2024-03-29T05:45:56Z
https://zenodo.org/oai2d
oai:zenodo.org:5202851
2021-08-24T22:03:51Z
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Paull, John
2021-06-01
<p>The Antipodes have been amongst the safest places on the planet during the Covid-19 pandemic. The governments of Australia and New Zealand (national, state, and territory governments) have acted promptly, decisively, and cohesively in closing borders, quarantining incoming returnees, instigating rigorouscontact tracing and extensive testing, social distancing, hand washing, masks, and occasional lockdowns. Antipodean governments and populations have long experience of awareness and compliance with biosecurity issues. Isolation and distance have long served to keep Australia and New Zealand free of many pests and diseases. Each Antipodean election held during the Covid-19 pandemic has returned the incumbent. During the first 14 months of the pandemic, six out of six incumbent governments facing elections during the Covid pandemic have been returned. Five returned incumbents were center-left while the sixth was centerright. Four of the elections have rewarded the incumbent government with an increased majority, the Northern Territory election returned a reduced majority, and the Tasmanian election returned the status quo with the narrowest of majorities maintained. The New Zealand election returned the Labor government to power in their own right and released them from the coalition. The Western Australian election saw Labor returned with a landslide result with an unprecedented, win of 53 out of 59 seats (90% of seats). The object of the present paper is to report the outcomes of the six antipodean elections conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic (to date) and to reflect on the Covid-safe effect on them if any.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5202851
oai:zenodo.org:5202851
eng
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https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5202850
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Journal of Social and Development Sciences, 12(1), 17-24, (2021-06-01)
Covid-19, Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, Covid-safe, politics, Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia
Pandemic Elections and the Covid-Safe Effect: Incumbents Re-elected in six Covid-19 Safe Havens
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:3964512
2021-02-11T12:43:19Z
user-sedinstcjm
user-covid19-structure-hub
user-crises_resources
user-biu-israel
user-eradicatecovid19
Anthony of Boston (Anthony Moore)
2020-07-28
<p><strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> in relation to Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat.</p>
<p><br>
US President Trump has advocated for <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> to be considered as an effective treatment for COVID-19. However, after a number of people have been reported to experience serious adverse side effects, the general consensus has-as a result- turned largely pessimistic about <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong>'s effectiveness. The reason I considered the recommendation of a malaria drug as solid reasoning is based on my research in making sense of how overall health is divided mainly into two opposing sides. This is explained in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat. The lineup of symptoms, vitamins, and minerals on one side can each fight against the symptoms, vitamins and minerals of the other side. My reasoning infers that because Vitamin E is designated to side one of health in Chapter 27, while flu is designated to side two, Vitamin E can easily be nominated as a candidate for treatment of anything flu-like(I infer COVID-19 as a flu-like illness). Because its hypothesized that anything on side one can fight against anything on side two, theoretically-as a result of that-any symptom, vitamin or mineral from side one is a contender to fight against any symptom, vitamin or mineral on side two. Judging from the way the components(symptom, vitamin or mineral) of each side is allocated- with high insulin on side one versus both flu and malaria on side two(see pg 533-534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat)- <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> with its high insulin/hypoglycemic side effect becomes a solid proposal in the fight against COVID-19. After reading about the fatal cases pertaining to <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> use, I learned that the adverse effects mirrored strongly the adverse affects of extreme hypoglycemia and insulin overdose which both normally end in cardiac arrest. This is not the case for all reported treatments of COVID-19 with <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong>. <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> has been found effective in some studies. Treatment with <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System. https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study</p>
<p>What <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> does-in terms of how it applies to the Chapter 27 perspective-is draw from the high insulin component of side one and uses that to fight against the components of side two. Furthermore, it should not be surmised that this infers for a component of one side to be without problems should it be administered beyond what is necessary for treatment. This is happening with use of <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> in some cases. A good analogy is drinking not just enough water just to satisfy one's thirst, but drinking too much to not only satisfy one's thirst but also go overboard and at the same time bring oneself to water intoxication. In this, one can understand such a scenario doesn't discount water altogether as an effective treatment for thirst. The key for any further research on <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> would be in understanding the individual patient's initial level of insulin and administering based on that in order to circumvent the dangers of the hypoglycemia/high insulin overdose symptom of <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong>'s adverse effects.</p>
<p>Moreover, what Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat does is show why there is more than one effective method to fight COVID-19 or any other disease.</p>
<p>this is Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU">https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU</a></p>
<p> </p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964512
oai:zenodo.org:3964512
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid19-structure-hub
https://zenodo.org/communities/sedinstcjm
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://zenodo.org/communities/eradicatecovid19
https://zenodo.org/communities/biu-israel
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964508
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Hydroxychloroquine
covid 19
coronavirus
Hydroxychloroquine in relation to Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat.
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:3964509
2021-02-11T12:43:19Z
user-sedinstcjm
user-covid19-structure-hub
user-crises_resources
user-biu-israel
user-eradicatecovid19
Anthony of Boston (Anthony Moore)
2020-07-28
<p><strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> in relation to Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat.</p>
<p><br>
US President Trump has advocated for <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> to be considered as an effective treatment for COVID-19. However, after a number of people have been reported to experience serious adverse side effects, the general consensus has-as a result- turned largely pessimistic about <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong>'s effectiveness. The reason I considered the recommendation of a malaria drug as solid reasoning is based on my research in making sense of how overall health is divided mainly into two opposing sides. This is explained in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat. The lineup of symptoms, vitamins, and minerals on one side can each fight against the symptoms, vitamins and minerals of the other side. My reasoning infers that because Vitamin E is designated to side one of health in Chapter 27, while flu is designated to side two, Vitamin E can easily be nominated as a candidate for treatment of anything flu-like(I infer COVID-19 as a flu-like illness). Because its hypothesized that anything on side one can fight against anything on side two, theoretically-as a result of that-any symptom, vitamin or mineral from side one is a contender to fight against any symptom, vitamin or mineral on side two. Judging from the way the components(symptom, vitamin or mineral) of each side is allocated- with high insulin on side one versus both flu and malaria on side two(see pg 533-534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat)- <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> with its high insulin/hypoglycemic side effect becomes a solid proposal in the fight against COVID-19. After reading about the fatal cases pertaining to <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> use, I learned that the adverse effects mirrored strongly the adverse affects of extreme hypoglycemia and insulin overdose which both normally end in cardiac arrest. This is not the case for all reported treatments of COVID-19 with <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong>. <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> has been found effective in some studies. Treatment with <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System. https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study</p>
<p>What <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> does-in terms of how it applies to the Chapter 27 perspective-is draw from the high insulin component of side one and uses that to fight against the components of side two. Furthermore, it should not be surmised that this infers for a component of one side to be without problems should it be administered beyond what is necessary for treatment. This is happening with use of <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> in some cases. A good analogy is drinking not just enough water just to satisfy one's thirst, but drinking too much to not only satisfy one's thirst but also go overboard and at the same time bring oneself to water intoxication. In this, one can understand such a scenario doesn't discount water altogether as an effective treatment for thirst. The key for any further research on <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong> would be in understanding the individual patient's initial level of insulin and administering based on that in order to circumvent the dangers of the hypoglycemia/high insulin overdose symptom of <strong>Hydroxychloroquine</strong>'s adverse effects.</p>
<p>Moreover, what Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat does is show why there is more than one effective method to fight COVID-19 or any other disease.</p>
<p>this is Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU">https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU</a></p>
<p> </p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964509
oai:zenodo.org:3964509
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid19-structure-hub
https://zenodo.org/communities/sedinstcjm
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://zenodo.org/communities/eradicatecovid19
https://zenodo.org/communities/biu-israel
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964508
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Hydroxychloroquine
covid 19
coronavirus
Hydroxychloroquine in relation to Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat.
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oai:zenodo.org:4064043
2021-11-09T03:09:57Z
user-twitter-datasets
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
user-eradicatecovid19
Sharath Chandra Guntuku
Garrick
Daniel
Anish
Emily
Raina
Lyle
2020-07-12
<p>Twitter estimates of county-level mental health during COVID-19</p>
<p>Mental health metrics, namely psychological stress, lonely expressions, anxiety, and sentiment are measured daily using pre-trained machine learning models applied to a random 1% Twitter data. For more details, read our publication in the Journal of General Internal Medicine: http://wwbp.org/papers/jgim-2020.pdf </p>
<pre><code class="language-markdown">Data snapshot:
| group_id | feat | value | group_norm | day | cnty |
|------------------ |----------- |------- |------------------ |------------ |------- |
| 2020-04-16:01001 | lonely_score | 78 | 2.92268402613488 | 2020-04-16 | 01001 |
| 2020-04-16:01003 | lonely_score | 830 | 2.82928758282208 | 2020-04-16 | 01003 |
| 2020-04-16:01005 | lonely_score | 13 | 3.4083486715075 | 2020-04-16 | 01005 |
| 2020-04-16:01017 | lonely_score | 93 | 2.67820445675611 | 2020-04-16 | 01017 |
| 2020-04-16:01021 | lonely_score | 96 | 3.02387743147066 | 2020-04-16 | 01021 |
`cnty`: FIPS code of county
`day`: date
`group_norm`: mental health estimate; a sum of term relative frequencies weighted by their association with this mental health outcome in the pre-trained model
`value`: number of words contributing to the estimate
`feat`: descriptor of metric
`group_id`: concatenation of `day`:`cnty`</code></pre>
<p>This data (aggregated to the state-level) is also used to update the Penn COVID Twitter Map https://penncovid19hub.com/twitter-map </p>
<pre><code class="language-markdown">##Citation
APA:
```
Guntuku, S. C., Sherman, G., Stokes, D. C., Agarwal, A. K., Seltzer, E., Merchant, R. M., & Ungar, L. H. (2020). Tracking Mental Health and Symptom Mentions on Twitter During COVID-19. Journal of general internal medicine, 1-3.
```
Bib:
```
@article{guntuku2020tracking,
title={Tracking Mental Health and Symptom Mentions on Twitter During COVID-19},
author={Guntuku, Sharath Chandra and Sherman, Garrick and Stokes, Daniel C and Agarwal, Anish K and Seltzer, Emily and Merchant, Raina M and Ungar, Lyle H},
journal={Journal of general internal medicine},
pages={1--3},
year={2020},
publisher={Springer}
}
```</code></pre>
<p>Details of how these models were trained are described in the following papers:</p>
<pre><code class="language-markdown">Stress:
```
Guntuku, S. C., Buffone, A., Jaidka, K., Eichstaedt, J. C., & Ungar, L. H. (2019, July). Understanding and measuring psychological stress using social media. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 13, No. 01, pp. 214-225).
```
Loneliness:
```
Guntuku, S. C., Schneider, R., Pelullo, A., Young, J., Wong, V., Ungar, L., ... & Merchant, R. (2019). Studying expressions of loneliness in individuals using twitter: an observational study. BMJ open, 9(11).
```
Sentiment:
```
Mohammad, S. M., & Turney, P. D. (2013). Crowdsourcing a word–emotion association lexicon. Computational Intelligence, 29(3), 436-465.
