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Displaying 15 of about 315 results… the critical first few months of the pandemic: the first wave. The issue includes articles on: Developing a … the critical first few months of the pandemic: the first wave. The issue includes articles on: Developing a …
… studies — including a 2002 book by Eric Klinenberg, “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago,” and the 2018 … and Latinos, at a rate four times higher. [...] The ‘95 heat wave changed how the city responds to extreme …
… This issue discusses the second wave of the COVID -19 pandemic hit India in the beginning of … of South Asia disasters.net is titled ‘COVID- 19 Second Wave and Indian Cities’ and highlights how India’s cities were impacted from the second wave of the pandemic. In doing so, there are also …
… This is despite a study conducted after the first wave in GB in 2020 said: “[The] mountain community in … the Himalayas has become stark in the current Covid-19 wave. Across the region, the authorities’ default option has … parcel of India’s pandemic response, even during the first wave of Covid-19. Even more problematically, frontline …
… In response to the threat presented by the second wave, European countries and many US states have instituted … hospitality and entertainment. We have seen from the first wave that, when instigated at scale, these measures can … toolkit? Mass testing China, having controlled the first wave of the epidemic and with fewer than 100 reported cases …
… that the pandemic is likely not over . The UK’s second wave, last winter, was fuelled by the alpha variant of the coronavirus. The current wave, instead, is being driven by the delta variant, which is … these waves have differed substantially. The most recent wave has spread primarily among the young , with older people …
… chief executive Colleen Kelly. "We must prevent a second wave of destruction from additional flooding, crop loss, … chief executive Colleen Kelly. "We must prevent a second wave of destruction from additional flooding, crop loss, …
… Over the last 30 years, increasingly broiling summer heat has claimed more American lives than flooding, tornadoes … and tens of thousands perished in Russia during extreme heat in 2010. The threat is particularly severe in already … of hot and poor parts of rural Pakistan. But experts say heat remains underestimated as a threat by governments, aid …
… SURVEY MULTI-SECTORAL IMPACT OF THE C VID-19 SECOND WAVE IN NEPAL 2021 KEY FINDINGS FROM A RAPID ASSESSMENT/ … SURVEY MULTI-SECTORAL IMPACT OF THE C VID-19 SECOND WAVE IN NEPAL 2021 MULTI-SECTORAL IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 SECOND WAVE IN NEPAL 2021 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 07 05 15 CONCLUSION …
… to use genome sequencing to avoid an expected second wave of COVID-19 infections. [...] Now, countries that have … to use genome sequencing to avoid an expected second wave of COVID-19 infections. [...] Now, countries that have …
… Europe was praised for being exceptional during the first wave of the pandemic. By introducing very strict prevention … explained by culture , with success in limiting the first wave being down to a mentality of fear and readiness to … era. But if these factors were at play in the first wave, they haven’t had the same effect in the second. Eastern …
… are approaching the highest levels seen during the second wave in late January 2021. There are now close to 22,000 … remain much lower than during the peak of Mexico’s last wave. By early August 2021, more than 400 people were dying … since February 2021, which is helping to stem the third wave, but less than 40% of Mexico’s 128 million people have …
By Jon-Patrick Allem, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Southern California
Over the past few weeks, misinformation about the new coronavirus pandemic has been spreading across social media at an alarming rate. One video that went viral claimed breathing hot air from a hair dryer could treat COVID-19. A Twitter post touted…
… spike and then sharp decline of cases of the April-to-June wave? India emerged in June and July of 2021 from a particularly savage second wave of COVID-19, with total confirmed cases at about 32 … deaths in the range of 3.4 million to 4.9 million. This wave was driven by multiple coronavirus variants, including …
… – are being disrupted. India’s devastating second wave has led it to redirect more of its vaccine production … stock than it could physically administer. But the second wave has seen India’s position quickly deteriorate – and with … a clear effort to increase vaccination as India’s second wave has materialised. Indeed, India’s vaccination programme …