• During the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures were implemented nearly worldwide in order to slow the spread of the disease. (wikipedia.org)
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and related measures were recommended by several governments as alternatives to an enforced quarantine of heavily affected areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Section 3610 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security, or CARES, Act and other authorities allow the Defense Department to provide funding to contractors for allowable expenses related to the pandemic. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • It is the first survey in a new series, designed to provide a quick snapshot about how Australian households are faring in response to the changing social and economic environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. (abs.gov.au)
  • The two disasters are estimated to have cost the country a combined $13.1 billion, according to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) report, Assessment of the Effects and Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in The Bahamas . (iadb.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the world's economic order and global public health. (iadb.org)
  • The pandemic also highlighted the country's socio-economic vulnerability as businesses and citizens were hit hard. (iadb.org)
  • The report recommends the implementation of a comprehensive framework for resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which will require a combination of structural and non-structural measures to reduce socio-economic, environmental, institutional, and human vulnerabilities in the long-term. (iadb.org)
  • Bringing America Back is an ABC News feature that highlights the day's top stories in economic recovery and medical preparedness amid the coronavirus pandemic. (go.com)
  • The time is already past to admit that the coronavirus pandemic in the United States is a moral crisis, not simply a public health and economic crisis. (ncronline.org)
  • The coronavirus pandemic is shining a spotlight on what most already knew: There are giant gaps in our economic system and disasters aren't status levelers. (bangordailynews.com)
  • This pandemic is being exacerbated by deeply embedded economic inequities. (bangordailynews.com)
  • The economic impact of the pandemic on the informal sector made it much harder. (icrc.org)
  • In this article, we contribute to this literature by testing whether and how climatological factors have shaped the willingness of individuals to comply with the initial government restrictions during the initial phase of the pandemic, most notably the social distancing rules and restrictions on individuals leaving their homes. (nature.com)
  • The UK is an ideal case study for investigating compliance because it experienced a particularly severe early pandemic period coupled with a long-lasting and restrictive first national lockdown including social distancing regulation, school closure, restrictions on leisure activities, and a call to work from home from mid-March 2020 onwards 18 . (nature.com)
  • The coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created both a public health crisis and an economic crisis in the United States. (brookings.edu)
  • The pandemic has disrupted lives, pushed the hospital system to its capacity, and created a global economic slowdown. (brookings.edu)
  • The economic crisis is unprecedented in its scale: the pandemic has created a demand shock, a supply shock, and a financial shock all at once (Triggs and Kharas 2020). (brookings.edu)
  • 1 But hope amid a pandemic may not be the best weapon to fight a way out of the economic upheaval of 2020. (deloitte.com)
  • The sheer unpredictability of the ebb and flow of the pandemic has not only brought unprecedented economic uncertainty but has also been tough on people's emotions as they deal with the health-related impact of the virus. (deloitte.com)
  • Later this summer, the agency will produce a report examining the effects that federal policies adopted in response to the pandemic and recession are expected to have on economic outcomes. (cbo.gov)
  • The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has brought about widespread economic disruption. (cbo.gov)
  • In the first quarter of 2020, the pandemic and associated social distancing ended the longest economic expansion and triggered the deepest downturn in output and employment since World War II. (cbo.gov)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive economic shock across the world due to business interruptions and shutdowns from social-distancing measures. (preventionweb.net)
  • Fighting the pandemic required measures to restrict the functioning of manybusinesses and venues. (scirp.org)
  • As the virus spreads, it becomes gradually possible to assess its social, economic and political consequences, as well as witness the mediatization of the pandemic, the closure of schools and universities, libraries and museums, the cancellation of sports competitions, the loss of income by workers and entrepreneurs and the negative impact of the pandemic on informal work (Maranhão, 2020) . (scirp.org)
  • Workplace absenteeism is an important supplementary measure of influenza's impact on the working population that can inform prevention messaging and pandemic preparedness planning. (cdc.gov)
  • Feedback from service users and their families indicated the growing importance of mental and physical health during the pandemic, with a call for increased efforts to combat social stigma and improve services. (who.int)
