Comparing South Korea and Italy’s healthcare systems and initiatives to combat COVID-19

Palaniappan, Ashwin; Dave, Udit; Gosine, Brandon

doi:10.26633/rpsp.2020.53

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“…[315][316][317] The countries (Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan) heavily invested in PHC after SARS and MERS have managed much better than others. 310,[318][319][320][321][322][323][324][325][326][327] Taiwan took lessons from SARS on fighting back against the viral epidemic. 328,329 It has been reported that Taiwan successfully deferred and controlled community transmission of COVID-19 because the country experienced, learned, and utilized how to manage the viral epidemic of 2003.…”

Section: Primary Health Care In the Management Of The Global Pandemicmentioning

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The Implications of Zinc Therapy in Combating the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Samad¹,

Sodunke²,

Abubakar³

et al. 2021

JIR

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The global pandemic from COVID-19 infection has generated significant public health concerns, both health-wise and economically. There is no specific pharmacological antiviral therapeutic option to date available for COVID-19 management. Also, there is an urgent need to discover effective medicines, prevention, and control methods because of the harsh death toll from this novel coronavirus infection. Acute respiratory tract infections, significantly lower respiratory tract infections, and pneumonia are the primary cause of millions of deaths worldwide. The role of micronutrients, including trace elements, boosted the human immune system and was well established. Several vitamins such as vitamin A, B6, B12, C, D, E, and folate; microelement including zinc, iron, selenium, magnesium, and copper; omega-3 fatty acids as eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid plays essential physiological roles in promoting the immune system. Furthermore, zinc is an indispensable microelement essential for a thorough enzymatic physiological process. It also helps regulate gene-transcription such as DNA replication, RNA transcription, cell division, and cell activation in the human biological system. Subsequently, zinc, together with natural scavenger cells and neutrophils, are also involved in developing cells responsible for regulating nonspecific immunity. The modern food habit often promotes zinc deficiency; as such, quite a few COVID-19 patients presented to hospitals were frequently diagnosed as zinc deficient. Earlier studies documented that zinc deficiency predisposes patients to a viral infection such as herpes simplex, common cold, hepatitis C, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1), the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) because of reducing antiviral immunity. This manuscript aimed to discuss the various roles played by zinc in the management of COVID-19 infection.

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Section: Primary Health Care In the Management Of The Global Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Implications of Zinc Therapy in Combating the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Samad¹,

Sodunke²,

Abubakar³

et al. 2021

JIR

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“…Dessa forma entende-se a importância da educação da sociedade. Por outro lado, a Itália, que foi um dos países que mais sofreu com a pandemia, deveuse em parte à natureza reativa das medidas de saúde pública no país em comparação com a resposta pró-ativa da Coreia do Sul (Palaniappan, et al, 2020).…”

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Criação e utilização de tecnologias para enfrentamento da COVID-19 frente ao período de pandemia

Bezerra

Morais

Alencar

et al. 2021

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O artigo teve como objetivo evidenciar na literatura científica informações acerca das tecnologias e ferramentas utilizadas no enfrentamento da COVID-19. Trata-se de uma revisão de literatura, onde o levantamento bibliográfico foi realizado através dos bancos de dados: Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SCIELO), Sistema Online de Busca e Análise de Literatura Médica (MEDLINE), ScienceDirect e Business Source Complete (EBSCO). Os critérios de inclusão dos trabalhos foram: artigos publicados entre 2019 e 2020, textos completos, disponíveis na íntegra, no idioma português, inglês e espanhol. Para exclusão: monografias, teses, artigos de revisão, literatura cinzenta e artigos repetidos, resultando ao final 13 artigos para compor a pesquisa. Os estudos trouxeram abordagens amplas e diferentes nas pesquisas sobre tecnologias, inovações e COVID-19, como por exemplo: aplicativos móveis, telessaúde, desenvolvimento de máscaras de proteção, treinamento seguro e eficaz para profissionais da saúde, etc. A pandemia e a crise no setor saúde evidenciada com a COVID-19 serviram de campo fértil para a criação e adaptação de tecnologias para auxiliar no enfrentamento dos casos, tornando-se fundamentais para a prática assistencial. Nesta perspectiva, surgiram ferramentas inovadoras para o combate à epidemia da COVID-19 em todo o mundo.

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“…This is due to the fact that European countries have age structures biased to higher age classes. This is likely one of the reasons why European countries have had high death tolls, and why mortality may be lower in other continents [17,28], although many other additional reasons have been suggested [29][30][31]. is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.…”

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The misleading illusion of COVID-19 confirmed case data: alternative estimates and a monitoring tool

Macías-Ordóñez

Villaseñor-Amador

2020

Preprint

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Confirmed Case Data have been widely cited during the current COVID-19 pandemic as an estimate of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, their central role in media, official reports and decision-making may be undeserved and misleading. Previously published Infection Fatality Rates were weighted by age structure in the 50 countries with more reported deaths to obtain country-specific rates. For each country, the number of infections up to the Infection Date (23 days ago = Incubation Period + Onset to Death period) and the present percentage of immune population were estimated using Infection Fatality Rate, the number of reported deaths (which is less prone to undersampling), and projecting back to Infection Date. We then estimated a Detection Index for each country as the percentage of estimated infections that confirmed cases represent. Assuming that detection remains constant after Infection Date, we estimated the number of deaths and the estimated percentage of the population of each country expected to be immune up to 23 days into the future. Estimated Infection Fatality Rates are higher in Europe. In most countries, confirmed cases currently represent less than 30% of estimated infections on Infection Date, and this value decreases with time. Countries with flat curves throughout the pandemic show the lowest immunity percentages and these values seem unlikely to change in the near future, suggesting that they remain vulnerable to new outbreaks. Estimates for some countries with low Infection Fatality Rates suggest a still steep increase in the number of casualties in the next three weeks. Countries that did not control initial outbreaks seem to have reached higher immunity percentages, although mostly still under 5%. We provide the code to monitor the trajectories of these estimates in 178 countries throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Comparing South Korea and Italy’s healthcare systems and initiatives to combat COVID-19

Cited by 25 publications

References 10 publications

The Implications of Zinc Therapy in Combating the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

The Implications of Zinc Therapy in Combating the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

Criação e utilização de tecnologias para enfrentamento da COVID-19 frente ao período de pandemia

The misleading illusion of COVID-19 confirmed case data: alternative estimates and a monitoring tool

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