Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Oriel Sullivan, Jonathan Gershuny, Almudena Sevilla, Francesca Foliano, Margarita Vega-Rapun, Juana Lamote de Grignon, Teresa Harms, Pierre Walthery
Summary: Research shows that people in the UK changed their behaviors significantly during different phases of COVID-19 restrictions, including activities, locations, and social context. The increase in high-risk behaviors during the second lockdown was associated with more time spent working in the workplace. Governments need to rely on changes in people's daily behaviors to control virus spread while capacity for immunization and contact tracing technology is still limited.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Jackie Yenerall, Kimberly Jensen, Xuqi Chen, T. Edward Yu
Summary: The study found that risk aversion and risk perception influence restaurant utilization and expenditures, affecting how people choose to dine. Concerns related to COVID-19 may continue to impact restaurant use, highlighting the importance of developing policies to support the restaurant industry.
Article
Development Studies
Rosa Maria Dangelico, Valerio Schiaroli, Luca Fraccascia
Summary: This article assesses the changes in sustainable consumer behavior caused by Covid-19 through a survey conducted on Italian consumers. The results show that consumers have increased their purchase frequency and willingness to pay for sustainable products, as well as showing growing attention to environmental issues and behaving more sustainably. The extent of change is also influenced by socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, income, and education.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lulu Cui
Summary: The spread of COVID-19 has impacted air pollution in India, with ammonia concentrations decreasing in the Indo-Gangetic Plain due to favorable meteorology conditions and in South India due to epidemic-related emission control. However, in Ahmedabad and Lucknow, there was an increase in ammonia concentrations during the lockdown period, mainly due to increased contributions from residential and agricultural emissions.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Andrea Horvath, Agata Strozyk, Piotr Dziechciarz, Hania Szajewska
Summary: This study in Poland investigated how COVID-19 pandemic restrictions impacted complementary feeding practices among parents of infants aged 4 to 12 months. Results showed that most parents received information from various sources, with other parents, family members, or friends being the most common source. The study found that COVID-19 restrictions did not significantly affect feeding methods or patterns, but may have had an impact on complementary feeding in families with average financial situations.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Adam Williams, David Gillespie, Zoe Couzens, Fiona Wood, Kathryn Hughes, Kerenza Hood
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions had a significant impact on sexual behaviors among MSM in Wales, with the majority fully adhering to the lockdown rules. The number of new sexual partners decreased during the lockdown period but increased as the restrictions were lifted. Interview data indicated that the pandemic had a large impact on reducing sexual behavior, and individuals who engaged in sex outside the rules often reported feeling shame. The restrictions were believed to have a positive impact on reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Anthony Quinn, Jon E. Grant, Samuel R. Chamberlain
Summary: Since the COVID-19 onset, studies have shown a significant increase in online gambling, possibly due to increased time at home, social isolation, and boredom. While overall gambling decreased during the pandemic at the population level, marked increases were observed among vulnerable sub-populations such as young adults and at-risk gamblers. The impact of COVID-19 on gambling is context-dependent, and policymakers should consider the negative effects identified in vulnerable individuals and young adults.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Virology
I-Ching Sam, Yoong Min Chong, Azwani Abdullah, Jolene Yin Ling Fu, M. Shahnaz Hasan, Fadhil Hadi Jamaluddin, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Koo Koon Lim, Mohd Afiq Mohd Nor, Yong Kek Pang, Sasheela Ponnampalavanar, Muhammad Fadzil Shahib, Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar, Jonathan Chia Jui Chan, David Perera, Yoke Fun Chan
Summary: Malaysia has experienced three waves of COVID-19 cases, with the ongoing third wave propagated by a state election in Sabah. The direct age-standardized seroprevalence in Kuala Lumpur/Selangor was 3.0%. The second and third waves were driven by super-spreading events and different circulating lineages.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
David Lusseau, Rosie Baillie
Summary: More than half of the global population live in cities and rely on urban greenspaces for their nature experience. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of nature exposure for wellbeing and our study shows that people sought greenspace during mobility restrictions. However, access to greenspace varied depending on neighborhood deprivation, and the preference for greenspace intensified throughout the waves of lockdown.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Muhammad Usman, Li Yuyan, Mudassir Husnain, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar
Summary: The COVID-19 epidemic has significantly impacted travel, leading to vaccine hoarding and travel restrictions. While it has had a short-term positive effect on the environment, it has caused problems for the common person and is expected to worsen with longer quarantines, vaccination requirements, and immunization certificates for safe travel.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Matthew Spiegel, Heather Tookes
Summary: There is strong evidence supporting the effectiveness of employee mask policies, mask mandates, restaurant and bar closures, gym closures, and high-risk business closures in reducing future fatality growth. However, second-round closures of low to medium-risk businesses and personal care/spa services did not consistently show lowered fatality growth and may have been counterproductive.
REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eric Bonetto, Guillaume Dezecache, Armelle Nugier, Marion Inigo, Jean-Denis Mathias, Sylvie Huet, Nicolas Pellerin, Maya Corman, Pierre Bertrand, Eric Raufaste, Michel Streith, Serge Guimond, Roxane de la Sablonniere, Michael Dambrun
Summary: During the COVID-19 outbreak, there was a significant shift in people's values with conservation values increasing and self-enhancement and openness-to-change values decreasing. Conservation values and perceived threat were positively related to compliance with movement restrictions and social distancing.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ran Feng, Yulei Feng, Alex Ivanov
Summary: The pandemic diary on social media is a unique form of online communication. Studying individual narratives in social networks can provide valuable insights into media user behavior and the role of social media in public health crises. This research found that pandemic diaries mainly fall into the genres of Restitution and Quest narrative, with some categorized as Restrained chaos narrative. These diaries serve as a means for individuals to communicate inwardly and outwardly, promoting self-relief, public communication, emotional drive, meaning connection, and identity construction in public spaces, and helping vulnerable individuals reconstruct their psychological well-being.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sameh A. Mohammed, Esraa Ibrahim A. Shaaban
Summary: This review provides a comprehensive overview of the recent progress and application of nanomedicine in combating COVID-19 infectiousness and severity, and suggests future research directions and solutions.
NANOTECHNOLOGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Vinicius Piccirillo
Summary: This work examines the impact of vaccination and restriction parameters on controlling the COVID-19 epidemic. The ARIMA model is used to forecast the vaccination time series, and the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is employed to fit an analytic function describing its evolution. The results show that vaccination can reduce infection peaks and the duration of the pandemic, but combining it with restrictions or prevention policies produces better outcomes.
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
(2022)