  • Thus, it is concluded that social distancing measures promoted by the Brazilian public managers contributes to the reduction in approximately ten thousand deaths related to COVID-19 in the current pandemic scenario. (bvsalud.org)
  • While Nepal is not (yet) hard hit by the pandemic itself, with only 9 reported cases and zero deaths to date, the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. (lu.se)
  • To be effective, these measures must be implemented early and strategically targeted, layered, and tailored to pandemic severity, and their public health benefits must be balanced against economic and social costs. (cdc.gov)
  • Enhanced understanding of NPIs and the capacity to implement these measures in response to an emerging pandemic has the potential to increase the resilience of communities as well as individuals. (cdc.gov)
  • Each graph displays 3 projections: a baseline assuming no social distancing (red), social distancing implemented March 14-Aug 17, 2020 (blue), and social distancing implemented May 14-Aug 17, 2020 (black). (cdc.gov)
  • Several economic and financial indicators have not yet bounced back to their precrisis levels, including the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate that, at 1.8 percent in the first semester of 2020, was approximately 5 percentage points lower than its historical trajectory during recent years. (worldbank.org)
  • In response to the fast-growing epidemic, China imposed strict social distancing in Wuhan on 23 January 2020 followed closely by similar measures in other provinces. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Thus, while epidemiologically the virus spread was naturally more limited during the warmer period of 2020, sociologically the higher temperature led to lower individual-level compliance with public health measures. (nature.com)
  • One important but unanswered question concerns the role of weather and how it influenced the willingness of individuals to comply with public health and social distancing measures as the year 2020 progressed into warmer and dryer months. (nature.com)
  • Our brand-new dynamic spatial model (Ahlfeldt, Bald, Roth, Seidel, 2020) is well suited for the tasks because it features labour-market-related agglomeration (higher wages) and housing-market-related congestion forces (higher rents), costly migration (that can depend on geographic, cultural, or social distance) and idiosyncratic locational preferences. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Pictured: A demonstrator holds a poster comparing the Citizen Protection Law of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government with Adolf Hitler's 1933 Decree for the Protection of People and State, as police disperse a protest against government measures to limit the spread of coronavirus, on November 18, 2020 in Berlin. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
  • This report presents the baseline economic forecast that the Congressional Budget Office is using as the basis for updating its budget projections for 2020 to 2030. (cbo.gov)
  • This economic forecast updates the interim forecast that CBO published in May, which focused on 2020 and 2021. (cbo.gov)
  • Various measures have been undertaken by the SADC Member states and these include preparedness and response mechanisms, awareness programs, suspension of inbound and outbound flights, suspension of business and tourism travel, set up of border and in-country testing centres, social distancing, and cancellation of gatherings, adoption of self-isolation and mandatory quarantine for a minimum of fourteen days, and treatment for those that test positive (WHO, 2020). (who.int)
  • Of the five African countries accounting for close to 76% of new infections, three of them are members of the SADC namely South Africa, Zambia, and Namibia (UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2020). (who.int)
  • Yet, there has been growing discontent with social distancing rules during national lockdowns across several countries, particularly among certain demographic and socio-economic groups. (nature.com)
  • To evaluate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on individuals, a micro-economic model is developed to estimate the direct impact of distancing on household income, savings, consumption, and poverty. (preventionweb.net)
  • In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global and national measures to slow its spread have hit many people hard. (lu.se)
  • BACKGROUND: Drug use disorders (DUDs) have been a public health crisis which strongly impacted community health and socio-economic development. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, there are few studies based on the latest global data to show changes in the disease burden due to DUDs, specifically investigating associations between the country-level socio-economic factors and the burden of DUDs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Univariate linear regression and stepwise multiple linear regression analysis were performed to analyze the correlations between burden due to DUDs and country-level socio-economic factors. (bvsalud.org)
  • To contain the spread of the virus, governments have implemented surveillance, quarantine and social-distancing measures. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Quarantine measures, social isolation, loneliness, fear of the future and economic hardship had a powerful impact on people's mental health. (who.int)
