item: #1 of 35 id: cord-034579-3s26tjrd author: McAuley, Hamish title: COPD in the time of COVID-19: An analysis of acute exacerbations and reported behavioural changes in patients with COPD date: 2020-10-30 words: 4001 flesch: 44 summary: Ethics approval was granted by the Electronic community prescription records were used to record community exacerbation events and electronic hospital records similarly for hospital exacerbations. In this observational study a 38% increase in community managed exacerbation events during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 was seen compared to the same six-week period in 2019, as measured by primary care prescription records. keywords: activity; acute; adherence; aecopd; antibiotics; anxiety; baseline; behaviour; change; chronic; clinic; community; copd; covid-19; data; disease; events; exacerbations; frequency; healthcare; home; hospital; increase; lockdown; normal; obstructive; p<0.001; pandemic; participants; patients; people; period; physical; pre; previous; pulmonary; respiratory; risk; sars; self; shielding; significant; study; telephone; treatment; use; weeks cache: cord-034579-3s26tjrd.txt plain text: cord-034579-3s26tjrd.txt item: #2 of 35 id: cord-117800-jzokod4q author: Umer, Hamza title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regional Lockdown Policies in the Containment of Covid-19: Evidence from Pakistan date: 2020-06-04 words: 3623 flesch: 51 summary: Overall, the world is divided regarding the use and effectiveness of lockdown policies. This article offers a systematic contribution to the aforementioned debate by examining the effectiveness of lockdown policies in the containment of Covid-19 in the context of Pakistan. keywords: ajk; analysis; balochistan; cases; complete; countries; country; covid-19; daily; data; deaths; economic; effectiveness; government; health; kpk; level; lockdown; lockdown policies; march; measures; national; number; outcomes; pakistan; partial; people; policies; policy; positive; provinces; public; punjab; regional; regions; regression; religious; restrictions; score; sindh; social; spread; strategies; stringency; table; variables; virus; world cache: cord-117800-jzokod4q.txt plain text: cord-117800-jzokod4q.txt item: #3 of 35 id: cord-219681-83p1ujl4 author: Gathergood, John title: The English Patient: Evaluating Local Lockdowns Using Real-Time COVID-19&Consumption Data date: 2020-10-08 words: 5701 flesch: 47 summary: We find UK 'local lockdowns' of cities and small regions, focused on limiting how many people a household can interact with and in what settings, are effective in turning the tide on rising positive COVID-19 cases. We show that UK local lockdowns to contain virus outbreaks -covering one in four people by September 2020 -3 typically turn the tide on rising COVID-19 cases. keywords: announcement; approach; areas; available; average; card; cases; causal; consumer; consumption; control; covid-19; credit; daily; data; day; declines; difference; early; economic; effects; england; estimate; et al; evidence; fable; figure; groups; household; january; large; level; local; local lockdowns; localities; lockdown; manchester; march; measures; national; new; official; pandemic; people; positive; pre; prior; public; ratio; real; regions; results; rise; september; series; similar; social; source; spending; statistics; study; subject; testing; time; transaction; treatment; urban; virus; year cache: cord-219681-83p1ujl4.txt plain text: cord-219681-83p1ujl4.txt item: #4 of 35 id: cord-220723-yl2tg6q4 author: Lv, Zhaofeng title: Significant reduced traffic in Beijing failed to relieve haze pollution during the COVID-19 lockdown: implications for haze mitigation date: 2020-06-12 words: 10410 flesch: 37 summary: To quantify the influence of vehicle emission reduction on air quality before and during the COVID-19 outbreak, we set up a series of scenarios in the WRF-CMAQ modeling system with different turbulences in on-road emissions while other configurations remained the same as the BASE scenario. Here, we explored the relationship between local vehicle emissions and the winter haze in Beijing before and during the COVID-19 lockdown period based on an integrated analysis framework, which combines a real-time on-road emission inventory, in-situ air quality observations and a localized chemical transport modeling system. keywords: activities; addition; aerosols; air; air pollution; air quality; analysis; anthropogenic; appendix; areas; atmospheric; beijing; capacity; changes; chemical; china; cmaq; concentrations; conditions; contribution; control; covid-19; covid-19 lockdown; data; day; days; development; emission inventory; emission reduction; emissions; enhanced; enhancement; estimated; festival; fig; flow; formation; haze; hdt; heavy; heterogeneous; high; higher; hourly; impacts; industry; integrated; inventory; isam; large; level; limited; link; local; lockdown; lockdown period; meteorological; model; modeling; national; nitrate; no2; nox; observations; organic; outbreak; oxidants; oxidizing; pandemic; particles; period; pm2.5; pm2.5 concentrations; pollutant; pollution; pre; pre period; precursors; previous; primary; quality; real; recent; reduction; regional; regions; relationship; research; resolution; results; road; road emissions; secondary; significant; simulation; sources; spatial; speed; spring; street; study; sulfate; surface; system; time; total; traffic; traffic emissions; transport; units; urban; variations; vehicle; vehicle emissions; vehicular; vocs; winter; wrf cache: cord-220723-yl2tg6q4.txt plain text: cord-220723-yl2tg6q4.txt item: #5 of 35 id: cord-253910-pmurx4jh author: Miles, David title: “Stay at Home, Protect the National Health Service, Save Lives”: a cost benefit analysis of the