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Obesity , Europe/epidemiology , Humans , Obesity/epidemiology , World Health OrganizationABSTRACT
[...]in the book Pandemic societies, civil society and public policy researchers examine the changes in different sections of society post-COVID-19. [...]his opinions are based on his habit of seeing the world from a threat point of view. [...]suppose the latter part of the book is to be expanded and written by a sociologist specialising in epidemics and violence.
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The meaning of “acclimation” at the time was not immunity based on a vaccine or an antibody test but the word of individuals aiming at an elite status in a city whose economy was thriving on the work of Black people in sugar and cotton plantations. There have been other books on the history of yellow fever in the USA, such as Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878-1930 by Mariola Espinosa, which delves into the history of the origins of US measures to counter the disease taking a foothold in Cuba and the birth of colonial public health that served the American interest of influence in global politics. Even if there are several factors such as socioeconomic status, access to healthcare and health information, trust in public health that maybe represent a risk factor for COVID-19, Black people often have jobs that cannot be done remotely, increasing their risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2.
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[...]several of the shortlisted videos for HAFF, which are posted on YouTube, the American online video-sharing and social-media platform, have garnered only a little over 1000 views so far, which is discouraging considering how powerful the films are, in their own ways attempting to capture life amid diseases and health inequity. In an immersive fashion, the film shows the humbling and diligent field work of health workers who have come up with a self-administered diagnostic test and a self-treatment kit for malaria and how they attempt to convince and deliver them to workers in the illegal gold mines along the borders of French Guiana. Swinging between despair and hope are also the films Long Haul on long COVID and Invisible on the mental health issues attributed to COVID-19.
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Later touted as the US's greatest ever bipartisan foreign aid success since its World War II Marshall Plan to revive Europe, Bush's announcement changed millions of lives for good in the following decades. According to the official PEPFAR website, as of June 2021, the programme has cumulatively provided US$ 90 billion for treatment, prevention, and research. Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Since Bass has been working in Uganda as an activist trying to get PEPFAR into action, to reach people that have been ignored until then, there are immersive and authentic narratives based on her on-the-ground experiences in Africa.
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COVID-19 Drug Treatment , COVID-19 , Health Policy , Pandemics , Politics , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19/prevention & control , COVID-19 Vaccines , Communicable Disease Control/standards , Communicable Diseases/epidemiology , Communicable Diseases/therapy , Humans , Mortality , Public Policy , United States , VaccinationABSTRACT
[...]these are the platforms the anti-vaccine campaigners hijack in modern times to inculcate fear and doubts;and that is the virtual space where vaccine deniers build a silo around themselves and chatter the same multi-level marketing type of lingo about vaccines. “Community-based strategies [like the Voices for Vaccines] have been used in the wake of measles outbreaks exacerbated by anti-vaccine activism and resulted in significant increases in vaccine uptake”, Berman writes, adding, “We don't all have medical degrees or posts in the government that allow us to speak from positions from authority, but we do have positions in the lives of others that allow us to speak to them as peers, neighbours, and members of the same communities”. Because to exit this pandemic we need compassionate messengers like Berman too, in addition to medicines that are on queue.
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With a pandemic like COVID-19, it did not take too long for distant reports to become first-hand stories sharing how the-then emerging coronavirus is responsible for the hordes of coffins that carried the remains of those who contracted the virus, to start with. Imagine a group of social scientists observing this transformation of the social psyche as the society wades through the waxing, peaking, and (as of COVID-19, hitherto unknown) waning phases of a pandemic. [...]our COVID-19 diaries are filled with individual and perceived social narratives of our individual and social life amid a pandemic—fear, uncertainty, despair, loss, frustration that does not settle unless our biases kick in and look for people or cultures to blame for the sorrow that circles around us.