• This past December 23rd, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that, despite the severe pandemic-induced economic downturn, its index of house prices had risen a strong 10.2 percent in the 12 months leading up to October 2020, and 1.5 percent in just the single month of October - a per annum rate of an even higher 18 percent. (harvard.edu)
  • A transmission electron microscope image of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the coronavirus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which the World Health Organization declared to be a pandemic (etymology 1, noun sense) on 11 March 2020. (wiktionary.org)
  • The latest research and developments on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the 2020 global pandemic. (sciencenews.org)
  • Just prior to the pandemic, you had about 3.5 million people leaving their jobs monthly, then that dropped to 1.9 million in April 2020. (shrm.org)
  • The World Trade Organization has forecast that the pandemic will cause global trade to contract between 13% and 32% over 2020, with prospects for recovery in 2021 still uncertain. (forbes.com)
  • In NH, women make up 67.6% of essential workers, which includes child care and social services (85.9% of workers are women), health care (78.6% of jobs are held by women), and grocery, retail and convenience stores (50.6% of workers are women), per a 2020 report by the NH Women's Foundation about the effects of the pandemic on women. (concordmonitor.com)
  • The Carsey School of Public Policy report shows Latina women had the highest jobless rates throughout the pandemic, peaking at 20.8% in April 2020. (concordmonitor.com)
  • In April 2020, the Islamic State launched new offensives in Iraq and Syria as the coronavirus pandemic distracted the U.S.-led coalition and local security forces. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Eight years ago, when Gov. Gary Herbert and the Utah Board of Education set a goal of a 90% graduation rate by 2020 , they didn't factor a pandemic into that plan. (sltrib.com)
  • Jennifer McClure and her 19-month-old daughter Esme Smith began trying on masks in April 2020, not long after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shuttered restaurants and closed schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • In April 2020, 60 Minutes interviewed Trump advisor Peter Navarro about the COVID-19 pandemic response and the short supply of medical equipment. (genengnews.com)
  • Note that the data in Figure 2 (above) does not show a spike during the pandemic, but rather that average wage growth had weakened to 2.8 percent at the end of 2020 from 3 percent at the end of 2019. (whitehouse.gov)
  • Early in the pandemic (April 3, 2020), the CDC issued a recommendation that the general public, even those without symptoms, should wear face coverings in public settings where social-distancing measures were difficult to maintain to abate the spread of COVID-19. (medscape.com)
  • Pandemics are most often caused by viruses, like Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) , which can easily spread from person to person. (ready.gov)
  • The coronavirus pandemic is changing life as we know it. (cnbc.com)
  • During the coronavirus pandemic , pickup retail sales have significantly outpaced the industry. (cnbc.com)
  • Principal Bec Spink hopes people will treat her high-pressure profession with more respect after the coronavirus pandemic. (theage.com.au)
  • World Food Program USA President Barron Segar discusses their effort to quell the global hunger crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic. (msnbc.com)
  • The Trump administration is slow-walking $8 billion in desperately needed pandemic aid to Native American tribes, many of whose lands have become coronavirus hot spots while enduring their worst economic crisis in decades . (nymag.com)
  • U.S. Northern Command is executing plans to prepare for a potential pandemic of the novel coronavirus, now called COVID19, according to Navy and Marine Corps service-wide messages issued this week. (armytimes.com)
  • For most of my stay, the coronavirus pandemic felt far away. (lu.se)
  • News about the spread of the coronavirus in other parts of the world had also reached Tangiya Basti, the 8000-member village where I had spent almost three weeks, but the pandemic seemed far away, and people were not particularly worried at that time. (lu.se)
  • This article examines the meanings of the Coronavirus Pandemic from a perspective which is both socio-political and psychoanalytic. (bvsalud.org)
  • While he anticipates that physician-patient virtual visits will continue to be an important part of clinical practice post pandemic, he predicted the major growth areas for telerheumatology once COVID-19 is squashed will be in clinician-to-clinician interactions and remote patient monitoring using smart devices. (medscape.com)
  • Cite this: Telerheumatology Will Thrive Post Pandemic - Medscape - Mar 17, 2021. (medscape.com)
