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September 8, 2020
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Self-Reported Telehealth Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Secondary Analysis of a U.S. Survey of Internet Users from Late March
Compared to white respondents, Black respondents to a Pew survey (n=10,624) had a 1.4-fold higher odds of reporting that they had used telehealth as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The association was particularly strong among respondents who perceived the COVID-19 pandemic to be a minor threat (aOR=1.92). Campos-Castillo and Anthony. (Sept 7, 2020). Racial…
Impact of Social Distancing and Travel Restrictions on Non-COVID-19 Respiratory Hospital Admissions in Young Children in Rural Alaska
Hospitalizations of young children due to acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) dropped dramatically in April 2020 in rural Alaska, in contrast to the past 10 seasons, when the seasonal decline began in June. Among 26 seasons of data, no season prior to the COVID-19 pandemic season also had a four-week stretch with no ARI admissions, demonstrating…
Frequency and Accuracy of Proactive Testing for COVID-19
[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]In the context of outbreak control on university campuses, Bergstrom et al. modeled the potential trade-offs of testing accuracy, frequency, and delay of results and found that even with a false negative rate of 30%, testing every second day can reduce R0 from 2.5 to below 1 given a one day delay of…
Local Lockdowns Outperform Global Lockdown on the Far Side of the COVID-19 Epidemic Curve
Based on a modeling study based on Ontario, Canada, enacting lockdown policies at the county level would cause significantly fewer person-days of closure compared to enacting them at the province level, even under the same trigger threshold for cases and in a scenario with high intercounty travel. The authors conclude that these findings suggest local…
College Campuses and COVID-19 Mitigation Clinical and Economic Value
[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Cost modeling indicates that implementing extensive social distancing with masks on college campuses could prevent up to 87% of COVID-19 cases at a cost of $168 per case prevented. Adding lab testing of asymptomatic students every 3 days would prevent up to 96% of cases, but would raise the cost to $8,300…
The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Restrictions on Depression Rates and Maternal Attachment in Immediate Postpartum Women
Based on a screening questionnaire for post-partum depression, 15% of women (n=223) whose last trimester of pregnancy overlapped with national lockdowns in Turkey and gave birth in a tertiary care center with strong hospital restrictions were considered at risk for postpartum depression, compared to an estimate of 8% of post-partum women in a period prior…
Population Anxiety and Positive Behaviour Change during the COVID‐19 Epidemic: Cross‐sectional Surveys in Singapore, China and Italy
Cross-sectional surveys in Singapore, China, and Italy (n=4,505) show that respondents reported high awareness of COVID-19 and its symptoms, and similarly high levels of information sufficiency, adherence, and acceptance to public health control measures. Higher self-efficacy was associated with lower anxiety levels, while superstition, fatalism, and considering messaging apps as the most trustworthy sources were…
Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Children Living in the U.S.
US parents responding to an online survey reported that the most common physical activities during April to May 2020 for children (n=211, mean age=8.3 years) were free play/unstructured activity (90%) and going for a walk (55%). Children engaged in about 90 min of school-related sitting and over 8 hours of leisure-related sitting per day. Parents of children…
Clinical Analysis of Neonates Born to Mothers with or without COVID-19: A Retrospective Analysis of 48 Cases from Two Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Hubei Province
There were no vertical transmissions of SARS-CoV-2 from mother to neonate nor differences in clinical manifestations, radiological and biochemical results among neonates born to 15 women with confirmed and 17 with suspected COVID-19 who delivered in Hubei Province in China. Liu et al. (Sept 6, 2020). Clinical Analysis of Neonates Born to Mothers with or…
Safety and Immunogenicity of an RAd26 and RAd5 Vector-Based Heterologous Prime-Boost COVID-19 Vaccine in Two Formulations: Two Open, Non-Randomised Phase 1/2 Studies from Russia
Findings from two, non-randomized phase 1/2 studies (n=38 per study) conducted in Russia of recombinant vaccines based on adenovirus type 5 (rAd5) and type 26 (rAd26) show that both vaccine formulations were well tolerated with no serious adverse events reported. All participants produced SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, and the vaccines induced strong humoral and cellular immune responses…
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