```</code></pre>
<p>For any queries, please reach out at `sharathg at cis dot upenn dot edu` or `garricks at sas dot upenn dot edu`.<br>
</p>
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05988-8
oai:zenodo.org:4064043
eng
Zenodo
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05988-8
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/twitter-datasets
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://zenodo.org/communities/eradicatecovid19
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
Journal of General Internal Medicine, (2020-07-12)
Twitter
COVID-19
Mental Health Estimates
Loneliness
Stress
Sentiment
Anxiety
Social Media
US Counties
Tracking Mental Health and Symptom Mentions on Twitter During COVID-19
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:5893433
2022-04-14T14:10:05Z
user-btfp
user-crises_resources
Marsili, Marco
2021-11-30
<p>This paper aims to shed light on the right to information and the freedom of the media in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak. Infection disease outbreaks are invariably characterized by myths and rumors, boosted by social media accounts, that media often pick up and circulate. Under the justification to avoid panic and confusion, and to combat “fake news” during the COVID-9 pandemic, some governments took emergency measures that curtail the freedom of information. The lack of a legal definition of the term “fake news” leaves room for arbitrary and broad interpretations. Decrees issued during the state of emergency – including the practice of detaining journalists for their work and the abuse of pre-trial detention and Internet censorship – sound like measures adopted to restrict the freedom of expression and the freedom of the media, and to shout down dissenting voices. Any kind of pressure against journalists has an immediate consequence, not only on them but also on the public’s right to be informed. Media play a key role in providing important information to the public, and a pluralistic and vibrant media landscape is indispensable to any democratic society. Access to information and a free working environment are therefore essential and need to be ensured at all times, even under state of emergency. Authorities cannot invoke the state of emergency or national security as a motivation to suspend or limit fundamental human rights. The fight against COVID-19 can be a pretext for restricting civil liberties.</p>
Paper presented in joint session JS RN16- RN32: Subnational level perspectives on the governance of the pandemic at the 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2021 (ESA Conference 2021), Wednesday, 1 Sept. 2021: 12:30pm - 2:00pm CEST. Session Chair: Louisa Parks, University of Trento. This study was supported by the European Social Fund (FSE) and by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) under research grant No. SFRH/BD/136170/2018. The participation in this conference was funded by the Research Centre of the Institute for Political Studies of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (CIEP-UCP).
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5893433
oai:zenodo.org:5893433
eng
European Sociological Association (ESA)
https://zenodo.org/communities/btfp
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5893432
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ESA Conference 2021, 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2021, Barcelona, 31 August-3 September 2021
misinformation
disinformation
fake news
censorship
self-censorshisp
fundamental human rights
human rights
international law
democracy
media
freedom of expression
freedom of the press
freedom of information
journalism
journalist
online media
freedom of speech
European convention of the human rights (ECtHR)
European court human rights (ECHR)
COVID-19 and Freedom of Information: The Return of the Leviathan
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferencePaper
oai:zenodo.org:4060223
2020-10-02T13:43:28Z
software
user-crises_resources
Jeffrey Liu
Andrew Weinert
Jianyu Mao
Kiana Harris
Nae-Rong Chang
Caleb Pennell
Yiming Ren
Ryan Earley
Nadia Dimitrova
2020-09-30
<p>This repository is a collection of tutorials on how to access, analyze, and train a classifier using the LADI dataset.</p>
<p>Computer vision capabilities have rapidly been advancing and are expected to become an important component to incident and disaster response. However, the majority of computer vision capabilities are not meeting public safety’s needs, such as support for search and rescue, due to the lack of appropriate training data and requirements. For example in 2019, a leading computer vision benchmark has mislabeled a flooded region as a “toilet,” or a highway surrounded by flooding as a “runway.” In response, we’ve developed a dataset of images collected by the Civil Air Patrol of various disasters. The raw images were previously released into the public domain. Two key distinctions are the low altitude, oblique perspective of the imagery and disaster-related features, which are rarely featured in computer vision benchmarks and datasets. A subset of images were annotated using Amazon MTurk and high confidence results were achieved by consensus of qualified workers, who were evaluated on their ability to recognize objects via a qualification test. The dataset currently employs a hierarchical labeling scheme of a five coarse categorical and then more specific annotations for each category. The initial dataset focuses on the Atlantic Hurricane and spring flooding seasons since 2015. We also provide annotations produced from the commercial Google Cloud Vision service and open source Places365 benchmark.</p>
<p> </p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4060223
oai:zenodo.org:4060223
eng
Zenodo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05495
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4060222
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
python
tutorial
disaster
hadr
LADI-Dataset/ladi-tutorial: September 2020
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:3991821
2021-05-25T17:45:29Z
software
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Sonja Merten
Giovanni Spitale
2020-08-19
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic generated (and keeps generating) a huge corpus of news articles, easily retrievable in Factiva with very targeted queries. </p>
<p>The aim of this software is to provide the means to analyze this material rapidly. </p>
<p>Data are retrieved from Factiva and downloaded by hand(...) in RTF. The RTF files are then converted to TXT with unoconv in a unix environment.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Parser:</strong></p>
<p>Takes as input files numerically ordered in a folder. This is not fundamental (in case of multiple retrieves from Factiva) because the parser orders the article by date using the date field contained in each of the articles. Nevertheless, <strong>it is important to reduce duplicates</strong> (because they increase the computational time needed for processing the corpus), so before adding new articles in the folder, be sure to retrieve them from a timepoint that does not overlap with the articles already retrieved.</p>
<p>In any case, in the last phase the dataframe is checked for duplicates, that are counted and removed, but still the articles are processed by the parser and <strong>this takes computational time.</strong></p>
<p>The parser removes search summaries, segments the text, and cleans it using regex rules. The resulting text is exported in a complete dataframe as a CSV file; a subset containing only title and text is exported as TXT, ready to be fed to the NLP pipeline.</p>
<p>The parser is language agnostic; just change the path to the folder containing the documents to parse. <strong>Important:</strong> there is a regex rule mentioning languages ("header_leftover"). it lists EN, DE, FR and IT. In case you need to work with another language, remember to correct that rule.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>NLP pipeline</strong></p>
<p>The NLP pipeline imports the files generated by the parser (divided by month to put less load on the memory) and analyses them. It is <strong>not language agnostic:</strong> correct linguistic settings must be specified in <strong>"setting up", "NLP" and "additional rules".</strong></p>
<p>First some additional rules for NER are defined. Some are general, some are language-specific, as specified in the relevant section.</p>
<p>The files are opened and preprocessed, then lemma frequency and NE frequency are calculated per each month and in the whole corpus. <strong>important:</strong> in case of empty months (so, when analyzing less than one year of data) <strong>remember to exclude them from the mean,</strong> otherwise the mean will be distorted by the empty months.</p>
<p>All the dataframes are exported as CSV files for further analysis or for data visualization.</p>
<p>This code is optimized for English, German, French and Italian. Nevertheless, being based on spaCy, which provides several other models ( <a href="https://spacy.io/models">https://spacy.io/models</a> ) could easily be adapted to other languages.</p>
<p>The whole software is structured in Jupyter-lab notebooks, heavily commented for future reference.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This work is part of the <a href="https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Biomedical-Ethics/Research/Ongoing-Research/Public-Health-Ethics/PubliCo.html">PubliCo research project</a>.</p>
This work is part of the PubliCo research project, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). Project no. 31CA30_195905
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3991821
oai:zenodo.org:3991821
eng
Zenodo
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4036071
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3991613
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
natural language processing
NLP
media analysis
factiva
Factiva parser and NLP pipeline for news articles related to COVID-19
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:4792669
2021-05-26T01:48:19Z
software
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Sonja Merten
Giovanni Spitale
2020-08-19
<p><em>Changelog v2.0.0 / what's new:</em></p>
<p><em>- rtf to txt conversion and merging is now done in the notebook and does not depend on external sw</em></p>
<p><em>- rewritten the parser due to changes in Factiva's output</em></p>
<p><em>- rewritten the NLP pipeline to process data with different temporal depth</em></p>
<p><em>- streamlined and optimized here and there :)</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic generated (and keeps generating) a huge corpus of news articles, easily retrievable in Factiva with very targeted queries. </p>
<p>The aim of this software is to provide the means to analyze this material rapidly. </p>
<p>Data are retrieved from Factiva and downloaded by hand(...) in RTF. The RTF files are then converted to TXT.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Parser:</strong></p>
<p>Takes as input files numerically ordered in a folder. This is not fundamental (in case of multiple retrieves from Factiva) because the parser orders the article by date using the date field contained in each of the articles. Nevertheless, <strong>it is important to reduce duplicates</strong> (because they increase the computational time needed for processing the corpus), so before adding new articles in the folder, be sure to retrieve them from a timepoint that does not overlap with the articles already retrieved.</p>
<p>In any case, in the last phase the dataframe is checked for duplicates, that are counted and removed, but still the articles are processed by the parser and <strong>this takes computational time.</strong></p>
<p>The parser removes search summaries, segments the text, and cleans it using regex rules. The resulting text is exported in a complete dataframe as a CSV file; a subset containing only title and text is exported as TXT, ready to be fed to the NLP pipeline.</p>
<p>The parser is language agnostic; just change the path to the folder containing the documents to parse. </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>NLP pipeline</strong></p>
<p>The NLP pipeline imports the files generated by the parser (divided by month to put less load on the memory) and analyses them. It is <strong>not language agnostic:</strong> correct linguistic settings must be specified in <strong>"setting up", "NLP" and "additional rules".</strong></p>
<p>First some additional rules for NER are defined. Some are general, some are language-specific, as specified in the relevant section.</p>
<p>The files are opened and preprocessed, then lemma frequency and NE frequency are calculated per each month and in the whole corpus.</p>
<p>All the dataframes are exported as CSV files for further analysis or for data visualization.</p>
<p>This code is optimized for English, German, French and Italian. Nevertheless, being based on spaCy, which provides several other models ( <a href="https://spacy.io/models">https://spacy.io/models</a> ) could easily be adapted to other languages.</p>
<p>The whole software is structured in Jupyter-lab notebooks, heavily commented for future reference.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This work is part of the <a href="https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Biomedical-Ethics/Research/Ongoing-Research/Public-Health-Ethics/PubliCo.html">PubliCo research project</a>.</p>
This work is part of the PubliCo research project, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). Project no. 31CA30_195905
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4792669
oai:zenodo.org:4792669
eng
Zenodo
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4036071
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3991613
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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natural language processing
NLP
media analysis
factiva
Factiva parser and NLP pipeline for news articles related to COVID-19
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:3878572
2020-06-12T10:18:20Z
user-ajde
user-c19-isws
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Bozkurt, Aras
Jung, Insung
Xiao, Junhong
Vladimirschi, Viviane
Schuwer, Robert
Egorov, Gennady
Lambert, Sarah R
Al-Freih, Maha
Pete, Judith
Olcott, Jr. Don
Rodes, Virginia
Aranciaga, Ignacio
Bali, Maha
Alvarez, Jr., Abel V
Roberts, Jennifer
Pazurek, Angelica
Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa
Panagiotou, Nikos
Coëtlogon, Perrine de
Shahadu, Sadik
Brown, Mark
Asino, Tutaleni I
Tumwesige, Josephine
Ramírez Reyes, Tzinti
Barrios Ipenza, Emma
Ossiannilsson, Ebba
Bond, Melissa
Belhamel, Kamel
Irvine, Valerie
Sharma, Ramesh C
Adam, Taskeen
Janssen, Ben
Sklyarova, Tatiana
Olcott, Nicoleta
Ambrosino, Alejandra
Lazou, Chrysoula
Mocquet, Bertrand
Mano, Mattias
Paskevicius, Michael
2020-06-05
<p>Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study is a collaborative reaction that narrates the overall view, reflections from the K12 and higher educational landscape, lessons learned and suggestions from a total of 31 countries across the world with a representation of 62.7% of the whole world population. In addition to the value of each case by country, the synthesis of this research suggests that the current practices can be defined as emergency remote education and this practice is different from planned practices such as distance education, online learning or other derivations. Above all, this study points out how social injustice, inequity and the digital divide have been exacerbated during the pandemic and need unique and targeted measures if they are to be addressed. While there are support communities and mechanisms, parents are overburdened between regular daily/professional duties and emerging educational roles, and all parties are experiencing trauma, psychological pressure and anxiety to various degrees, which necessitates a pedagogy of care, affection and empathy. In terms of educational processes, the interruption of education signifies the importance of openness in education and highlights issues that should be taken into consideration such as using alternative assessment and evaluation methods as well as concerns about surveillance, ethics, and data privacy resulting from nearly exclusive dependency on online solutions.</p>
Bozkurt, A., Jung, I., Xiao, J., Vladimirschi, V., Schuwer, R., Egorov, G., Lambert, S. R., Al-Freih, M., Pete, J., Olcott, Jr., D. Rodes, V., Aranciaga, I., Bali, M., Alvarez, Jr., A. V., Roberts, J., Pazurek, A., Raffaghelli, J. E., Panagiotou, N., de Coëtlogon, P., Shahadu, S., Brown, M., Asino, T. I. Tumwesige, J., Ramírez Reyes, T., Barrios Ipenza, E., Ossiannilsson, E., Bond, M., Belhamel, K., Irvine, V., Sharma, R. C., Adam, T., Janssen, B., Sklyarova, T., Olcott, N. Ambrosino, A., Lazou, C., Mocquet, B., Mano, M., & Paskevicius, M. (2020). A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis. Asian Journal of Distance Education, 15(1), 1-126. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3778083
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https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
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Asian Journal of Distance Education, 15(1), 1-126, (2020-06-05)
emergency remote education
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Coronavirus Pandemic
Covid-19
emergency remote teaching
A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis
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oai:zenodo.org:3971140
2021-03-22T08:59:59Z
user-covid19-structure-hub
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Kira Smith
2020-08-03
<p>Sirtuin 1 SIRT1 inhibitors can be a valid solution to treat Novel Coronavirus, based on research on reduction of many virus replication and growth, as Mers-CoV, HIV, Epathitis B, VSV (Vesicular Stomatitis Virus), flu strains, adenovirus and others. SIRT1/SIRT2 inhibitors are related to the halt of cells' apoptotic response. In addition, SIRT1 reduce ACE2 activity, the receptor which Coronavirus uses to enter in the host's cells.</p>
Created and uploaded on Academia.edu on March 2020.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3971140
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https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid19-structure-hub
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3971139
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Novel Coronavirus: Hypothesis of Treatment with SIRT1 Inhibitors
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oai:zenodo.org:4638200
2021-09-08T01:52:18Z
software
user-clinupcovid
user-crises_resources
Khairulbahri, Muhamad
2021-03-25
<p>This is an SEIR model for Sweden. Sweden is unique as it has not applied the full lockdown during the pandemic of COVID-19. The SEIR model captures the roles of partial lockdown, behavioral measures, and undocumented cases.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4638200
oai:zenodo.org:4638200
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4638199
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the SEIR model, Sweden, system dynamics, covid-19, lockdown, social distancing, asymptomatic cases
The SEIR model for Sweden
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oai:zenodo.org:4620608
2021-09-08T01:52:19Z
software
user-clinupcovid
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
user-eradicatecovid19
Khairulbahri, Muhamad
2021-03-19
<p>The SEIR model(s) for Germany and Italy respectively.</p>
<p>Please find more explanation about the SEIR model in the following links: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.21.20248605v2">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.21.20248605v2</a> (Germany SEIR model) and <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.08.21249273v2">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.08.21249273v2</a> (Italian SEIR model).</p>
<p>Users need to install, at least, Vensim PLE to run the models. Vensim PLE can be downloaded from <a href="https://vensim.com/free-download/">https://vensim.com/free-download/</a> .</p>
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https://zenodo.org/communities/clinupcovid
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4620607
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the SEIR model, Germany, Italy, system dynamics, covid-19, lockdown, social distancing
The SEIR model for Germany and Italy.
