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COVID-19: Public Compliance with and Public Support for Stay-at-Home Mitigation Strategies
(2020-04-24)Objectives: Governments worldwide have recommended unprecedented measures to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As pressure mounts to scale back these measures, understanding public compliance with ... -
The COVID-NMA initiative: A living mapping and living systematic review of Covid-19 trials
(2020)COVID-NMA is an international research initiative supported by the WHO and Cochrane. We provide a living mapping of COVID-19 trials available through interactive data visualizations. We are also conducting living evidence ... -
Dead body management in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Interim recommendations, 7 April 2020
(2020-04-07)Objective: • To provide recommendations on the management of dead bodies in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in healthcare facilities. These recommendations are preliminary and subject to review as new ... -
Demand Analysis and Management Suggestion: Sharing Epidemiological Data Among Medical Institutions in Megacities for Epidemic Prevention and Control
(2020-04-07)During the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), epidemiological data is essential for controlling the source of infection, cutting off the route of transmission, and protecting vulnerable populations. Following ... -
Diagnostic Testing for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome–Related Coronavirus-2: A Narrative Review
(2020-04-13)Diagnostic testing to identify persons infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus-2 (SARS–CoV-2) infection is central to control the global pandemic of COVID-19 that began in late 2019. In a few ... -
Digital health and the COVID-19 epidemic: an assessment framework for apps from an epidemiological and legal perspective
(2020-05-17)As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, crowdsourced digital technology harbours the potential to improve surveillance and epidemic control, primarily through increased information coverage, higher information speed, fast ... -
Does TB Vaccination Reduce COVID-19 Infection?: No Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis
(2020-04-22)In the middle of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the BCG hypothesis, the prevalence and severity of the COVID-19 outbreak seems to be correlated with whether a country has a universal coverage of Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin ... -
Drawing on Israel’s Experience Organizing Volunteers to Operationalize Drive-Through Coronavirus Testing Centers
(2020-04-16)To increase the country’s capacity to test and track suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, Israel launched drive-through testing centers in key cities, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, and Haifa. ... -
Effectiveness and Safety of Short‐stay Units in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review
(2015-07-22)Objectives: Overcrowding is a serious and ongoing challenge in Canadian hospital emergency departments (EDs) that has been shown to have negative consequences for patient outcomes. The American College of Emergency Physicians ... -
Effects of temperature and humidity on the spread of COVID-19: A systematic review
(2020-09-18)Background: Faced with the global pandemic of COVID-19, declared by World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th 2020, and the need to better understand the seasonal behavior of the virus, our team conducted this systematic ... -
The Effects on Re‐offending of Custodial vs. Non‐custodial Sanctions: An Updated Systematic Review of the State of Knowledge
(2015-01-02)This Campbell systematic review compares effects of custodial and non‐custodial sentences on re‐offending. The authors found 14 high‐quality studies, including three randomised controlled trials and two natural experiments. ... -
Estimates of the ongoing need for social distancing and control measures post-"lockdown" from trajectories of COVID-19 cases and mortality
(2020-05-05)By 29th April 2020, COVID-19 had caused more than 3 million cases across more than 200 countries. And most countries with significant outbreaks had introduced social distancing or "lockdown" measures to reduce viral ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Distancing Interventions to Delay or Flatten the Epidemic Curve of Coronavirus Disease
(2020-04-21)By April 2, 2020, >1 million persons worldwide were infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. We used a mathematical model to investigate the effectiveness of social distancing interventions in a ... -
Evidence from Campbell reviews on the immediate response to coronavirus
(2020-04-07)The coronavirus pandemic is amongst the largest public health challenges faced by the world in recent decades. It will have profound consequences for all countries in the coming weeks and months, and possibly years. This ... -
Evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews for controlling the dissemination of COVID-19 infection. A narrative review
(2020-07)BACKGROUND: COVID-19 infection has high transmissibility and several measures have been adopted for controlling its dissemination. OBJECTIVE: To identify and summarize the evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs) ... -
Evidence of initial success for China exiting COVID-19 social distancing policy after achieving containment
(2020-04-28)Background: The COVID-19 epidemic was declared a Global Pandemic by WHO on 11 March 2020. By 24 March 2020, over 440,000 cases and almost 20,000 deaths had been reported worldwide. In response to the fast-growing epidemic, ... -
Evidence-Based, Cost-Effective Interventions To Suppress The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review
(2020-06-15)Background: In an unparalleled global response, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 90 countries asked 3.9 billion people to stay home. Yet some countries avoided lockdowns and focused on other strategies, like contact tracing ... -
Evidently Cochrane: Sharing health evidence you can trust
(2021)Sarah Chapman highlights Cochrane evidence on COVID-19 and other health effects of the pandemic, with links to reviews, blogs and other Cochrane resources. While we’ve all been adapting to huge and sudden changes in our ... -
Failure in initial stage containment of global COVID‐19 epicenters
(2020-04-16)With multiple virus epicenters, COVID‐19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Consequently, many countries have implemented different policies to manage this crisis including curfew and lockdown. ...