Browsing Technical documents and research evidence on COVID-19 by Title
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Estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France
(2020-05-13)France has been heavily affected by the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic and went into lockdown on the 17th March 2020. Using models applied to hospital and death data, we estimate the impact of the lockdown and current population ... -
Estimating the burden of United States workers exposed to infection or disease: A key factor in containing risk of COVID-19 infection
(2020-04-28)Introduction: With the global spread of COVID-19, there is a compelling public health interest in quantifying who is at increased risk of contracting disease. Occupational characteristics, such as interfacing with the ... -
Estimation Of State Variables And Model Parameters For The Evolution Of COVID-19 In The City Of Rio de Janeiro
(2020-05-23)Evolution model is based on that used by Hernandez et al., which considers the following groups: Susceptible, Incubating, Asymptomatic, Symptomatic, Hospitalized, Recovered and Accumulated deaths. Evolution model considers ... -
Ethical guidance for disaster response
(2020-04-07)Citation: Leider JP, DeBruin D, Reynolds N, Koch A, Seaberg J. Ethical Guidance for Disaster Response, Specifically Around Crisis Standards of Care: A Systematic Review. American Journal of Public Health 2017; 107: e1–e9 What ... -
Ethics guidance on key issues raised by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, 16 March 2020
(2020-03-18)Health authorities are tasked with protecting the health of the population and responding to public health emergencies. An adequate health response to public health emergencies, such as the current WHO-declared COVID-19 ... -
The ethics of COVID-19 treatment studies: too many are open, too few are double-masked
(2020-06-30)A WHO panel, convened during the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic, assessed the ethical implications of using medicines that have shown promising results in the laboratory and in animal models, but before they have been evaluated ... -
Evaluating reduction in CoViD-19 cases by isolation and protective measures in São Paulo State, Brazil, and scenarios of release
(2020-06-04)São Paulo State registered the first case of CoViD-19 on 26 February, the first death due to CoViD-19 on 16 March, and implemented the isolation of the population in non- essential activities on 24 March, which is programmed ... -
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 ... -
Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of the Existing Repurposed Pharmacological Agents for Treating COVID-19: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review of Clinical Trials
(2020-11)Purpose: The present study systematically searched important medical databases, assessed the quality of available pieces of evidence, and performed a meta-analysis to test the efficacy of different therapeutic options ... -
Evaluation of current medical approaches for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(2020)Background: Because of the lack of vaccination, it is urgent to find effective antiviral agents for COVID-19 treatment. Method: Online databases were searched for articles published before or on 22 June 2020. Studies ... -
Evaluation of immune response in human Zika virus infection
(2016)Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in Brazil, was first described in 2015 and it overlapped with a significant increase in number of cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome in adults and also in neurological malformation in infants, ... -
The Evaluation of Potential Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue Infections in Mexico (Zik01)
(2016-07)The proportion of subjects that have confirmed Zika, Chikungunya, or Dengue (including co-infections) from the subjects presenting with fever and/or rash in southeastern Mexico. -
Evaluation of safety, efficacy, tolerability, and treatment-related outcomes of type I interferons for human coronaviruses (HCoVs) infection in clinical practice: An updated critical systematic review and meta-analysis
(2020-06-25)Background: There is no vaccine or specific antiviral treatment for HCoVs infection. The use of type I interferons for coronavirus is still under great debate in clinical practice. Materials and methods: A literature search ... -
Evidence Based Management Guideline for the COVID-19 Pandemic - Review article
(2020-04-11)COVID-19 has now been declared a pandemic. To date, COVID-19 has affected over 944,181 people worldwide, resulting in over 47,312 reported deaths. Numerous preventative strategies and non-pharmaceutical interventions have ... -
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 of perinatal transmission of Zika virus, French Polynesia, December 2013 and February 2014
(2014)A Zika virus (ZIKAV) outbreak started in October 2013 in French Polynesia, South Pacific. We describe here the clinical and laboratory features of two mothers and their newborns who had ZIKAV infection as confirmed by ZIKAV ...