  • Quarantine measures and social distancing, particularly during social events like weddings and funerals, further impacted relationships within families and society as a whole. (who.int)
  • Non-pharmacological interventions are public health measures with individual, environmental and community scope, covering the isolation of cases, quarantine applied to contacts, and the voluntary practice of not frequenting places with crowds of people. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, owing to the isolating and social distancing nature of quarantine, it often leads to extreme economic hardship and shortages in basic needs such as food, medicine, water and communication - and to the curtailment of certain universal social norms such as attending a parent's funeral. (bvsalud.org)
  • In further extreme circumstances, when a national lockdown is ordered, non-compliance with quarantine measures may result in arrests and penalties. (bvsalud.org)
  • Some local revenues were simply no longer available due to economic lockdowns and social distancing containment measures. (africanarguments.org)
  • These preventive measures such as social-distancing and self-isolation prompted the widespread closure of primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools in more than 120 countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • 22 March: Restrictions on social gatherings and 'non-essential' businesses. (wikipedia.org)
  • As authorities implement social distancing restrictions to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the associated economic costs are becoming more apparent. (frbsf.org)
  • All the countries are stepping up their capacities to test," says Francesca Colombo at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and one of the authors of a report published last month on how testing can help lift restrictions. (newscientist.com)
  • Luckily, a new study out of Hong Kong indicates that the precautious taken there - similar to those taken in the US, like closed schools, travel restrictions, mask-wearing, and general distancing - have had a measurable effect on the spread of Covid-19 and the flu. (vox.com)
  • Even when school closures are temporary, it carries high social and economic costs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Community measures include temporary school closures and dismissals and other social distancing measures, such as minimizing face-to-face contact at workplaces or cancelling mass gatherings (8). (cdc.gov)
  • New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania were the first states to adopt coordinated social distancing policies which closed down non-essential businesses and restricted large gatherings. (wikipedia.org)
  • Due to COVID-19, the Sierra Leonean and sub-national governments are currently taking preventative containment measures that may similarly limit economic and taxable activity, including restricting market and street trading hours and banning gatherings of more than 100 people . (africanarguments.org)
  • Nor should we take the stock market as the key measure of the country's health, rather than the lives of ordinary people. (ncronline.org)
  • While China's purchasing managers index (PMI) rebounded last month as the country's social distancing measures were eased, the PMIs in the United States, Japan, and the euro area fell sharply. (frbsf.org)
  • These measures-some of which were relaxed recently-have clouded some of the early optimism regarding the country's economic outlook. (deloitte.com)
  • Social distancing, or physical distancing, is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures taken to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social-distancing interventions have also impacted economic productivity in China, and the ability of the Chinese economy to resume without restarting the epidemic is not yet clear. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • by preparation to provide healthcare and appropriate health interventions at all levels o Minimize disruption to the social and economic life of Ghanaians, especially the vulnerable o Domestic Capacity & Self-Reliance: Increase the domestic capacity of all sectors to deal with existing and future shocks, in line with government's policy of Ghana Beyond Aid. (who.int)
  • The effectiveness of containment measures has been shown to depend on both epidemiological and sociological mechanisms, most notably compliance with national lockdown rules. (nature.com)
  • Recession and social unrest are looming, as governments struggle to organize their vaccination programmes. (udemy.com)
  • The steep fall in prices is a reflection of short term risks to the office market such as recession concerns and social distancing measures which has led to lower utilization of office spaces. (cushmanwakefield.com)
  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a global recession in the economic and health systems 1-3 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Populations are stirring, as lockdown measures and social distancing have changed the economic landscape. (udemy.com)