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oai:zenodo.org:5701481
2021-11-17T04:31:22Z
openaire
user-crises_resources
Mietchen, Daniel
2021-11-15
<p>This repo hosts materials for a presentation "Humanitarian Wikimedia" given at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team's <a href="https://summit2021.hotosm.org/program/">HOT Summit 2021</a> on 22 November 2021.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The video is also available via <a href="https://youtu.be/Ln7Lh9W1lag">https://youtu.be/Ln7Lh9W1lag</a> .</p>
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oai:zenodo.org:4267911
2023-07-18T12:45:10Z
user-observatorio
user-btfp
user-jnmjournalismstudiesseminars
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Berardi, Silvio
Marsili, Marco
2020-11-01
<p>This paper aims to shed light on the right to information and the freedom of the media in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak. Infection disease outbreaks are invariably characterized by myths and rumors, boosted by social media accounts, that media often pick up and circulate. On the grounds of protecting public health, some Member States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe imposed strict rules on the dissemination of “fake news”. Lacking a legal definition of this term leaves room for arbitrary and broad interpretations. Emergency legislation adopted under the pretext of combating misinformation and disinformationand to protect public health restrict the freedom of expression and information. This essay review of the outbreak communication principles established by the World Health Organization and checks the compliance of emergency measures against fundamental human rights.</p>
Paper available at http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/estratto.html?item=10.4399/97888255402468&isbn=9788825540246. Journal issue available from http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825540246. ISBN: 978-88-255-4024-6 / ISSN: 2499-6394. The author gratefully acknowledges the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, for supporting this work through grant SFRH/BD/136170/2018.
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eng
Aracne
issn:2499-6394
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/btfp
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https://zenodo.org/communities/observatorio
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
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Europea, 2, 147-169, (2020-11-01)
COVID-19
Disinformation
Misinformation
Democracy
Human Rights
International Law
Coronavirus
World Health Organization (WHO)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PACE)
Censorship
COVID-19 Infodemic: Fake News, Real Censorship. Information and Freedom of Expression in Time of Coronavirus
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oai:zenodo.org:5893574
2022-03-06T19:39:09Z
user-gasj
user-crises_resources
user-zenodotus
user-intelligence
user-eradicatecovid19
Edgar A Postrado
2022-01-22
<p>As of this writing, COVID-19 had been infecting almost 400 million people and counting, had been killing over 5.5 million humans and still counting, had been destroying trillions of US dollars of economy and still going on, had been interrelating (intelligently relating or intentionally relating) from Alpha to Omicron variants and COVID-19 is causing many suicides due to lockdowns. One of the worst hit of the COVID-19 is the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, in where athletes compete each other without onlooking supporters, audiences, and customers, while the Japanese government had spent billions of US dollars in anticipation of success of the games. In addition, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was postponed for one year due to COVID-19. So far, no one had ever shown if the COVID-19 had originated naturally (naturen) or not (intellen). To answer and solve this mystery or dilemma, science needs a universally correct scientific categorization method or technique to pinpointedly nail down the origin of the COVID-19 correctly and prevent future occurrences of destructive virus pandemic. The discoveries from the new Intelligent Design <id> are being proposed to be used as guide in dealing and categorizing the topic of origins, especially, the origin of COVID-19. </p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5893574
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5893573
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THE ORIGIN OF COVID-19: A SCIENTIFIC GUIDE Through The New Intelligent Design <id>
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oai:zenodo.org:4067130
2021-02-11T12:43:19Z
user-sedinstcjm
user-covid19-structure-hub
user-crises_resources
user-biu-israel
user-eradicatecovid19
Anthony of Boston (Anthony Moore)
2020-07-28
<p>Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, blood thinners, and Remdesivir's effectiveness against COVID-19 have a common link</p>
<p><br>
US President Trump has advocated for Hydroxychloroquine to be considered as an effective treatment for COVID-19. However, after a number of people have been reported to experience serious adverse side effects, the general consensus has-as a result- turned largely pessimistic about Hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness. The reason I considered the recommendation of a malaria drug as solid reasoning is based on my research in making sense of how overall health is divided mainly into two opposing sides. This is explained in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat. The lineup of symptoms, vitamins, and minerals on one side can each fight against the symptoms, vitamins and minerals of the other side. My reasoning infers that because Vitamin E is designated to side one of health in Chapter 27, while flu is designated to side two, Vitamin E can easily be nominated as a candidate for treatment of anything flu-like(I infer COVID-19 as a flu-like illness). Because its hypothesized that anything on side one can fight against anything on side two, theoretically-as a result of that-any symptom, vitamin or mineral from side one is a contender to fight against any symptom, vitamin or mineral on side two. Judging from the way the components(symptom, vitamin or mineral) of each side is allocated- with high insulin on side one versus both flu and malaria on side two(see pg 533-534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat)- Hydroxychloroquine with its high insulin/hypoglycemic side effect becomes a solid proposal in the fight against COVID-19. After reading about the fatal cases pertaining to Hydroxychloroquine use, I learned that the adverse effects mirrored strongly the adverse affects of extreme hypoglycemia and insulin overdose which both normally end in cardiac arrest. This is not the case for all reported treatments of COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine has been found effective in some studies. Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System. https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study</p>
<p>What Hydroxychloroquine does-in terms of how it applies to the Chapter 27 perspective-is draw from the high insulin component of side one and uses that to fight against the components of side two. Furthermore, it should not be surmised that this infers for a component of one side to be without problems should it be administered beyond what is necessary for treatment. This is happening with use of Hydroxychloroquine in some cases. A good analogy is drinking not just enough water just to satisfy one's thirst, but drinking too much to not only satisfy one's thirst but also go overboard and at the same time bring oneself to water intoxication. In this, one can understand such a scenario doesn't discount water altogether as an effective treatment for thirst. The key for any further research on Hydroxychloroquine would be in understanding the individual patient's initial level of insulin and administering based on that in order to circumvent the dangers of the hypoglycemia/high insulin overdose symptom of Hydroxychloroquine's adverse effects.</p>
<p>Moreover, what Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat does is show why there is more than one effective method to fight COVID-19 or any other disease.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Another example that affirms the side 1/side 2 layout of health described in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat are the promising results that Vitamin D has shown in coronavirus research. Studies performed by Michael F. Holick--a professor of physiology, medicine and molecular medicine and biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine--found that COVID-19 patients over 40 who had sufficient Vitamin D levels were 51% less likely to die from the virus. It was also concluded that anyone who had sufficient levels of Vitamin D in his system had a reduced risk of catching the virus by 54%. Pages 533 and 534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat has Vitamin D lined up on the same side of health as high insulin, which was the effect of Hydroxychloroquine protocols used to fight COVID-19. This further affirms the outlook of 2 opposing sides of health.</p>
<p>The success of blood thinners in treating COVID 19 also affirms the side 1/side 2 layout of health described in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat. An observational study done by researchers at Mount Sinai in New York found that hospitalized COVID-19 patients who took blood thinner prescriptions had a 50% reduced risk of death. They also checked autopsy records from COVID-19 patients at Mount Sinai and found that 11 of 26 patients had blood clots in the lungs, brain and heart that weren’t detected in the hospital. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200827/blood-thinners-may-increase-covid-survival-rates Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute discovered the effectiveness of blood thinners in neutralizing the coronavirus. They found that the blood thinner heparin was effective in keeping the virus from infecting healthy cells. https:// www.fiercebiotech.com/research/how-covid-19-could-be-crippled-by-age-old-blood-thinner The studies concerning blood thinners as an effective treatment justifies the Vitamin E proposal since it also has blood thinning properties. Pages 533 and 534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat has blood thining lined up on the same side of health as Vitamin D and high insulin.</p>
<p>On October 2, 2020, US President Donald Trump announced that he and the First Lady tested positive for Covid-19. He has been placed on a five-day course of treatment with remdesivir, an antiviral drug manufactured by drug maker company Gilead Sciences. One can gather from information regarding the side effects of remdesivir that remdesivir is also drawing from the side 1 of health explained in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat, specifically from the gastroproblems that has been set as antagonistic to flu-like illnesses. The most common side effect discovered in patients treated for COVID-19 using remdesivir was nausea. This, according to the thesis outlined in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat, makes remdesivir a solid proposal against the coronavirus. In a 600-patient analysis, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study in moderately ill COVID-19 patients showed that 11 days after starting treatment--65% of the 10-day remdesivir patients, 70% of the 5-day patients and 60% of the standard care patients had left the hospital. “Side effects seen more frequently in the remdesivir groups included nausea, low blood potassium levels, and headache.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir/gilead-fda-could-expand-remdesivir-use-<br>
despite-mixed-data-idUSKBN25H2CT Pages 533 and 534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat has gastroproblems lined up on the same side of health as blood thining, Vitamin D, and high insulin.</p>
<p>This thesis of overall health being divided mainly into two opposing sides makes sense of how Hydroxychloroquine(high insulin effect), Vitamin D, blood thinners, and remdesivir(gastroproblem effect) are all effective against the coronavirus (COVID-19).</p>
<p>this is Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat which explains health being divided mainly into two opposing sides <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU">https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU</a></p>
<p> </p>
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Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, blood thinners, and Remdesivir's effectiveness against COVID-19 have a common link
