Responding to global infectious disease outbreaks: lessons from SARS on the role of risk perception, communication and management.
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The role that risk, and especially the perception of risk, its communication and management, played in driving the economic impact of SARS is examined and the potential for the rapid spread of infectious disease is not necessarily a greater threat than it has always been, but the effect that an outbreak can have on the economy is, which requires further research and policy development.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2006-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 676 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Infectious disease (medical specialty) & Outbreak.read more
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Financial markets under the global pandemic of COVID-19.
Dayong Zhang,Min Hu,Qiang Ji +2 more
TL;DR: The potential consequence of policy interventions, such as the US’ decision to implement a zero-percent interest rate and unlimited quantitative easing (QE), and how these policies may introduce further uncertainties into global financial markets are analyzed.
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Diagnosing COVID-19: The Disease and Tools for Detection
Buddhisha Udugama,Pranav Kadhiresan,Hannah N Kozlowski,Ayden Malekjahani,Matthew Osborne,Vanessa Y C Li,Hongmin Chen,Samira Mubareka,Samira Mubareka,Jonathan B. Gubbay,Warren C. W. Chan +10 more
TL;DR: Diagnostic and surveillance technologies for SARS-CoV-2 and their performance characteristics are described and point-of-care diagnostics that are on the horizon are described to encourage academics to advance their technologies beyond conception.
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The SARS, MERS and novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemics, the newest and biggest global health threats: what lessons have we learned?
Noah C. Peeri,Nistha Shrestha,Siddikur Rahman,Rafdzah Ahmad Zaki,Zhengqi Tan,Saana Bibi,Mahdi Baghbanzadeh,Nasrin Aghamohammadi,Wenyi Zhang,Ubydul Haque +9 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that China was ill-prepared to deal with the challenges the COVID-19 epidemic has posed and the uses and implications of internet of things (IoT) technologies for mapping the spread of infection.
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Cross-species transmission of the newly identified coronavirus 2019-nCoV.
TL;DR: Comprehensive sequence analysis and comparison in conjunction with relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) bias among different animal species based on the 2019-nCoV sequence suggest that homologous recombination may occur and contribute to the 2019‐n coV cross‐species transmission.
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Single cell RNA sequencing of 13 human tissues identify cell types and receptors of human coronaviruses.
TL;DR: It is found that macrophages frequently communicate with the CoV-targets and their surrounding cells across different tissues through chemokine and phagocytosis signaling, highlighting the importance of tissue macrophage in immune defense and immune pathogenesis.
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Ulrich Beck,Mark Ritter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Scott Lash and Brian Wynne describe living on the VOLCANO of CIVILIZATION -the Contours of the RISK SOCIETY and the Politics of Knowledge in the Risk Society.
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Judgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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Judgement under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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