lockdown in the United Kingdom date: 2020-08-13 words: 6376 flesch: 55 summary: The lowest estimate for lockdown costs incurred was 40% higher than highest benefits from avoiding the worst mortality case scenario at full life expectancy tariff and in more realistic estimations they were over 5 times higher. We consider the following scenarios for the consequences of each policy for the evolution of COVID-19 deaths: 1. keywords: age; article; average; beds; benefits; care; comorbidities; copyright; costs; countries; cov-2; covid-19; deaths; early; easing; economic; end; england; estimates; european; excess; excess deaths; expectancy; figure; gdp; government; health; higher; home; icu; impact; infections; june; large; level; life; life years; likely; lives; lockdown; loss; lost; march; months; mortality; national; nhs; number; patients; people; policy; population; qaly; quality; reserved; resources; restrictions; rights; sars; scenario; severe; social; terms; total; value; virus; years cache: cord-253910-pmurx4jh.txt plain text: cord-253910-pmurx4jh.txt item: #6 of 35 id: cord-258072-6d5ieakl author: Kochhar, Anuraj Singh title: Lockdown of 1.3 Billion People In India During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Survey Of Its Impact On Mental Health date: 2020-06-18 words: 2126 flesch: 48 summary: When enquired about the activities during the lockdown, only 11% were occupied with hobbies whereas WHO advises engaging in regular exercising, daily chores, and hobbies during the present COVID-19 pandemic for mental health well-being (WHO, 2020). Financial loss due to quarantine created severe socioeconomic distress (Pellecchia et al, 2015) and was established to be a contributing factor for symptoms of mental health disorders, anger and anxiety (Mihashi et al, 2009) . keywords: age; analysis; approval; article; authors; brooks; conception; covid-19; data; design; disease; effects; final; health; kaur; knowledge; lockdown; mental; participants; people; population; present; quarantine; significant; sleep; social; stress; study; work; years cache: cord-258072-6d5ieakl.txt plain text: cord-258072-6d5ieakl.txt item: #7 of 35 id: cord-262787-3a3c8ee1 author: Ray, Debashree title: Predictions, role of interventions and effects of a historic national lockdown in India's response to the COVID-19 pandemic: data science call to arms date: 2020-04-18 words: 7867 flesch: 46 summary: Our projections using current daily data on case counts until April 7 in India show that the lockdown, if implemented correctly in the end, has a high chance of reducing the number of COVID-19 cases in the short term and buy India invaluable time to prepare its healthcare and disease monitoring system. Objective: To study the short- and long-term impact of an initial 21-day lockdown on the total number of COVID-19 cases in India compared to other less severe non-pharmaceutical interventions using epidemiological forecasting models and Bayesian estimation algorithms; to compare effects of hypothetical durations of lockdown from an epidemiological perspective; to study alternative explanations for slower growth rate of the virus outbreak in India, including exploring the association of the number of cases and average monthly temperature; and finally, to outline the pivotal role of reliable and transparent data, reproducible data science methods, tools and products as we reopen the country and prepare for a post lock-down phase of the pandemic. keywords: activities; adherence; analysis; april; author; available; average; cases; community; copyright; coronavirus; countries; country; counts; covid-19; covid-19 cases; cumulative; current; daily; data; day; day lockdown; delay; disease; distancing; economic; epidemiological; figure; funder; health; healthcare; high; holder; hypothetical; impact; incidence; india; infected; international; international license; intervention; june; license; like; lockdown; long; march; measures; medrxiv; model; monthly; need; number; observed; outbreak; pandemic; peer; people; period; perpetuity; population; post; predictions; preprint; projections; public; rate; removed; scenarios; science; social; study; system; temperature; term; testing; time; total; transmission; travel; upper; use; week; world cache: cord-262787-3a3c8ee1.txt plain text: cord-262787-3a3c8ee1.txt item: #8 of 35 id: cord-263174-dpa6yjao author: Christoforidis, Athanasios title: Coronavirus lockdown effect on type 1 diabetes management οn children wearing insulin pump equipped with continuous glucose monitoring system date: 2020-07-08 words: 2551 flesch: 39 summary: Our data showed that glycemic control during the coronavirus lockdown period can be adequately achieved and be comparable to the pre-lockdown period in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus wearing insulin pump equipped with sensor. CareLink data that were uploaded by the patients and their caregivers were analyzed as categorized into 2 periods: i) lockdown period (3 weeks period starting from the 11 th of March 2020) and ii) period prior to the lockdown (3 weeks period ending on the 10 th of March 2020). keywords: activity; adolescents; blood; breakfast; carelink; children; continuous; control; coronavirus; covid-19; data; diabetes; glucose; glycemic; health; higher; insulin; lockdown; lockdown period; march; meal; mean; mellitus; monitoring; outbreak; parameters; patients; period; physical; pump; sensor; study; system; time; type; weeks cache: cord-263174-dpa6yjao.txt plain text: cord-263174-dpa6yjao.txt item: #9 of 35 id: cord-263248-8y1u0h6y author: Ediev, D. M. title: Population heterogeneity is a critical factor of the kinetics of the COVID-19 epidemics date: 2020-06-26 words: 3368 flesch: 45 summary: Here, we incorporate population heterogeneity into the