  • By Scott Rosenstein Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the end of the H1N1 pandemic (swine flu) and the beginning of the "post-pandemic phase. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Uber is ramping up its in-app mobility and delivery features in an effort to stay competitive post-pandemic. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Telemedicine has had a profound effect upon the practice of rheumatology during the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to do so afterward, speakers predicted at the 2021 Rheumatology Winter Clinical Symposium. (medscape.com)
  • More than half of employees surveyed in North America plan to look for a new job in 2021, according to a new report, while separate research shows that a quarter of workers plan to quit their jobs outright once the COVID-19 pandemic subsides and recruiting efforts ramp up. (shrm.org)
  • Nelms said that 2021 will see less labor force participation and unemployment and more job openings, which 'will lead to the same supply and demand issues we had before the pandemic, putting an emphasis on recruiting and fueling voluntary turnover. (shrm.org)
  • The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility officially closed on April 30, 2021. (worldbank.org)
  • This has been managed by a part-time secondment from the University that will likely continue once the National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) replaces PHE in April 2021 with a continued focus on ending this pandemic. (port.ac.uk)
  • A February 2021 study from the Center for American Progress reports that women lost a net 5.4 million jobs nationally during the pandemic - nearly 1 million more than men. (concordmonitor.com)
  • For the first time in the 11 years Medscape has been conducting this poll, all specialties saw an increase in income in 2021, likely owing to an easing of pandemic restrictions. (medscape.com)
  • St. Petersburg, FL Wednesday, May 5, 2021 -- Suicide, the second pandemic, reached pandemic levels in our society long before the COVID-19 pandemic. (expertclick.com)
  • The most coveted and financed university in the United States has instituted a salary and hiring freeze and other belt-tightening measures in the wake of economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. (voanews.com)
  • Find tools to help hospital administrators and state and local health officials prepare for the next influenza pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • The term had not been used then but was used for later epidemics, including the 1918 influenza pandemic-more commonly known as the Spanish flu. (wikipedia.org)
  • The image of a modern day influenza pandemic included near or complete paralysis of the global supply chain in a world where most daily activities, including work and education, were significantly curtailed and human beings were living in near seclusion to limit the spread of the virus. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Government of Egypt has taken the threat of pandemic influenza seriously and developed the National Influenza Pandemic Executive Committee (NIPEC). (who.int)
  • and influenza pandemic preparedness planning. (who.int)
  • The last flu pandemic occurred in 2009 when a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged. (cdc.gov)
  • The most recent pandemics include the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Amid the pandemic, many companies see an opportunity to reboot the system and reconstruct the supply chain for the evolving needs of businesses. (forbes.com)
  • Amid the ongoing pandemic and its disastrous effects on multiple aspects of human rights protection across the globe, there is consensus in one area: children and young people have been particularly hard hit. (coe.int)
  • In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, recently 194 member states of the World Health Organization began negotiations on an International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response with a requirement to submit a draft of this treaty to the 77th World Health Assembly during its 2024 convention. (wikipedia.org)
  • The World Health Organization estimates that the next pandemic may result in 12.3 million hospitalizations and between 280,000 and 600,000 deaths in the industrialized nations alone. (genengnews.com)
  • At the end of this year's World Health Organization (WHO) list of pathogens that could cause a worldwide pandemic is a mysterious addition: "Disease X. (medscape.com)
  • It was also clear that the world lacked a coherent definition of pandemic -not a trivial point when millions of lives and billions of dollars are at stake. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Cite this: WHO Adds 'Disease X' to List of Potential Pandemic Killers - Medscape - Mar 12, 2018. (medscape.com)
  • 100 years later, read about the 1918 flu pandemic and the advancements in flu prevention and control efforts since then. (cdc.gov)
  • The chaotic breakdown of public health as World War I dragged on is widely recognized as exacerbating the disease burden of the pandemic outbreak of influenza in 1918. (wiktionary.org)
  • In the 20th century there were three major pandemics, one of which was a real whopper, said Anthony S. Fauci, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director of the NIH, referring to the Spanish flu of 1918 which killed between 20 and 40 million people worldwide. (genengnews.com)
