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Rethinking Covid-19 Vulnerability: A Call For Lgbtq+ Im/Migrant Health Equity In The U.S. During And After A Pandemic, Nolan Kline

Faculty Publications

Public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have emphasized older adults’ vulnerability, but this obfuscates the social and political root causes of health inequity. To advance health equity during a novel communicable disease outbreak, public health practitioners must continue to be attentive to social and political circumstances that inform poor health. Such efforts are especially needed for populations who are exposed to numerous social and political factors that structure health inequity, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise-queer identifying (LGBTQ+) populations and im/migrant populations. The COVID-19 outbreak is therefore a critical time to emphasize root causes of health inequity.

2020-05-23/24/25/26 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Lori D. Sloane, Mari Anixter, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Janice Gonzales, Alex Castillo Smith, Timothy Campbell, Jenny Situ, Alexandra Yingling, Perez Olewe, Gregory Mertz, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

NM Highlights: NM hospitals meet benchmarks. NM case count. Reopening healthcare updated guidelines. Mescalero declares emergency. Stalled capital funds for budget. Emergency spending under scrutiny. BCBS special healthcare enrollment period. NM SC guidance for CYFD. Mass gatherings impossible very soon. NM mayors divided on Gov’s communication. No 4th July event in Roswell. Life span of COVID-19 on surfaces. US Highlights: US curbs travel from Brazil. International Highlights: Anti-science sentiment. Japan ends lockdown. Chilean healthcare limited. Economics, Workforce, Supply Chain, PPE Highlights: Negative effects of masks. False sense of security. Epidemiology Highlights: Uncontrolled COVID-19 spread. Dutch children play minor …

A Public Health Side Effect Of The Coronavirus Pandemic: Screen Time-Related Eye Strain And Eye Fatigue, Mary E. Helander, Stephanie A. Cushman, Shannon M. Monnat

Population Health Research Brief Series

Has your screen use increased since the start of COVID-19? You’re not alone. COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home orders have increased the time we are spending looking at screens. While these technologies help us stay connected and enable us to get the resources we need, too much screen time can lead to eye strain, headaches, and neck and back pain.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Social Media's Approach To Comfort Food, Isabella Paul

Honors Theses - Providence Campus

My thesis essentially explores the ways social media reveals subconscious connections to food. Research indicates that there is an existing connection between food consumption and nostalgia, which transports a person back to their childhood and its association with comfort. This concept of nostalgia helps us understand how people in their everyday lives share their personal comforts with the general public, and how the general public responds. To explore this phenomenon I conduct primary research in the form of collecting and analyzing Instagram posts relating to comfort food, using the hashtags #comfortfood, #nostalgia, and #foodnostalgia. I use this research to identify …

Use Of Social Networking Sites By Karnatakites For Finding Information Regarding Covid-19 - An Investigation, Somanagouda Shankargouda Patil, Vysakh Chingath

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The focus of this paper is to study the usage of social networking sites by the Karnatakites for finding information regarding COVID-19. A web survey was distributed among the targeted participants to collect data for the study. The study findings reported that cent percent of the participants were users of social networking sites in whichWhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook were the most used SNSs for finding information regarding the COVID-19. The respondents used SNSs mainly to search for information regarding the status of COVID-19 in India as well as at the global level. Most of the respondents (48.8%) agreed that the …

2020-05-22 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Lori D. Sloane, Mari Anixter, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Laura Gonzalez Bosc, Melissa Cossé, Jenny Situ, Randy Ko, Ariel Hurwitz, Kristine Tollestrup, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

