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Coronavirus (1445) Increasing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance while maintaining autonomy Increasing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among the general population while maintaining autonomy [*see note below] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21645515.2021.1922265 STAY SAFE & GET VACCINATED!!! Regards Senkyire Ephraim Kumi, ( RN) |
10 March, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1443) We need global solutions for global challenges World Economic Forum. Read online: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/omicron-teaches-us-that-global-ch... |
9 March, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1444) Pandemic panic and indiscriminate prescriptions drive India’s antimicrobial resistance Citation and selected extracts below. Read online: https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o596 CITATION: Pandemic panic and indiscriminate prescriptions drive India’s antimicrobial resistance BMJ 2022; 376 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o596 (Published 08 March 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;376:o596 |
9 March, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1442) Brazil's COVID-19 guidelines: political hijack of public health Extracts below from a Comment in The Lancet. Read online: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00338-5/fulltext |
8 March, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1441) Rallying to combat COVID-19 rumours in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Extracts from a news item on WHO Africa Regional Office website, and a comment from me below. Read online: https://www.afro.who.int/news/rallying-combat-covid-19-rumours-democrati... -- Rallying to combat COVID-19 rumours in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 04 March 2022 |
8 March, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1440) How the World Health Organization might face future pandemics Extracts below from Reuters news agency. Read online: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/how-world-he... -- GENEVA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics will begin at the World Health Organization on Thursday, with a target date of May 2024 for a treaty to be adopted by the U.N. health agency's 194 member countries... |
27 February, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1439) 'Disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine is a problem. Stanford researchers are trying to solve it' Read online: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/02/24/curbing-spread-covid-19-vaccine-rel... -- Stanford scholar Renée DiResta is the author of a new report looking how to stop the online spread of mis- and disinformation related to the COVID-19 vaccine. |
26 February, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1438) Call for papers - "Theme Issue: Social Media, Ethics, and COVID-19 Misinformation" in the Journal of Medical Internet Research With thanks to WHO Infodemic Management News Flash. -- The Journal of Medical Internet Research welcomes submissions to a special theme issue examining the intersection of social media, ethics, and COVID-19 misinformation. |
19 February, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1436) COVID-19 vaccines development in Africa (2) Dear All, |
19 February, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1437) Caution is needed as Hospital acquired covid infections are being reported, still It is a good thing that the pandemic appears to be in retreat. As more and more countries relax covid-19 restrictions and societies return to free society behaviours, reports emerging from many of these countries seem to indicate that hospitals which are by nature enclosed spaces need to be more cautious as they approach the policy. Below we share the report from the USA Hospitals and hospital acquired covid infections: ‘Record number of patients caught COVID-19 in hospitals last month' |
19 February, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1435) COVID-19 vaccines development in Africa Dear All Kindly find a review on Covid vaccine development in Africa COVID-19 vaccines development in Africa: a review of current situation and existing challenges of vaccine production. https://doi.org/10.7774/cevr.2022.11.1.82 *STAY SAFE & GET VACCINATED!!!* Regards Senkyire Ephraim Kumi, (RN) |
16 February, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1434) Public Perceptions, More Than Misinformation, Explain Poor Adherence to Proven COVID-19 Control Measures Hi, Here is the abstract of an article I published in the AJTMH: |
10 February, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1433) BBC article: "Harmful messaging offences added to online safety bill" / Misinformation HIFA colleagues in the UK and around the world interested in misinformation may like to know about this BBC article which discusses the government's new online safety bill; if passed, the bill could see "social networks fined 10% of their global turnover if they fail to remove harmful content." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60264178 |
5 February, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1432) How a few poorly designed COVID-19 studies may have contributed to misinformation in Brazil Interesting short paper from Brazilian authors who 'briefly discuss how a small set of exceptionally poorly designed studies disseminated through the press, weeks or months before publication and without access to the data sets used to generate these studies for a more thorough assessment, played into a cycle of misinformation in Brazil in the first year of the pandemic.' The paper focuses on chloroquine, ivermectin and nitrazoxanide. Citation, extracts and a comment from me below. |
24 January, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1432) US Insurer Spending on Ivermectin Prescriptions for COVID-19 (2) I am not surprised, this sad news shows how far the damage from misinformation and anti-science sentiments went since this pandemic. A lot of damage has been done to the successes of the Evidence Based Practice movement before the pandemic. Reversing the negative trend will take a lot of effort which should be promoted on a global level. |
20 January, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1431) US Insurer Spending on Ivermectin Prescriptions for COVID-19 With thanks to Global Health Now. Comment from me below. 'About $130 million was spent on Ivermectin prescriptions over a 12-month period, researchers have found - suggesting that US insuurers heavily subsidized the costs of the drug despite its ineffectiveness to treat COVID-19.' CITATION: US Insurer Spending on Ivermectin Prescriptions for COVID-19 Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD1; Rena M. Conti, PhD2; Nora V. Becker, MD, PhD3 January 13, 2022 JAMA. Published online January 13, 2022. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.24352 |
19 January, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1430) Relation of corona-specific health literacy to use of and trust in information sources during the COVID-19 pandemic (2) Interestingly although health professionals are most trusted sources of information, I received no information about coronavirus from my family practice during the first two years of the pandemic despite family practices having a certain portion of their income related to public health. |
12 January, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1429) Axios news: The Biden administration has a COVID credibility crisis This news item demonstrates that even a high-income country such as the US has difficulty in delivering effective COVID-19 health communications to the general population. Part of the problem is the evolving science, and part is the evolving virus, with new variants having different characteristics to previous ones. Below is the opening section of the article (with thanks to Global Health News). |
10 January, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1427) Lancet Global Health: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Africa (3) Dear Bernard Seytre, Thank you for your response to the paper by Polydor Ngoy Mutombo et al. Paper: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Africa: a call to action. DOI: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00563-5/fulltext |
10 January, 2022 |
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Coronavirus (1428) Adherence of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pharmacologic Treatments of Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 to Trustworthy Standard: A Systematic Review (4) Dear Sian Williams, |
10 January, 2022 |
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