  • Dr Kylie Ainslie , co-author of the report from the MRC GIDA and J-IDEA at Imperial College London, explained: "Our report shows initial evidence that, after successful containment of COVID-19 with strict social distancing measures, those strict measures may be relaxed, and economic activities resumed without the recurrence of local transmission. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Dr Han Fu, report co-author, from MRC GIDA and J-IDEA, explained: "By investigating the relationship between within-city movement and the estimated reproduction number, we observed that the relaxation of strict social distancing measures and resumption of economic activities, so far, has not resulted in frequent local transmission of COVID-19 in China. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • These strict social distancing efforts at schools arise as more evidence suggests that children are largely spared from the dangers of COVID-19 infection. (fee.org)
  • The virus has led to thousands of deaths and to the imposition of strict social-distancing measures to slow its spread. (fool.com)
  • As India suddenly stepped into a second wave, 5 authorities started implementing localised lockdowns and strict social distancing measures to curb the virus's spread. (deloitte.com)
  • Others have criticised the strict public health measures ures that must be considered for a science-based political and advocated for more liberal approaches to achieve decision to unlock towns and cities. (who.int)
  • Containment measures may only be removed gradually, so recovery may be uneven. (oecd.org)
  • Containment measures in China itself mean that the province of Wuhan has not reported any new cases in the last four days. (investec.com)
  • To limit the spread of the virus, governments around the world resorted to imposing large-scale containment measures, most notably lockdowns on authorized economic activity, mobility and social interactions 3 . (nature.com)
  • found, increasing non-compliance among certain citizens may have impaired the effectiveness of containment measures during periods of higher temperature. (nature.com)
  • In the midst of an unprecedented public health crisis, extraordinary containment measures must be implemented. (bvsalud.org)
  • But as the number of cases in neighbouring India continued to rise and the call for stricter preventive measures grew louder, the Nepalese government announced, more or less overnight, a national curfew, the lockdown of all non-essential businesses and the suspension of all domestic and international flights. (lu.se)
  • Tightening up of the preventive measures continuously needs to be adapted in order to eradicate the coronavirus epidemic from the population. (who.int)
  • As a result of the necessary social distancing measures, the contraction in economic activity will be deep in the second quarter, accompanied by a steep rise in unemployment. (frbsf.org)
  • The current economic crisis is more complex: The contraction unleashed by the coronavirus is, in its speed and global scale, unlike anything ever known in history. (voltairenet.org)
  • Compared to the first quarter of 2009, I expect a far deeper and longer economic contraction in Turkey. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The spread of COVID-19 has posed a threat to these young people's economic prospects. (icrc.org)
  • They also tracked influenza infections over the same period and they found a notable downturn compared to prior years when schools were closed but no other social distancing measures were taken. (vox.com)
  • How Has the Economic Downturn Altered Liquidity Options for Business Owners? (easa.com)
  • Despite the economic downturn, there is an abundance of private capital and continuing long-term interest from financial and strategic acquirers in quality businesses. (easa.com)
  • COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory on China's southern coast and with intimate economic syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), 1 was and social ties with mainland China, reported its first first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. (who.int)
  • These containment and social distancing measures are likely to only get more stringent. (africanarguments.org)
  • Graphs show simulation results for different levels of social distancing and implementation times, assuming an epidemic doubling time of A) 7.2 days ( 18 - 20 , 22 ) or B) 4 days ( 22 - 24 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Social distancing measures are widely used as non-pharmacological measures with better performance in flattening the COVID-19 epidemic curve. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition, findings by Dehning et al5 (in Germany) and Garcia and Duarte 6 (in Brazil) corroborate the hypothesis that social isolation is fundamental for disease control, being a non-pharmacological and effective measure for reducing the hypothetical epidemic curve for COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • Statistical forecast models play a role in predicting future epidemic threats, managing of societal, economic, cultural, and public health matters. (who.int)
  • Answers to questions such as "When should we relax social distancing measures-and for whom? (hbs.edu)
  • Professor Neil Ferguson , Director of J-IDEA at Imperial College London and MRC GIDA explained: "This analysis provides some hope for countries currently in various levels of lockdown that once case numbers are brought to low levels, it might be possible to relax social distancing - provided equal measures to limit the risk of the resurgence of transmission are introduced. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • New research shows social distancing works - and why we must relax it gradually. (vox.com)
  • The maternal in Brazil and a predominance of maternal death mortality ratio (MMR) is the indicator used to from indirect causes in about 60% of the Brazilian measure the mortality rate or coefficient: it is the states10. (bvsalud.org)
