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Most people spend 80-90% of their lives indoors. This makes controlling the airborne transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza, rhinovirus, SARS, and COVID-19 in indoor environments important for healthy building outcomes. Though direct transmission from droplets and surfaces is usually a more effective means of infection transfer, buildings need to operate assuming aerosol transmission can be a serious risk. This study used simulations to assess the impacts of occupant density and ventilation rates as control measures to reduce the risk of aerosol transmission of COVID-19 in large and small offices. The simulation outputs were selected to correspond with in situ CO2 sensors and control points. The results of the simulation can be used to set targets for CO2 and other parameters that can be measured by low-cost sensors to manage risk of infection due to aerosol transmission. © International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2022
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Background: COVID-19, one of the deadliest pandemics, has taken a toll on physical and mental health alike. It has been noticed that there is a rise in psychiatric comorbidities in covid recovered cases. Various disorders like PTSD, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders have been reported in COVID-19 survivors .Current study aims to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and its associated correlation in patients with history of COVID-19. Method(s): The study population comprised the patients referred to the Psychiatry OPD from the post covid OPD over 3 months. Patients were assessed using a semi structured proforma, sociodemographic profile, treatment facility( institutional or home quarantined), duration of stay at treatment facility, medical and psychiatric diagnosis were recorded and analysed using descriptive statistics. Result(s): 160 patients were included and assessed of which 66.25% were male and 33.75% were female. Mean age was 38.8 years.The referral rate was found to be 15.9%. Most common psychiatric disorder was sleep disorder (25%), followed by stress and trauma related disorder (16.25%), depression (11.25%), anxiety disorder (10%). Conclusion(s): We would like to emphasize on vigilant approach and constant supervision of these patients so that an early diagnosis could be made and an add on burden to mental health care system could be reduced.For this to be achieved screening of such patients should be increased .
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Zadie Smith's latest collection of non-fiction, Intimations (2020), walks her readers through the burning blaze of the pandemic with what this article calls "cooling down". Embracing both aesthetics and affect, the concept of cooling down is not new to Smith's oeuvre. Indeed, its signature characteristics that include a calm authorial voice, controlled pace of prose, a self-aware narrator, and an insistence on reflection appear in all of Smith's work, including novels such as White Teeth (2000) and Swing Time (2017) and non-fiction, such as Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2010) and Feel Free (2019). This article examines narrative structure, affective appeal, and political commentary as the three cooling-down registers deployed in the "pandemic" essays of Intimations. Reading against the organizational grain of the collection, the article is organized by discussing them out of sequence to emphasize an alternative juxtaposition that renders Smith's intervention through form, affect, and/or politics most accessible.
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Covid-19 vaccines have now been around for quite some time and inoculation is in progress all around the world. However, some apprehensions with regards to efficacy do seem to be existing for some founded/unfounded reasons, and at the same time, a substantial reluctance (“Vaccine Hesitancy”) and/or non-acceptance (“Vaccine Refusal”) of the vaccine basedlargely on personal choice seems to be emerging as a major cause of concern. This matter of individual choice apparently has the potential of compromising success of the entire vaccination drive both qualitatively as well as quantitatively, that is;not only the desired results of near total success evade us but the expected outcome may get inordinately delayed as well. This article, while looking into historical as well as recent impediments to Vaccination (Hesitancy and Refusal), is an effort to analyze the reasons for the same and bring out some remedial measures. © 2021, Punjab Academy of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. All rights reserved.
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The caution exercised by the authorities at the midst of hue and cry created by novel corona virus infection is commendable. But the scattered events of suspected case escaping the quarantine leads to a more fundamental issue, clearly questioning about culpability of the persons in spreading infections. This paper is intended to build a clarification without being exhaustive in approach about the medico-legal point of view of recent corona virus pandemic and parameters for determining the legal culpability. © 2020, Punjab Academy of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. All rights reserved.