Search

The main premise of this paper is based on the idea that Banksy adopts a historical iconography in the representation of the disease, adapted in language and format to the contemporary context of artistic production. Our aim is the observation and description of the evolution of an artistic theme with a certain iconography. This iconography is changing and adaptable to its historical context. We apply a critical analysis based on the consult of bibliographic references. The results conclude that the pandemic by Covid-19 finds in Banksy a paradigmatic creator of media art, or mediatized, connected to digitization of cultural production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the regulation policies taken by the Colombian national government to guarantee the operation of public transport services in the country during the health crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic. To this end, the paper analyzes the regulations issued during Declaratory of the Economic, Social and Ecological State of Emergency aimed to mitigate the effects of the pandemic crisis on the transportation sector. Especially, the paper focuses in those matters related with the control entry into national territory of passenger, maintaining operations of the transportation sector and the economic relief granted to guarantee the continuity of this service. These measures are aimed to reactivate the public service chain related with the mobility of people and the supply of goods throughout the national territory, all in attention to safeguard the health of all users through compliance with the established biosecurity protocols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Humanity has suffered throughout its history from different types of pandemics caused by deadly infectious diseases. Mathematical models are very useful tools to understand the dynamics of the behavior and propagation of these. Among these models are those known as SIS, SIR and SEIR. This paper presents a brief explanation of the structure of these models and its use in some pandemics. In particular, some SIR-type models without and with delays are analyzed with special interest, as well as their applications to the current pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To determine the correspondence between some of the models analyzed and the data of Infectious and Recovered from Mexico reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), simulations are presented in three different time periods between the years 2020-2021. In addition, an unpublished SIR-type mathematical model with three delays is proposed as a main contribution. Finally, a discussion is given on the application of numerical algorithms to identify some parameters of mathematical models, such as ordinary least squares. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Coronavirus crisis has caused a complicated situation at a sanitary, economic and social levels, that requires of a fundamental work in communication area so that the society comprise and collaborate with the adopted measures. Through the review and synthesis of the scientific and reference literature, the present paper contrasts lessons learnt in previous public health crisis against the communication implemented from the institutional voices and from the press coverage during the first stages of the Covid-19 outbreak in Spain. This paper detects that the absence of an early announcement (or overtaking of the negative stage) and the control messages in a context of uncertainty caused a brusque transition to the following stage of the crisis, coincident with an explosion of the number of contagions, what generated fear. The spokesperson formula applied is against all recommendations of crisis communication. Regarding the journalistic coverage, examples of alarmism and sensationalism news arised. The numeric data have been the resource more valuable and the computer graphics the multimedia content more developed. Since the pandemic is still on course, it is recommended the learning and the adjustment of the communication and information to the citizens in the following stages of this crisis or in future crisis taking into account the group of first lessons presented here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To describe the available scientific evidence in relation acute onset motor neurological disorders associated with SARS-CoV-2, due to the modifications it represents in the differential diagnosis in children and adolescents. Acquisition of the evidence: The search for articles was held from December 2019 to August 2020, in Medline database. A total of 95 papers in Spanish and English language were consulted. The keywords used were Coronavirus, Covid 19, Neurology; Motor disorders. Results: The neurological manifestations described in the literature associated with the COVID-19 may include acute motor disorders. Therefore, from the pandemic, the differential diagnosis of children and adolescents with muscle weakness or acute starting difficulties includes, as a possible cause, SARS-COV-2. Conclusion: Motor manifestations of neurological origin and acute onset associated with COVID-19 have been described, including myelitis, myositis, polyneuropathies and Guillain-Barre syndrome, which implies modifications in the differential diagnosis in children with acute motor disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the power of the local and of proximity in building responses to mitigate and spread the virus. Local entities have developed responses both individually and continuously to address the plurality of citizen needs arising after the appearance of the virus and the declaration of a state of alarm by the government of Spain. In this sense, the purpose of this paper is to describe the solidarity initiatives implemented by the local entities of the province of Valencia in order to exemplify the leading role of these local entities during the COVID-19 crisis. Given the sanitary recommendations and restrictions, it has been considered convenient to choose the quantitative methodology and based on it, the self-administered survey technique has been used. Thanks to the selection of this technique, a high response rate has been achieved, achieving ninety responses from local entities. Among the main results, it should be noted that the solidarity initiatives developed by local entities have been oriented to both the satisfaction of basic needs and to the mitigation of the social, economic and health consequences of the coronavirus. In conclusion, the city councils have constituted the first bastion in the fight against