Kermack-McKendrick SIR compartmental model and show the cost of the pandemic may be much lower than usually assumed. Furthermore, population heterogeneity may shorten the course of the outbreaks, because those with higher social engagement will also be the first to catch the infection. keywords: author; available; case; communicability; copyright; cost; covid-19; epidemic; funder; heterogeneity; heterogeneous; holder; homogeneous; infected; infection; international; international license; june; license; lockdown; medrxiv; medrxiv preprint; number; optimal; people; percent; perpetuity; population; population heterogeneity; preprint; reproduction; second; spread; superspreaders; susceptible; version; virus; wave cache: cord-263248-8y1u0h6y.txt plain text: cord-263248-8y1u0h6y.txt item: #10 of 35 id: cord-264821-68us87xb author: Labrague, L. title: LOCKDOWN FATIGUE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: PREDICTIVE ROLE OF PERSONAL RESILIENCE, COPING BEHAVIOURS, AND HEALTH date: 2020-10-20 words: 5083 flesch: 43 summary: The test-retest reliability value of the item in the present study was 0.91, which was higher than the value previously reported (α = .89; Labrague et al., 2020). Previous studies involving college students have also identified problem-focused coping behaviours, including seeking social support, and problem-solving behaviours as equally vital to increase their adaptability and hardiness against stressful events (Labrague et al., 2017; Farrell & Langrehr, 2017) . keywords: anxiety; author; available; college; confinement; consequences; coping; copyright; coronavirus; covid-19; disease; et al; fatigue; funder; health; higher; holder; home; individual; international; international license; levels; license; lockdown; lockdown fatigue; mandatory; mean; measures; medrxiv; mental; october; pandemic; participants; people; period; perpetuity; personal; physical; preprint; psychological; resilience; result; scale; significant; skills; social; stress; students; studies; study; support; version cache: cord-264821-68us87xb.txt plain text: cord-264821-68us87xb.txt item: #11 of 35 id: cord-268524-lr51ubz5 author: Droit-Volet, Sylvie title: Time and Covid-19 stress in the lockdown situation: Time free, «Dying» of boredom and sadness date: 2020-08-10 words: 5272 flesch: 49 summary: A social-psychological investigation into the process of time orientation Mindfulness meditation, time judgment and time experience: Importance of the time scale considered (seconds or minutes) Awareness of the passage of time and self-consciousness: What do meditators report? Nonetheless, in the different distress scales used, the different dimensions of emotion (valence and arousal) were not dissociated, and no survey has examined their relationships to time experience, even though emotion and the experience of time are known to be intrinsically linked. keywords: anxiety; arousal; boredom; covid-19; different; dimensions; distress; effect; emotion; emotional; experience; factors; fear; french; happiness; health; high; home; increase; individuals; judgments; level; life; lockdown; lockdown situation; moment; negative; pandemic; participants; passage; people; period; present; psychological; questions; results; sadness; scale; self; sense; significant; situation; slowing; social; stress; studies; study; subjective; survey; table; temporal; time; time experience; work cache: cord-268524-lr51ubz5.txt plain text: cord-268524-lr51ubz5.txt item: #12 of 35 id: cord-268816-nth3o6ot author: Roy, Satyaki title: Factors affecting COVID-19 infected and death rates inform lockdown-related policymaking date: 2020-10-23 words: 5736 flesch: 50 summary: • Distance from one state to another (is not measured in miles but the euclidean distance between their latitude-longitude coordinates between the pair of states [32] ) (filename: source/Data_distance.xlsx, feature name: d(state1, state2)). • Gender feature(s) is a fraction of total population representing the male and female individuals [33] (filename: source/Data_gender.csv, feature name: Male, Female). keywords: age; airport; analysis; borough; cases; coronavirus; count; covid-19; data; dataset; days; death; death numbers; decision; density; distance; factors; feature; fig; filename; gender; groups; health; healthcare; high; higher; homeless; individuals; infected; infection; inter; key; labels; learning; lockdown; machine; mean; measures; mobility; mortality; new; numbers; output; peak; policymaking; population; population density; positive; post; pre; rank; rates; ratio; regression; related; scikit; score; sec; second; source; spread; states; study; supervised; testing; time; total; traffic; trees; wave cache: cord-268816-nth3o6ot.txt plain text: cord-268816-nth3o6ot.txt item: #13 of 35 id: cord-275071-2uiaruhg author: Balmford, Ben title: Cross-Country Comparisons of Covid-19: Policy, Politics and the Price of Life date: 2020-08-04 words: 11187 flesch: 52 summary: The lowest estimates are further reduced once we correct for under-reporting of Covid-19 deaths. Accepting that they are a conservative estimate of the total impact of the pandemic, officially attributed Covid-19 deaths are used to investigate the price of life implied by lockdown policies. keywords: analysis; appendix; approach; april; available; belgium; beltekian; calculated; capita; cases; change; china; clear; comparisons; coronavirus; cost; countries; country; covid-19; covid-19 deaths; cross; cumulative; daily; data; date; days; deaths; decisions; differences; different; disease; e.g.; earlier; early; economic; effects; epidemic; estimates; et al; evidence; example; excess; factors; financial; focus; gdp; germany; global; government; greater; health; heterogeneity; higher; highest; https; hubei; imf; impact; increase; infectious; interventions; italy; length; level; life; likely; lives; lockdown; lockdown