Gender and attention to and framing of COVID-19 in congressional tweets

Background: Previous research demonstrates that congressional communication on Twitter is gendered. Congresswomen are more likely to tweet about issues than Congressmen during elections, and they are also more likely to tweet about "women's issues” (healthcare, education, reproductive rights, welfare) than their male counterparts. Objectives: Given the partisan and gendered coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic effects researchers have documented, we examine whether Congressmembers. communication about COVID-19 is also gendered and partisan. Methods: To examine how Senators and House Representatives were discussing the pandemic online, we collected the tweets sent by members of both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate from February 1st until May 14th, 2020. Results: Gender and partisanship shape how members communicate about COVID-19 on Twitter, and this is especially pronounced in the framing of COVID-19 in terms of "women's issues.”. Conclusion: We find evidence that there is a gendered partisan divide in both the frequency and framing of the issue on Twitter. This divide is likely to continue to shape how the public thinks about the pandemic and how elites. respond to the pandemic. © 2023 The Authors. Social Science Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Southwestern Social Science Association.

What oxygen target saturation ranges are currently prescribed for non-hypercapnic patients in UK hospitals and what target ranges would respiratory registrars prefer to use?

P118 Figure 1ConclusionsAlthough most UK hospitals use a target oxygen saturation range of 94–98% in the non-hypercapnic population, the preference among the respiratory registrars surveyed was for an alternative strategy (most commonly a target saturation of 92–96%). This suggests a perception among clinicians that more conservative target saturations are non-harmful to these patients, but at present the evidence supporting this is lacking. The UK-ROX and Mega-ROX trials are currently recruiting and aim to evaluate conservative versus standard oxygen saturation targets in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Once published these trials will hopefully give us a more concrete basis upon which to make recommendations in this important area.

Medical management of severe obstructive sleep apnoea in two cases during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

OBJECTIVE: Severe paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea in typically developing children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy is primarily managed surgically. Non-emergency ENT surgery was paused early in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and children were offered medical management for obstructive sleep apnoea. METHODS: A service evaluation was performed to assess the impact of continuous positive airway pressure alongside medical management for severe obstructive sleep apnoea. RESULTS: Over 5 months during 2020, in a tertiary care setting, two children (one boy and one girl), aged 2.7 years and 4.1 years, were offered continuous positive airway pressure and medical treatments for severe obstructive sleep apnoea whilst surgery was paused during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Both children failed to establish continuous positive airway pressure therapy because of ongoing disturbed sleep on ventilation, and they proceeded to adenotonsillectomy. Sleep-Related Breathing Disorder scale scores improved following surgical intervention. CONCLUSION: Continuous positive airway pressure therapy is poorly tolerated in children with severe obstructive sleep apnoea secondary to adenotonsillar hypertrophy. Surgery remains the most appropriate treatment.

Newspapers' coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Eswatini: from distanciated re/presentations to socio-health panics

This paper examines the coverage and re/presentation of the coronavirus pandemic by two mainstream newspapers in the Kingdom of Eswatini, namely, the Times of Eswatini and the Eswatini Observer between January and June 2020. Framing and discourse analyses are used in the examination of news stories. The key to this study is how the coverage and re/presentation evolved as 'new facts' about the virus emerged. From being re/presented in a distanciated form to becoming a localised scare, the travelling of the virus in space and time and its profile in the newspapers are examined. When the virus began to enjoy widespread coverage, news stories focused on virus incidence and later started paying attention to the internal evolution of the virus and how the government was responding to it. The analysis shows that political indexing sustained the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to political and official indexing, media coverage largely reproduced the views of those in power, especially the construction of lockdown regulations as rational and legitimate. The government and security officials characterised the coronavirus as an invading enemy that could only be defeated through 'war'. The news media reproduced the war language of the government and security officials, and thus legitimised the lockdowns and security surveillance. In addition to regulatory interventions, the results reveal that the government and civil society initiated prayer and fasting sessions as part of response interventions. This paper concludes that health journalism pays less attention to health scares that are seen to be happening 'elsewhere'. However, once the problems become local, the news value of proximity enables journalists to provide extensive coverage. In addition, the coverage of pandemics begins with increased coverage and panic, followed by constant attention and after some time, the stories leave front pages as journalism fatigue kicks in.

The Inter-American Responses during COVID-19: Development of Green Human Rights in Indigenous Cases at the Regional and National Levels

Latin America is often considered the world’s most unequal region. This inequality is not limited to socioeconomic differences;it is also seen through discrepancies in access to nature, land, and natural resources. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified existing vulnerabilities felt by communities, especially susceptible to environmental degradation through furthering their socioeconomic disadvantage. Faced with challenges related to the national implementation of certain rule of law concepts and practices, and the lack of access to sufficient domestic remedies, regional plaintiffs have often reached out to the Inter-American system as an arbiter for human rights abuses. Recent jurisprudence of both the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has broadened the scope of recognized rights infringed by State Parties to the Inter-American human rights system, particularly in fields relating to environmental issues, natural resource rights and the rights of vulnerable and marginalized communities. Critical to this is the Inter-American Court’s development of the inter-dependence of green human rights in Indigenous cases. Set against this backdrop, the Covid-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to analyze existing and evolving legal trends, giving the Inter-American human rights system fertile ground to address emerging legal topics on human rights and the environment. This article addresses this evolving jurisprudence, using recent cases brought to the Commission’s attention as case studies on the development of this relationship. © 2021. All rights reserved.