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148.
the Associated Press,
WHO: Nearly 15M deaths associated with COVID-19,2022.05.05,
https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-europe-united-nations-world-organization-420b7dce6ecd0fc57a0faea02327b5f8
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147.
CNN,
Study links even mild Covid-19 to changes in the brain, 2022.03.07,
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/07/health/covid-brain-changes-study-wellness/index.html
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146.
BBC News,
Deadly Omicron should not be called mild, warns WHO, 2022.01.06,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/deadly-omicron-should-not-be-called-mild-warns-who/ar-AASvCat
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145.
Reuters,
Omicron's global spread prompts renewed lockdowns, delayed reopenings,2021.12.21,
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/omicron-s-global-spread-prompts-renewed-lockdowns-delayed-reopenings/ar-AAS0onE
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144.
Politico,
‘It is embarrassing’: CDC struggles to track Covid cases as Omicron looms,2021.12.20,
www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/it-is-embarrassing-cdc-struggles-to-track-covid-cases-as-omicron-looms/ar-AARZ4Xb
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143.
Reuters,
WHO reaches draft consensus on future pandemic treaty, 2021.11.28,
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-reaches-draft-consensus-on-future-pandemic-treaty/ar-AAReh8Y
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142.
The Hill,
Germany military to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory, 2021.11.24,
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-military-to-make-covid-19-vaccines-mandatory/ar-AAR37kd
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141.
Associated Press,
Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster, 2021.11.19,
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/scientists-mystified-wary-as-africa-avoids-covid-disaster/ar-AAQTfRT?ocid=Peregrine
191.
Veerle Buffel, Sarah Van de Velde, etc.,
Depressive symptoms in higher education students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of containment measures, 2022.03.15,
https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurpub/ckac026/6548801?searchresult=1.
Students are a vulnerable group for the indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly their mental health. This paper examined the cross-national variation in students' depressive symptoms and whether this can be related to the various protective measures implemented in response to the initial stage of the COVID-19 outbreak. Our findings raise concerns about the potential adverse effects of existing containment measures (especially the closure of schools and workplaces and stay-at-home restrictions) on students' mental health.
190.
Gabriel Gregory, Lin Zhu, etc.,
Learning from the pandemic: mortality trends and seasonality of deaths in Australia in 2020, 2022.03.15,
https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyac032/6547421?searchresult=1.
This article aim to assess whether the observed numbers and seasonality of deaths in Australia during 2020 differed from expected trends based on 2015–19 data. The conclusion is that the observed reductions in respiratory and dementia deaths and the reduced seasonality in ischaemic heart disease deaths may reflect reductions in circulating respiratory (non-SARS-CoV-2) pathogens resulting from the public health measures taken in 2020. The observed increase in diabetes deaths is unexplained and merits further study.
189.
Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson, etc.,
Vaccine suspension, risk, and precaution in a pandemic, 2022.03.16,,
https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/9/1/lsab036/6549442?searchresult=1.
In early 2021, cases of rare adverse events were observed in individuals who had received the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Countries around the world differed radically in their policy responses to these observations. In this paper, we outline the ethical justification for different policy approaches for managing the emerging risks of novel vaccines in a pandemic. We begin by detailing the precautionary approach that some countries adopted, and distinguishing ethical questions regarding the management of known and unknown risks. We go on to outline the harms of adopting a highly precautionary approach in a pandemic context, and explain why an appropriate policy approach should accommodate the benefits as well as the risks of vaccination. In the final section, we outline three policy approaches that can accommodate the different benefits of vaccination, whilst taking into account the harms of precaution. Whilst we do not set out to defend one particular policy approach, we explain how different moral theories lend different degrees of support to each of these different approaches. Our analysis elucidates how fundamental value conflicts in public health ethics played out on the global stage of vaccine policy.
188.
Bishoy Louis Zaki, Francesco Nicoli, etc.,
Contagious inequality: economic disparities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022.03.17,
https://academic.oup.com/policyandsociety/advance-article/doi/10.1093/polsoc/puac011/6550136?searchresult=1.
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the need to consider multiple and often novel perspectives on contemporary policymaking in the context of technically complex, ambiguous, and large-scale crises. In this article, we focus on exploring a territory that remains relatively unchartered on a large scale, namely the relationship between economic inequalities and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a dataset of 25 European countries spanning 300 regions. Our findings reveal two pathways by which economic asymmetries and inequalities can observably influence excess mortality: labor market structures and income inequalities. We leverage our findings to offer recommendations for policymakers toward a more deliberate consideration of the multidimensionality of technically complex, large-scale crises with a high degree of societal embeddedness. These findings also urge future scholarship to utilize a range of parameters and indicators for better understanding the relationship between cues and outcomes in such complex settings.
187.
Dong Jin Kim, Andrew Ikhyun Kim,
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era, 2022.03.21,
https://academic.oup.com/ia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ia/iiac048/6550824?searchresult=1.
This article presents global health diplomacy as a conceptual framework that could overcome the dichotomy of humanitarianism and international politics, using health aid to North Korea during COVID-19 as a case-study. Health is a critical component of human dignity and can be a normative motivation for cooperation beyond sovereign borders. However, health is also an important element of national interest and can be a strategic motivation for transnational cooperation. The overlap between the moral and rational spaces in global health diplomacy demonstrates how COVID-19 assistance to North Korea's vulnerable population is in the enlightened self-interest of donors to prevent resurgences of new COVID-19 variants. Moreover, this framework imbues all parties, including aid recipients such as North Korea, with the global cooperative responsibility to address health. In this sense, global health diplomacy can reframe the tensions between humanitarianism and politics, morality and rationality, and cosmopolitanism and nationalism, from antithetical to complementary.
Beijing Interest Group on Global Health and Global Governance
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