NM Highlights: 12 positive cases at NMSU. Short-term rentals restrictions. Dine-in reopening. US Highlights: Models to forecast COVID-19 deaths. Places of worship reopening. Contact tracing at University of Alabama. International Highlights: More deaths among poor. Mortality data in Italy. High death toll in Brazil. Global vaccines fall behind. Italy cases drop. Vaccines to go through India. Epidemiology Highlights: Children not pandemic drivers. Healthcare Policy Recommendations: Burnout of HCWs. NYC surgeons’ response. Foggy glasses tips. Practice Guidelines: Recommendations are provided on surgical strategies during COVID-19, management of hypertension, anesthesia practice, avoiding drug-induced cardiovascular impairments, arrhythmia management, elective surgery reboot, …

The George-Anne Summer Report, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

A Call For Consistency In The Official Naming Of The Disease Caused By Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 In Non-English Languages, Lu Dong, Zhe Li, Isaac Fung

Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

We investigated the adoption of World Health Organization (WHO) naming of COVID-19 into the respective languages among the Group of Twenty (G20) countries, and the variation of COVID-19 naming in the Chinese language across different health authorities. On May 7, 2020, we identified the websites of the national health authorities of the G20 countries to identify naming of COVID-19 in their respective languages, and the websites of the health authorities in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Singapore and identify their Chinese name for COVID-19. Among the G20 nations, Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Turkey do …

The 2019-2020 Novel Coronavirus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) Pandemic: A Joint American College Of Academic International Medicine-World Academic Council Of Emergency Medicine Multidisciplinary Covid-19 Working Group Consensus Paper., Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Andrew C. Miller, Lorenzo Paladino, David F. Gaieski, Anna Q. Yaffee, Annelies De Wulf, Joydeep Grover, Thomas J. Papadimos, Christina Bloem, Sagar C. Galwankar, Vivek Chauhan, Michael S. Firstenberg, Salvatore Di Somma, Donald Jeanmonod, Sona M. Garg, Veronica Tucci, Harry L. Anderson, Lateef Fatimah, Tamara J. Worlton, Siddharth P Dubhashi, Krystal S. Glaze, Sagar Sinha, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Vikas Yellapu, Dhanashree Kelkar, Ayman El-Menyar, Vimal Krishnan, S. Venkataramanaiah, Yan Leyfman, Hassan Ali Saoud Al Thani, Prabath Wb Nanayakkara, Sudip Nanda, Eric Cioè-Peña, Indrani Sardesai, Shruti Chandra, Aruna Munasinghe, Vibha Dutta, Silvana Teixeira Dal Ponte, Ricardo Izurieta, Juan A. Asensio, Manish Garg

Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers

What started as a cluster of patients with a mysterious respiratory illness in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, was later determined to be coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The pathogen severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel Betacoronavirus, was subsequently isolated as the causative agent. SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted by respiratory droplets and fomites and presents clinically with fever, fatigue, myalgias, conjunctivitis, anosmia, dysgeusia, sore throat, nasal congestion, cough, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea. In most critical cases, symptoms can escalate into acute respiratory distress syndrome accompanied by a runaway inflammatory cytokine response and multiorgan failure. As of this …

Covid-19 Survey In The Municipality Of Anchorage: Highlights, Thomas Hennessy, Gabriel Garcia, Joy Mapaye, Rebecca Van Wyck, Elizabeth Snyder, Jennifer Meyer, Jenny Miller, Katie Cueva

Reports

As of May 20, 2020, 206 of the 402 identified cases of COVID-19 statewide have occurred among Anchorage residents (51%). Between May 6-10, 2020, approximately 56 days since the first case of COVID-19 in Anchorage was announced, a representative sample of 996 adults in the Municipality of Anchorage completed a cell phone survey designed to assess knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and behaviors related to the epidemic locally. This is a brief summary of highlights, and a detailed report will follow.

