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Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice
October 2, 2020
Increased Dengue Transmissions in Singapore Attributable to SARS-CoV-2 Social Distancing Measures
Social distancing policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore were temporally associated with a 37% increase in the number of dengue cases from baseline in a model controlling for climatic variables associated with mosquito abundance. The authors hypothesize that people may be more likely to be bitten in homes that are often naturally…
October 1, 2020
National Trends of Cases of COVID-19 in Children Based on US State Health Department Data
As of Sept 10, 2020, there were 549,432 cumulative COVID-19 cases in the US among children (729 cases per 100,000 children). The geographic focus of case growth shifted from the Northeast in April to the South and West in June and to the Midwest in July. Over time, the proportion of pediatric COVID-19 cases has…
Opioid Overdose–Related Emergency Department Visits and Accidental Deaths during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Emergency room visits and deaths related to opioid overdose increased in San Francisco during the first weeks of COVID-19 pandemic (January 1 through April 18, 2020). Visits related to opioid overdose were 2.5 patients per day during this period vs. 1.4 prior, and deaths were 1.47 per day during this period vs. 0.95 prior. Rodda et…
Exploring U.S. Shifts in Anti-Asian Sentiment with the Emergence of COVID-19.
A racial sentiment analysis using >3.3 million race-related tweets from Twitter users in the US showed the proportion of negative tweets referencing Asians since the emergence of COVID-19 has increased by 68% (from 10% in November 2019 to 16% in March 2020). Common themes that emerged during the content analysis of a random subsample of…
Widening the Gap Greater Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Burden after Accounting for Missing Race/ethnicity Data
[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] Among 19,637 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection reported in Fulton County, Georgia from February 29th to August 19th 2020, 36% were missing race/ethnicity information in the case report. Compared to complete case analyses, imputation and bias-adjustment for race/ethnicity yielded higher estimates of infection rates (1.5 to 1.8-fold increase). The magnitude of the absolute…
CDC Deployments to State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Health Departments for COVID-19 Emergency Public Health Response — United States, January 21–July 25, 2020
The US CDC deployed 208 teams to assist 55 state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments with COVID-19 emergency public health response activities between January 21–July 25, 2020. Teams assisted with investigations of transmission in high-risk congregate settings, including long-term care facilities (53 deployments; 26%), food processing facilities (24; 12%), correctional facilities (12; 6%), and…
September 29, 2020
COVID-19 Seroprevalence Surveys and Antibody Decline – A Note of Caution on Antibody Decline
[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Despite ongoing COVID-19 activity in Ontario, the prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies did not change substantially (range 0.4% – 1.4% positive) between five surveys conducted from March to August 2020. Bolotin et al. analyzed residual clinical specimens and found that the geometric mean concentration of antibodies among the positive samples declined between June…
September 28, 2020
The Association between Influenza Vaccination and the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Severe Illness and Death a Systematic Review of the Literature
[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A systematic review of 12 studies found that receiving seasonal influenza vaccination was not associated with greater risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection or disease severity in any studies. Several studies found that influenza vaccination was associated with lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, while others found no relationship (7 studies, 242,323 patients). Similarly, several…
Association of Race and Ethnicity With Comorbidities and Survival Among Patients With COVID-19 at an Urban Medical Center in New York
Despite a higher incidence of COVID-19 and a higher proportion of positive test results, non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic patients with COVID-19 had slightly lower risk of death than their non-Hispanic white counterparts (aHR=0.8, p=0.03 for Non-Hispanic Black and aHR=0.7, p=0.002 for Hispanic patients). These findings were based on a cohort study conducted at a medical…
Behavioural Barriers to COVID-19 Testing in Australia
[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] In a national longitudinal survey in Australia (April-June), 49% of people strongly agreed they would get tested if they had COVID-19 symptoms and 96% agreed to some extent that they would get tested. Common barriers to testing were the belief that testing is painful (11%), not knowing how to get tested (7%),…
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