Improving preparedness for next pandemics: Max level of COVID-19 vaccinations without social impositions to design effective health policy and avoid flawed democracies

Coccia, Mario

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2022.113566

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“…In fact, in contexts of environmental threath, many countries have showed to have a low preparedness of crisis management, applying strict health policies of containment with the hope to reduce the negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Results here suggest that a strategy of strict containment policy is ineffective to cope with COVID-19 impact, based on a mutant viral agent, and generates poor effects of reduction of infections and deaths, and additionally, it damages socioeconomic system (Coccia 2021c(Coccia , 2022dChirumbolo et al 2022;Gupta et al 2022).…”

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Effects of strict containment policies on COVID-19 pandemic crisis: lessons to cope with next pandemic impacts

Coccia

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The goal of the study here is to analyze and assess whether strict containment policies to cope with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic crisis are effective interventions to reduce high numbers of infections and deaths. A homogenous sample of 31 countries is categorized in two sets: countries with high or low strictness of public policy to cope with COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The findings here suggest that countries with a low intensity of strictness have average confirmed cases and fatality rates related to COVID-19 lower than countries with high strictness in containment policies (confirmed cases are 24.69% vs. 26.06% and fatality rates are 74.33% vs. 76.38%, respectively, in countries with low and high strictness of COVID-19 public policies of containment). What this study adds is that high levels of strict restriction policies may not be useful measures of control in containing the spread and negative impact of pandemics similar to COVID-19 and additionally a high strictness in containment policies generates substantial social and economic costs. These findings can be explained with manifold socioeconomic and environmental factors that support transmission dynamics and circulation of COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, high levels of strictness in public policy (and also a high share of administering new vaccines) seem to have low effectiveness to stop pandemics similar to COVID-19 driven by mutant viral agents. These results here suggest that the design of effective health policies for prevention and preparedness of future pandemics should be underpinned in a good governance of countries and adoption of new technology, rather than strict and generalized health polices having ambiguous effects of containment in society.

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Effects of strict containment policies on COVID-19 pandemic crisis: lessons to cope with next pandemic impacts

Coccia

2022

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“…Many scientists (cf. Bernal et al, 2021 ; Saban et al, 2022 ) clearly emphasized that COVID-19 vaccines are effective in reducing the number of confirmed cases and deaths of COVID-19, and even presented optimal dose levels in particular countries (i.e., Coccia, 2022b , d ). The total number of cases during the second wave in Poland reached 1.378 million, and 35,000 deaths occurred ( Table S1 ).…”

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Five waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and green–blue spaces in urban and rural areas in Poland

Suligowski

Ciupa

2023

Environmental Research

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“…Not limited to the current pandemic, Brew et al (2022) showed their results on “Double jeopardy-pregnancy and birth during a catastrophic bushfire event followed by a pandemic lockdown, a natural experiment”, Coccia (2022b) on “Improving preparedness for next pandemics: Max level of COVID-19 vaccinations without social impositions to design effective health policy and avoid flawed democracies”, Kumar et al (2022) on “The practicality and prospects for disinfection control by photocatalysis during and post-pandemic: A critical review”, Lizé et al (2022) on “Prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides and autism spectrum disorders in 11-year-old children in the French PELAGIE cohort”, Nair et al (2022) on “A review of strategies and their effectiveness in reducing indoor airborne transmission and improving indoor air quality”, Qin et al (2022) on “Association between Averaged Meteorological Factors and Tuberculosis Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”, and Zhu et al (2022) authored “Prevalence of thyroid nodules and its association with water iodine among Chinese men and women”.…”

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The environment, epidemics, and human health

Núñez‐Delgado

Ahmed

Bontempi

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Environmental Research

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Improving preparedness for next pandemics: Max level of COVID-19 vaccinations without social impositions to design effective health policy and avoid flawed democracies

Cited by 53 publications

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Effects of strict containment policies on COVID-19 pandemic crisis: lessons to cope with next pandemic impacts

Effects of strict containment policies on COVID-19 pandemic crisis: lessons to cope with next pandemic impacts

Five waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and green–blue spaces in urban and rural areas in Poland

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