2020-05-21 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Lori D. Sloane, Mari Anixter, Mala Htun, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Susie Pham, Jenny Situ, Ariel Hurwitz, Alexandra Yingling, Gregory Mertz, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

NM Highlights: NM case counts. Governor press conference slides. More businesses to open. Roswell early retirement incentives. UNM COVID-19 STEM research. US Highlights: Michigan flooding. Earlier lockdown decreases deaths. Racial divide in nursing homes. Speeding fatalities on open roads. International: UV bot cleaner. Swedish serological study. Economics: N95 respirators supply optimization. Japanese personal protective measures implementation. Ventilator needs prediction algorithm Epidemiology: Additional high-risk occupations. Social distancing strategies effective. Location-based service data useful. Healthcare Policy: Toolkit for opening businesses. Health policy research agenda. Face mask policies vary. Practice: Recommendations are given on brachytherapy, Dental practice, ECT for elderly with …

Bfs News Online, Georgia Southern University

Art: News & Publications (2008-2023)

• BFA senior exhibition to be showcased online

2020-05-20 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Mari Anixter, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Fiona Nguyen, Samantha Paltrow-Krulwich, Andrew Pierce, Stephen Esguerra, Allison Price, Randy Ko, Aly Raboff, Ariel Hurwitz, Alexandra Yingling, Elly Munde, Gregory Mertz, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

NM Highlights: Governor’s update. NM case count. Governor’s response to republicans. Western Sky Community donation. Santa Feans using face coverings. NM Medicaid enrollment. NM colleges fall reopening. Rio Rancho partial reopening. NM Tourism Department cooking recipes. ABQ Meals on Wheels feeding more. US Highlights: Mexico influx California hospitals. Arkansas church outbreak. International Highlights: Estonia immunity passport rollout. South Korea school reopenings. Economics, Workforce, Supply Chain, PPE Highlights: Hydrogel patches for pressure injuries. Resuscitation with PPE. Journal of wound care PPE guidelines. Food supply chain protections. Epidemiology Highlights: Higher rates in Black communities. Superspreaders may explain propagation patterns. “Back-projection” …

Law School News: Distinguished Service Professor: Deborah Gonzalez 05-20-2020, Michael M. Bowden

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

My News, Georgia Southern University

My News (2014-2020)

• Georgia Southern’s new vice president for student affairs has firsthand experience with Eagle Nation
• Georgia Southern launches ‘Finish Strong’ campaign to ensure Eagle success
• Sales students in Parker College of Business compete virtually in global competition
• Georgia Southern business student finds team, career during time in Statesboro
• Georgia Southern combines two departments for enhanced student wellness
• Georgia Southern Division of Continuing Education, Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies to offer new certificate program
• BFA senior exhibition showcases online

2020-05-19 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Lori D. Sloane, Mari Anixter, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Allison Price, Jenny Situ, Ariel Hurwitz, Alexandra Yingling, Perez Olewe, Cristian Bologa, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

NM Highlights: Navajo Nation. Reopening guidelines for employers. COVID Updates. Prison cases. Capitol budget faces $100M shortfall. Health Secretary warning to Lea County. APS Budget shortfall. Statewide testing site locations. UNM scientists work to develop vaccine. US Highlights: WHO funding suspended. International Highlights: China déjà vu lockdown. EU resolution adopted for investigation. Epidemiology: Wastewater used to detect outbreaks. Discharged COVID patients not infectious. Healthcare Policy Recommendations: Disability rights consideration. Practice Guidelines: Guidelines on safe extubation and COVID-19 –related rash classification. Testing: Sputum sample better than nasopharyngeal. Drugs, Vaccines, Therapies, Clinical Trials: NIH partners with other agencies. Low-dose HCQ …

Bulldog Bash Raises More Than $45k For Gardner-Webb Athletics, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The second annual Bulldog Bash student-athlete fundraiser ended recently, bringing in more than $45,000 for Gardner-Webb University’s student-athletes. Despite the challenges of COVID-19 and moving to an online exclusive format, the two-day event exceeded last year’s total by $18,000. Sponsored by the Gardner-Webb Bulldog Club and GWU Athletics, this year’s fundraising auction drew the support of 268 bidders through email and social media channels.

