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Epidemiologia, Volume 3, Issue 2

2022 June - 12 articles

Cover Story: Between 1905 and 1940, an entirely preventable epidemic of often-fatal pellagra raged in the US Old South. The young federal epidemiologist sent to investigate it, Joseph Goldberger, highlighted that the disease was a nutritional deficiency disorder, not an infection as many had previously thought. The options for its prevention provide substantial information that can be used to fight the chronic disease pandemic today—if only we would listen. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,362 Views
17 Pages

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Alters the Landscapes of the HIV and Tuberculosis Epidemics in South Africa: A Case Study and Future Directions

  • Daniel Eike,
  • Maximilia Hogrebe,
  • Dagem Kifle,
  • Miriam Tregilgas,
  • Anshu Uppal and
  • Alexandra Calmy

South Africa has long grappled with one of the highest HIV and tuberculosis (TB) burdens in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges to the country’s already strained health system. Measures to contain COVID-19 virus may have further h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,694 Views
12 Pages

To clarify the genetic diversity of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) in Japan in recent years, we determined the nucleotide sequence of open reading frame 5 of 2482 PRRSV sequences obtained from samples collected from p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,151 Views
16 Pages

COVID-19 and Internet Hospital Development in China

  • Yushan Li,
  • Huimin Hu,
  • Liudmila Rozanova and
  • Guilhem Fabre

Since 2018, the access policy for Internet hospitals has been issued in China. So far, thousands of Internet hospitals have been approved to operate and have played a significant role during the COVID-19 pandemic. While front-line hospitals strive to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,189 Views
19 Pages

Future Strategic Priorities of the Swiss Decentralized Healthcare System: A COVID-19 Case Study

  • Miriam Mi-Rim Lee Burger,
  • Kaitlin Elizabeth Large,
  • Yiqi Liu,
  • Melissa Cigdem Coyle,
  • Cherish Tariro Gamanya and
  • Jean-François Etter

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a multitude of vulnerabilities in Switzerland’s decentralized healthcare system and highlighted the urgent need to strengthen Switzerland’s capacity to respond to health crises and disease outbreaks. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,555 Views
12 Pages

Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 can be attributed to expanding small-scale localized infection subclusters that eventually propagate into regional and global outspread. These infections are driven by spatial as well as temporal mutational dynamics wherein vi...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,517 Views
9 Pages

Would New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Change the War against COVID-19?

  • Elrashdy M. Redwan,
  • Fatma Elrashdy,
  • Alaa A. A. Aljabali,
  • Wagner Baetas-da-Cruz,
  • Debmalya Barh,
  • Adam M. Brufsky,
  • Sk. Sarif Hassan,
  • Kenneth Lundstrom,
  • Ángel Serrano-Aroca and
  • Vladimir N. Uversky
  • + 3 authors

The scientific, private, and industrial sectors use a wide variety of technological platforms available to achieve protection against SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), including vaccines. However, the virus evolves continu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,235 Views
11 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, with new variants emerging and vaccine-induced immunity waning. Protecting and retaining the healthcare force remains crucial in fighting this pandemic, as healthcare workers (HCWs) are a critical driver in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,257 Views
19 Pages

Balancing Public & Economic Health in Japan during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Analysis

  • Gainha Kim,
  • Justine M. Natuplag,
  • Sui Jin Lin,
  • Jinyi Feng and
  • Nicolas Ray

Despite loose restrictions and a low mortality rate due to COVID-19, Japan faced the challenge of stabilizing its economy during the pandemic. Here, we analyzed how the Japanese government attempted to maintain a balance between the health of the pop...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,258 Views
8 Pages

This paper argues that the public health conceptual framework of epidemiologist Geoffrey Rose, first published as “Sick Individuals and Sick Populations” in 1985, provides a useful way to critically analyze prevention and control options...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,932 Views
12 Pages

Incidence, Mortality, and Risk Factors of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes

  • Alberto Arnedo-Pena,
  • Maria Angeles Romeu-Garcia,
  • Juan Carlos Gascó-Laborda,
  • Noemi Meseguer-Ferrer,
  • Lourdes Safont-Adsuara,
  • Laura Prades-Vila,
  • Matilde Flores-Medina,
  • Viorica Rusen,
  • Maria Dolores Tirado-Balaguer and
  • Juan Bellido-Blasco
  • + 5 authors

During the period from March 2020 to January 2021, we performed an analysis of incidence, mortality, and risk factors of COVID-19 in nursing homes (NHs) in two health departments (HDs) of Castellon (Spain) 2021 through epidemiological surveillance an...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,916 Views
18 Pages

Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security in Ethiopia

  • Wenqin Zhang,
  • Léo Persoz,
  • Sandrine Hakiza,
  • Loza Biru and
  • Lemlem Girmatsion

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, its effects on different aspects of life have been subject to much research, including food security, a domain that has been of special concern in many low-income countries. Ethiopia has been facing many challenges rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,030 Views
13 Pages

Trust in the U.S. Government and Its Health Agencies in the Time of COVID-19

  • Maraika Geisterfer-Black,
  • Taylor Niemi,
  • Leonie Neier and
  • Victor G. Rodwin

This article examines the factors affecting Americans’ trust in their federal government and its health agencies during the COVID-19 public health crisis. More specifically, we examine the evolution of Americans’ trust in their government...

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Epidemiologia - ISSN 2673-3986