policy; loss; lower; march; measures; model; mortality; national; nations; new; number; official; online; overall; pandemic; paper; people; period; policies; policy; population; price; public; rates; ratio; relative; reporting; response; results; seir; similar; social; socio; spain; spread; study; table; term; testing; time; toll; total; usa; use; value; variation; world cache: cord-275071-2uiaruhg.txt plain text: cord-275071-2uiaruhg.txt item: #14 of 35 id: cord-275503-rxjilkff author: Ponkilainen, Ville title: The effect of nationwide lockdown and societal restrictions due to COVID‐19 on emergency and urgent surgeries date: 2020-08-07 words: 490 flesch: 45 summary: The data for this retrospective study was collected from three Finnish The weekly mean incidence of emergency and urgent surgery remained stable after the announcement of the national lockdown (Fig. 1A) . The total incidence of emergency and urgent surgeries was already lower before the lockdown than during the previous four years, and it remained stable during the lockdown. keywords: cent; emergency; lockdown; operations; pandemic; surgeries; surgery; urgent; weeks cache: cord-275503-rxjilkff.txt plain text: cord-275503-rxjilkff.txt item: #15 of 35 id: cord-275827-r86ygqmy author: Lapeyre-Mestre, Maryse title: Addictovigilance contribution during COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown in France date: 2020-06-23 words: 5012 flesch: 30 summary: Lessons from 15 years of pharmacoepidemiological contribution Ten-year trend of opioid and non-opioid analgesic use in the French adult population A capture-recapture method for estimating the incidence of off-label prescriptions: the example of baclofen for alcohol use disorder in France Identification and tracking of Addictovigilance signals in general practice: which interactions between the general practitioners and the French Addictovigilance Network? Parachuting psychoactive substances: pharmacokinetic clues for harm reduction Medical complications of psychoactive substances with abuse risks: Detection and assessment by the network of French addictovigilance centres Use of new psychoactive substances to mimic prescription drugs: The trend in France Identifying Life-Threatening Admissions for Drug Dependence or Abuse (ILIADDA): derivation and validation of a model Les CAARUD, lieux privilégiés d'émergence de signaux pour l'addictovigilance Arrêté du 19 mars 2020 complétant l'arrêté du 14 mars 2020 portant diverses mesures relatives à la lutte contre la propagation du virus COVID-19 Intérêt de la mise à disposition de la naloxone auprès des usagers de drogues pour le traitement d'urgence de surdosage d'opioïdes Améliorer la balance bénéfices/risques de la méthadone en respectant ses spécificités pharmacologiques Psychopathological consequences of confinement Pharmacovigilance et addictovigilance dans le contexte du COVID-19 : une surveillance renforcée Detection of signals of abuse and dependence applying disproportionality analysis Early signal of diverted use of tropicamide eye drops in France Pregabalin use disorder and secondary nicotine dependence in a woman with no substance abuse history Patterns of gabapentin and pregabalin use and misuse: Results of a population-based cohort study in France Drug abuse monitoring: which pharmacoepidemiological resources at the European level? Warning on increased serious health complications related to non-medical use of nitrous oxide Use of multiple sources and capture-recapture method to estimate the frequency of hospitalizations related to drug abuse Evidence of clonazepam abuse liability: results of the tools developed by the French Centers for Evaluation and Information on Pharmacodependence (CEIP) network Slow-release oral morphine sulfate abuse: results of the postmarketing surveillance systems for psychoactive prescription drug abuse in France Example of an investigation of an emergent phenomenon in addiction vigilance: the case of methylphenidate Medical prescriptions falsified by the patients: a 12-year national monitoring to assess prescription drug diversion Pharmaciens d'officine, étudiants en pharmacie et demandes de médicaments à base de codéine : étude observationnelle Disproportionality analysis for the assessment of abuse and dependence potential of pregabalin in the French Pharmacovigilance database Detecting the diverted use of psychoactive drugs by adolescents and young adults: A pilot study Site de l'association française des centres d'addictovigilance The French Addictovigilance network would like to acknowledge all persons in the 13 addictovigilance centres who participated in the active monitoring during this period (all health professionals who reported cases during the period, and persons in charge of psychoactive drugs at the ANSM (Aldine Fabreguettes, Emilie Monzon, Charlotte Pion, Nathalie Richard). This monitoring program has been useful to identify addictovigilance signals or characterize the abuse potential of prescription drugs [32, [39] keywords: abuse; access; addictovigilance; addictovigilance network; cannabis; cases; centres; cocaine; codeine; community; context; covid-19; data; dependence; different; drugs; early; epidemic; events; falsified; forms; france; french; french addictovigilance; general; health; home; illicit; important; increase; information; lockdown; march; medical; methadone; monitoring; naloxone; national; network; new; opioid; order; osiap; overdoses; pandemic; patients; people; period; pharmacies; pharmacology; population; potential; pregabalin; prescription; press; professionals; psychoactive; release; reports; risk; signals; significant; specialized; structures; substances; survey; system; tramadol; treatment; year