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Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities

Smart Cities, 2021
The socio-economic impacts on cities during the COVID-19 pandemic have been brutal, leading to increasing inequalities and record numbers of unemployment around the world.
Carlos Moreno, Z. Allam, Didier Chabaud, Catherine Gall, F. Pratlong   +4 more
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UK preparedness for pandemic influenza. [PDF]

, 2007
Devolving responsibility for implementation to local authorities may not be the best ...
Coker, Richard
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Utilitarianism and the pandemic [PDF]

Bioethics, 2020
AbstractThere are no egalitarians in a pandemic. The scale of the challenge for health systems and public policy means that there is an ineluctable need to prioritize the needs of the many. It is impossible to treat all citizens equally, and a failure to carefully consider the consequences of actions could lead to massive preventable loss of life. In a
Julian Savulescu, Dominic Wilkinson, Dominic Wilkinson, Ingmar Persson, Ingmar Persson   +4 more
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Pandemics and People [PDF]

Microbiology Spectrum, 2020
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of the journal or of ASM. As someone who has been involved in discussions about biopreparedness for the better part of the 21st century, albeit for human-made threats, the level of unpreparedness we found ourselves in ...
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Assessing the filtration efficiency and regulatory status of N95s and nontraditional filtering face-piece respirators available during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted supply chains for many types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), particularly surgical N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs; “masks”). As a consequence, an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
Deborah Plana, Enze Tian, Avilash K. Cramer, Helen Yang, Mary M. Carmack, Michael S. Sinha, Florence T. Bourgeois, Sherry H. Yu, Peter Masse, Jon Boyer, Minjune Kim, Jinhan Mo, Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Ju Li, Peter K. Sorger   +14 more
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Prevalence of Depression Symptoms in US Adults Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Network Open, 2020
Key Points Question What is the burden of depression symptoms among US adults during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic compared with before COVID-19, and what are the risk factors associated with depression symptoms?
Catherine K. Ettman, S. Abdalla, Gregory H. Cohen, Laura A Sampson, P. Vivier, S. Galea   +5 more
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Reference Standards for Cardiorespiratory Fitness by Cardiovascular Disease Category and Testing Modality: Data From FRIEND

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background The importance of cardiorespiratory fitness for stratifying risk and guiding clinical decisions in patients with cardiovascular disease is well‐established.
James E. Peterman, Ross Arena, Jonathan Myers, Susan Marzolini, Philip A. Ades, Patrick D. Savage, Carl J. Lavie, Leonard A. Kaminsky   +7 more
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Genesis and pathogenesis of the 1918 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus [PDF]

, 2014
The source, timing, and geographical origin of the 1918–1920 pandemic influenza A virus have remained tenaciously obscure for nearly a century, as have the reasons for its unusual severity among young adults.
A. Rambaut, Adalja, Antonovics, Davenport, Dowdle, Fan, FROST, G.-Z. Han, Kawaoka, KENDAL, M. Worobey, Masurel, Masurel, Masurel, Masurel, Molinari, Morens, Mulder, Nelson, REKART, SCHOENBAUM, Schulman, Shanks, Shanks, Taubenberger, Thompson, Thompson, Waffarn, Webster, Wolfe   +29 more
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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life of Higher Education Students: A Global Perspective

Sustainability, 2020
The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale study to date on how students perceive the impacts of the first wave of COVID-19 crisis in early 2020 on various aspects of their lives on a global level.
Aleksander Aristovnik, D. Keržič, Dejan Ravšelj, Nina Tomaževič, Lan Umek   +4 more
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Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis. [PDF]

, 2012
Most pandemics--eg, HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, pandemic influenza--originate in animals, are caused by viruses, and are driven to emerge by ecological, behavioural, or socioeconomic changes.
Carroll, Dennis, Daszak, Peter, Karesh, William B, Lipkin, W Ian, Mazet, Jonna AK, Morse, Stephen S, Parrish, Colin R, Woolhouse, Mark, Zambrana-Torrelio, Carlos   +8 more
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