  • In February 2007, best-selling author and pandemic expert Laurie Garrett gave a TED talk, " Lessons from the 1918 flu . (genengnews.com)
  • During a February 2006 TED talk, Larry Brilliant warned about the likelihood of a future pandemic . (genengnews.com)
  • A flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new flu A virus. (cdc.gov)
  • He based the Pandemic board game on the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak . (wikipedia.org)
  • A pandemic is a disease outbreak that spans several countries and affects a large number of people. (ready.gov)
  • Retail sales were expected to slow this year before the pandemic, but the outbreak caused demand to plunge even more. (cnbc.com)
  • Health experts say an avian flu outbreak would most closely resemble that pandemic. (genengnews.com)
  • While it could simply be a pandemic-period distortion that will disappear as COVID vaccines are broadly distributed, it could also reflect a new normal for the dynamics of housing and housing finance. (harvard.edu)
  • Drawing on lessons learned, including from the COVID-19 response, this white paper presents for consideration information on the potential establishment of a new Executive Board Committee: the Standing Committee on Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness and Response (SCPPR) with a view to strengthen the Executive Board's effectiveness and responsiveness. (who.int)
  • We recently interviewed Steven Merrill, head of the FBI's Financial Crimes Section, to discuss scams and crimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic . (fbi.gov)
  • While the pace of transformation was already accelerating before Covid-19, the pandemic has encouraged businesses to invest more heavily in digital solutions to give them the agility to weather the crisis. (forbes.com)
  • Harvard, like other universities around the world, will not be spared the economic consequences of the pandemic," the email stated, calling the effects of COVID-19 "disorienting, even dizzying. (voanews.com)
  • It is now clear that COVID-19 is not an equal opportunity pandemic . (ajc.com)
  • Perhaps one of the biggest positives to have come out of the last year of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a renewed trust in science. (port.ac.uk)
  • The Covid-19 pandemic has been a worrying time for us all, especially as we often feel so powerless. (port.ac.uk)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary strain on Council of Europe member states. (coe.int)
  • While, increasingly, commitment to upholding human rights standards has been faltering all over the continent for several years, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the erosion of the democratic fabric of our society, on which. (coe.int)
  • Dr. Brandi Jackson, a psychiatrist at Rush University Medical Center, said the COVID-19 pandemic has been her most difficult period as a psychiatrist. (chicagotribune.com)
  • You think about systemic racism and unemployment before COVID-19 happened, and now we're compounded by the pandemic . (chicagotribune.com)
  • Not every child will experience the COVID-19 pandemic as a trauma, and some have already learned healthy coping skills , but many will experience loss if the disease has attacked their loved ones. (latimes.com)
  • According to Noll, "The two pandemics, COVID-19 and suicide, coupled with a stress pandemic is a recipe for disaster. (expertclick.com)
  • Not knowing how to maneuver through the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in our society have opted to get through this new normal by using increased amounts of alcohol, drugs, and food. (expertclick.com)
  • Undoubtedly, this second pandemic will continue to grow long after COVID-19 has faded into the history books unless we learn how to recognize its root cause. (expertclick.com)
  • This is evidenced by a recent article in the Washington Post when the father of a 16-year-old son who committed suicide one month into the COVID-19 pandemic discovered notes on his son's laptop that a voice inside was whispering how worthless he was, how he was hated by everyone. (expertclick.com)
  • In spite of current controversy about whether the number of suicide deaths have actually increased or decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, or whether they have gotten lost in the increased number of alcohol deaths, drug overdoses, and gunshot accidents, one thing is certain. (expertclick.com)
  • When the COVID-19 pandemic forced stores to close, online commerce pulled ahead at the fastest rate since 2002. (forrester.com)
  • Any company's first step in accelerating through the COVID-19 pandemic and building a profitable, sustainable future is to establish a laser-sharp focus on consumers - how their attitudes, expectations, and behaviors are changing and why. (forrester.com)
  • Among the tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic is the devastating toll on the elderly, particularly those in nursing homes. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Despite significant resources being dedicated to the Covid-19 response in Kenya, the government failed to provide health workers with adequate protective equipment, testing, or other safety measures to ensure that they could safely and effectively respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. (hrw.org)
