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January 4, 2021
Implications of Shortened Quarantine Among Household Contacts of Index Patients with Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Tennessee and Wisconsin, April–September 2020
Among asymptomatic people who had household exposure to COVID-19 and had negative laboratory test results for 7 days after the index patient’s symptom onset, 19% experienced symptoms or received positive test results in the following week. The probability that an asymptomatic household contact with negative test results through day 7 would remain asymptomatic and test…
Staying Home, Distancing, and Face Masks: COVID-19 Prevention among U.S. Women in The COPE Study
Findings from the cross-sectional COPE Study (n=491) of women in the United States conducted from May to June 2020 suggest that women’s prevention behaviors for SARS-CoV-2 transmission are influenced by multilevel factors. Women who lived in urban environments, had minimal formal education, or had a household annual income of USD 30,000–50,000 were less likely to…
December 30, 2020
Patient Characteristics Associated With Telemedicine Access for Primary and Specialty Ambulatory Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Patients scheduled for telemedicine visits who were older, Asian, non-English-speaking and on Medicaid had lower uptake of telemedicine visits during the early phase of the pandemic in a retrospective cohort study of 148,402 patients in Pennsylvania. Patients who were older, female, Black, Latinx, and those with income <$50,000 had less video use. No significant differences…
Association of Substance Use Disorders and Drug Overdose with Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes in New York City: January–October 2020
A history of substance use disorder (SUD) and drug overdose is a risk factor for adverse outcomes in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in New York City. In a retrospective review of the medical records from 188,653 patients diagnosed with COVID in the NYU system, both SUD and drug overdose were associated with hospitalization, ICU admission,…
Chopping the Tail: How Preventing Superspreading Can Help to Maintain COVID-19 Control
Interventions that specifically target superspreading events while partially relaxing social distancing could be a viable alternative to blanket policies, according to a transmission model incorporating a variety of non-pharmaceutical interventions parametrized to a variety of settings. Removing the top 1% of individual transmission rates (essentially, superspreading events that connect a single infectious person to large…
Factors Associated with Psychological Distress during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic on the Predominantly General Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
A meta-analysis found the prevalence of pandemic-associated anxiety and depression was 33% and 30%, respectively. In an analysis of 68 studies comprising 288,830 participants from 19 countries, women, younger adults (<35 years), those living in rural areas, and those with lower socioeconomic status had higher odds of experiencing anxiety. All factors except residential area were…
Suicidal Ideation Among Individuals Who Have Purchased Firearms During COVID-19
Individuals who purchased a firearm during the COVID-19 pandemic more frequently reported suicidal ideation than individuals who do not own firearms or purchased firearms prior to the pandemic in a quota-sampled cross-sectional survey (n=3,500). Regardless of suicidal ideation, safety and protection at home were the most frequently endorsed reasons for firearm acquisition. Anestis et al….
Preliminary Investigation of the Association between COVID-19 and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in the U.S. Journal of Psychiatric Research
In a cross-sectional online survey of an Amazon Mechanical Turk sample (n=907), nearly half of participants endorsing general past-month suicidal ideation reported their thoughts were linked to COVID-19. Physical safety concerns and general distress due to COVID-19 were significantly associated with general past-month suicidal ideation. A small proportion (7%) reported intentionally exposing themselves to COVID-19…
COVID‐19 Infection Prevention and Control Adherence in Long‐term Care Facilities, Atlanta, Georgia
Long-term care facilities (LTCF) with greater implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) had a lower prevalence of COVID-19, according to analysis of 24 facilities in Fulton County, GA. Specifically, significant differences were observed in prevalence of implementation of IPCs belonging to the social distancing category (high prevalence LTCF, 54% vs low prevalence LTCFs, 74%)…
Previous Dengue Infection and Mortality in COVID-19
In a prospective study of 2,351 people with COVID-19 SARS in Brazil, those with previous symptomatic dengue (n=1177) had a lower risk of death after a median follow-up of 60 days (adjusted HR = 0.44). History of other previous infections, including malaria, Zika, and chikungunya, were not associated with mortality. The authors suggest that dengue…
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