  • Maternal mortality is currently viral respiratory nature and has demonstrated understood as an indicator of social development clinical epidemiological characteristics of rapid because it combines complex social determinants, dissemination and the ability to infect the general which is why it was included in one of the goals population. (bvsalud.org)
  • We're in this because public health experts believe social distancing is the best way to prevent a truly horrific crisis: perhaps hundreds of thousands or more if our health care system is overwhelmed with severe Covid-19 cases, people who require ventilators and ICU beds that are now growing limited in supply. (vox.com)
  • The outbreak of COVID -19 is resulting in a health crisis and a drop in economic activity that are without precedent in recent history. (oecd.org)
  • A large part of the failure has been in separating the economic crisis from the public health crisis when in fact they are intimately related. (ncronline.org)
  • The indirect economic effects of the crisis were significant, with individuals losing livelihoods, governments losing the capacity to fund basic services, and individuals and communities bearing a greater direct cost of public goods provision. (africanarguments.org)
  • With schools, markets, and many businesses closed during the Ebola crisis, many citizens faced extreme economic hardship. (africanarguments.org)
  • Then the 2008 global financial crisis started in the U.S., then spread around the globe, putting the breaks on economic activity in a way nobody expected. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Financial support from Sudanese living and working abroad helped mitigate the economic crisis and resource shortages faced during the transition period. (who.int)
  • This has not only resulted in a humanitarian crisis but also had a profound economic effect on the world. (lu.se)
  • More information about measuring the labour market impacts of COVID-19 can be found here . (abs.gov.au)
  • An escalating policy response, with broader and stronger measures, has been required to keep pace with evolving impacts and risks. (oecd.org)
  • The economic impacts will also be devastating, with preliminary estimates predicting an income shortfall of $220 billion in developing countries (excluding China) and a GDP decrease of at least $25 billion in Africa . (africanarguments.org)
  • Social distancing measures to curb the spread of the virus created significant challenges for global economic activity. (iadb.org)
  • Containing and mitigating the spread of the virus has rightly been the first priority of public authorities, to reduce the incidence of the disease, limit the pressure on healthcare systems and prepare for a stronger rebound as mitigation measures are relaxed. (oecd.org)
  • Unfortunately, the rest of the world is several weeks behind China in terms of the spread of the virus and also in taking measures to contain it. (investec.com)
  • Thus, even if good weather may limit the virus spread in epidemiological terms and it does not significantly change the rate of social encounters as Wu et al. (nature.com)
  • Other elements include contact tracing and some continued social distancing measures to limit spread. (newscientist.com)
  • Our study suggests that measures taken to control the spread of COVID-19 have been effective and have also had a substantial impact on influenza transmission in Hong Kong. (vox.com)
  • Social distancing was planned as a preventive measure to control the extensive spread of COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • At this point, it had spread to assessing the level of immunity through antibodies' tests over 60 countries across all continents except Antarctica, ( 11 ), yet emerging studies demonstrate that there is more with an immediate and profound effect on societies and than one genotype of COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) with brought social and economic life to a virtual standstill. (who.int)
  • CoV-2 through human-to-human transmission from social activities and argued for the necessity of social distancing in curtailing the disease spread. (who.int)
  • They feared infection due to the poor implementation of infection control measures, including inadequate quality personal protective equipment. (who.int)
  • However, Lord said more visibility is needed to assess the economic impact. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • However, keke drivers are conscious that the threat of COVID-19 goes beyond the immediate economic impact. (icrc.org)
  • The $2 trillion relief package, at roughly 9% of GDP, includes several measures targeted to alleviate the adverse economic impact on households, businesses, and workers. (frbsf.org)
  • The economic impact is likely to be far-reaching, with many businesses forced to close their doors and others laying off workers due to reduced demand for their services. (fool.com)
  • These were big numbers, yet the economic impact was short lived at the time. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Unless or until scientists have data to back it up, though, the impact of social distancing is as much hypothesis and intuition as scientific fact. (vox.com)
  • However, the severity of the economic impact is spatially heterogeneous, and certain communities are more affected than the average and could take more than a year to recover. (preventionweb.net)
