Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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#emotionregulation #mentalhealth #culture #WEIRD #demographics #expression #suppression #reappraisal #epidemiology
Global, regional, and national #prevalence of child and adolescent #overweight and #obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 - The Lancet
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Anecdote or #lived_experience: reimagining knowledge for climate-resilient health systems
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A health worker in rural Kenya notices that malaria cases are appearing earlier in the season than usual. A nurse in Bangladesh observes that certain neighborhoods are experiencing more heat-related illnesses despite similar temperatures. These observations often remain trapped in the realm of “anecdotal evidence.” The dominant epistemological framework in public health traditionally dismisses such knowledge as unreliable, subjective, and of limited scientific value. This dismissal stems from a deeply-rooted #Global_health paradigm that privileges quantitative data, randomized controlled trials, and statistical significance over the nuanced, contextual understanding that emerges from direct experience. The phrase “it’s just anecdotal” has become a subtle but powerful way of delegitimizing (...)
#anecdotes #climate_and_health #climate_change #Donald_Schön #epidemiology #epistemology #James_Scott #knowing-in-action #mētis #peer_learning
Prevalence and Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Migrant Worke...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12440943
Prevalence and Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Migrant Workers in Singapore | #singapore #sarscov2 #covid19 #epidemiology
Genomic sequencing in pandemics - The Lancet (▻https://www.thelancet...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12425040
Genomic sequencing in pandemics - The Lancet | #genomic #covid19 #epidemiology
Pervasive transmission of E484K and emergence of VUI-NP13L with evi...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12405224
Pervasive transmission of E484K and emergence of VUI-NP13L with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection events by two different lineages in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | #sarscov2 #coinfection #epidemiology #virology
Why The Coronavirus Variant From Brazil Is Especially Worrisome To ...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12374867
Why The Coronavirus Variant From Brazil Is Especially Worrisome To Scientists | #covid19 #brazil #mutation #epidemiology #pandemic
Assessing Mandatory Stay‐at‐Home and Business Closure Effects on th...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12273922
Assessing Mandatory Stay‐at‐Home and Business Closure Effects on the Spread of COVID‐19 | #lockdown #covid19 #epidemiology
COVID-19 Switzerland | Coronavirus (▻https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en...
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COVID-19 Switzerland | Coronavirus | #covid19 #switzerland #epidemiology
. ..zum Coronavirus weltweit in 21 Grafiken
Welches Land ist wie stark vom Virus betroffen? Was unternehmen Regierungen im Kampf gegen Sars-CoV-2?
Die wichtigsten Daten und Fakten zum Coronavirus.
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statistiques #globales
Report 42 - Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B.1.1.7 in England (...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/12226350
Report 42 - Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B.1.1.7 in England | #covid19 #sarscov2 #epidemiology #mutation
Power of inequality - A minority of people with covid-19 account fo...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11941494
Power of inequality - A minority of people with covid-19 account for the bulk of transmission | #transmission #covid19 #epidemiology #dataviz #inequality
Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Ino...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11475820
Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer | #covid19 #epidemiology #inoculum #masks #SARSCoV2
Early Release - Large SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Caused by Asymptomatic Tr...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11350559
Early Release - Large SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Caused by Asymptomatic Traveler, China | #covid19 #epidemiology #SARSCoV2
Prepare now for a winter COVID-19 peak, warns Academy of Medical Sc...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11351582
Prepare now for a winter COVID-19 peak, warns Academy of Medical Sciences | #covid19 #epidemiology #WorstCaseScenario
“Flattening the Curve” is a deadly delusion (▻https://medium.com/@jo...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/10590064
“Flattening the Curve” is a deadly delusion | #containment #COVID19 #curve #epidemiology #peak
“Flattening the Curve” is a deadly delusion - Joscha Bach - Medium
▻https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-deadly-delusion-eea324fe9727
What all these diagrams have in common:
• They have no numbers on the axes. They don’t give you an idea how many cases it takes to overwhelm the medical system, and over how many days the epidemic will play out.
• They suggest that currently, the medical system can deal with a large fraction (like maybe 2/3, 1/2 or 1/3) of the cases, but if we implement some mitigation measures, we can get the infections per day down to a level we can deal with.
• They mean to tell you that we can get away without severe lockdowns as we are currently observing them in China and Italy. Instead, we let the infection burn through the entire population, until we have herd immunity (at 40% to 70%), and just space out the infections over a longer timespan.
The Curve Is a Lie
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The Curve with numbers
The brown line near the bottom: that’s our limited supply of ventilators and intensive care beds! The red curve does not contain all cases of COVID-19, but only those 6% that will die if we cannot put them on a ventilator for something like four weeks. In this scenario, it means that the maximum number of cases needing care on the same day, without any kind of mitigation, is around 3 million! It’s clear that we need to desperately flatten this curve, because it means that for much of the year, the vast majority of cases will not even get assessed for intubation and critical care.How far would we need to spread a normal distribution to make sure that it fits below the limit of our medical resources?
The “flattening the curve” idea suggests that if we wash our hands and stay at home while being sick aggressively enough, we won’t have to stop the virus from becoming endemic and infecting 40% to 70% of all people, but we can slow the spread of the infection so much that out medical system can deal with the case load. This is how our normally distributed curve looks like when it contains 10.8 million patients, of which no more than 170,000 are ill at the same time:
Dampening the infection rate of COVID-19 to a level that is compatible with our medical system means that we would have to spread the epidemic over more than a decade! (Far to the left, you see our unmitigated distribution for comparison.) I am pretty confident that we will have found effective treatments until then, but you get the idea: reducing the infectivity of the new corona virus to a manageable level is simply not going to be possible by mitigation, it will require containment.My curves are not correct!
My back-of-the-envelope calculation is not a proper simulation, or a good model of what’s going on either. Don’t cite it as such! In reality, the spread of a disease does not follow a normal distribution. It is going to be left-skewed, with a long tail.
Coronavirus: The Case for Canceling Everything - The Atlantic (http...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/10573422
Coronavirus: The Case for Canceling Everything - The Atlantic | #COVID19 #epidemiology
Harvard Epidemiologist on the Coronavirus: “I Don’t Think the Virus...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/10573423
Harvard Epidemiologist on the Coronavirus: “I Don’t Think the Virus Can Be Stopped Anymore” | #COVID19 #epidemiology