Klaus-Dieter Kolenda: Ständige Impfkommission: Aktualisierte Impfempfehlung zu Covid-19 [Updated vaccination recommendation on Covid-19.], in: Teleopolis (July 12, 2023), online in: https://www.telepolis.de/features/Staendige-Impfkommission-Aktualisierte-Impfempfehlung-zu-Covid-19-9212539.html (as of July 17, 2023). In his article on the vaccination recommendation of the Ständigen Impfkommission (Stiko) [Standing Committee on Vaccination] at the Robert Koch Institute, Klaus-Dieter Kolenda refers to Karl Heinz Roth’s book “Blinde Passagiere” [“Stowaways”]. Link to the article
Yearly archives: 2023
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World Health Organization (ed.): Summary of the update on the COVID-19 situation released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on 25 January 2023, in: COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update 127 (January 25, 2023), pp. 11-13. On January 25, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) released an update on the Covid 19 situation in the country (all subsequent references to China exclude Taiwan and the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions). The WHO weekly report on the epidemiological situation of the covid-19 pandemic summarized the CCDC reports. WHO has not yet been able to conduct […]
WHO (ed.): COVID-19 Explorer, online in: https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/covid/ (as of 11.4.2022). The following summary graph incorporates the official, absolute numbers of people infected with Covid-19 in China and those who have died from it. The graph covers the period from January 1, 2020 to January 6, 2023.
Scott Burkholz, Michael Rubsamen, Luke Blankenberg, Richard T. Carback III, Daria Mochly-Rosen, Paul E. Harris: Increasing Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Reinfection Reveals Ineffective Post-COVID-19 Immunity in Denmark and Conveys the Need for Continued Next-Generation Sequencing [preprint], in: medRxiv (September 14, 2022), online in: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.13.22279912. Abstract SARS-CoV-2 has extensively mutated creating variants of concern (VOC) resulting in global infection surges. The Omicron VOC reinfects individuals exposed to earlier variants of SARS-CoV-2 at a higher frequency than previously seen for non-Omicron VOC. An analysis of the sub-lineages associated with an Omicron primary infection and Omicron reinfection reveals that the incidence of Omicron-Omicron […]
Rui Esteves, Kris James Mitchener, Peter Nencka, Melissa A. Thomasson: Do Pandemics Change Healthcare? Evidence from the Great Influenza, in: NBER Working Paper Series 30643 (November 2022), online in: https://doi.org/10.3386/w30643. Abstract Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, the authors explored how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. They found that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza mortality: cities in the top half of the mortality distribution increased their count of hospitals by 8-10 percent in the years after the pandemic. This effect […]