cache: cord-275827-r86ygqmy.txt plain text: cord-275827-r86ygqmy.txt item: #16 of 35 id: cord-277667-vclij9ax author: Glancy, D. title: Lockdown in a specialised rehabilitation unit: the best of times date: 2020-05-21 words: 1902 flesch: 45 summary: The benefits of the lockdown for service users are also discussed. The Multidisiplinary Team (MDT) in conjunction with service users therefore had to develop additional activities to support the rehabilitative programme. keywords: activities; awareness; community; education; families; family; focus; group; health; individuals; local; lockdown; mental; national; opportunity; patients; programme; recovery; rehabilitation; relationships; restrictions; self; service; service users; sessions; skills; specialised; staff; team; therapy; trauma; users; visits; work cache: cord-277667-vclij9ax.txt plain text: cord-277667-vclij9ax.txt item: #17 of 35 id: cord-283416-dhtintid author: Cheli, Marta title: SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and epilepsy: the impact on emergency department attendances for seizures date: 2020-08-22 words: 1938 flesch: 50 summary: A similar reduction, although to a lesser extent, was detected for seizure attendances to the ED: there were 37 during lockdown and 63 and 44 respectively during the two other periods. Intriguingly, during the lockdown a higher number of patients attended the ED with first seizures (p=0.013), and more EEGs (p=0.008) and CT brain scans (p=0.018) were performed; there was a trend towards more frequent transport to the ED by ambulance (p=0.061) in the lockdown period. keywords: assistance; attendances; care; control; emergency; health; hospital; lockdown; lockdown period; march; matched; medical; number; pandemic; patients; period; pre; reduction; sars; seizures; study; total; trieste cache: cord-283416-dhtintid.txt plain text: cord-283416-dhtintid.txt item: #18 of 35 id: cord-283708-k9hquon7 author: Cilloni, L. title: The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis: a modelling analysis date: 2020-05-20 words: 5620 flesch: 46 summary: We calibrated each country model to the available data on TB burden, including WHO estimates of TB incidence and mortality 6 , and on the burden of drug resistance. Methods We adapted mathematical models of TB transmission in three high-burden countries (India, Kenya and Ukraine) to incorporate lockdown-associated disruptions in the TB care cascade. keywords: additional; analysis; author; available; burden; care; cases; community; contact; copyright; countries; country; covid-19; cri; deaths; diagnosis; disruptions; doi; drug; effect; example; excess; figure; funder; health; holder; impact; incidence; increases; india; information; international; kenya; license; lockdown; long; medrxiv; model; month; mortality; normal; period; perpetuity; potential; preprint; restoration; scenario; services; table; term; transmission; treatment; tuberculosis; ukraine; version cache: cord-283708-k9hquon7.txt plain text: cord-283708-k9hquon7.txt item: #19 of 35 id: cord-287676-qh7zeyyx author: Angoulvant, François title: COVID-19 pandemic: Impact caused by school closure and national lockdown on pediatric visits and admissions for viral and non-viral infections, a time series analysis date: 2020-06-03 words: 1815 flesch: 44 summary: M a n u s c r i p t Impact of lockdown on weekly pediatric emergency department visits and major pediatric infectious diseases, from January 1 st , 2017 to April 19 th , 2020. We hypothesized that this unusual situation in France would be associated with a sharp decrease in pediatric infectious diseases that usually disseminate through social contacts, with schools at their center. keywords: acute; analysis; bronchiolitis; children; cold; common; control; covid-19; data; decrease; diseases; french; health; impact; infectious; lockdown; major; media; national; otitis; pediatric; peds; public; school; series; significant; time; tract; urinary; viral; visits cache: cord-287676-qh7zeyyx.txt plain text: cord-287676-qh7zeyyx.txt item: #20 of 35 id: cord-288288-f7yhw3a0 author: Cozzi, Giorgio title: The impact of the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy on a pediatric emergency setting date: 2020-06-29 words: 820 flesch: 56 summary: The Mann-Whitney test evaluated the mean difference in the continuous variables before and after lockdown and in 2020 and 2019. The decrease from 2019 to 2020 was 77.5%, which confirmed the effect of lockdown. keywords: care; emergency; italy; lockdown; number; outbreak; patients; ped; period; respiratory; spread; study; triage; urgent; variables; visits cache: cord-288288-f7yhw3a0.txt plain text: cord-288288-f7yhw3a0.txt item: #21 of 35 id: cord-288851-lz5qc1f3 author: Rastogi, Ashu title: Improved glycemic control amongst people with long-standing diabetes during COVID-19 lockdown: a prospective, observational, nested cohort study date: 2020-10-21 words: 2781 flesch: 40 summary: However, the effect of COVID-19 lockdown on physical activity and glycemic control in such individuals is not known. We studied the physical activity and glycemic control during lockdown in comparison to pre-lockdown parameters in individuals with long-standing type 2 diabetes. keywords: activities; activity; blood; change; complications; control; covid-19; data; diabetes; duration; effect; foot; glucose; glycemic; gpaq; hba1c; improvement; increase; individuals; lifestyle; likely; lockdown; long; overall; pandemic; parameters; participants; patients; people; period; physical; sedentary; significant; study; time; type; weight cache: cord-288851-lz5qc1f3.txt plain text: cord-288851-lz5qc1f3.txt item: #22 of 35 id: cord-298953-9aifql2f author: Day, Brett H. title: The Value of Greenspace Under Pandemic Lockdown date: 