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Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19
, 2020 The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are the main strategy to contain the pandemic.
S. Gössling, D. Scott, C. Hall
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Economics & Human Biology, 2021 We ask whether mortality from historical pandemics has any predictive content for mortality in the Covid-19 pandemic. We find strong persistence in public health performance. Places that performed worse in terms of mortality in the 1918 influenza pandemic also have higher Covid-19 mortality today.
Peter Z. Lin, Christopher M. Meissner
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Pandemic prioritarianism [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021 Prioritarianism pertains to the generic idea that it matters more to benefit people, the worse off they are, and while prioritarianism is not uncontroversial, it is considered a generally plausible and widely shared distributive principle often applied to healthcare prioritisation.
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Epidemics and pandemics : Covid-19 and the ‘‘drop of honey effect’’ [PDF]
, 2020 Purpose: The aim of this paper is the use of the “drop of honey effect” to explain the spread of Covid-19. Approach/Methodology/Design: After Covid-19 appearance in Wuhan, in the Chinese province of Hubei, by December, 2019, it spread all over the world.
Filipe, Jose Antonio
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Maintaining User Engagement in an Infectious Disease Surveillance-Related Citizen Science Project
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2021 Over the past fifteen years, infectious disease surveillance has evolved to include online citizen science projects that implement active digital data collection. Flu Near You (FNY) is an online participatory surveillance system in the United States that
Shannon Smith +7 more
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Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish for
, 2020 Disease outbreaks and pandemics have long played a role in societal and economic change. However, the nature of such change is selective, meaning that it is sometimes minimal and, at other times, and change or transformation may be unexpected ...
C. Hall, D. Scott, S. Gössling
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Longer-Run Economic Consequences of Pandemics
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020 What are the medium- to long-term effects of pandemics? Do they differ from other economic disasters? We study major pandemics using rates of return on assets stretching back to the fourteenth century. Significant macroeconomic after-effects of pandemics
Ò. Jordà +2 more
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Changes in alcohol use during the COVID‐19 pandemic and previous pandemics: A systematic review
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2022 The objective of this study is to summarize the research on the relationships between exposure to the COVID‐19 pandemic or previous pandemics and changes in alcohol use. A systematic search of Medline and Embase was performed to identify cohort and cross‐
Ivneet Sohi +6 more
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Global Plant Virus Disease Pandemics and Epidemics
Plants, 2021 The world’s staple food crops, and other food crops that optimize human nutrition, suffer from global virus disease pandemics and epidemics that greatly diminish their yields and/or produce quality. This situation is becoming increasingly serious because
Roger A. C. Jones
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Evolutionary biology and anthropology suggest biome reconstitution as a necessary approach toward dealing with immune disorders [PDF]
, 2013 Industrialized society currently faces a wide range of non-infectious, immune-related pandemics. These pandemics include a variety of autoimmune, inflammatory and allergic diseases that are often associated with common environmental triggers and with ...
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