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Study Estimates Excess Deaths in US from COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment
Under any circumstances, job losses can lead to excess deaths from suicide, substance abuse and the loss of access to medical care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, unemployment in the U.S. has reached highs not seen since the Great Depression, officially peaking at 14.7 percent in April 2020.
UC San Francisco researchers now have an estimate of how many people may have died as a result of pandemic-related unemployment, a number that adds to the nearly 500,000 deaths that have been directly attributed to the virus itself.
“Adequately responding to the pandemic involves not only controlling COVID-19 cases and deaths, but also addressing indirect social and economic consequences,” said Ellicott Matthay, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar with the Center for Health and Community at UCSF and first author of the paper published Feb. 18, 2021, in the American Journal of Public Health.
We May Never Eliminate COVID-19. But We Can Learn to Live With It Time 2/4/2021
When does a pandemic end? Is it when life regains a semblance of normality?
Is it when the world reaches herd immunity, the benchmark at which enough people are immune to an infectious disease to stop its widespread circulation? Or is it when the disease is defeated, the last patient cured and the pathogen retired to the history books?
The last scenario, in the case of COVID-19, is likely a ways off, if it ever arrives. The virus has infected more than 100 million people worldwide and killed more than 2 million. New viral variants even more contagious than those that started the pandemic are spreading across the world. And though highly effective vaccines were developed and deployed in record time, it will be a mammoth undertaking to inoculate enough of the world’s population to achieve herd immunity, especially with the new variants in hot pursuit. Already, in many countries with access to vacci
Updated on January 25, 2021 at 11:29 am
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The 51-year-old farmworker from Oxnard, California, has the same questions about the coronavirus vaccine as many other people, but she is anxious to get it for one simple reason.
When she and her coworkers move through the fields picking strawberries, they cannot put enough distance between themselves to be safe.
“In reality we are not keeping the six feet that are being ordered for safety steps since the lines in the fields are a lot closer in proximity to each other,” she said in Spanish, relayed through a translator. “We cannot keep it.”
By Andrew Magnotta @AndrewMagnotta
After months of planning
The Flaming Lips on Friday pulled off their first Space Bubble concert for the COVID-19 age.
The legendary alternative band has often deployed the plastic bubbles over the years as part of its revelatory live shows, with frontman
Wayne Coyne donning the plastic to roll across the top of the audience.
But on January 22, the band first used the plastic pods as a pandemic safety measure at Oklahoma City s Criterion theater.
The band provided 100 inflatable see-through plastic bubbles from which fans could enjoy the concert. Each bubble in the audience held up to three people, according to