2020-08-04 words: 10009 flesch: 48 summary: In brief, we find that while the lockdown imposed very significant restrictions on outdoor recreation activities, citizens engaged in substantial compensating substitution behaviour. Through a calibration exercise, Venter et al. estimate that outdoor recreation activity in Oslo increased by291%. keywords: activity; analysis; areas; baseline; behaviour; car; change; choice; citizens; class; classes; conditions; costs; counterfactual; covid-19; daily; data; day; demand; differences; driving; engagement; england; estimates; fig; google; google data; greenspace; group; increase; individual; june; leisure; levels; location; lockdown; lockdown period; lockdown rules; lsoa; march; membership; mobility; model; month; normal; number; observed; option; orval; orval model; outdoor; outdoor recreation; paper; parameters; park; particular; patterns; period; population; predictions; probabilities; recreation; recreation activity; recreation behaviour; region; relative; relaxed; relaxed lockdown; residents; restrictions; second; series; set; shift; site; strict lockdown; terms; time; time series; transport; travel; trips; use; utility; value; visitation; visits; weather; weekend; welfare cache: cord-298953-9aifql2f.txt plain text: cord-298953-9aifql2f.txt item: #23 of 35 id: cord-306227-63qvvkvk author: Shammi, Mashura title: Strategic assessment of COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: comparative lockdown scenario analysis, public perception, and management for sustainability date: 2020-07-18 words: 9392 flesch: 46 summary: (3.5.1-3.5.3) we have analysed emergency management issues including short to medium-term measures as well as long-term management strategies of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown scenarios in Bangladesh based on our research outcomes. PCA showed a significant level of controlling factors in Bangladesh COVID-19 pandemic and how these statements are associated with the various scenarios (Table 7) . keywords: activities; analysis; areas; assessment; bangladesh; basic; business; cases; cluster; communities; community; community transmission; coronavirus; correlation; countries; country; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; crisis; daily; death; development; different; disease; distancing; economic; economy; education; emergency; financial; food; gathering; gender; global; gob; government; groups; guidelines; health; healthcare; impact; increase; infected; infection; informal; level; life; limited; livelihood; local; lockdown; lockdown scenario; long; loss; low; management; mass; measures; movement; needs; number; outbreak; overall; package; pandemic; partial; partial lockdown; participants; pca; people; plan; planning; poor; population; positive; poverty; preparedness; products; proper; public; rate; recovery; relief; research; resources; respondents; response; risk; rural; scenario; sdg; sector; services; significant; situation; social; socio; statements; strategic; strategy; strong; study; supply; support; survey; system; table; term; test; total; transmission; urban; variance; vulnerable; workers; years cache: cord-306227-63qvvkvk.txt plain text: cord-306227-63qvvkvk.txt item: #24 of 35 id: cord-306270-9bsr2jz0 author: Chowdhury, Rajiv title: Long-term strategies to control COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries: an options overview of community-based, non-pharmacological interventions date: 2020-07-13 words: 3325 flesch: 40 summary: As the lockdown is now being relaxed in many LMICs, in this paper, we have (1) conducted an epidemiology-based “options appraisal” of various available non-pharmacological intervention options that can be employed to safely lift the lockdowns (namely, sustained mitigation, zonal lockdown and rolling lockdown strategies), and (2) propose suitable application, pre-requisites, and inherent limitations for each measure. Transmission hotspots, or red zones are subject to strict lockdown measures than green zones, where very few or no new cases have been identified for several days. keywords: approach; bangladesh; care; cases; community; contact; containment; control; coronavirus; countries; country; covid-19; day; deaths; disease; distancing; economic; economy; effective; health; high; icu; income; india; infrastructure; interventions; large; lmics; local; lockdown; low; measures; mitigation; new; non; options; pandemic; pharmacological; physical; population; public; regard; rolling; settings; social; strategies; strategy; strict; surveillance; sustained; systems; testing; time; transmission; zonal; zones cache: cord-306270-9bsr2jz0.txt plain text: cord-306270-9bsr2jz0.txt item: #25 of 35 id: cord-308493-3fsn7awq author: Günther‐Bel, Cristina title: A Mixed‐method Study of Individual, Couple and Parental Functioning During the State‐regulated COVID‐19 Lockdown in Spain date: 2020-07-17 words: 6979 flesch: 32 summary: Intriguingly, moderation results also suggest that the correlation or linkage between individual distress and couple relationship functioning may have strengthened as the lockdown progressed. Because the most direct evidence of lockdown effects on family relationships comes from participants' free-form reports of improvement and deterioration, we were interested in which qualitative themes were most and least likely to come from which participants. keywords: adjustment; analyses; anxiety; article; basic; bdi; beck; cerfb; change; children; composite; confinement; conflict; conjugal; copyright; couple; covid-19; das; data; days; depression; deterioration; distance; distress; divorced; dyadic; dynamics; economic; effects; employment; et al; evidence; families; family; functioning; general; group; health; high; home; household; improvement; individual; information; linares; literature; lockdown; measures; mental; negative; online; pandemic; parental; parenting; parents; participants; partners; possible; prevalence; psychological; psychological distress; qualitative; quality; quarantine; relational; relationship; research; reserved; respondents; responses; rights; risk; sample; sars; scale; scores; spain; spanish; stai; state; status; study; survey; table; telecommuting; themes; time; total; trait; triangulation; variables; weeks cache: cord-308493-3fsn7awq.txt plain text: cord-308493-3fsn7awq.txt item: #26 of 35 id: cord-311827-jfdlb2g8 author: Chen, L.