The Right To A Public Trial In The Time Of Covid-19, Stephen E. Smith

Faculty Publications

Maintaining social distance in the time of COVID-19 is a public health priority. A crowded courtroom is an environment at odds with public health needs. Accordingly, until science determines otherwise, it will be necessary for judges to manage courtroom attendance and exclude the public from trials, wholly or in part. Courtrooms may be closed to the public, despite the Sixth Amendment’s right to a public trial, when the closure is justified by a strong government interest and is narrowly tailored to further that interest. Typically, this heightened scrutiny is applied on a case-by-case basis and turns on a case’s specific …

The Right To A Public Trial In The Time Of Covid-19, Stephen E. Smith

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

Maintaining social distance in the time of COVID-19 is a public health priority. A crowded courtroom is an environment at odds with public health needs. Accordingly, until science determines otherwise, it will be necessary for judges to manage courtroom attendance and exclude the public from trials, wholly or in part. Courtrooms may be closed to the public, despite the Sixth Amendment’s right to a public trial, when the closure is justified by a strong government interest and is narrowly tailored to further that interest. Typically, this heightened scrutiny is applied on a case-by-case basis and turns on a case’s specific …

Parametric Nasopharyngeal Swab For Sampling Covid-19 And Other Respiratory Viruses: Open Source Design, Sla 3-D Printing And Uv Curing System, Nicole Gallup, Adam Pringle, Shane Oberloier, Nagendra Gautam Tanikella, Joshua M. Pearce

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Access to nasopharyngeal swabs for sampling remain a bottleneck in some regions for COVID19 testing. This study develops a distributed manufacturing solution using only an open source manufacturing tool chain consisting of two types of open source 3-D printing and batch UV curing, and provides a parametric fully free design of a nasopharyngeal swab. The swab was designed using parametric OpenSCAD in two components (a head with engineered break point and various handles), which has several advantages: i) minimizing print time on relatively slow SLA printers, ii) enabling the use of smaller print volume open source SLA printers, iii) reducing …

2020-05-18 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Lori D. Sloane, Mari Anixter, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Fiona Nguyen, Ryen Ormesher, Melissa Cossé, Susie Pham, Jenny Situ, Alexandra Yingling, Cristian Bologa, Kristine Tollestup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

NM Highlights: NM COVID safety guidelines. NM case count. Navajo Nation case count. Gadsden school district kitchens closures. ABQ non-COVID patient treatment delay. NM factory shutdowns. US Highlights: Moderna Inc. vaccine shows promise. US cases exceed 1.5 million. US states reopen. NY slowly reopening. Michigan vaccines decrease. CDC antibody study. International Highlights: WHO independent review. Economics, Workforce, Supply Chain, PPE Highlights: Maxillofacial surgeries down. PPE skin damage. Epidemiology Highlights: Infections may overwhelm ICE facilities. High estimated US infections. LA antibody testing results. Super-spreader in church. Hospital staff antibody response. No effect of climate. Healthcare Policy Recommendations: Pairing assistance …

Flexibility Of Writing Career Allows Gwu Journalism Alumna To Stay At Home With Children, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Erin Boyd Odom, a 2003 Gardner-Webb University alumna, is a published author of two books, wife, mother of four children, blogger and website manager. Plus, during her “spare time,” she is constantly whipping up healthy, new recipes in the kitchen. With recent COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, Odom and her family have transitioned to a new normal.