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oai:zenodo.org:3900175
2021-02-25T13:47:11Z
user-humanrights
user-covid_19_senacyt_abc_panama
user-unachithinktank
user-uerj
user-covid-19-centralamerica
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Virginia Torres-Lista
Luis Carlos Herrera
Abdel Solís-Rodríguez
María Sebastián Sebastián
Ursula Torres-Lista
Gabriela Noriega
Naiseidys Aguilar de Johnson
Eliseo Márquez
Markelda Montenegro
Janeth Agrazal
2020-06-18
<p>En diciembre de 2019 se encuentra una nueva cepa de un coronavirus, hoy conocido como SARS-CoV-2 o COVID-19, en la ciudad de Wuhan, China, la cual se ha expandido rápidamente por el mundo, y ha sido categorizado como Pandemia el 11 de Marzo de 2020 por la Organización Mundial de Salud (OMS), afectando a más de 150 países al mismo tiempo. La pandemia del COVID-19 ha evidenciado problemáticas globales en todos los ámbitos de la vida del ser humano. Como, por ejemplo, la desigualdad social, acceso a tecnología, adecuación de las viviendas, pérdida de empleo, entre otras. Donde el distanciamiento físico, trasforma las viviendas como refugio para prevenir el contagio, y la ubica como el nuevo lugar donde se realiza la convivencia, educación y se labora. Este eBook, recopila información hasta (Junio, 2020) sobre el COVID-19, donde se expone sus principales fuentes de transmisión, el tiempo que permanece en las superficies/materiales, consejos y cuidado tanto para los niños como el adulto mayor, análisis histórico-artístico de la arquitectura, uso de nuevas tecnologías tanto en educación como en los sistema de detección temprana ante una emergencia de salud pública. Por otra parte, se plantean los retos que tiene la sociedad en la adaptación de los nuevos estilos de vida, autocuidado y las lecciones aprendidas. Dado que la crisis sanitaria todavía no ha finalizado y todavía no pueden calibrarse sus efectos por completo, no se plantean soluciones cerradas, pero se apuntan posibles vías de investigación y reflexión para la sociedad y Estado, debido que a través de la Ciencia y Tecnología se puede afrontar un tema de salud pública que afecta a toda la población, pero mañana puede aparecer otro tipo de problemática, la de crisis social. </p>
<p>#JuntosHaciendoCiencia</p>
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In December 2019, a new strain of coronavirus, today known as SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, was found in the city of Wuhan, China, which has rapidly spread throughout the world, and has been classified as a Pandemic the March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), affecting more than 150 countries at the same time. The COVID-19 pandemic has global problematic evidence in all fields of human life. As, for example, social inequality, access to technology, adequacy of housing, loss of employment, among others. Where physical distancing, the transformation of houses as a refuge to prevent contagion, and the location as the new place where coexistence, education and work are carried out. This eBook collects information until (June, 2020) on COVID-19, where its main sources of transmission are exposed, the time it remains on surfaces / materials, advice and care for both children and the elderly, analysis historical-artistic architecture, use of new technologies both in education and in the early detection system in the face of a public health emergency. On the other hand, the challenges that society has in adapting new lifestyles, self-care and the lessons learned are discussed. Given that the health crisis has not yet ended and its effects cannot yet be fully calibrated, closed solutions are not proposed, but possible avenues of investigation and reflection for society and the State are pointed out, because through Science and Technology may face a public health issue that affects the entire population, but tomorrow another type of problem may appear, the social crisis.
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Ciencias Sociales
Salud
Educación
Lotería
Arquitectura
Género
Niños
Adolescente
Adulto Mayor
TEA
Social Sciences
Health
Education
Lottery
Architecture
Gender
Children
Teenager
Elderly
ASD
Ciências Sociais
Saúde
Educação
Loteria
Arquitetura
Gênero
Crianças
Idosos
La Lección Social del COVID-19 y sus Nuevos Retos
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oai:zenodo.org:4288512
2021-02-25T14:33:14Z
user-crises_resources
Thielsch, Meinald T.
Röseler, Stefan
Kirsch, Julia
Lamers, Christoph
Hertel, Guido
2020-11-24
<p>This is the online supplement for a study by the University of Muenster, Germany, in cooperation with the State Fire Service Institute NRW, Germany. The study is part of a larger research project and examined demands, resources, and effective behavior withing crisis management teams during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p>Some emergencies – such as the COVID-19 pandemic – are so large that no individual nor any single municipality, organization or even country can handle them alone. These emergencies require multidisciplinary crisis management teams (CMTs). However, most existing CMTs are trained for rather local and temporary emergencies but not for international and long-lasting crises. Moreover, CMT members in a pandemic face additional demands due to unknown characteristics of the disease, and a highly volatile environment. To support and ensure the effectiveness of CMTs, we need to understand how CMT members can successfully cope with these multiple demands. Connecting teamwork research with the job demands and resources approach as starting framework, we conducted structured interviews and critical incident analyses with 144 members of various CMTs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Content analyses revealed both perceived demands as well as perceived resources in CMTs. Moreover, structuring work processes, open, precise and regular communication, and anticipatory, goal-oriented and fast problem solving were described as particularly effective behaviors in CMTs. We illustrate our findings in an integrated model, and derive practical recommendations for the work and future training of CMTs</p>
<p>The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Faculty of Psychology & Sports Science of the University of Münster (ID 2020-26-MT) and pre-registered with OSF (https://osf.io/p4wda/).</p>
<p>This online supplement includes</p>
<ul>
<li>an appendix with additional information on sample characteristics, </li>
<li>the interview guide (in English and German),</li>
<li>raw data of quantitative variables and the codebook of variables.<br>
(Note: The raw data contains only the information of persons who were included in the analysis and have agreed to it. Some demographic information was deleted to ensure anonymity.)</li>
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This research is part of the project "FIRE: Feedback Instruments for Rescue Force Education - Leadership and Teamwork in High Risk Environments", funded by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Managing Pandemics – Demands, Resources, and Effective Behaviors within Crisis Management Teams: Online Supplement
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oai:zenodo.org:4061821
2021-02-11T12:43:19Z
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Anthony of Boston (Anthony Moore)
2020-07-28
<p>Hydroxychloroquine in relation to Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat.</p>
<p><br>
US President Trump has advocated for Hydroxychloroquine to be considered as an effective treatment for COVID-19. However, after a number of people have been reported to experience serious adverse side effects, the general consensus has-as a result- turned largely pessimistic about Hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness. The reason I considered the recommendation of a malaria drug as solid reasoning is based on my research in making sense of how overall health is divided mainly into two opposing sides. This is explained in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat. The lineup of symptoms, vitamins, and minerals on one side can each fight against the symptoms, vitamins and minerals of the other side. My reasoning infers that because Vitamin E is designated to side one of health in Chapter 27, while flu is designated to side two, Vitamin E can easily be nominated as a candidate for treatment of anything flu-like(I infer COVID-19 as a flu-like illness). Because its hypothesized that anything on side one can fight against anything on side two, theoretically-as a result of that-any symptom, vitamin or mineral from side one is a contender to fight against any symptom, vitamin or mineral on side two. Judging from the way the components(symptom, vitamin or mineral) of each side is allocated- with high insulin on side one versus both flu and malaria on side two(see pg 533-534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat)- Hydroxychloroquine with its high insulin/hypoglycemic side effect becomes a solid proposal in the fight against COVID-19. After reading about the fatal cases pertaining to Hydroxychloroquine use, I learned that the adverse effects mirrored strongly the adverse affects of extreme hypoglycemia and insulin overdose which both normally end in cardiac arrest. This is not the case for all reported treatments of COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine has been found effective in some studies. Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System. https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study</p>
<p>What Hydroxychloroquine does-in terms of how it applies to the Chapter 27 perspective-is draw from the high insulin component of side one and uses that to fight against the components of side two. Furthermore, it should not be surmised that this infers for a component of one side to be without problems should it be administered beyond what is necessary for treatment. This is happening with use of Hydroxychloroquine in some cases. A good analogy is drinking not just enough water just to satisfy one's thirst, but drinking too much to not only satisfy one's thirst but also go overboard and at the same time bring oneself to water intoxication. In this, one can understand such a scenario doesn't discount water altogether as an effective treatment for thirst. The key for any further research on Hydroxychloroquine would be in understanding the individual patient's initial level of insulin and administering based on that in order to circumvent the dangers of the hypoglycemia/high insulin overdose symptom of Hydroxychloroquine's adverse effects.</p>
<p>Moreover, what Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat does is show why there is more than one effective method to fight COVID-19 or any other disease.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Another example that affirms the side 1/side 2 layout of health described in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat are the promising results that Vitamin D has shown in coronavirus research. Studies performed by Michael F. Holick--a professor of physiology, medicine and molecular medicine and biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine--found that COVID-19 patients over 40 who had sufficient Vitamin D levels were 51% less likely to die from the virus. It was also concluded that anyone who had sufficient levels of Vitamin D in his system had a reduced risk of catching the virus by 54%. Pages 533 and 534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat has Vitamin D lined up on the same side of health as high insulin, which was the effect of Hydroxychloroquine protocols used to fight COVID-19. This further affirms the outlook of 2 opposing sides of health.</p>
<p>this is Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU">https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU</a></p>
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2021-03-03T04:17:01Z
openaire_data
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
user-eu
Amélie Desvars-Larrive
CCCSL Project Team
2021-03-02
<p>Started in mid-March 2020, our project aims to generate a comprehensive structured dataset on government responses to COVID-19, including the respective time schedules of their implementation.</p>
<p>The dataset is readily usable for modelling and machine learning analyses and exhibits a great analytical flexibility.<br>
We also provide user-friendly documentation and materials (codes, visualisation interface, and library of sources) along with the dataset, which allow a maximum understanding of the data and promote its use among non-experts.</p>
EOSCsecretariat.eu has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Programme call H2020-INFRAEOSC-05-2018-2019, grant Agreement number 831644.
