Monthly Archives: December 2021

Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, conspiracist beliefs, paranoid ideation and perceived ethnic discrimination in a sample of University students in Venezuela

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Vaccine
Volume 39, Issue 47 Pages 6813-6968 (16 November 2021)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/vaccine/vol/39/issue/474

 

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Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, conspiracist beliefs, paranoid ideation and perceived ethnic discrimination in a sample of University students in Venezuela
Gabriel Andrade
Pages 6837-6842

Resource allocation for different types of vaccines against COVID-19: Tradeoffs and synergies between efficacy and reach

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Vaccine
Volume 39, Issue 47 Pages 6813-6968 (16 November 2021)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/vaccine/vol/39/issue/474

 

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Resource allocation for different types of vaccines against COVID-19: Tradeoffs and synergies between efficacy and reach
Daniel Kim, Pelin Pekgün, İnci Yildirim, Pınar Keskinocak
Pages 6876-6882

Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among the Adult Population of Bangladesh Using the Health Belief Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior Model

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Vaccines
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines
[Accessed 27 Nov 2021]

 

Open Access Article
Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among the Adult Population of Bangladesh Using the Health Belief Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior Model
by Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary et al.
Vaccines 2021, 9(12), 1393; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9121393 (registering DOI) – 25 Nov 2021
Abstract
Vaccination is undoubtedly one of the most effective strategies to halt the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study aimed to investigate the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its associated factors using two health behavior change frameworks: the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory

Investigating the Influence of Vaccine Literacy, Vaccine Perception and Vaccine Hesitancy on Israeli Parents’ Acceptance of the COVID-19 Vaccine for Their Children: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Vaccines
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines
[Accessed 27 Nov 2021]

 

Open Access Article
Investigating the Influence of Vaccine Literacy, Vaccine Perception and Vaccine Hesitancy on Israeli Parents’ Acceptance of the COVID-19 Vaccine for Their Children: A Cross-Sectional Study
by Yulia Gendler and Lani Ofri
Vaccines 2021, 9(12), 1391; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9121391 (registering DOI) – 24 Nov 2021
Abstract
Vaccination is currently the most effective strategy for combating COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccines were introduced to the adult population in Israel in early December 2020 and have been available for children aged 12–15 since June 2021. Our study aimed at assessing the influence of […

Differences in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance, Hesitancy, and Confidence between Healthcare Workers and the General Population in Japan

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Vaccines
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines
[Accessed 27 Nov 2021]

 

Open Access Article
Differences in COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance, Hesitancy, and Confidence between Healthcare Workers and the General Population in Japan
by Megumi Hara et al.
Vaccines 2021, 9(12), 1389; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9121389 (registering DOI) – 24 Nov 2021
Abstract
Little is known about the differences in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine acceptance and hesitancy between the general population and healthcare workers in Japan. To compare these differences, a nationwide web-based cross-sectional survey was conducted on 19 January 2021, shortly before the initiation of

Pre-Print Servers

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Gates Open Research
https://gatesopenresearch.org/browse/articles
[Accessed 27 Nov 2021]

Research Article metrics AWAITING PEER REVIEW
Setting up child health and mortality prevention surveillance in Ethiopia [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Anna C. Seale, Nega Assefa, Lola Madrid, Stefanie Wittmann, Hanan Abdurahman, Nardos Teferi, Letta Gedefa, Alexander Mohamed, Natnael Debela, Tseyon Tesfaye, Tigistu Samuel, Mehret Dubale, Hiwot Yigzaw, Eyoel Taye, Workalemahu Bekele, Caroline Ackley, Gutema Imana Keno, Yosef Zegeye, Zerihun Girma, Ketema Degefa, Berhanu Damisse, Adugna Tadesse, Mohammed Aliyi, Gurmu Feyissa, Yenenesh Tilahun, Getahun Wakwaya, Bizunesh Sintayehu, Getamesay Abayneh, Addisu Alemu, Emmanuel Azore, Joe Oundo, Zelalem T Mariam, Dadi Marami, Mulu Berihun, Mussie Berhanu, Mahlet Mekonnen, Andualem Alemayehu, Nana Sarkodie-Mensah, Shirine Voller, Boniface Jibendi, Abraham Aseffa, Taye Balcha, Robert F. Breiman, Scott Dowell, Asnake Worku, Tsigereda Kifle, Ebba Abate, Yadeta Dessie, J. Anthony G. Scott
Peer Reviewers Invited
Funders – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Wellcome
PUBLISHED 24 Nov 2021