-W. Antony title: Nonuniform impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality over the United States date: 2020-07-21 words: 1547 flesch: 48 summary: key: cord-311827-jfdlb2g8 authors: Chen, L.-W. Antony; Chien, Lung-Chang; Li, Yi; Lin, Ge title: Nonuniform impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality over the United States date: 2020-07-21 journal: Sci Total Environ DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141105 sha: doc_id: 311827 cord_uid: jfdlb2g8 Abstract Most of the state governments in United States (U.S.) issued lockdown or business restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, which created a unique opportunity to evaluate the air quality response to reduced economic activities. Such policies impact air quality through, most notably, declined non-essential transportation and energy consumption (Le Quéré et al., 2020) . keywords: air; covid-19; data; density; emissions; epa; home; local; lockdown; march; national; ncore; no2; pandemic; period; phase; population; public; quality; reductions; significant; sites; states; traffic; transportation; u.s; urban cache: cord-311827-jfdlb2g8.txt plain text: cord-311827-jfdlb2g8.txt item: #27 of 35 id: cord-318437-tzp33iw7 author: Lovrić, Mario title: Understanding the true effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on air pollution by means of machine learning() date: 2020-11-06 words: 2852 flesch: 46 summary: 192 The machine learning algorithm used was Random Forest regression (RF) (Breiman, 193 2001) which has been utilized in a number of previous air pollution models and air quality data shown in Figure 4 . [WWW Document Anteil der verkehrsbedingten PM10 und PM2,5 Emissionen aus Abrieb 541 und Wiederaufwirbelung an der Feinstaubbelastung in Österreich Assessing air quality changes in large cities during COVID-19 lockdowns: 545 keywords: activities; air; analysis; approach; austria; changes; china; cities; city; concentrations; covid-19; data; drop; economic; effects; et al; forest; graz; historical; increase; independent; industrial; italy; learning; lockdown; machine; measurement; models; period; pollutant; pollution; quality; random; reduction; results; sites; study; traffic; true; values; variables cache: cord-318437-tzp33iw7.txt plain text: cord-318437-tzp33iw7.txt item: #28 of 35 id: cord-324708-2ypm0d52 author: Kumar, Venkatesan Sampath title: Bone sarcoma surgery in times of COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown‐early experience from a tertiary centre in India date: 2020-07-13 words: 1861 flesch: 48 summary: Council on foreign relations COVID-19 pandemic: a litmus test of trust in the health system French sarcoma group proposals for management of sarcoma patients during the COVID-19 outbreak Surgical management of bone and soft tissue sarcomas and skeletal metastases during the COVID-19 pandemic Management of cancer surgery cases during the COVID-19 pandemic: considerations COVID-19: potential transmission through aerosols in surgical procedures and blood products Preparing for a COVID-19 pandemic: a review of operating room outbreak response measures in a large tertiary hospital in Singapore Survey of COVID-19 disease among orthopaedic surgeons in Wuhan, People's Republic of China Factors associated with local recurrence in operated osteosarcomas: a retrospective evaluation of 95 cases from a tertiary care center in a resource challenged environment Cancer guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic Document library Bone sarcoma surgery in times of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests. The present study is an evaluation of bone sarcoma patients operated during the lockdown period and their comparison to the cohort operated in the month immediately before the lockdown. keywords: blood; bone; care; checklist; covid-19; data; disease; elective; evidence; figure; follow; group; guidelines; hospital; local; lockdown; major; march; non; normal; pandemic; patients; period; procedures; results; sarcoma; study; surgeries; surgery; surgical; tertiary; test; times; tumour cache: cord-324708-2ypm0d52.txt plain text: cord-324708-2ypm0d52.txt item: #29 of 35 id: cord-330562-dabjcvno author: Poli, Piero title: The 2020 coronavirus lockdown and seismic monitoring of anthropic activities in Northern Italy date: 2020-06-10 words: 2679 flesch: 33 summary: We find that the lockdown reduces ambient noise significantly in the 1–10 Hz frequency range; because natural sources of seismic noise are not affected by the lockdown, the seismic signature of anthropic noise can be characterised with unprecedented clarity, by simply comparing the signal recorded before and after the lockdown. The reduction of social mixing in Italy following the lockdown Observations and modeling of seismic background noise Recent advances in seismology Spectral analysis of seismic noise induced by rivers: A new tool to monitor spatiotemporal changes in stream hydrodynamics Sources of long range anthropogenic noise in Southern California and implications for tectonic tremor detection Shear wave structural models of Venice Plain, Italy, from time cross correlation of seismic