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2022-01-17T01:48:35Z
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Jung Moon
2021-12-21
<p>Recently (November 24, 2021), a new concern mutant, Omicron Corona 19 virus(BA.1) was reported in South Africa, which has 32 mutations with more mutations than Delta in the spike protein is becoming Omicron mutation is rapidly spreading to 54 countries within two weeks, and the number of confirmed cases in Korea has reached 36. Even stealth-type omicron mutations (BA.2) have been reported. There is an urgent need for a test that can quickly diagnose Omicron in large numbers in the field, but the reality is that they are still stuck on a high-cost and time-consuming sequencing method.</p>
<p><strong>“Development of accurate </strong><strong>SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR with Omicron/stealth/Delta diagnosis</strong><strong>”</strong></p>
<p>In late November 2021, the World Health Organization designated the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529, BA 1) as a “variant of concern.” The highly transmissible (three to five times as Delta) Omicron variant has been connected to sharp surges in cases globally raced around the globe and been reported in 89 countries. The Netherlands went into lockdown on Sunday and the possibility of more COVID-19 restrictions are imposed ahead of the holidays in European countries as the Omicron variant spreads rapidly. In the US, NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci “urged people travelling to visit loves ones to get booster shots and always wear masks in crowded public spaces.” The risk of reinfection with the Omicron coronavirus variant is more than five times higher and it has shown no sign of being milder than Delta, according to the results of the study by “Imperial College London.” Preliminary research suggests only most other Covid vaccines have reduced protection against Omicron infections and some protection against serious illness.</p>
<p>Before Omicron, variants of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 were analogous to “antigenic drift,” e.g., D614G and the four previous WHO-designated variants of concern: Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. With Omicron comes the first “antigenic shift” and a new pandemic virus. While influenza antigenic shift requires new pandemic influenza-specific vaccines, the effect of the accumulation of a large number of mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron S in COVID-19 vaccines remains to be established.</p>
<p>The Biden administration has warned COVID-19 test makers and labs that demand for tests could soon double or even triple. HHS “Testing and Diagnostic Working Group” shared an internal model with the diagnostic industry showing “3 million to 5 million daily tests needed by January or February, an estimate that makes the assumption the Omicron variant is three to five times more transmissible than Delta and becomes the dominant variant in four weeks. However, certain mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant (B.1.1.529) lead to significantly reduced sensitivity in an N-gene or S-gene genetic target that covers the portion of the gene where the mutation occurs. N-gene and S-gene “drop outs” (false negative) in molecular testing of SARS-CoV-2 are typically not observed in the delta variant but may be observed in omicron variants and cause a problem in routine COVID-19 testing.</p>
<p>To control the spread of Omicron in the setting of Delta predominance, accurate diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 as well as differentiation of Delta and Omicron variants is crucial. This is why Cellgenemedix (<a href="https://cellgenemedix.com/">https://cellgenemedix.com/</a>) developed a test to accurately diagnose presence of COVID-19 infection and identification of “WHO delta-type and related variant” as well as “omicron/omicron stealth-type variant of interest”.</p>
<p>This “GG COVID-19 Omicron and Delta kit” (https://cellgenemedix.com/omicron/) is a one step, single tube, multiplex real time reverse transcription PCR assay utilizing hydrolysis probes (Taqman probes) and primers for N protein as well as 3 hot spot mutations of spike protein which are key markers of VOCs and allow discrimination of each type. This is the first test of its kind known to diagnose SARS CoV-2 as well as identification of “WHO delta-type and its related variant of SARS-CoV-2” as well as “omicron” and “omicron stealth-type variant of interest” with high sensitivity and specificity (> 90%). It was developed based on CE mark-acquired and US-patented technology.</p>
<p>Time to results are 90 minutes and the associated software converts the results to COVID-19 Positive (Omicron/Delta/non-Omicron, non-Delta type) versus negative for COVID-19. 2 lab personnel may test 400-1600 patient specimens per day using any of the most common Real time RT-PCR machines (CFX96/Rotorgene/ABI 7500). Thus, this reagent kit has the capacity to test hundreds of thousands of patient specimens per day.</p>
<p>Jung Moon M.D. (licensed US and Korean MD, Clinical Pathologist) says “Accurate diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 as well as differentiation of Delta and Omicron variants is crucial in the next 4 weeks in which Omicron is expected to replace Delta variant in the United States. This is why Cellgenmedix developed a test to accurately diagnose presence of COVID-19 infection and identification of “WHO delta-type and related variant” as well as “omicron/omicron stealth-type variant of interest”. GG COVID-19 Omicron and Delta kit is a cost effective diagnostic tool optimized for rapid diagnosis of Omicron, Delta, and SARS CoV-2 infection, and is expected to be a useful tool in the control and surveillance as well as accurate diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 in the new, antigen shift era of COVID-19 pandemic” The cost of this test is known to be similar to or slightly more expensive than (less than 10$/test) the previous GG Quadplex Real Time RT-PCR test for diagnosis of COVID-19.</p>
<p>Dr Moon also added that “The Omicron variant differs from previous variants of SARS CoV-2 in the increased number (~30) of mutations present in the spike protein and these mutations may have implications for the performance of certain molecular tests targeting the spike protein gene, as well as for transmissibility and neutralization by monoclonal antibodies from COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 natural infection. Thus, Omicron seems to be a variant that will signify a new era of COVID-19 in many ways and needs to be dealt with utmost seriousness and correct diagnostic tools such as the GG COVID-19 Omicron and Delta kit (Investigational use only, not for use in USA yet).</p>
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Development of accurate SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR with Omicron/stealth/Delta diagnosis
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oai:zenodo.org:3991614
2021-05-25T17:45:28Z
software
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Giovanni Spitale
2020-08-19
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic generated (and keeps generating) a huge corpus of news articles, easily retrievable in Factiva with very targeted queries. </p>
<p>The aim of this software is to provide the means to analyze this material rapidly. </p>
<p>Data are retrieved from Factiva and downloaded by hand(...) in RTF. The RTF files are then converted to TXT with unoconv in a unix environment.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Parser:</strong></p>
<p>Takes as input files numerically ordered in a folder. This is not fundamental (in case of multiple retrieves from Factiva) because the parser orders the article by date using the date field contained in each of the articles. Nevertheless, <strong>it is important to reduce duplicates</strong> (because they increase the computational time needed for processing the corpus), so before adding new articles in the folder, be sure to retrieve them from a timepoint that does not overlap with the articles already retrieved.</p>
<p>In any case, in the last phase the dataframe is checked for duplicates, that are counted and removed, but still the articles are processed by the parser and <strong>this takes computational time.</strong></p>
<p>The parser removes search summaries, segments the text, and cleans it using regex rules. The resulting text is exported in a complete dataframe as a CSV file; a subset containing only title and text is exported as TXT, ready to be fed to the NLP pipeline.</p>
<p>The parser is language agnostic; just change the path to the folder containing the documents to parse. <strong>Important:</strong> there is a regex rule mentioning languages ("header_leftover"). it lists EN, DE, FR and IT. In case you need to work with another language, remember to correct that rule.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>NLP pipeline</strong></p>
<p>The NLP pipeline imports the files generated by the parser (divided by month to put less load on the memory) and analyses them. It is <strong>not language agnostic:</strong> correct linguistic settings must be specified in <strong>"setting up", "NLP" and "additional rules".</strong></p>
<p>First some additional rules for NER are defined. Some are general, some are language-specific, as specified in the relevant section.</p>
<p>The files are opened and preprocessed, then lemma frequency and NE frequency are calculated per each month and in the whole corpus. <strong>important:</strong> in case of empty months (so, when analyzing less than one year of data) <strong>remember to exclude them from the mean,</strong> otherwise the mean will be distorted by the empty months.</p>
<p>All the dataframes are exported as CSV files for further analysis or for data visualization.</p>
<p>This code is optimized for English, German, French and Italian. Nevertheless, being based on spaCy, which provides several other models ( <a href="https://spacy.io/models">https://spacy.io/models</a> ) could easily be adapted to other languages.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The whole software is structured in Jupyter-lab notebooks, heavily commented for future reference.</p>
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Factiva parser and NLP pipeline for news articles related to COVID-19
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oai:zenodo.org:4620556
2021-04-14T05:34:29Z
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Khairulbahri, Muhamad
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the SEIR model, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, system dynamics, covid-19
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oai:zenodo.org:5739146
2021-12-02T14:29:58Z
openaire_data
user-crises_resources
Md. Kamrul Hasan
Humayun Kabir
Dipak Kumar Mitra
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2021-05-26T01:48:18Z
openaire_data
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Sonja Merten
Giovanni Spitale
2020-09-18
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic generated (and keeps generating) a huge corpus of news articles, easily retrievable in Factiva with very targeted queries.</p>
<p>This dataset, generated with an ad-hoc parser and NLP pipeline, analyzes the <strong>frequency of lemmas and named entities in news articles (in German, French, Italian and English ) regarding Switzerland and COVID-19. </strong></p>
<p>The analysis of large bodies of grey literature via text mining and computational linguistics is an increasingly frequent approach to understand the large-scale trends of specific topics. We used Factiva, a news monitoring and search engine developed and owned by Dow Jones, to gather and download all the news articles published between January 2020 and May 2021 on Covid-19 and Switzerland.</p>
<p>Due to Factiva's copyright policy, it is not possible to share the original dataset with the exports of the articles' text; however, we can share the results of our work on the corpus. All the information relevant to reproduce the results is provided.</p>
<p>Factiva allows a very granular definition of the queries, and moreover has access to full text articles published by the major media outlet of the world. The query has been defined as follows (syntax in bold, explanation in italics):</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>((coronavirus or Wuhan virus or corvid19 or corvid 19 or covid19 or covid 19 or ncov or novel coronavirus or sars) and (atleast3 coronavirus or atleast3 wuhan or atleast3 corvid* or atleast3 covid* or atleast3 ncov or atleast3 novel or atleast3 corona*))</strong></p>
<p><em>Keywords for covid19; must appear at least 3 times in the text</em></p>
<p><strong>and ns=(gsars or gout)</strong></p>
<p><em>Subject is “novel coronaviruses” or “outbreaks and epidemics” and “general news”</em></p>
<p><strong>and la=X</strong></p>
<p><em>Language is X (DE, FR, IT, EN)</em></p>
<p><strong>and rst=tmnb</strong></p>
<p><em>Restrict to TMNB (major news and business publications)</em></p>
<p><strong>and wc>300</strong></p>
<p><em>At least 300 words</em></p>
<p><strong>and date from 20191001 to 20212005</strong></p>
<p><em>Date interval</em></p>
<p><strong>and re=SWITZ</strong></p>
<p><em>Region is Switzerland</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>It is important to specify some details that characterize the query. <br>
The query is not limited to articles published by Swiss media, but to articles regarding Switzerland. The reason is simple: a Swiss user googling for “Schweiz Coronavirus” or for “Coronavirus Ticino” can easily find and read articles published by foreign media outlets (namely, German or Italian) on that topic. If the objective is capturing and describing the information trends to which people are exposed, this approach makes much more sense than limiting the analysis to articles published by Swiss media.<br>
Factiva’s field “NS” is a descriptor for the content of the article. “gsars” is defined in Factiva’s documentation as “All news on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome”, and “gout” as “The widespread occurrence of an infectious disease affecting many people or animals in a given population at the same time”; however, the way these descriptors are assigned to articles is <a href="https://developer.dowjones.com/site/docs/building_queries/data_selection_samples/covid_19/index.gsp">not specified in the documentation</a>.</p>
<p>Finally, the query has been restricted to major news and business publications of at least 300 words. Duplicate check is performed by Factiva. Given the incredibly large amount of articles published on COVID-19, this (absolutely arbitrary) restriction allows retrieving a corpus that is both meaningful and manageable.</p>
<p><strong>metadata.xlsx</strong> contains information about the articles retrieved (strategy, amount)</p>
<p>This work is part of the <a href="https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Biomedical-Ethics/Research/Ongoing-Research/Public-Health-Ethics/PubliCo.html">PubliCo research project</a>.</p>
This work is part of the PubliCo research project, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). Project no. 31CA30_195905
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Lemmas and Named Entities analysis in major media outlets regarding Switzerland and Covid-19
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oai:zenodo.org:4620857
2021-03-21T21:36:22Z
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
user-nccr-onthemove
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Piccoli, Lorenzo
Dzankic, Jelena
Ruedin, Didier
2021-03-09
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<p>Abstract</p>
<p>This research note introduces a new global dataset, the Citizenship, Migration and Mobility in a Pandemic (CMMP). The dataset features systematic information on border closures and domestic lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in 211 countries and territories worldwide from 1 March to 1 June 2020. It documents the evolution of the types and scope of international travel bans and exceptions to them, as well as internal measures including limitations of non-essential movement and curfews in 27 countries. CMMP can be used to study causes and effects of policy restrictions to migration and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset is available through Cadmus and will be regularly updated until the last pandemic-related restriction has been lifted or become long-term.</p>
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https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/nccr-onthemove
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://zenodo.org/communities/eradicatecovid19
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Plos One, 16(3), (2021-03-09)
COVID 19
Pandemics
Cluster analysis
Virus testing
Europe
European Union
Italy
United Kingdom
Citizenship, Migration and Mobility in a Pandemic (CMMP): A global dataset of COVID-19 restrictions on human movement
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oai:zenodo.org:5211198
2021-08-24T21:57:39Z
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Paull, John
2021-07-24
<p>In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, an unresolved question is the aetiology of Covid-19: Where did this novel coronavirus come from? When an account by “UK scientists” ruled out Covid-19 as a bioweapon and as a laboratory creation, the dismissal of the claims by the ‘vox pop’ was swift and decisive, considered and multifactorial. There was a consensus of public sentiment (of 100%) to reject the two scientific propositions of “no bioweapon” and “no laboratory involvement”. The present paper reports on the top 100 comments (ranked by reader votes and accounting for 13,983 votes, comprising 13,156 up-arrow votes and 827 down-arrow votes) of UK newspaper readers to the dismissal of Covid-19 as a bioweapon and as a laboratory construct. Commentators pointed out the coincidences surrounding the outbreak, especially that the reported ground-zero city of the outbreak, Wuhan, China, was also host to several coronavirus research laboratories. Commentators expressed their skepticism of governments, institutions, and also scientists to tell them the truth (even if those entities knew it). Commentators dismissed the language of the scientists, pointing out (quite rightly) that “improbable” does not equal “impossible”. Commentators proposed variously that Covid-19 escaped from a laboratory, was “Made in China”, and was a bioweapon. Some readers called for banning the eating of wild animals in China and thereby excluding that channel as a potential viral source in the future. The proximal origin of Covid-19 is presently an unsettled question. Scientists’ dismissal of the hypothesis that Covid-19 is a bioweapon or a laboratory construct is itself dismissed by the public. The public want answers but they are also quite ready to question and reject the accounts of scientists. In the meantime, the aetiology of Covid-19 can be expected to remain contested and unsettled for some considerable time.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5211198
oai:zenodo.org:5211198
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https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5211197
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International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Research,, 4(3), 93-100, (2021-07-24)
Coronavirus, proximal origin, Wuhan, China, coincidence, trust, gene editing, disruptor, vox pop, public sentiment analysis (PSA)
Science Versus Public Sentiment: "Covid-19 is not a Bioweapon Created in a Laboratory, Say UK Scientists", "Nope, Don't Believe It", Say UK Public.