 

medRxiv
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/about-medrxiv
medRxiv is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information. medRxiv is for the distribution of preprints – complete but unpublished manuscripts – that describe human health research conducted, analyzed, and interpreted according to scientific principles…
[Accessed 27 Nov 2021]
Selected Content
Appropriate relaxation of non-pharmaceutical interventions minimizes the risk of a resurgence in SARS-CoV-2 infections in spite of the Delta variant
Wadim Koslow, Martin J. Kühn, Sebastian Binder, Margrit Klitz, Daniel Abele, Achim Basermann, Michael Meyer-Hermann
medRxiv 2021.07.09.21260257; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.09.21260257

Rapid evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against VOC/VOIs by genetic mismatch
Lirong Cao, Jingzhi Lou, Hong Zheng, Shi Zhao, Chris Ka Pun Mok, Renee WY Chan, Ka Chun Chong, Zigui Chen, Lai Yi Wong, Paul KS Chan, Benny Chung-Ying Zee, Eng Kiong Yeoh, Maggie H Wang
medRxiv 2021.04.22.21254079; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.22.21254079

Pandemic inequity in a megacity: a multilevel analysis of individual, community, and health care vulnerability risks for COVID-19 mortality in Jakarta, Indonesia
Henry Surendra, Ngabila Salama, Karina D Lestari, Verry Adrian, Widyastuti Widyastuti, Dwi Oktavia, Rosa N Lina, Bimandra A Djaafara, Ihsan Fadilah, Rahmat Sagara, Lenny L Ekawati, Ahmad Nurhasim, Riris Andono A Ahmad, Aria Kekalih, Ari F Syam, Anuraj H Shankar, Guy Thwaites, J Kevin Baird, Raph L Hamers, Iqbal RF Elyazar
medRxiv 2021.11.24.21266809; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.24.21266809

Covid-19 vaccination coverage and break through infections in urban slums of Bengaluru, India: A cross sectional study.
Sunil Kumar D.R., Srividya J, Apoorva E Patel, Vidya R
medRxiv 2021.11.21.21262716; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.21.21262716

Childhood mortality during and after acute illness in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia – The CHAIN cohort study
Abdoulaye Hama Diallo, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid, Ali Fazal Khan, Ali Faisal Saleem, Benson O. Singa, Blaise Siezanga Gnoumou, Caroline Tigoi, Catherine Achieng Otieno, Celine Bourdon, Chris Odhiambo Oduol, Christina L. Lancioni, Christine Manyasi, Christine J. McGrath, Christopher Maronga, Christopher Lwanga, Daniella Brals, Dilruba Ahmed, Dinesh Mondal, Donna M. Denno, Dorothy I. Mangale, Emmanuel Chimezi, Emmie Mbale, Ezekiel Mupere, Gazi Md. Salauddin Mamun, Issaka Ouedraogo, James A. Berkley, Jenala Njirammadzi, John Mukisa, Johnstone Thitiri, Joseph D. Carreon, Judd L. Walson, Julie Jemutai, Kirkby D. Tickell, Lubaba Shahrin, MacPherson Mallewa, Md. Iqbal Hossain, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Molly Timbwa, Moses Mburu, Moses M Ngari, Narshion Ngao, Peace Aber, Philliness Prisca Harawa, Priya Sukhtankar, Robert H. J. Bandsma, Roseline Maimouna Bamouni, Sassy Molyneux, Shalton Mwaringa, Shamsun Nahar Shaima, Syed Asad Ali, Syeda Momena Afsana, Syera Banu, Tahmeed Ahmed, Wieger P. Voskuijl, Zaubina Kazi
medRxiv 2021.11.24.21266806; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.24.21266806

