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Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice
November 9, 2020
Team Contact Sports in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic- a Scientific Concept for the Austrian Football League
[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] No COVID-19 infections occurred during the 12-week period following resumption of the Austrian national male association football league with COVID-19 monitoring. A pre-defined monitoring concept, including (1) health diaries of potential COVID-19 symptoms; (2) PCR results, body temperature and oxygen saturation; and (3) geo-tracking data of players’ movement outside the training/competition facilities…
US Clinicians’ Experiences and Perspectives on Resource Limitation and Patient Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A qualitative study with 61 clinicians involved in institutional planning during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US between April-May 2020 described their experience providing care in settings with limited resources. While clinician leaders planned to avoid decision-making at bedside, unanticipated forms of resource limitations could compromise care and require difficult allocation decisions. The need to…
November 6, 2020
Scientific Quality of COVID-19 and SARS CoV-2 Publications in the Highest Impact Medical Journals during the Early Phase of the Pandemic: A Case Control Study
The scientific quality of COVID-19 publications in the three highest ranked scientific medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, and The Lancet) was below the quality average of these journals for non-COVID-19 research. Among 155 COVID-19 studies and 130 non-COVID-19 studies included in the analysis, the non-COVID-19 publications had higher levels of evidence as defined by the level…
Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The use of preventive and elective care services dropped dramatically during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic and was not compensated by a commensurate rise in telemedicine. A cross-sectional study of health service use among people in the US with commercial health insurance found that while telemedicine use increased, the magnitude of decline…
November 4, 2020
Beyond the 405 and the 5: Geographic Variations and Factors Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Rates in Los Angeles County
In Los Angeles, geographic factors associated with an increased rate of SARS-CoV2 diagnosis included a higher proportion of Latino/Latina residents, higher rates of poverty and higher household density. The analysis was conducted using a spatial analysis of the health department data from the period of 1 March and 30 June 2020, with a total of…
They’re Dying in the Suburbs COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Geography in Louisiana (USA)
[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] The epicenter of the Louisiana COVID-19 epidemic has varied temporally, beginning in the urban core of New Orleans and then moving to suburban/rural areas. Using census tract- and parish-level data in Louisiana, Schnake-Mahl et al. reported that the incidence (73 cases per 10,000) and mortality rate (5.6 deaths per 10,000) of COVID-19…
November 3, 2020
Disentangling Community-Level Changes in Crime Trends during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chicago
Analysis of the impact of COVID-19 containment policies on crime across 77 communities in the Chicago area report mixed findings. Burglaries, assaults, narcotics-related offenses, and robberies had a statistical reduction only in 13%, 23%, 45%, and 13% of communities, respectively. The prevalence of COVID-19 infections was not found to have any association with crime levels,…
November 2, 2020
Estimates of the Value of Life Lost from COVID-19 in Ohio
[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A study estimating the economic burden of deaths due to COVID-19 in Ohio using data from Public Health and the Social Security Administration found that there were 56,518 years of potential life lost, totaling an economic value of life lost of $13.60 billion. The value of life year lost was similar by…
Assessing the Risks of ‘Infodemics’ in Response to COVID-19 Epidemics
A study of Twitter messages from multiple countries early in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic identified a co-occuring “Infodemic”: the rapid and widespread dissemination of misinformation or content from unreliable sources. Analysis of more than 100 million tweets indicated that waves of misinformation preceded the rise of COVID-19 infections, but content quickly shifted towards more credible information…
Development, Implementation, and Results from a COVID-19 Messaging Campaign to Promote Health Care Seeking Behaviors Among Community Clinic Patients
A study in North Carolina that delivered voice messages and texts encouraging patients (n=48,063) to call the regional operational call center line found that the odds of calling the line were higher among people from minority racial or ethnic groups (vs. white people), and among those who were uninsured or used Medicaid (vs. private insurance)….
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