  • They said they did not receive training before being assigned to wards treating Covid-19 patients, greatly undermining their ability to respond in the early days of the pandemic. (hrw.org)
  • When the COVID-19 pandemic locked down the United States in March, Winnie, along with millions of young children became what some have dubbed "bunker babies. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The new app-building interface comes as many governments have already tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to roll out their own phone apps to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (10news.com)
  • Those were President Trump's words in March about the COVID-19 pandemic. (genengnews.com)
  • Long before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, many people did issue warnings about the imminence of the next pandemic. (genengnews.com)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to limit the spread of the disease have significantly disrupted economic activity in countries around the world, resulting in significant business interruption losses. (oecd.org)
  • In response to the current crisis, policymakers in a number of jurisdictions are examining various ways to support commercial policyholders (particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)) in the context of the uninsured business interruption losses that they have faced as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic. (oecd.org)
  • This note provides an overview of the initial responses to the likely business interruption protection gap for COVID-19 and a discussion of how business interruption insurance against pandemic risk could be provided with support from governments based on the experience of other catastrophe risk insurance programmes. (oecd.org)
  • So, like almost everything else, NHANES was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • During this COCA Call, presenters will discuss the intersection of telehealth and health equity and implications for health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • Describe how telehealth can bridge health equity gaps and expand access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • As the COVID-19 virus spread rapidly around the world, information related to the pandemic also spread quickly and in massive amounts. (bvsalud.org)
  • We compared and analyzed the development processes of health communication products for pregnant women in Madagascar and for elementary school children in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic produced a massive amount of information all around the world. (bvsalud.org)
  • 10.3389/fcomm.2020.603656 school children in Japan, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
  • This point is translated into multiple languages for a wide particularly important in the COVID-19 pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Covid-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated how fast viruses can become a significant threat to global health. (lu.se)
  • Further, the sudden and severe onset of the pandemic and ensuing economic crisis also led to large, abrupt compositional effects. (whitehouse.gov)
  • Policymakers are also beginning to examine longer-term solutions to address the gap in financial protection for pandemic-related business interruption that has come to light as a result of the current crisis. (oecd.org)
  • Reflecting public values and the need to address multiple important objectives with the pandemic vaccination program, each of the top tiers includes populations from all four categories for a very severe pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • The health and economic costs of the pandemic have been severe in numerous countries. (deloitte.com)
  • Pandemic prevention comprises activities such as anticipatory research and development of therapies and vaccines, as well as monitoring for pathogens and disease outbreaks which may have pandemic potential. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a federal advisory committee that develops recommendations for the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on use of vaccines to control diseases in the United States, would serve as the advisory committee for developing recommendations for use of pandemic vaccine. (cdc.gov)
  • Changing the way we manage the flocks was not a trivial risk, Matthews says, but allows the company to maintain momentum and gear up quickly to produce other pandemic vaccines. (genengnews.com)
  • Generally, past epidemics & pandemics have faded out as the diseases become accepted into people's daily lives and routines, becoming endemic. (wikipedia.org)
  • The transition from pandemic to endemic may be defined based on: - a high proportion of the global population having immunity (through either natural infection or vaccination) fewer deaths health systems step down from emergency status perceived personal risk is lessened restrictive measures such as travel restrictions removed less coverage in public media. (wikipedia.org)
  • Diſeaſes are likewise endemic and pandemic . (wiktionary.org)
