Norwegian teams are more focused on early interventions to a broader patient group and less on avoiding acute inpatient admissions for patients with severe mental illness.

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