COVID-19 vaccine stance classification from tweets

Since the discovery and betterment of vaccines for human diseases, Anti-Vaccine rhetoric and resistance have been prevalent in social circles. These sentiments adversely affect the effectiveness of preventing the contraction of deadly contagious diseases, such as COVID-19. With the advent of social media platforms, the expression of anti-vaccine stances has a far greater reach in society. In this paper, we tackle the task of COVID-19 vaccine stance detection to gauge people's receptiveness towards vaccines and subsequently understand the effectiveness of the vaccination drives. © 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors.

The Initial Response of Nuclear Medicine to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Objectives: COVID-19 posed profound challenges to nuclear medicine (NM) practice and education on an international scope. Initial lessons learned may be useful in understanding and optimizing dissemination of critical information during global disasters. To better understand the pandemic's initial manifold impact and responses that were in turn enacted, we systematically reviewed relevant articles published during the 2020 calendar year. Method(s): A librarian experienced in systematic reviews performed a rapid scoping review of the English language literature indexed in PubMed, Embase and Web of Science by crossing NM and COVID terms;445 citations were returned. Duplicate, extraneous, non-English and non-full text articles were excluded leaving 248 articles which were analyzed by origin, topic, design, and imaging details. Result(s): An array of topics, techniques, journals and countries of origin were encountered. 158 articles appeared in primary NMjournals, 26 appeared in generic radiology journals and 65 in non-imaging journals. Most frequent countries represented were USA (55), Italy (33), France (19) and UK (17), reflecting the hard-hit countries early during the pandemic. 118 clinical articles were case reports or small series of which 80 featured FDG-PET/CT. There were 36 observational studies. Among non-clinical topics, articles focused on safetymeasures (102), economics and recovery (23), remote reading (17) and education (8). There were 17 surveys. Society-based guidelines (47) and individual-group best practices (79) were published relating to cardiology (33), lung scintigraphy (12), andmultiple topics (48). Systematic (10) and narrative reviews (61) were less frequent than opinion articles (75). Frequent modalities discussed were FDG PET (156), nuclear cardiology (56) and lung scintigraphy (35). Conclusion(s): The medical literature has memorialized a robust response of information sharing during the initial challenges the COVID-19 pandemic relating to patient care, operations and education. Through scoping review, we have analyzed the nature of information disseminated. Opinions and single group best practices dominated the literature. Clinical reports during the first year were primarily case reports or small series, frequently FDG-PET/ CT. The nature of the literature matured as the year progressed, and sources of information broadened as the epidemic spread.

Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

Purpose: Despite immigrant-receiving countries' need for skilled professionals to meet labour demands, research suggests that many skilled migrants undergo deskilling, downward career mobility, underemployment, unemployment and talent waste, finding themselves in low-skilled occupations that are not commensurate to their education and experience. Skilled immigrant women face additional gendered disadvantages, including a disproportionate domestic burden, interrupted careers and gender segmentation in occupations and organizations. This study explores how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted skilled newcomer women's labour market outcomes and work experiences. Design/methodology/approach: The authors draw on 50 in-depth questionnaires with skilled women to elaborate on their work experiences during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Findings: The pandemic pushed skilled immigrant women towards unemployment, lower-skilled or less stable employment. Most study participants had their career trajectory delayed, interrupted or reversed due to layoffs, decreased job opportunities and increased domestic burden. The pandemic's gendered nature and the reliance on work-from-home arrangements and online job search heightened immigrant women's challenges due to limited social support and increased family responsibilities. Originality/value: This paper adds to the conversation of increased integration challenges under pandemic conditions by contextualizing the pre-pandemic literature on immigrant work integration to the pandemic environment. Also, this paper contributes a better understanding of the gender dynamics informing the COVID-19 socio-economic climate. © 2021, Luciara Nardon, Amrita Hari, Hui Zhang, Liam P.S. Hoselton and Aliya Kuzhabekova.

Review of Recommendations for Gynecology Practice during COVID-19 Pandemic

The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare is enormous. It is essential that we prioritize treating patients and reserving our resources for better care of patients affected with COVID-19. The well-being of the healthcare professionals is of utmost importance as well. Treating gynecological patients during this time is challenging as individualizing treatment without compromising safety and minimizing risk is of utmost importance. In this article, we have aimed to write a consensus to guide the treatment of gynecological patient, based on the limited evidence available as of today.

Recommendations for gynecological endoscopic surgery during COVID-19 pandemic

The presence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to overwhelm health-care systems with numerous concerns around the safety of patients as well as health-care professionals. It is essential to allow for judicious use of resources and emphasize allotting maximum staff and resources to care for the affected. To this end, most centers are choosing to defer elective procedures and perform only emergency surgeries. The safety of all theater staff is of utmost importance, and the risks of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral transmission should be curbed when operating. In particular, there are concerns relating to the transmission of COVID-19 during gynecological laparoscopic surgery, arising from the possible generation of contaminated aerosols from gas leakage and the creation of smoke from the use of electrosurgical devices. The aim of this paper is to review the evidence available as of today for recommendations to follow while performing gynecological procedures.