167.
Wingel Xue, Alexandre White,
COVID-19 and the rebiologisation of racial difference, 2021.10.23,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02241-8 .
This article elaborates the initial impulse of pandemic rumours regarding Black immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection that attribute disparities to biological difference which is conferred by racial typology and highlights the enduring power of race-thinking.
166.
Clifford Stott, Matt Radburn, etc.,
Police Powers and Public Assemblies: Learning from the Clapham Common ‘Vigil’ during the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2021.10.21,
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paab060 .
This article provides a analysis of the policing operation surrounding a highly controversial public assembly and discusses the implications of their analysis for understanding the inherent dangers of regulatory frameworks that place too heavy a burden of discretionary power into the hands of police in determining whether public assemblies are ‘lawful’, and under what conditions they can occur.
165.
Xinyuan Ye,
Exploring the relationship between political partisanship and COVID-19 vaccination rate, 2021.10.23,
https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab364 .
This study examines the association between the political partisanship and vaccination rate at the county-level and quantifies the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties.
164.
Kirsten R Palmer, Michael Tanner, etc.,,
Widespread implementation of a low-cost telehealth service in the delivery of antenatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis, 2021.07.03,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00668-1 .
This study finds that telehealth integrated antenatal care enabled the reduction of in-person consultations by 50% without compromising pregnancy outcomes. This care model can help to minimise in-person interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, but should also be considered in post-pandemic health-care models.
163.
Mine Durusu Tanriover, Hamdi Levent Doğanay, etc., ,
Efficacy and safety of an inactivated whole-virion SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (CoronaVac): interim results of a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial in Turkey, 2021.07.08 ,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01429-X .
This study finds that CoronaVac has high efficacy against PCR-confirmed symptomatic COVID-19 with a good safety and tolerability profile.
162.
Thomas M Drake, Aya M Riad, etc.,,
Characterisation of in-hospital complications associated with COVID-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK: a prospective, multicentre cohort study, 2021.07.17,,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00799-6 .
This study finds that complications and worse functional outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are high, even in young, previously healthy individuals. Acute complications are associated with reduced ability to self-care at discharge, with neurological complications being associated with the worst functional outcomes. COVID-19 complications are likely to cause a substantial strain on health and social care in the coming years. These data will help in the design and provision of services aimed at the post-hospitalisation care of patients with COVID-19.
161.
Benedetta Vai, Mario Gennaro Mazza, etc.,,
Mental disorders and risk of COVID-19-related mortality, hospitalisation, and intensive care unit admission: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021.07.15,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00232-7 .
This study finds that pre-existing mental disorders, in particular psychotic and mood disorders, and exposure to antipsychotics and anxiolytics were associated with COVID-19 mortality in both crude and adjusted models. Although further research is required to determine the underlying mechanisms, the findings of the study highlight the need for targeted approaches to manage and prevent COVID-19 in at-risk patient groups identified in this study.
160.
Kate Causey, Nancy Fullman, etc., ,
Estimating global and regional disruptions to routine childhood vaccine coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: a modelling study, 2021.07.14 ,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01337-4 .
This article finds that routine immunisation services faced stark challenges in 2020. Although the latest coverage trajectories point towards recovery in some regions, a combination of lagging catch-up immunisation services, continued SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and persistent gaps in vaccine coverage before the pandemic still left millions of children under-vaccinated or unvaccinated against preventable diseases at the end of 2020, and these gaps are likely to extend throughout 2021. Strengthening routine immunisation data systems and efforts to target resources and outreach will be essential to minimise the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks, reach children who missed routine vaccine doses during the pandemic, and accelerate progress towards higher and more equitable vaccination coverage over the next decade.
159.
Sarah Matheson AM,Artemis Kirkinis,
Compulsory licence and Crown use provisions in the Covid-19 pandemic—the Australian perspective, 2021.05.03,
https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/article/16/6/484/6263427 .
In the global COVID-19 pandemic, governments face considerable global pressures including the need to guarantee the supply of a vaccine or treatments and medical equipment, which could lead to the compulsory licence or Crown use provisions being invoked.However, to date, collaborative approaches have prevailed; there have been some unconventional approaches to intellectual property rights, and considerable efforts to repurpose existing technology that shows any promise of application in the present context. It may be that patented technology can be accessed without the need to invoke them. Instead, the mere fact of their existence may encourage an otherwise reluctant patentee to reach a timely arrangement for access to patented technology or products. In this way, compulsory licence and Crown use provisions serve an important role as safeguards to ensure the appropriate balance between a patentee’s reward for its investment, and the need for access to patented technology during a public health crisis.
158.
Justin McCrary, Sarath Sanga,
The Impact of the Coronavirus Lockdown on Domestic Violence, 2021.05.30,
https://doi.org/10.1093/aler/ahab003 .
The authors use 911 call records and mobile device location data to study the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on domestic violence. The percent of people at home sharply increased at all hours, and nearly doubled during regular working hours, from 45% to 85%. Domestic violence increased 12% on average and 20% during working hours. Using neighborhood-level identifiers, this article shows that the rate of first-time abuse likely increased even more: 16% on average and 23% during working hours. This article’s results contribute to an urgent need to quantify the physical and psychological burdens of prolonged lockdown policies.
Chinese Society of International Law, in association with Chinese Institute of International Law at China Foreign Affairs University, and National Center for Foreign-related Rule of Law Research at China Foreign Affairs University
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