Category «Health Care»

The Potential Role Of Open Data In Mitigating The COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges And Opportunities

Health Affairs: “The scale and diffuse impact of the global 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is unprecedented in our lifetime. As of October 23, 2020, less than a year into the pandemic, there have been more than 41.7 million cases and more than one million deaths globally. Without a vaccine or widespread treatment access, the …

Subjects: Education, Food and Nutrition, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Libraries

One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days

Reuters – “Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days. Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered COVID-19 patients in the study …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management

Growing Discomfort at Law Firms Representing Trump in Election Lawsuits

The New York Times via MSN – “There was Big Tobacco. There was the Bin Laden family. There was even the hated owner of the Cleveland Browns football team as he moved the franchise to Baltimore. Now Jones Day is the most prominent firm representing President Trump and the Republican Party as they prepare to …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Covid Superspreader Risk Is Linked to Restaurants, Gyms, Hotels

Nature – “How to stop restaurants from driving COVID infections – US mobile data suggests restaurants, gyms and cafes can be covid hotspots — and reveals strategies for limiting spread. In cities worldwide, coronavirus outbreaks have been linked to restaurants, cafes and gyms. Now, a new model using mobile-phone data to map people’s movements suggests …

Subjects: Economy, Food and Nutrition, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Asked and answered: What readers want to know about coronavirus

Washington Post – “The novel coronavirus is changing how we live our lives, and our readers have questions. The Washington Post has catalogued and organized 13,202 questions about the pandemic and provided a guide to help you find the answers. Many of the questions fall into common themes, and this guide provides links to reporting …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Coronavirus won’t disappear, even with a vaccine

Axios – “Pfizer yesterday took a giant step toward a COVID-19 vaccine, reporting that its vaccine candidate was effective in over 90% of uninfected clinical trial patients. Reality check: It’s a giant and welcome development, but the pandemic will be with us long after vaccine distribution begins. The Pfizer vaccine is not a silver bullet. …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Biden Could Roll Back Trump Agenda With Blitz of Executive Actions

The New York Times – “President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is poised to unleash a series of executive actions on his first day in the Oval Office, prompting what is likely to be a yearslong effort to unwind President Trump’s domestic agenda and immediately signal a wholesale shift in the United States’ place in the …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Dan’s COVID Charts since June by state partisanship

Dan’s COVID Charts – Created by Dan Goodspeed using data from New York Times and visualization help from Flourish.  “The numbers are the total confirmed normalized cases per million for each state since June. A ‘10,000’ means 1% of the state’s population has tested positive of COVID since June 1. June 1 was chosen as …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted for Trump

AP – “U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, with a surprising twist: In places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support. An Associated Press analysis reveals that in 376 counties with the highest number of new cases …

Subjects: Congress, Free Speech, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Communicating Through a Crisis

Insider Higher Ed – “Most research in crisis communications and management is retrospective, looking at how things unfolded, said Brooke Fisher Liu, a professor of communications and associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Maryland at College Park. Most research in the field also focuses on corporations and governments, rather than other …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management

The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym

Quartz – “People in the world’s Blue Zones—the places around the world with the highest life expectancy—don’t pump iron, run marathons or join gyms. Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without even thinking about it. This means that they grow gardens, walk throughout the day, and minimize mechanical conveniences for …

Subjects: Health Care, Transportation