  • Routine vaccination programs are a type of prevention strategy, holding back diseases such as influenza and polio which have caused pandemics in the past, and could do so again if not controlled. (wikipedia.org)
  • Guidance for targeting vaccination defines population groups in four broad categories that correspond with the objectives of a pandemic vaccination program - to protect people who: 1) maintain homeland and national security, 2) provide health care and community support services, 3) maintain critical functions of society, and 4) are in the general population. (cdc.gov)
  • The table below provides further definition of population groups for pandemic vaccination by tier for a pandemic with a high or very high level of severity, the estimated size of the group, and a brief description of the working group's rationale for prioritizing that group. (cdc.gov)
  • the tiered schema outlined in this document will be adapted to provide guidance on targeted vaccination during the pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • Without vaccination or drugs, a medium-scale pandemic could affect 15-35% of the U.S. population with an economic impact of $71.3-$166.5 billion, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (genengnews.com)
  • The HHS also let a contract to Sanofi Pasteur to establish and maintain flocks of egg-laying hens to ensure its ability to manufacture pandemic influenza vaccine at full capacity, year-round. (genengnews.com)
  • It also is the only vaccine manufacturer participating in the EU's collaborative FLUPAN clinical trials against pandemic influenza. (genengnews.com)
  • Pandemic influenza, and primarily avian influenza, is a serious concern for Egypt. (who.int)
  • WHO offers technical support to the NIPEC and participated in the development of the Integrated National Plan for avian and pandemic influenza in response to the rapid spread of avian influenza and pandemic influenza, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). (who.int)
  • A pandemic (/pænˈdɛmɪk/ pan-DEM-ik) is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals. (wikipedia.org)
  • What was deemed to be an epidemic has grown into pandemic proportions during the last year. (expertclick.com)
  • Researchers at Lund University want to use AI methods, population registers, mobile data and novel data sources to develop and evaluate applications that can be used to detect and combat pandemics in the future. (lu.se)
  • Even in 2019 before the pandemic, political and economic tensions were already causing a slight reduction in global trade, and this trend is exacerbated by increased uncertainty about the resilience of long-distance supply chains. (forbes.com)
  • Recent research highlighted in this article found that imports of manufactured goods from over a dozen countries in Asia shrunk by 7% between 2018 and 2019, prior to the pandemic. (forbes.com)
  • The levels of stress felt by principals even before the pandemic has been highlighted by the newly released Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing survey for 2019. (theage.com.au)
  • In the biennium 2018-2019, the US$ 31 million budget for Partnership Contribution pandemic preparedness activities is being used to strengthen capacities in 72 countries, as well as to support regional and global preparedness and response capacity-building. (who.int)
  • There are several unknowns, however, including when or whether a pandemic will occur and, if so, the level of reassortment that may take place as the virus crosses interspecies barriers. (genengnews.com)
  • Uncertainty and unknowns about the pandemic together with the explosion of information created confusion and fear among many populations. (bvsalud.org)
  • Today, McClure is among parents nationwide who worry about the long-term consequences pandemic restrictions will have on children under age five, who have spent formative years in extraordinary circumstances. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Whether this early-childhood pandemic experience will herald long-term mental health, development, or academic consequences depends on each family's individual challenges, says James Griffin , who heads the at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). (nationalgeographic.com)
  • 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)
  • Throughout human history, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as smallpox. (wikipedia.org)
  • [1] Pandemic is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Navy and Marine Corps messages, issued Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, reference an executive order directing U.S. Northern Command to implement the Department of Defense Global Campaign plan for Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Diseases 3551-13. (armytimes.com)
  • DoD 3551-13 calls for preparing for a pandemic and ensuring open lines of communication in the community, diseases surveillance and detection, response and containment. (armytimes.com)
  • Because of this pandemic, "we're going to see increased stress-related cognitive impairment and diseases" and probably increased toxic stress, said Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California's surgeon general. (latimes.com)