  • In Sudan, the impact of COVID-19 varied among the general population, with lower socioeconomic and uneducated populations showing disregard for and noncompliance with restrictive measures. (who.int)
  • However, it has a major economic impact and public "fear" is at its highest. (who.int)
  • Thus, this snapshot for March occurs before most social distancing measures were widely implemented. (frbsf.org)
  • The mathematical model collaborates for intervention measures in the field of public health and should be widely used in the daily lives of public health managers in Brazil and worldwide. (bvsalud.org)
  • Researchers say we face a horrible choice: practice social distancing for months or a year, or let hundreds of thousands die. (vox.com)
  • Practice social distancing , and stay home when you are sick. (vox.com)
  • He says he has seen a shortage in food and supplies at food banks because of social distancing, and the directive citizens are under to do their grocery shop once a week. (blogto.com)
  • To mitigate the contagion, governments, businesses, and households in the United States and around the world have taken measures to limit in-person interactions. (cbo.gov)
  • The basic concept is to reduce the occurrence and duration of human interactions by implementing social distancing measures in combination with personal and environmental hygiene measures. (cdc.gov)
  • This progression towards recovery will likely not be linear and smooth, however, with containment and mitigation measures removed only gradually or partially. (oecd.org)
  • The end of social distancing and lockdowns should happen gradually, because we know they are working to contain the Covid-19 coronavirus. (vox.com)
  • It reaches a useful conclusion: The best way to ease these lockdowns and alleviate the economic losses without inviting an untenable spike in cases and fatalities is to do it gradually - over a matter of months. (vox.com)
  • Unlocking towns and cities health measures were gradually introduced ( 15 ). (who.int)
  • Health officials brought new models to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, showing that if social distancing remains in place until November, the curve of COVID-19 would flatten extensively by fall. (ksby.com)
  • If social distancing remains in place until the fall, some businesses say they'll look to make some adjustments to keep up with a new normal. (ksby.com)
  • Another big reason to keep social distancing in place, according to Santa Barbara County health officials, is to make sure the curve doesn't go back up. (ksby.com)
  • With new social distancing measures in place, millions of people will be out of work for extended periods . (bangordailynews.com)
  • Since social distancing measures were put in place, kekes are allowed to carry only two passengers instead of the usual four. (icrc.org)
  • There is likely to be some system of "dynamic social distancing" that remains in place either until a vaccine is developed or until sufficient herd immunity has been acquired. (investec.com)
  • Much hinges on how the virus spreads and evolves over time, as well as on the effectiveness of social distancing and shelter-in-place measures. (frbsf.org)
  • With social distancing measures and shelter-in-place orders, firms have had to rapidly shed workers on an extraordinary scale. (frbsf.org)
  • Assuming a shelter-in-place period of three months, the poverty rate would temporarily increase from 17.1% to 25.9% in the Bay Area in the absence of social protection, and the lowest income earners would suffer the most in relative terms. (preventionweb.net)
  • Presidential decrees number 4210 "On measures to improve the place of the republic of Uzbekistan in international ratings and indices," and number 6003 "New mechanism for improving the republic of Uzbekistan's position in international ratings and indices" regulate this process. (lu.se)
  • With many people at the time disbelieving that COVID-19 is any worse than the seasonal flu, it was difficult to convince the public to voluntarily adopt social distancing practices. (wikipedia.org)
  • Or how about your local grocery store, no social distance, people touching everything you might bring home. (change.org)
  • in other words, people will be able to maintain social distancing measures. (blogto.com)
  • We're physically distanced from our favorite people, we're avoiding our favorite public places, and many are financially strained or out of work. (vox.com)
  • People simply need to wear masks, keep social distance and wash their hands. (ncronline.org)
  • For its part, government needs to enforce these measures, expand testing on a massive scale, do contact tracing and help people isolate themselves if they test positive. (ncronline.org)
  • People currently weigh the risk of infection against the danger of their household's economic collapse, and the latter's weight is going to increase day by day. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • There is something challenging to communicate in coronavirus reporting: Nearly 41,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States (and many more will die), and those deaths have come despite the unprecedented social distancing measures being taken across the country. (vox.com)
  • That should give people confidence that social distancing is working, even with its painful economic toll. (vox.com)
  • Taken together, these new studies offer a picture of America's socially distant future: Even as people try to resume something resembling normal life, it will take time - and precautionary measures will have to be maintained. (vox.com)