An interactive dashboard to track themes, development maturity, and global equity in clinical artificial intelligence research
J Zhang, S Whebell, J Gallifant, S Budhdeo, H Mattie, P Lertvittayakumjorn, M P Arias Lopez, B J Tiangco, J W Gichoya, H Ashrafian, L A Celi, J T Teo
medRxiv 2021.11.23.21266758; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.23.21266758

Projecting the transition of COVID-19 burden towards the young population while vaccines are rolled out: a modelling study
Jun Cai, Juan Yang, Xiaowei Deng, Cheng Peng, Xinhua Chen, Qianhui Wu, Hengcong Liu, Juanjuan Zhang, Wen Zheng, Junyi Zou, Zeyao Zhao, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu
medRxiv 2021.10.14.21265032; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.14.21265032

Wellcome Open Research [to 27 Nov 2021]
https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/browse/articles
[Accessed 27 Nov 2021]

Wellcome Open Research provides all Wellcome researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing. All articles benefit from rapid publication, transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.

Research Article metrics AWAITING PEER REVIEW
An agency mapping of marginalized communities and aid providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Melati Nungsari, Chuah Hui Yin, Nicole Fong, Veena Pillai
Peer Reviewers Invited
Funder – World Health Organization
PUBLISHED 25 Nov 2021

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The Index of Evidence: speculative methodologies in response to the post-truth era [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Gill Partington, Laura Salisbury, Steve Hinchliffe, Mike Michael, Lara Choksey
Peer Reviewer Stephen Gorard
Funder – Wellcome Trust
PUBLISHED 23 Nov 2021
Abstract
The past year has shown that even the fundamental idea of ‘evidence’ – in health contexts, but also more broadly – is coming under increasing strain. This open letter argues that the current crises of evidence and knowledge in which we find ourselves demands new speculative methodologies. It introduces the Index of Evidence – a Beacon Project funded by Exeter University’s Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health – as one example of such a methodology, outlining its theoretical foundations and process. The key innovation of this project is to rethink the form and presentation that research can take. Using the conceptual and material affordances of the index, it merges the creative and critical in ways that aim to make an important contribution to more inter-connected, theoretically sophisticated thinking around evidence.

Think Tanks

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Brookings [to 27 Nov 2021]
http://www.brookings.edu/
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Center for Global Development [to 27 Nov 2021]
http://www.cgdev.org/page/press-center
Accessed 27 Nov 2021
Priorities for the Care of Critically ill Patients with COVID-19: Lessons From Tanzania and Kenya
Event
12/7/21
The COVID-19 pandemic is a critical care crisis. Many lives have been lost during the pandemic while countries tried to scale up ventilators and other high-cost critical care services, at times overlooking effective yet low-cost essential emergency and critical care (EECC) practices.

Humanitarian Challenges in 2022
November 23, 2021
Next week the UN will publish its global humanitarian overview (GHO) for 2022: the world’s most comprehensive, authoritative, and evidence-based assessment of need. The GHO has sustained a good track record in recent years in predicting what is ahead, albeit that every year unexpected new challenges also arise. (This year’s catalogue of unwelcome surprises included the impact of the coup in Myanmar, the famine in northern Ethiopia, and the escalation in humanitarian problems in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. Last year, of course, saw the start of the COVID-19 pandemic).
Mark Lowcock

 
 
Chatham House [to 27 Nov 2021]
https://www.chathamhouse.org/
Accessed 27 Nov 2021
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CSIS
https://www.csis.org/
Accessed 27 Nov 2021
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Kaiser Family Foundation
https://www.kff.org/search/?post_type=press-release
Accessed 27 Nov 2021
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ODI [Overseas Development Institute] [to 27 Nov 2021]
https://odi.org/en/publications/
Publications
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