  • To understand what long-term trends might be emerging from this pandemic disruption, we examined cycling and car traffic counter data in Dublin, comparing hourly trends for both modes before and after the lockdown. (rte.ie)
  • CDC works to improve global prevention and control of seasonal and novel flu, and to improve pandemic flu preparedness and response. (cdc.gov)
  • The Director-General has the honour to transmit to the Executive Board, at its 150th session, the proposal submitted by the Government of Austria to establish a Standing Committee on Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness and Response (see Annex). (who.int)
  • The Board is invited to note the report and to consider the draft decision and proposed terms of reference of the Standing Committee on Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness and Response contained in Appendix 1 and Appendix 2, respectively. (who.int)
  • It is proposed that the SCPPR would review, provide guidance, and, as appropriate, make recommendations to the Executive Board regarding ongoing work concerning policy proposals on pandemic and emergency preparedness and response. (who.int)
  • The SCPPR will meet at least twice annually on a regular basis, for general work and planning on pandemic and emergency preparedness and response. (who.int)
  • As is the case with the Programme, Budget, and Administration Committee (PBAC), these meetings will be before the sessions of the Executive Board, to enable the SCPPR to report to the Board and to the WHA, as appropriate, on pandemic and emergency preparedness and response. (who.int)
  • Indeed, China's CO2 emissions surged past pre-pandemic levels following the lifting of restrictions and the preference for travelling by car over public transport there has risen . (rte.ie)
  • Over the span of the pandemic and the onset of a new school year, the number of Granite State workers who are out of the labor force, citing child care as their primary reason for not working, had grown to 26,383 by October. (concordmonitor.com)
  • The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) - a financing mechanism housed at the World Bank - is designed to provide an additional source of financing to help the world's poorest countries respond to cross-border, large-scale outbreaks. (worldbank.org)
  • An executive order issued by the Joint Staff and approved by Defense Secretary Mark Esper this month directed Northern Command and geographic combatant commanders to initiate pandemic plans, which include ordering commanders to prepare for widespread outbreaks and confining service members with a history of travel to China. (armytimes.com)
  • Dr. Akinbami also discussed in the webinar how the pandemic impacted NHANES data collection. (cdc.gov)
  • The pandemic has sent shockwaves through global supply chains, forcing business leaders to reexamine and recalibrate their procurement and outsourcing strategies. (forbes.com)
  • It was developed by a global team of experts in epidemiology, public health and finance so that countries could get the support they need to fight deadly, cross-border pandemics. (worldbank.org)
  • The global pandemic has brought about a true boom in startups, as the number of new companies around the world has significantly surpassed the indicators of last year. (forbes.com)
  • The alert system , which was set up to coordinate the global response to pandemic threats, failed to achieve that task and created a level of anger and cynicism that could obstruct coordination on future global health challenges for years to come. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Of the two pandemics, suicide is more dangerous, says Patricia Noll, Founder of the "Good With Me" Foundation global humanitarian movement, because signs of potential loss of life are not always visible. (expertclick.com)
  • Contrary to some claims, many scientists, journalists, politicians and organizations saw the looming threat of a global pandemic. (genengnews.com)
  • Does a pandemic have to be a threat that humans have never before seen? (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Avian-human influenza A reassortant viruses with the phenotype of restricted replication in primates would not be able to spread efficiently from human to human, and therefore viruses with these gene constellations would not be expected to give rise to pandemic human influenza viruses. (wiktionary.org)
  • This represents one possible obstacle to the emergence of new pandemic influenza A viruses in humans, namely, the presence of avian-human influenza gene constellations that restrict viral replication in primates. (wiktionary.org)
  • Although the magnitude of the pandemic and the policy response are important factors for economic activity, what happens in the rest of the world has an outsized influence in low- and middle-income countries. (deloitte.com)
  • She said she's cried more than ever before, seeing her people decimated by the pandemic and what she considers a lack of the proper response from the larger medical community. (chicagotribune.com)