  • The metric used to measure transmission - which estimates how many people someone carrying the virus will infect - has hovered around 1. (vox.com)
  • Many of these people represent social minorities, who are the main targets of the economic and social death policies that have their legacy in violent practices linked to Brazilian coloniza-tion and slavery. (scirp.org)
  • Capacity building of partners, including the social care sector, to provide MHPSS services to vulnerable populations such as the elderly in care homes, internally displaced persons, refugees, the homeless, people with disabilities and poor families. (who.int)
  • This is aggravated by globally and has had a deep social and psychological im- some politicians who are happy to trigger blame and pact on many people. (who.int)
  • The non-pharmacological intervention of social distance is effective as a public health measure with individual, environmental and community reach, promoting the isolation of cases, reduction of contact between individuals and reduction in the number of deaths related to COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • Personal protective measures include "everyday preventive actions," such as voluntary home isolation of ill persons, respiratory etiquette, and hand hygiene (7). (cdc.gov)
  • 1 The baseline forecast is being published now, rather than later with the budget projections, to provide the Congress with CBO's current assessment of the economic outlook in a rapidly evolving environment. (cbo.gov)
  • At the time of this survey, the household economic stimulus payments were in the process of being distributed and information was not collected on how they were used. (abs.gov.au)
  • Government policies and economic stimulus 3. (slideshare.net)
  • The focus can shift from support to limit hardship and maintain economic capacity to stimulus for economic recovery as containment and mitigation measures are relaxed. (oecd.org)
  • In 2008, President George W. Bush's Economic Stimulus Act cut $152 billion in checks to everyday Americans to stimulate consumer spending. (bangordailynews.com)
  • Risk of social unrest provoked by government measures to deal straight to your inbox. (who.int)
  • measures may spark violent social unrest and protest. (who.int)
  • In India, social unrest has also been expressed in the form of mob and vigilante violence. (who.int)
  • The corona-virus in Kuala Lumpur: Nobody seemed familiar with the term social distancing. (constantcontact.com)
  • How the economy evolves thereafter will largely depend on the effectiveness of social distancing measures and whether the virus weakens during the summertime or experiences a second burst in the fall. (frbsf.org)
  • Returning to schools with extreme virus control and social distancing measures, however, could very well be traumatic for many kids. (fee.org)
  • In recent days, America has made great strides in the first strategy, embracing the economic losses necessary to fight the virus. (dmarron.com)
  • They arise in social, political and economic contexts and affect human societies in different ways. (udemy.com)
  • These threaten to erode the comparative advantages of big cities that arise from economic and social interaction. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Follow us on Twitter and economic and social burdens, including food shortages. (who.int)
  • During the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisor's meeting Tuesday morning, health officials pointed to the importance of keeping up social distancing throughout the summer and into the fall to help flatten the curve in new model projections. (ksby.com)
  • are vital to our economic recovery and public health outcomes and cannot be answered without reliable test data. (hbs.edu)
  • And I'm telling her, 'No dona Celeste, I can't be next to you,'' Oliveira says, having been in public and practicing social distancing, he knew the danger he could potentially pose to her health. (blogto.com)
  • Policies will need to be adapted to the evolving health and economic challenges. (oecd.org)
  • These factors restrict their ability to respond to the health and economic challenges. (oecd.org)
  • Health is both a medical and social issue compounded by structural, economic, and environmental factors. (frontiersin.org)
  • Economic instability is associated with worse health outcomes, forcing individuals to prioritize other issues such as rent and utility bills over food and health needs. (frontiersin.org)
  • While the assault on human health will-hopefully- be temporary, the political and economic upheaval it has unleashed could last for generations. (voltairenet.org)
  • And necessary public-health measures such as social distancing and closing schools and businesses are contributing to the economic pain. (voltairenet.org)
  • Inequities in the social determinants of health-income and wealth, health-care access and utilization, education, occupation, discrimination, and housing-are interrelated and put some racial and ethnic minority groups at increased risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] 2020c). (brookings.edu)
  • Many parents and educators are rightfully concerned about children's mental health during these lockdowns, but when lockdowns end and schools reopen, children's mental health could be worsened with extreme social distancing measures that remove any of the potentially enjoyable pieces of schooling, such as playground time, extracurriculars, and gathering with friends. (fee.org)
