Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review

T Greenhalgh, CR MacIntyre, MG Baker… - Clinical microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—
and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in people with dementia without COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Axenhus, KS Frederiksen, RZ Zhou, G Waldemar… - BMC geriatrics, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Significant mortality amongst vulnerable populations, such as people living with
dementia, might go undetected during pandemic conditions due to refocus of care efforts …

Mask wearing in community settings reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission

G Leech, C Rogers-Smith, JT Monrad… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The effectiveness of mask wearing at controlling severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission has been unclear. While masks are known to …

An open repository of real-time COVID-19 indicators

A Reinhart, L Brooks, M Jahja… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic presented enormous data challenges in the United States. Policy
makers, epidemiological modelers, and health researchers all require up-to-date data on the …

Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviours and norms

A Collis, K Garimella, A Moehring… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Policy and communication responses to COVID-19 can benefit from better understanding of
people's baseline and resulting beliefs, behaviours and norms. From July 2020 to March …

The Effectiveness Of Government Masking Mandates On COVID-19 County-Level Case Incidence Across The United States, 2020: Study examines the effectiveness …

J Huang, BT Fisher, V Tam, Z Wang, L Song, J Shi… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Evidence for the effectiveness of masking on SARS-CoV-2 transmission at the individual
level has accumulated, but the additional benefit of community-level mandates is less …

Behavioral risk factors and adherence to preventive measures: evidence from the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

MJ Mendoza-Jiménez, TV Hannemann… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Behavioral risk factors, such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, physical inactivity,
obesity, and unhealthy food intake are added risk factors for severe outcomes of COVID-19 …

Leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment to assess changes in antibiotic use and antibiotic-resistant E. coli carriage in semi-rural Ecuador

HK Amato, F Loayza, L Salinas, D Paredes, D García… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had significant impacts on health
systems, population dynamics, public health awareness, and antibiotic stewardship, which …

Social behavior and covid-19: Analysis of the social factors behind compliance with interventions across the united states

M Maleki, M Bahrami, M Menendez… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since its emergence, COVID-19 has caused a great impact in health and social terms.
Governments and health authorities have attempted to minimize this impact by enforcing …

Binocular visual processing in the owl's telencephalon

JD Pettigrew - Proceedings of the Royal Society of …, 1979 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Single neurons recorded from the owl's visual Wulst are surprisingly similar to those found in
mammalian striate cortex. The receptive fields of Wulst neurons are elaborated, in an …