Societal Impacts of Pandemics: Comparing COVID-19 With History to Focus Our Response
| Autor: | K. Marie McIntyre, Helen E. Clough, Jonathan Rushton, Grace E. Patterson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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economic impact
pandemic control medicine.medical_specialty History Context (language use) Disease 03 medical and health sciences Influenza A Virus H1N1 Subtype 0302 clinical medicine Influenza Human Development economics Pandemic Health care medicine Humans Spanish flu 030212 general & internal medicine Economic impact analysis 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences SARS-CoV-2 business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Outbreak lcsh:RA1-1270 History 20th Century plague smallpox Perspective Public Health business Risk assessment Influenza Pandemic 1918-1919 |
| Zdroj: | FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 9 (2021) Frontiers in Public Health |
| Popis: | COVID-19 has disrupted everyday life worldwide and is the first disease event since the 1918 H1N1 Spanish influenza (flu) pandemic to demand an urgent global healthcare response. There has been much debate on whether the damage of COVID-19 is due predominantly to the pathogen itself or our response to it. We compare SARS-CoV-2 against three other major pandemics (1347 Black Death, 1520's new world smallpox outbreaks, and 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic) over the course of 700 years to unearth similarities and differences in pathogen, social and medical context, human response and behavior, and long-term social and economic impact that should be used to shape COVID-19 decision-making. We conclude that |
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