Georgia Southern’S Jared Benko Announces School Will Welcome Back Spring Sport Seniors, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Georgia Southern’s Jared Benko Announces School Will Welcome Back Spring Sport Seniors

Being In The Body: A Queer, Theological Approach To The Covid-19 Crisis, Shelly Summers

Religion: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

2020-05-16/17 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Ingrid Hendrix, Mari Anixter, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Timothy Campbell, Alexandra Yingling, Cristian Bologa, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

Only 1 case in NM state prisons. NM case count. NM travel warning. NM web-based recovery reporting system. NM Mask Madness Tournament. Face covering in ABQ. NM graduate medical program funding. ABQ Memorial Day cancellation. NM affordable housing funding. Taos farmers market drive through opening. US correctional facility cases. Social distancing works. Dogs sniffing out COVID-19. Germany's soccer league to restart. Mask effectiveness. Mask comfort w/cardboard cutout. Ammonium cleaning ineffective. CDC contact tracing guidance. Spanish immunity. CDC epidemic intelligence fellowship. Speaking transmits virus. Decontaminating workers. CDC advisory for children. Addressing ER fears. Indoor presymptomatic virus transfer. Virus transmission …

Covid-19 Crisis, Impacts On Catholic Schools, And Potential Responses | Part 1: Developed Countries With Focus On The United States, Quentin Wodon

COVID-19 and Catholic Schools

The COVID-19 crisis has led to widespread temporary school closures and a deep economic recession. School closures have threatened children’s ability to learn and later return to school well prepared. The impact of the economic recession is going to be even more devastating: first for students, but also for the ability of some Catholic schools to maintain their enrollment and remain sustainable financially in countries where they do not benefit from government support. This paper, the first in a set of two, looks at some of the likely impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on Catholic Schools in developed countries with …

Covid-19 Crisis, Impacts On Catholic Schools, And Potential Responses: Introduction, Quentin Wodon

COVID-19 and Catholic Schools

The COVID-19 crisis has generated unprecedented challenges for Catholic schools and their students, as is the case for other school networks. First, school closures have affected 9 in 10 school-aged children globally, with risks for the children’s ability to learn when the schools are closed, and later return to school when the crisis subsides. Second, the economic recession generated by the crisis will not only affect children, but also in some cases the ability of Catholic and other private schools to maintain their enrollment, and thereby their financial sustainability, at least in countries where the schools do not benefit from …

Covid-19 Crisis, Impacts On Catholic Schools, And Potential Responses: Introduction, Quentin Wodon

Journal of Catholic Education

The COVID-19 crisis has generated unprecedented challenges for Catholic schools and their students, as is the case for other school networks. First, school closures have affected 9 in 10 school-aged children globally, with risks for the children’s ability to learn when the schools are closed, and later return to school when the crisis subsides. Second, the economic recession generated by the crisis will not only affect children, but also in some cases the ability of Catholic and other private schools to maintain their enrollment, and thereby their financial sustainability, at least in countries where the schools do not benefit from …

Antibody Testing For Covid-19: Can It Be Used As A Screening Tool In Areas With Low Prevalence?, Sweta Mathur

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

2020-05-15 Daily Unm Global Health Covid-19 Briefing, Christophe G. Lambert, Shawn Stoicu, Lori D. Sloane, Anastasiya Nestsiarovich, Praveen Kumar, Nicolas Lauve, Ryen Ormesher, Melissa Cossé, Timothy Campbell, Jenny Situ, Randy Ko, Ariel Hurwitz, Alexandra Yingling, Perez Olewe, Tudor I. Oprea, Cristian Bologa, Gregory Mertz, Kristine Tollestrup, Orrin Myers, Douglas J. Perkins

HSC Covid 19 Briefings

Executive Summary:

Governor clarifies health orders. NM childhood deaths high. NM workplace investigations. NM case count. Navajo emergency orders. $77M NM testing/tracing. NM convalescent plasma. NM unemployment claims slow. NM food bank challenges. Farmington Mall protest. $3T bill opposition. Lancet FDA revival call. UK Roche antibody testing. Swedish excess mortality. End of Slovenia pandemic. US invest in COVID-19 vaccine. Safe decontamination N95 respirators. Business occupancy load. 10 years of life lost burden. Forecasting models predict deaths. Infection fatality rate 8%. Resilient medical education. Restrictions: human rights law. Guidelines for nursing homes. Managing hematology and oncology patients. Abbott test accuracy. Lab …