the coronavirus, adopting new roles from their strategic position to the needs of the citizens. Likewise, the plurality of solidarity initiatives developed indirectly alludes to the adaptive capacity of the local administration to the diversity of deprivation situations that have taken place because of the coronavirus crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is the aim of this paper to analyse the potential criminal-liability outcomes related to the transmission of coronavirus. Two groups of situations are studied: the ones concerning individual transmissions and the ones related to transmissions that take place in (or are managed by) the socio-sanitary system. As regards the former, we analyse, on the one hand, the conditions subject to which a certain contagious interaction can be deemed constitutive of manslaughter or a non-fatal offence against the person; on the other, the criteria according to which harmful effects be considered causally connected to such criminal conducts. Additionally, the attribution of criminal liability within the institutions of the socio-sanitary system gives rise to two further issues: the individualisation of responsibility within complex organisational structures; and the possibility to justify some of the aforementioned kinds of conduct on the grounds of necessity, due to the scarcity of sanitary resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the context of the spread of the new coronavirus, the correlation with the instability of world financial markets and the fall in oil prices, and concerns about the future of neorealist capitalism. The first part addresses several questions: was the pandemic caused by nature or by man? Can scientific research help to separate the truth from the conspiracy theses? The second part suggests that the coronavirus has imposed a de facto trickle-down economy on Reagan's trickledown economy, and shows the economic disruptions it has caused in developed and developing countries. It is concluded that a tiny virus is forcing the dominant neoliberal system to review reality by force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the publication of datasets collected via Google Dataset Search, specialized in families of RNA viruses, whose terminology was obtained from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) thesaurus developed by the US Department of Health and Human Services. The objective is to determine the scope and reuse capacity of the available data, determine the number of datasets and their free access, the proportion in reusable download formats, the main providers, their publication chronology, and to verify their scientific provenance. On the other hand, we also define possible relationships between the publication of datasets and the main pandemics that have occurred during the last 10 years. The results obtained highlight that only 52% of the datasets are related to scientific research, while an even smaller fraction (15%) are reusable. There is also an upward trend in the publication of datasets, especially related to the impact of the main epidemics, as clearly confirmed for the Ebola virus, Zika, SARS-CoV, H1N1, H1N5, and especially the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Finally, it is observed that the search engine has not yet implemented adequate methods for filtering and monitoring the datasets. These results reveal some of the difficulties facing open science in the dataset field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: During the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that affected Spain in spring of 2020, many of hospitals were collapsed by these patients. For this reason, a field hospital was deployed at the «Institución Ferial de Madrid» (IFEMA). The only critical unit of this field hospital was military. The unit responsible for its deployment, maintenance and withdrawal was UMAAD (Madrid Deployment Support Air Medical Unit belonging to the Air Force). Objective: To describe medical assistance provided in the IFEMA critical unit. Material and methods: Prospective descriptive study carried out from March 19 to April 30, 2020. The pertinent military authorization (Air Force Health Service Director) was obtained to carry out the study. Results: During the study time, 25 critically ill patients were admitted. Most of them were male and Hispanic race. SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia was the reason for hospital admission. Airway was performed in 88% of patients. Principal complications were thrombosis, hemorrhage and hypertension. Three patients died during this research paper. Conclusion: The experience acquired in this deployment demonstrates, once again, the importance of the support that Military Health can provide to Civil Health in the component of crisis management in national territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed in a significant way the lifestyle in the world and in Mexico. Medicine is not an exception, therefore, modifications in how the assessment and treatment of our patients is done, is mandatory to assure the safeness of the patient, the medical team, the hospital staff, the medical facility, and the community. In this paper, the Mexican Association of Spine Surgery (AMCICO) make recommendations based in the information available at the moment, to help decide when and how to perform a spine surgery in the coronavirus pandemic. Objective: To provide the spine surgeon with the tools required and a decision path to postpone or perform a spine surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social impact produced by so-called COVID-19 epidemic all over the world, and its derived effects, is difficult to quantify currently. Although this is not time to come to a final and optimistic conclusion about the Spanish Government response to this health emergency, we can reach a first one, about the way it has established for managing its information policy during the current year first months. For reaching that goal, this paper sets out the legal guidelines the Public Administration must observe in the exercise of the public function of reporting, both in normal situations and in health emergencies like we are living now, caused by the so-called coronavirus. Through these technical-legal frameworks, the analysis of the type of information disseminated, the official spokespersons role and of the Government relation with the media through public financing, we have drawn up a fairly sharp sketch suitable for assessing, with objective parameters, the communicational response produced so far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]