Posts with the tag « coronavirus » :
🔗 Burned out by the pandemic, 3 in 10 health-care workers consider leaving the profession
🔗 IZA DP No. 13319: Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
Earliest evidence that masks work for Covid-19.
🔗 The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
Last updated: May 20, 2020
🔗 The Swiss Cheese Covid-19 Defense
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🔗 Prof Sarah Gilbert: The woman who designed the Oxford vaccine
🔗 Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker
Updates on the different types of vaccines developed.
🔗 The Vaccine Rollout's Known Knowns and More - zeynep
🔗 Where the Pandemic Will Take America in 2021 - The Atlantic
🔗 Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms - The New York Times
Most had no history of mental illness and became psychotic weeks after contracting the virus. Cases are expected to remain rare but are being reported worldwide.
🔗 صابرين: كورونا أصاب كل عائلتي.. وبيتي تحول لمستشفى
🔗 Telepsychiatry and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic—Current and Future Outcomes of the Rapid Virtualization of Psychiatric Care
🔗 COVID-19: Remote consultations
🔗 Psychiatric care and the 1918 flu pandemic by Dr Claire Hilton
🔗 Photos From a Century of Epidemics
🔗 مصر: أطباء نفسيون يدعمون زملاءهم في جبهة «كوفيد ـ 19»
Media coverage of my unsuccessful initiative back in early 2020.
🔗 Smoking history is an important risk factor for severe COVID-19
Current evidence suggests that an association exists between smoking and COVID-19 severity, in line with recent research which has shown that smoking is associated with increased risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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tobacco smoking appears to be the most important avoidable risk factor for a poorer prognosis in COVID-19
🔗 China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days
In retrospect, doubtful that would have made any difference given how everyone messed up in the end.
🔗 Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster
Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears. Failings in February may have cost thousands of lives
🔗 Coronavirus in a psychiatric hospital: 'It's the worst of all worlds'
Social distancing in a psychiatric facility is easier said than done
🔗 At least 17 staff members at Egypt's Kasr El-Aini Hospital test positive for coronavirus
Ahram Online , Sunday 19 Apr 2020
🔗 Air pollution linked to far higher Covid-19 death rates, study finds
🔗 Why Psychiatric Wards Are Uniquely Vulnerable to the Coronavirus
🔗 Overdose Deaths Have Surged During the Pandemic, C.D.C. Data Shows
NYT:
The latest numbers surpass even the yearly tolls during the height of the opioid epidemic and mark a reversal of progress against addiction in recent years.