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Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice
March 4, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Risk Among Active Duty Military Members Deployed to a Field Hospital — New York City, April 2020
Among 336 (57%) of the 591 eligible US soldiers deployed to New York City (NYC) between March to April 2020 at the height of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, prevalence of current or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection by late April was 1.7% (6 of 336) as determined by RT-PCR and antibody testing. Among those involved in direct patient…
Nursing Facilities, Food Manufacturing Plants and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths
A higher number of meatpacking plants and bakeries within a hospital reference region (HRR) or a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was associated with a higher number of COVID-19 related deaths in the US through May 2020. After adjusting for demographics and socioeconomic characteristics, an additional plant within an HRR and MSA was associated with 21%…
March 1, 2021
Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks Subjected to the Compound Events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic
In the event of combined wildfires and the COVID epidemic, applying restrictive measures, protecting shelter residents, and expanding the healthcare capacity by using non-acute beds could be helpful mitigation strategies according to a modeling study. The study used Butte Country, California as a representative community and coupled the 2018 Camp Fire that occurred in Paradise…
Assessing the Readability of Covid-19 Testing Messages on the Internet
Only 6 out of the first 50 results using a Google search for “COVID-19 testing” had an appropriate readability score. Of these six, two were deemed appropriate by 3 tests (Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), Gunning Fog Index (GFI), and Coleman-Liau Index (CLI)) and four were deemed appropriate by 2 tests (FKGL and GFI). None of…
February 26, 2021
Risk of Death among Teachers in England and Wales during the Covid19 Pandemic
[pre-print; not peer-reviewed] An analysis of publicly available data on COVID-19 mortality in England and Wales suggests that absolute mortality rates for teachers were low (under 39 per 100,000), but that secondary school teachers had slightly higher risk of dying of COVID-19 relative to all professionals and working-aged people. Primary school teachers were not at…
February 24, 2021
A National Study of Community Health Centers’ Readiness to Address COVID-19
COVID-19 exacerbated existing capacity issues at different community health centers (CHCs) in the US, according to results from a cross-sectional survey and focus groups with healthcare personnel. Survey respondents (n=234; 19% response rate) indicated that the top resource and educational needs were related to COVID-19 infection prevention and control (76%), safety precautions (72%), and screening,…
The COVID-19 Symptom to Isolation Cascade in a Latinx Community: A Call to Action
Approximately a quarter of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients at a low-barrier testing site serving a low-income Latinx community in San Francisco were already outside the 10-day window of isolation at the time they received counseling on isolation. Among symptomatic participants (n=145), 83% percent had moderate to high levels of virus (Ct <33). All participants received post-test…
February 23, 2021
What Is Driving the Decreased Incidence of Preterm Birth during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
A retrospective cohort study of over 17,687 singleton deliveries prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2018 to January 2020) and over 5,396 singleton deliveries during the pandemic (April 2020 to October 2020) at a single tertiary center in Pennsylvania found a small but statistically significant decrease in overall preterm birth (11% vs 10%). Both spontaneous…
February 19, 2021
Years of Life Lost to COVID-19 in 81 Countries
An estimated 20.5 million years of life have been lost as a result of COVID-19-attributable deaths globally. As of January 6, 2021, years of life lost (YLL) in heavily affected countries, including the United States, are 2–9 times the average losses from seasonal influenza. Three quarters of the YLL result from deaths in ages below…
Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for January through June, 2020
Provisional life expectancy at birth in the United States reached its lowest level since 2006 in the first six months of 2020, with the life expectancy of the Hispanic population reaching a level lower than any in its recorded history. The life expectancy for both the total population (77.8 years) and for males (75.1) was…
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