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oai:zenodo.org:6792563
2022-11-23T13:23:57Z
user-crises_resources
Pramod Ranjan
2022-05-25
<p>As was expected, the country is witnessing an explosion of Covid cases, leading to chaos and mayhem. People are dying for want of oxygen. The protocol for the treatment of Covid patients is faulty and that is one reason for the high number of deaths. Thanks to the protocol, deaths due to other causes are also being added to the Covid toll.</p>
<p>In this article, we would try to look at the connections between the Covid pandemic and the doctors. So far, the discussion on the role of the doctors, which is decidedly very important, has largely been one-sided.</p>
hydroxychloroquine controversy was not limited to this spat between India and Trump. The kind of charges and countercharges related to this drug during the Covid pandemic amply demonstrate that for the forces which hoped to benefit by its growing demand, human lives were just numbers.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6792563
oai:zenodo.org:6792563
eng
Zenodo
https://www.hastakshepnews.com/covid-19-role-and-limitations-of-doctors-and-treatment-protocols/
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6581742
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Hastakshep, 16th May 2021, (2022-05-25)
INDIA
COVID
international classification of diseases
COVID-19 (Disease) in mass media
Covid-19: Role and limitations of doctors and treatment protocols
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oai:zenodo.org:6581743
2022-11-23T13:23:56Z
user-crises_resources
Pramod Ranjan
2022-05-25
<p>As was expected, the country is witnessing an explosion of Covid cases, leading to chaos and mayhem. People are dying for want of oxygen. The protocol for the treatment of Covid patients is faulty and that is one reason for the high number of deaths. Thanks to the protocol, deaths due to other causes are also being added to the Covid toll.</p>
<p>In this article, we would try to look at the connections between the Covid pandemic and the doctors. So far, the discussion on the role of the doctors, which is decidedly very important, has largely been one-sided.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6581743
oai:zenodo.org:6581743
eng
Zenodo
https://www.hastakshepnews.com/covid-19-role-and-limitations-of-doctors-and-treatment-protocols/
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6581742
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INDIA
COVID
Covid-19: Role and limitations of doctors and treatment protocols
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oai:zenodo.org:3964587
2021-02-11T12:43:19Z
user-sedinstcjm
user-covid19-structure-hub
user-crises_resources
user-biu-israel
user-eradicatecovid19
Anthony of Boston (Anthony Moore)
2020-07-28
<p>Hydroxychloroquine in relation to Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat.</p>
<p><br>
US President Trump has advocated for Hydroxychloroquine to be considered as an effective treatment for COVID-19. However, after a number of people have been reported to experience serious adverse side effects, the general consensus has-as a result- turned largely pessimistic about Hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness. The reason I considered the recommendation of a malaria drug as solid reasoning is based on my research in making sense of how overall health is divided mainly into two opposing sides. This is explained in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat. The lineup of symptoms, vitamins, and minerals on one side can each fight against the symptoms, vitamins and minerals of the other side. My reasoning infers that because Vitamin E is designated to side one of health in Chapter 27, while flu is designated to side two, Vitamin E can easily be nominated as a candidate for treatment of anything flu-like(I infer COVID-19 as a flu-like illness). Because its hypothesized that anything on side one can fight against anything on side two, theoretically-as a result of that-any symptom, vitamin or mineral from side one is a contender to fight against any symptom, vitamin or mineral on side two. Judging from the way the components(symptom, vitamin or mineral) of each side is allocated- with high insulin on side one versus both flu and malaria on side two(see pg 533-534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat)- Hydroxychloroquine with its high insulin/hypoglycemic side effect becomes a solid proposal in the fight against COVID-19. After reading about the fatal cases pertaining to Hydroxychloroquine use, I learned that the adverse effects mirrored strongly the adverse affects of extreme hypoglycemia and insulin overdose which both normally end in cardiac arrest. This is not the case for all reported treatments of COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine has been found effective in some studies. Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System. https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study</p>
<p>What Hydroxychloroquine does-in terms of how it applies to the Chapter 27 perspective-is draw from the high insulin component of side one and uses that to fight against the components of side two. Furthermore, it should not be surmised that this infers for a component of one side to be without problems should it be administered beyond what is necessary for treatment. This is happening with use of Hydroxychloroquine in some cases. A good analogy is drinking not just enough water just to satisfy one's thirst, but drinking too much to not only satisfy one's thirst but also go overboard and at the same time bring oneself to water intoxication. In this, one can understand such a scenario doesn't discount water altogether as an effective treatment for thirst. The key for any further research on Hydroxychloroquine would be in understanding the individual patient's initial level of insulin and administering based on that in order to circumvent the dangers of the hypoglycemia/high insulin overdose symptom of Hydroxychloroquine's adverse effects.</p>
<p>Moreover, what Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat does is show why there is more than one effective method to fight COVID-19 or any other disease.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Another example that affirms the side 1/side 2 layout of health described in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat are the promising results that Vitamin D has shown in coronavirus research. Studies performed by Michael F. Holick--a professor of physiology, medicine and molecular medicine and biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine--found that COVID-19 patients over 40 who had sufficient Vitamin D levels were 51% less likely to die from the virus. It was also concluded that anyone who had sufficient levels of Vitamin D in his system had a reduced risk of catching the virus by 54%. Pages 533 and 534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat has Vitamin D lined up on the same side of health as high insulin, which was the effect of Hydroxychloroquine protocols used to fight COVID-19. This further affirms the outlook of 2 opposing sides of health.</p>
<p>this is Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU">https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU</a></p>
<p> </p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964587
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https://zenodo.org/communities/covid19-structure-hub
https://zenodo.org/communities/sedinstcjm
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://zenodo.org/communities/eradicatecovid19
https://zenodo.org/communities/biu-israel
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964508
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Hydroxychloroquine
covid 19
coronavirus
Hydroxychloroquine and Vitamin D's effectiveness against COVID-19 have a common link
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:4095302
2021-02-11T12:43:19Z
user-sedinstcjm
user-covid19-structure-hub
user-crises_resources
user-biu-israel
user-eradicatecovid19
Anthony of Boston (Anthony Moore)
2020-07-28
<p>Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, blood thinners, and Remdesivir's effectiveness against COVID-19 have a common link</p>
<p><br>
US President Trump has advocated for Hydroxychloroquine to be considered as an effective treatment for COVID-19. However, after a number of people have been reported to experience serious adverse side effects, the general consensus has-as a result- turned largely pessimistic about Hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness. The reason I considered the recommendation of a malaria drug as solid reasoning is based on my research in making sense of how overall health is divided mainly into two opposing sides. This is explained in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat. The lineup of symptoms, vitamins, and minerals on one side can each fight against the symptoms, vitamins and minerals of the other side. My reasoning infers that because Vitamin E is designated to side one of health in Chapter 27, while flu is designated to side two, Vitamin E can easily be nominated as a candidate for treatment of anything flu-like(I infer COVID-19 as a flu-like illness). Because its hypothesized that anything on side one can fight against anything on side two, theoretically-as a result of that-any symptom, vitamin or mineral from side one is a contender to fight against any symptom, vitamin or mineral on side two. Judging from the way the components(symptom, vitamin or mineral) of each side is allocated- with high insulin on side one versus both flu and malaria on side two(see pg 533-534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat)- Hydroxychloroquine with its high insulin/hypoglycemic side effect becomes a solid proposal in the fight against COVID-19. After reading about the fatal cases pertaining to Hydroxychloroquine use, I learned that the adverse effects mirrored strongly the adverse affects of extreme hypoglycemia and insulin overdose which both normally end in cardiac arrest. This is not the case for all reported treatments of COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine has been found effective in some studies. Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System. https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study</p>
<p>What Hydroxychloroquine does-in terms of how it applies to the Chapter 27 perspective-is draw from the high insulin component of side one and uses that to fight against the components of side two. Furthermore, it should not be surmised that this infers for a component of one side to be without problems should it be administered beyond what is necessary for treatment. This is happening with use of Hydroxychloroquine in some cases. A good analogy is drinking not just enough water just to satisfy one's thirst, but drinking too much to not only satisfy one's thirst but also go overboard and at the same time bring oneself to water intoxication. In this, one can understand such a scenario doesn't discount water altogether as an effective treatment for thirst. The key for any further research on Hydroxychloroquine would be in understanding the individual patient's initial level of insulin and administering based on that in order to circumvent the dangers of the hypoglycemia/high insulin overdose symptom of Hydroxychloroquine's adverse effects.</p>
<p>Moreover, what Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat does is show why there is more than one effective method to fight COVID-19 or any other disease.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Another example that affirms the side 1/side 2 layout of health described in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat are the promising results that Vitamin D has shown in coronavirus research. Studies performed by Michael F. Holick--a professor of physiology, medicine and molecular medicine and biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine--found that COVID-19 patients over 40 who had sufficient Vitamin D levels were 51% less likely to die from the virus. It was also concluded that anyone who had sufficient levels of Vitamin D in his system had a reduced risk of catching the virus by 54%. Pages 533 and 534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat has Vitamin D lined up on the same side of health as high insulin, which was the effect of Hydroxychloroquine protocols used to fight COVID-19. This further affirms the outlook of 2 opposing sides of health.</p>
<p>The success of blood thinners in treating COVID 19 also affirms the side 1/side 2 layout of health described in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat. An observational study done by researchers at Mount Sinai in New York found that hospitalized COVID-19 patients who took blood thinner prescriptions had a 50% reduced risk of death. They also checked autopsy records from COVID-19 patients at Mount Sinai and found that 11 of 26 patients had blood clots in the lungs, brain and heart that weren’t detected in the hospital. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200827/blood-thinners-may-increase-covid-survival-rates Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute discovered the effectiveness of blood thinners in neutralizing the coronavirus. They found that the blood thinner heparin was effective in keeping the virus from infecting healthy cells. https:// www.fiercebiotech.com/research/how-covid-19-could-be-crippled-by-age-old-blood-thinner The studies concerning blood thinners as an effective treatment justifies the Vitamin E proposal since it also has blood thinning properties. Pages 533 and 534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat has blood thining lined up on the same side of health as Vitamin D and high insulin.</p>
<p>On October 2, 2020, US President Donald Trump announced that he and the First Lady tested positive for Covid-19. He has been placed on a five-day course of treatment with remdesivir, an antiviral drug manufactured by drug maker company Gilead Sciences. One can gather from information regarding the side effects of remdesivir that remdesivir is also drawing from the side 1 of health explained in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat, specifically from the gastroproblems that has been set as antagonistic to flu-like illnesses. The most common side effect discovered in patients treated for COVID-19 using remdesivir was nausea. This, according to the thesis outlined in Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat, makes remdesivir a solid proposal against the coronavirus. In a 600-patient analysis, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study in moderately ill COVID-19 patients showed that 11 days after starting treatment--65% of the 10-day remdesivir patients, 70% of the 5-day patients and 60% of the standard care patients had left the hospital. “Side effects seen more frequently in the remdesivir groups included nausea, low blood potassium levels, and headache.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir/gilead-fda-could-expand-remdesivir-use-<br>