  • As fear of swine flu swept across borders last year, many governments launched pandemic response plans that were linked to the WHO's alert system, a process developed over many years of tinkering that had never faced a real world test. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The government's haphazard, uncoordinated response has affected the welfare of thousands of health workers, and hindered Kenya's ability to provide timely and quality health care during the pandemic. (hrw.org)
  • Trump's repeated protestations were questioned by, among others, Trump himself, who told the White House press corps on March 17 that, "I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. (genengnews.com)
  • personnel at increased risk of exposure to persons with pandemic illness, and also increased work load to respond to the pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • Work with your community to talk about the lessons you learned from the pandemic. (ready.gov)
  • Only a couple of years ago prominent British politicians were stating that "people in this country have had enough of experts", and yet under the spectre of a pandemic the same politicians are now very keen to rely on expert advice. (port.ac.uk)
  • Our previous research has shown that perceptions of physical and financial threats heavily influence consumer behavior through pandemic recovery. (forrester.com)
  • Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MD, president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians, told Medscape Medical News that family physicians are already way down the pay scale in comparison with other specialties, and the pandemic dealt a serious blow to already stressed practices. (medscape.com)
  • And new research shows the pandemic has likely dealt another blow to 50-plus Americans by increasing their risk of falling. (aarp.org)
  • But the shift during the pandemic recession was much more dramatic than that during the Great Recession due to the unique nature of this downturn: as non-essential face-to-face businesses shut down, there was an historic loss of jobs in leisure and hospitality, one of the lowest wage industries, while at the same time, higher paid professionals could telecommute and experienced relatively few layoffs. (whitehouse.gov)
  • For instance, cancer is responsible for many deaths but is not considered a pandemic because the disease is not contagious-i.e. easily transmissible-and not even simply infectious. (wikipedia.org)
  • Each additional case provides the virus an opportunity to improve its ability for human-to-human transmission and develop into a pandemic strain. (sourcewatch.org)
  • The most fatal pandemic in recorded history was the Black Death-also known as The Plague-which killed an estimated 75-200 million people in the 14th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tribal businesses have shuttered en masse, costing thousands of people their jobs and incomes. (nymag.com)
  • This pandemic, it the ripped the heart out of a lot of people," Foster said. (sltrib.com)
  • In a straw poll, 90 percent of epidemiologists predicted a pandemic in the next 1-2 generations, potentially affecting 1 billion people and the loss of 165 million lives. (genengnews.com)
  • The rate was at the unusually low level of 3.5 percent just before the pandemic hit. (harvard.edu)
  • I believe that other-dependency is responsible for our society's widespread unhappiness, stress, addictions, and the second pandemic of suicide. (expertclick.com)
  • The U.S.-led coalition confirmed that ISIS operations had grown more sophisticated during the pandemic. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • When the Chaplaincy team got together for an anniversary lockdown tea over Teams, our receptionist Judith suggested that we bring our pandemic survival kit: what's helped us get through this year, and why. (ed.ac.uk)
  • A pandemic can continue spreading destruction in repeated ways that can last for a year or more," Bush said. (genengnews.com)
  • 2005 was also the year that GEN published its first pandemic warning . (genengnews.com)
  • Employers were experiencing high rates of turnover prior to the economic shutdown triggered by the pandemic last spring, but since then, quit rates reached their lowest level in nine years. (shrm.org)
  • Our major sources of revenue - tuition, the endowment, executive and continuing education, philanthropy, and research support - are threatened, and we expect to see increased demand for financial aid as the economic fallout from the pandemic hits family budgets," the email stated. (voanews.com)
  • As the pandemic hit and lockdowns were put in place, economic activity came to a halt. (deloitte.com)
  • But economic developer Bob Trezise worries that if state employees are allowed to work remotely after the pandemic, that could affect downtown plans in a number of ways. (npr.org)
  • Consider how a pandemic may affect your plans for other emergencies. (ready.gov)
  • U.S. Northern Command said Wednesday it was directed the Joint Staff Feb. 1 to commence "prudent planning" in their assigned role synchronizing the department's plans for pandemic flu and disease. (armytimes.com)
  • Alarmed by an advance copy of John Barry's book The Great Influenza , then President George W. Bush gave a speech on November 1, 2005 , at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on plans to prevent a pandemic. (genengnews.com)