  • That is why COVID-19 requires a global response, both in terms of health and economic response. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • First, we should embrace those economic losses that protect health. (dmarron.com)
  • But as Americans consider when and how to begin relaxing those measures, they will have to balance health concerns with economic ones. (vox.com)
  • Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, defines telehealth as the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long distance clinical healthcare, patient and professional health related education, and public health and health administration services. (cdc.gov)
  • Orient research beyond the biomedical and public health spheres and address research questions touching on multiple sectors including social and economic sciences. (who.int)
  • We reported the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings of the family cluster, as well as the public health measures instituted. (who.int)
  • Not leaving out Gyms and Salons which implement similar safety measures. (change.org)
  • We can do better by continuing to soften the economic fallout from the coronavirus. (ncronline.org)
  • This is "the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression," said Kristalina Georgieva, the Bulgarian economist who is now the head of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ). (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • As images emerge from countries around the world that have reopened schools, US parents are getting a glimpse of what extreme social distancing measures could look like here, including the latest from Chinese schools in which social distancing "wings" are strapped onto children's backs to ensure that they stay far apart from each other. (fee.org)
  • Collectively referred to as social distancing, those measures include reducing social activities and travel, curtailing the activity of schools and business, and working from home. (cbo.gov)
  • The middle class, the backbone of the economy, is in danger of collapsing under the pressure of political measures related to. (constantcontact.com)
  • The Level 4 social distancing measures are bad news for the real economy but they can help quell the concerns about interest rate hikes. (donga.com)
  • Reducing economic activity will reduce the overall size of the economy. (dmarron.com)
  • Relaxing social distancing in China shows initial success, suggests early analysis. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • COVID-19-related deaths in Brazil were analyzed during the period of social distancing measures. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thus, this research analyzed whether social distance had an influence on the outcome of expected deaths related to COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • The market appears to have been affected by concerns that Level 4 social distancing rules in the Seoul metropolitan area could dent consumption. (donga.com)
  • The elevated social distancing measures will take a toll on domestic consumption, especially the service industry," said Park Sang-hyun, a researcher at the Hi Investment and Securities. (donga.com)
  • This economic forecast provides CBO's first complete set of economic projections through 2030 since January and incorporates information available as of June 26. (cbo.gov)
  • This uncertainty necessarily clouds the economic outlook. (frbsf.org)
  • Consumer confidence also fell in March, as economic activity in several parts of the country stalled and the economic outlook darkened. (frbsf.org)
  • This current report, the 11th in the series, estimates transmissibility from reported cases and compares those estimates with daily data on within-city movement, as a proxy for economic activity (provided by Exante Data, NY). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • It has become clearer in the last week that, from a policy perspective, saving lives takes precedence over economic activity. (investec.com)
  • This will continue to weigh on general economic activity for some time. (investec.com)
  • COVID-19 is now stopping economic activity all over the planet. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • We are used to have sudden stops in economic activity before in our part of the world, but this one is totally different. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • This was soon after the 1997 sudden stop in economic activity in Southeast Asia. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Speedy vaccination now seems the only way to revive sentiment and wider economic activity. (deloitte.com)
  • The steps needed to combat the coronavirus will inevitably reduce economic activity. (dmarron.com)
  • Unfortunately, it's also possible that economic activity will lag. (dmarron.com)
  • Through various measures, countries are helping businesses stay afloat, supporting households and helping preserve employment. (oecd.org)
  • The focus of economic policy measures has been on providing liquidity support to businesses to help them stay afloat and providing income support to vulnerable households. (oecd.org)
  • Making direct payments to households-recently proposed by Jason Furman (former economic advisor to President Obama), Greg Mankiw (former advisor to President Bush), and now Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT)-is one approach. (dmarron.com)
  • The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, is frequently used as a measure of uncertainty based on equity market volatility. (frbsf.org)