despite-mixed-data-idUSKBN25H2CT Pages 533 and 534 of Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat has gastroproblems lined up on the same side of health as blood thining, Vitamin D, and high insulin.</p>
<p>This thesis of overall health being divided mainly into two opposing sides makes sense of how Hydroxychloroquine(high insulin effect), Vitamin D, blood thinners, and remdesivir(gastroproblem effect) are all effective against the coronavirus (COVID-19).</p>
<p>this is Chapter 27 of Ares Le Mandat which explains health being divided mainly into two opposing sides <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU">https://zenodo.org/record/3620801#.XyBNUp5KjIU</a></p>
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4095302
oai:zenodo.org:4095302
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https://zenodo.org/communities/covid19-structure-hub
https://zenodo.org/communities/sedinstcjm
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://zenodo.org/communities/eradicatecovid19
https://zenodo.org/communities/biu-israel
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3964508
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Hydroxychloroquine
covid 19
coronavirus
Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, blood thinners, and Remdesivir's effectiveness against COVID-19 have a common link
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oai:zenodo.org:4277899
2021-04-14T12:27:23Z
user-citizenscience
openaire_data
user-crises_resources
Albagli, Sarita
Rocha, Luana
2021-04-13
<p>Conjunto de dados com a relação das iniciativas cidadãs brasileiras analisadas no artigo "Ciência cidadã em tempos de emergências: iniciativas brasileiras ante a pandemia da covid-19", publicado na revista Arbor. A planilha inclui nome, URL, foco, vínculo institucional, ano de criação e país de cada iniciativa.</p>
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<p>Dataset of the research article "Citizen Science during emergencies: Brazilian initiatives to face the covid-19 pandemic", published in the journal Arbor. The dataset includes the name, URL, focus, institutional affiliation, start year and country of each Brazilian citizen initiative analyzed in the study.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4277899
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2021.799004
https://zenodo.org/communities/citizenscience
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4277898
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Arbor, 197(799 (2021)), (2021-04-13)
Citizen science, covid-19, reduction of disasters risks
Dataset of the article "Citizen science during emergencies: Brazilian initiatives to face the covid-19 pandemic"
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oai:zenodo.org:5796217
2022-01-16T23:08:01Z
user-covid19-structure-hub
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Jung Moon
2021-12-21
<p>Recently (November 24, 2021), a new concern mutant, Omicron Corona 19 virus(BA.1) was reported in South Africa, which has 32 mutations with more mutations than Delta in the spike protein is becoming Omicron mutation is rapidly spreading to 54 countries within two weeks, and the number of confirmed cases in Korea has reached 36. Even stealth-type omicron mutations (BA.2) have been reported. There is an urgent need for a test that can quickly diagnose Omicron in large numbers in the field, but the reality is that they are still stuck on a high-cost and time-consuming sequencing method.</p>
<p><strong>“Development of accurate </strong><strong>SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR with Omicron/stealth/Delta diagnosis</strong><strong>”</strong></p>
<p>In late November 2021, the World Health Organization designated the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529, BA 1) as a “variant of concern.” The highly transmissible (three to five times as Delta) Omicron variant has been connected to sharp surges in cases globally raced around the globe and been reported in 89 countries. The Netherlands went into lockdown on Sunday and the possibility of more COVID-19 restrictions are imposed ahead of the holidays in European countries as the Omicron variant spreads rapidly. In the US, NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci “urged people travelling to visit loves ones to get booster shots and always wear masks in crowded public spaces.” The risk of reinfection with the Omicron coronavirus variant is more than five times higher and it has shown no sign of being milder than Delta, according to the results of the study by “Imperial College London.” Preliminary research suggests only most other Covid vaccines have reduced protection against Omicron infections and some protection against serious illness.</p>
<p>Before Omicron, variants of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 were analogous to “antigenic drift,” e.g., D614G and the four previous WHO-designated variants of concern: Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta. With Omicron comes the first “antigenic shift” and a new pandemic virus. While influenza antigenic shift requires new pandemic influenza-specific vaccines, the effect of the accumulation of a large number of mutations in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron S in COVID-19 vaccines remains to be established.</p>
<p>The Biden administration has warned COVID-19 test makers and labs that demand for tests could soon double or even triple. HHS “Testing and Diagnostic Working Group” shared an internal model with the diagnostic industry showing “3 million to 5 million daily tests needed by January or February, an estimate that makes the assumption the Omicron variant is three to five times more transmissible than Delta and becomes the dominant variant in four weeks. However, certain mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant (B.1.1.529) lead to significantly reduced sensitivity in an N-gene or S-gene genetic target that covers the portion of the gene where the mutation occurs. N-gene and S-gene “drop outs” (false negative) in molecular testing of SARS-CoV-2 are typically not observed in the delta variant but may be observed in omicron variants and cause a problem in routine COVID-19 testing.</p>
<p>To control the spread of Omicron in the setting of Delta predominance, accurate diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 as well as differentiation of Delta and Omicron variants is crucial. This is why Cellgenemedix (<a href="https://cellgenemedix.com/">https://cellgenemedix.com/</a>) developed a test to accurately diagnose presence of COVID-19 infection and identification of “WHO delta-type and related variant” as well as “omicron/omicron stealth-type variant of interest”.</p>
<p>This “GG COVID-19 Omicron and Delta kit” is a one step, single tube, multiplex real time reverse transcription PCR assay utilizing hydrolysis probes (Taqman probes) and primers for N protein as well as 3 hot spot mutations of spike protein which are key markers of VOCs and allow discrimination of each type. This is the first test of its kind known to diagnose SARS CoV-2 as well as identification of “WHO delta-type and its related variant of SARS-CoV-2” as well as “omicron” and “omicron stealth-type variant of interest” with high sensitivity and specificity (> 90%). It was developed based on CE mark-acquired and US-patented technology.</p>
<p>Time to results are 90 minutes and the associated software converts the results to COVID-19 Positive (Omicron/Delta/non-Omicron, non-Delta type) versus negative for COVID-19. 2 lab personnel may test 400-1600 patient specimens per day using any of the most common Real time RT-PCR machines (CFX96/Rotorgene/ABI 7500). Thus, this reagent kit has the capacity to test hundreds of thousands of patient specimens per day.</p>
<p>Jung Moon M.D. (licensed US and Korean MD, Clinical Pathologist) says “Accurate diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 as well as differentiation of Delta and Omicron variants is crucial in the next 4 weeks in which Omicron is expected to replace Delta variant in the United States. This is why Cellgenmedix developed a test to accurately diagnose presence of COVID-19 infection and identification of “WHO delta-type and related variant” as well as “omicron/omicron stealth-type variant of interest”. GG COVID-19 Omicron and Delta kit is a cost effective diagnostic tool optimized for rapid diagnosis of Omicron, Delta, and SARS CoV-2 infection, and is expected to be a useful tool in the control and surveillance as well as accurate diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 in the new, antigen shift era of COVID-19 pandemic” The cost of this test is known to be similar to or slightly more expensive than (less than 10$/test) the previous GG Quadplex Real Time RT-PCR test for diagnosis of COVID-19.</p>
<p>Dr Moon also added that “The Omicron variant differs from previous variants of SARS CoV-2 in the increased number (~30) of mutations present in the spike protein and these mutations may have implications for the performance of certain molecular tests targeting the spike protein gene, as well as for transmissibility and neutralization by monoclonal antibodies from COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 natural infection. Thus, Omicron seems to be a variant that will signify a new era of COVID-19 in many ways and needs to be dealt with utmost seriousness and correct diagnostic tools such as the GG COVID-19 Omicron and Delta kit (Investigational use only, not for use in USA yet).</p>
<p>Disclaimer: this technology is patent pending and this communication with its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication. Contents and any attached file are intellectual property of Cellgenemedix.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5796217
oai:zenodo.org:5796217
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Zenodo
issn:6327-2687
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid19-structure-hub
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5796216
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COVID-19
SARS CoV-2
RT-PCR
Omicron
Delta
Variant test
Variant testing
Point of Care
Development of accurate SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR with Omicron/stealth/Delta diagnosis
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
oai:zenodo.org:3878599
2020-06-16T22:18:22Z
openaire_data
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Umair Qazi
Muhammad Imran
Ferda Ofli
2020-06-16
<p>We present GeoCoV19, a large-scale Twitter dataset related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset has been collected over a period of 90 days from February 1 to May 1, 2020 and consists of more than 524 million multilingual tweets. As the geolocation information is essential for many tasks such as disease tracking and surveillance, we employed a gazetteer-based approach to extract toponyms from user location and tweet content to derive their geolocation information using the Nominatim (Open Street Maps) data at different geolocation granularity levels. In terms of geographical coverage, the dataset spans over 218 countries and 47K cities in the world. The tweets in the dataset are from more than 43 million Twitter users, including around 209K verified accounts. These users posted tweets in 62 different languages.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3878599
oai:zenodo.org:3878599
Zenodo
https://doi.org/10.1145/3404111.3404114
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3878598
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ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, 12(1), 6-15, (2020-06-16)
COVID-19
Twitter
Social media dataset
Epidemic dataset
Pandemic dataset
GeoCoV19: A Dataset of Hundreds of Millions of Multilingual COVID-19 Tweets with Location Information
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:4312695
2021-02-19T13:39:53Z
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Giovanni Spitale
Sonja Merten
Kristen Jafflin
Bettina Schwind
Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund
Nikola Biller-Andorno
2020-11-30
<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<p>Since the end of 2019, COVID-19 has unfolded significant impact on citizens around the globe. While more severe measures are being reinstalled in order to curb flareups, it is likely that public adherence will gradually decrease, and that discontent will start to mount. Providing high-quality information and countering fake news is not enough. What is needed in addition is creating feedback loops: In order to continuously refine and adjust preventive measures and communication strategies, policy-makers and authorities need information – preferably based on real-time data – on how the public receive the messages delivered, not only at a cognitive but also at an emotional and behavioural level.</p>
<p><strong>Methods and Analysis</strong></p>
<p>Against this backdrop, our project aims to develop a tool that helps tackle the “infodemic” manifested in the COVID-19 context, with a focus on a nuanced and in-depth understanding of public perception. We intend to foster effective and tailored risk and crisis communication as well as an assessment of the risks and benefits of prevention, containment and control measures, as their effectiveness will crucially depend on public trust and cooperation. The project adopts a trans-disciplinary multi-stakeholder approach including a participatory citizen science component. Methodologically, we propose a combination of literature and media review and analysis, and empirical studies using mixed methods. Building on real-time data and continuous data collection, our research results will be highly adaptable to the evolution of the current emergency (e.g., with respect to vaccine development).</p>
<p><strong>Ethics and dissemination</strong></p>
<p>PubliCo does not fall under the scope of the Swiss Human Rsearch Act. However, being conscious of the risks that such a tool could create in a non-democratic context, we meticulously self-assessed potential risks and took care to ensure data protection in the coding and structure of PubliCo.</p>
<p>Project results, interpretative briefs and intermediate datasets will be publicly available via the project website (<a href="http://www.publico.community">www.publico.community</a>) and via open science repositories (Zenodo).</p>
<p><strong>Strengths and limitations of this study</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>PubliCo is a new modular and flexible tool to provide bi-directional interaction between citizens and policy-makers for risk and crisis communication</li>
<li>PubliCo relies on quantitative and qualitative data to provide a precise, timely and rich analysis of complex phenomena</li>
<li>PubliCo is open and transparent by design</li>
<li>Although important safeguards are put in place at a code level, in a non-democratic context it could be used to spy on people</li>
<li>Communicating complex notions with moral implications (e.g. health risks) is a challenge.</li>
</ul>
<p>This work is part of the <a href="https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Biomedical-Ethics/Research/Ongoing-Research/Public-Health-Ethics/PubliCo.html">PubliCo research project</a>.</p>
This project is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, project number 31CA30_195905, by the WHO, and by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4312695
oai:zenodo.org:4312695
eng
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/record/4036071#.X8UDo2hKiUl
https://zenodo.org/record/3991614#.X8UDo2hKiUl
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4298527
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
covid-19, public health ethics, mixed methods, digital epidemiology, infodemics
[Protocol] PubliCo. A new risk and crisis communication platform to bridge the gap between policy makers and the public in the context of the COVID-19 crisis
info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint
oai:zenodo.org:4298528
2021-02-19T13:39:52Z
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Giovanni Spitale
Sonja Merten
Kristen Jafflin
Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund
Nikola Biller-Andorno
2020-11-30
<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<p>Since the end of 2019, COVID-19 has unfolded significant impact on citizens around the globe. While more severe measures are being reinstalled in order to curb flareups, it is likely that public adherence will gradually decrease, and that discontent will start to mount. Providing high-quality information and countering fake news is not enough. What is needed in addition is creating feedback loops: In order to continuously refine and adjust preventive measures and communication strategies, policy-makers and authorities need information – preferably based on real-time data – on how the public receive the messages delivered, not only at a cognitive but also at an emotional and behavioural level.</p>
<p><strong>Methods and Analysis</strong></p>
<p>Against this backdrop, our project aims to develop a tool that helps tackle the “infodemic” manifested in the COVID-19 context, with a focus on a nuanced and in-depth understanding of public perception. We intend to foster effective and tailored risk and crisis communication as well as an assessment of the risks and benefits of prevention, containment and control measures, as their effectiveness will crucially depend on public trust and cooperation. The project adopts a trans-disciplinary multi-stakeholder approach including a participatory citizen science component. Methodologically, we propose a combination of literature and media review and analysis, and empirical studies using mixed methods. Building on real-time data and continuous data collection, our research results will be highly adaptable to the evolution of the current emergency (e.g., with respect to vaccine development).</p>
<p><strong>Ethics and dissemination</strong></p>
<p>PubliCo does not fall under the scope of the Swiss Human Rsearch Act. However, being conscious of the risks that such a tool could create in a non-democratic context, we meticulously self-assessed potential risks and took care to ensure data protection in the coding and structure of PubliCo.</p>
<p>Project results, interpretative briefs and intermediate datasets will be publicly available via the project website (<a href="http://www.publico.community">www.publico.community</a>) and via open science repositories (Zenodo).</p>
<p><strong>Strengths and limitations of this study</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>PubliCo is a new modular and flexible tool to provide bi-directional interaction between citizens and policy-makers for risk and crisis communication</li>
<li>PubliCo relies on quantitative and qualitative data to provide a precise, timely and rich analysis of complex phenomena</li>
<li>PubliCo is open and transparent by design</li>
<li>Although important safeguards are put in place at a code level, in a non-democratic context it could be used to spy on people</li>
<li>Communicating complex notions with moral implications (e.g. health risks) is a challenge.</li>
</ul>
<p>This work is part of the <a href="https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Biomedical-Ethics/Research/Ongoing-Research/Public-Health-Ethics/PubliCo.html">PubliCo research project</a>.</p>
This project is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, project number 31CA30_195905, by the WHO, and by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4298528
oai:zenodo.org:4298528
eng
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/record/4036071#.X8UDo2hKiUl
https://zenodo.org/record/3991614#.X8UDo2hKiUl
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4298527
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
covid-19, public health ethics, mixed methods, digital epidemiology, infodemics
[Protocol] PubliCo. A new risk and crisis communication platform to bridge the gap between policy makers and the public in the context of the COVID-19 crisis
info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint
oai:zenodo.org:4551386
2021-02-20T00:27:19Z
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Giovanni Spitale
Sonja Merten
Kristen Jafflin
Bettina Schwind
Andrea Kaiser-Grolimund
Nikola Biller-Andorno
2020-11-30
<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<p>Since the end of 2019, COVID-19 has unfolded significant impact on citizens around the globe. While more severe measures are being reinstalled in order to curb flareups, it is likely that public adherence will gradually decrease, and that discontent will start to mount. Providing high-quality information and countering fake news is not enough. What is needed in addition is creating feedback loops: In order to continuously refine and adjust preventive measures and communication strategies, policy-makers and authorities need information – preferably based on real-time data – on how the public receive the messages delivered, not only at a cognitive but also at an emotional and behavioural level.</p>
<p><strong>Methods and Analysis</strong></p>
<p>Against this backdrop, our project aims to develop a tool that helps tackle the “infodemic” manifested in the COVID-19 context, with a focus on a nuanced and in-depth understanding of public perception. We intend to foster effective and tailored risk and crisis communication as well as an assessment of the risks and benefits of prevention, containment and control measures, as their effectiveness will crucially depend on public trust and cooperation. The project adopts a trans-disciplinary multi-stakeholder approach including a participatory citizen science component. Methodologically, we propose a combination of literature and media review and analysis, and empirical studies using mixed methods. Building on real-time data and continuous data collection, our research results will be highly adaptable to the evolution of the current emergency (e.g., with respect to vaccine development).</p>
<p><strong>Ethics and dissemination</strong></p>
<p>PubliCo does not fall under the scope of the Swiss Human Rsearch Act. However, being conscious of the risks that such a tool could create in a non-democratic context, we meticulously self-assessed potential risks and took care to ensure data protection in the coding and structure of PubliCo.</p>
<p>Project results, interpretative briefs and intermediate datasets will be publicly available via the project website (<a href="http://www.publico.community">www.publico.community</a>) and via open science repositories (Zenodo).</p>
<p><strong>Strengths and limitations of this study</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>PubliCo is a new modular and flexible tool to provide bi-directional interaction between citizens and policy-makers for risk and crisis communication</li>
<li>PubliCo relies on quantitative and qualitative data to provide a precise, timely and rich analysis of complex phenomena</li>
<li>PubliCo is open and transparent by design</li>
<li>Although important safeguards are put in place at a code level, in a non-democratic context it could be used to spy on people</li>
<li>Communicating complex notions with moral implications (e.g. health risks) is a challenge.</li>
</ul>
<p>This work is part of the <a href="https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Biomedical-Ethics/Research/Ongoing-Research/Public-Health-Ethics/PubliCo.html">PubliCo research project</a>.</p>
This project is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, project number 31CA30_195905, by the WHO, and by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4551386
oai:zenodo.org:4551386
eng
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/record/4036071#.X8UDo2hKiUl
https://zenodo.org/record/3991614#.X8UDo2hKiUl
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4298527
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
covid-19, public health ethics, mixed methods, digital epidemiology, infodemics
[Protocol] PubliCo. A new risk and crisis communication platform to bridge the gap between policy makers and the public in the context of the COVID-19 crisis
info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint
oai:zenodo.org:5697045
2021-12-02T14:29:57Z
openaire_data
user-crises_resources
Md. Kamrul Hasan
Humayun Kabir
Dipak Kumar Mitra
2021-11-10
<p>Archival bundle of technological availability, usability, and association to university students' perceived stress due to e-learning curriculum in Bangladesh.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5697045
oai:zenodo.org:5697045
eng
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5697044
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
E-learning, availability of technology, use of technology, readiness, stress
Availability and use of technology for e-learning
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
oai:zenodo.org:4036071
2021-05-25T17:49:59Z
openaire_data
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Sonja Merten
Giovanni Spitale
2020-09-18
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic generated (and keeps generating) a huge corpus of news articles, easily retrievable in Factiva with very targeted queries.</p>
<p>This dataset, generated with an ad-hoc parser and NLP pipeline, analyzes the <strong>frequency of lemmas and named entities in news articles (in German, French, Italian and English ) regarding Switzerland and COVID-19. </strong></p>
<p>The analysis of large bodies of grey literature via text mining and computational linguistics is an increasingly frequent approach to understand the large-scale trends of specific topics. We used Factiva, a news monitoring and search engine developed and owned by Dow Jones, to gather and download all the news articles published between January and July 2020 on Covid-19 and Switzerland.</p>
<p>Due to Factiva's copyright policy, it is not possible to share the original dataset with the exports of the articles' text; however, we can share the results of our work on the corpus. All the information relevant to reproduce the results is provided.</p>
<p>Factiva allows a very granular definition of the queries, and moreover has access to full text articles published by the major media outlet of the world. The query has been defined as follows (syntax in bold, explanation in italics):</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>((coronavirus or Wuhan virus or corvid19 or corvid 19 or covid19 or covid 19 or ncov or novel coronavirus or sars) and (atleast3 coronavirus or atleast3 wuhan or atleast3 corvid* or atleast3 covid* or atleast3 ncov or atleast3 novel or atleast3 corona*))</strong></p>
<p><em>Keywords for covid19; must appear at least 3 times in the text</em></p>
<p><strong>and ns=(gsars or gout)</strong></p>
<p><em>Subject is “novel coronaviruses” or “outbreaks and epidemics” and “general news”</em></p>
<p><strong>and la=X</strong></p>
<p><em>Language is X (DE, FR, IT, EN)</em></p>
<p><strong>and rst=tmnb</strong></p>
<p><em>Restrict to TMNB (major news and business publications)</em></p>
<p><strong>and wc>300</strong></p>
<p><em>At least 300 words</em></p>
<p><strong>and date from 20191001 to 20200801</strong></p>
<p><em>Date interval</em></p>
<p><strong>and re=SWITZ</strong></p>
<p><em>Region is Switzerland</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>It is important to specify some details that characterize the query. <br>
The query is not limited to articles published by Swiss media, but to articles regarding Switzerland. The reason is simple: a Swiss user googling for “Schweiz Coronavirus” or for “Coronavirus Ticino” can easily find and read articles published by foreign media outlets (namely, German or Italian) on that topic. If the objective is capturing and describing the information trends to which people are exposed, this approach makes much more sense than limiting the analysis to articles published by Swiss media.<br>
Factiva’s field “NS” is a descriptor for the content of the article. “gsars” is defined in Factiva’s documentation as “All news on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome”, and “gout” as “The widespread occurrence of an infectious disease affecting many people or animals in a given population at the same time”; however, the way these descriptors are assigned to articles is <a href="https://developer.dowjones.com/site/docs/building_queries/data_selection_samples/covid_19/index.gsp">not specified in the documentation</a>.</p>
<p>Finally, the query has been restricted to major news and business publications of at least 300 words. Duplicate check is performed by Factiva. Given the incredibly large amount of articles published on COVID-19, this (absolutely arbitrary) restriction allows retrieving a corpus that is both meaningful and manageable.</p>
<p><strong>metadata.xlsx</strong> contains information about the articles retrieved (strategy, amount)</p>
<p><strong>The PDF files </strong>document the execution of the Jupyter notebooks. </p>
<p><strong>The zip file </strong>contains the lemma and NE frequencies data, divided by language. The "Lemmas" folder contains a CSV file per month and a general timeseries; the "Entities" folder contains a CSV file per month, a general timeseries, plus subsets that are category-specific. For a comprehensive explanation about categories, you can check the PDF files.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This work is part of the <a href="https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Biomedical-Ethics/Research/Ongoing-Research/Public-Health-Ethics/PubliCo.html">PubliCo research project</a>.</p>
This work is part of the PubliCo research project, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). Project no. 31CA30_195905
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4036071
oai:zenodo.org:4036071
eng
Zenodo
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3991821
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/crises_resources
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4036070
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
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natural language processing
NLP
media analysis
factiva
Lemmas and Named Entities analysis in major media outlets regarding Switzerland and Covid-19
info:eu-repo/semantics/other