noise Train traffic as a powerful noise source for monitoring active faults with seismic interferometry Observation of equipartition of seismic waves Seismic velocity change patterns along the San Jacinto fault zone following the 2010 m 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah and m 5.4 Collins Valley earthquakes An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier Series ObsPy: A bridge for seismology into the scientific Python ecosystem Seismic Noise Analysis System, Power Spectral Density Probability Density Function: Stand-Alone Software Package. keywords: activities; ambient; ambient noise; analysis; anthropic; component; continuous; data; day; effects; energy; fig; frequencies; frequency; industrial; interest; italian; italy; lockdown; march; measures; milano; network; noise; non; northern; psd; range; ratio; reduction; results; seismic; signal; signature; sources; spectral; station; time; traffic; vehicle; waves; way cache: cord-330562-dabjcvno.txt plain text: cord-330562-dabjcvno.txt item: #30 of 35 id: cord-335272-jypxi99z author: Sharma, Anupam Joya title: A cross-sectional study of psychological wellbeing of Indian adults during the Covid-19 lockdown: Different strokes for different folks date: 2020-09-03 words: 9805 flesch: 49 summary: Moreover, both qualitative and quantitative study findings suggested that greater frequency of calling family members during lockdown could strengthen social relationships and increase social empathy. Therefore, we posit that persons belonging to the LGBT community could suffer from increased stress during lockdown. keywords: addiction; adults; ajs; analysis; anxiety; cases; change; consumption; covariates; covid-19; crisis; data; depression; different; empathy; family; findings; following; food; frequency; greater; group; health; heterosexuals; higher; history; impact; increase; indian; individuals; instance; internet; interviews; items; lgbt; life; likely; lives; lockdown; loneliness; male; masturbation; members; mental; minority; models; narratives; nature; number; old; ones; online; optimism; orientation; outcomes; pandemic; participants; people; physical; place; pornography; previous; psychological; qualitative; quality; relationships; resilience; responses; risk; sample; scale; score; self; sexual; sharing; situation; sleep; social; society; sociodemographic; state; stress; study; support; survey; symptoms; time; tulika; use; vulnerable; years cache: cord-335272-jypxi99z.txt plain text: cord-335272-jypxi99z.txt item: #31 of 35 id: cord-335679-dpssd1ha author: Rawson, T. title: How and when to end the COVID-19 lockdown: an optimisation approach date: 2020-05-02 words: 2574 flesch: 49 summary: In all considered instances (i.e. parameter variations), it will not be possible to end lockdown 289 for the entire population for any longer than two weeks, as the number of infected individuals is then expected to quickly 290 overwhelm the health service following such a release. In conclusion, using an optimal control methodology, we have shown that a gradual staggered release of individuals out 362 of lockdown is recommended to ensure that health systems are not overwhelmed by a surge in infected individuals. keywords: author; available; cases; copyright; covid-19; funder; gradual; health; holder; individuals; infected; infections; international; license; lockdown; medrxiv; model; number; optimal; peak; people; perpetuity; population; possible; preprint; quarantine; release; strategy; version cache: cord-335679-dpssd1ha.txt plain text: cord-335679-dpssd1ha.txt item: #32 of 35 id: cord-337516-hrcf2udq author: Dickens, Borame L. title: Modelling lockdown and exit strategies for COVID-19 in Singapore date: 2020-08-01 words: 4876 flesch: 44 summary: This is especially paramount as the number of cases beyond 365 days, although considerably lower than the initial peaks, still ranges from 6.51-513.21 cases per day for GRES strategies (Supplementary Table 3a ) and 4.94-90.03 for long term social distancing strategies (Supplementary Table 3b ) with the ongoing risk of secondary case spread from imported cases. The implementation of social distancing measures in Singapore has been progressive from 10 March with the rollout of gradually stricter recommendations and regulations [5] , leading to the implementation of a 'circuit breaker' [6] , or lockdown, on 7 April 2020 in response to rising autochthonous cases. keywords: asymptomatic; attack; baseline; cases; children; closure; community; contact; control; countries; covid-19; data; day; days; distancing; duration; early; effects; epidemic; exit; fig; final; gres; healthcare; impact; implementation; importation; individuals; infection; initial; isolation; limited; lockdown; long; measures; model; number; ongoing; peak; period; population; proportion; rates; reduction; school; secondary; singapore; size; social; start; strategies; strategy; study; supplementary; suppression; table; term; time; total; transmission; week; workplace cache: cord-337516-hrcf2udq.txt plain text: cord-337516-hrcf2udq.txt item: #33 of 35 id: cord-342622-jqmz0mkz author: Edomah, Norbert title: Energy transition in a lockdown: An analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on changes in electricity demand in Lagos Nigeria date: 2020-07-25 words: 3491 flesch: 42 summary: The industrial sector experienced a drop in electricity consumption from 2.02 MW to 1.41 MW while the residential sector experienced an increase in electricity consumption from 3.72 MW to 3.87 MW. From the data, it was also observed that there was an increase in total electricity consumption in the three weeks preceding the lockdown (under the business as usual scenario) from 3.37 MW through to 3.50 MW at the end of the third week. The study revealed that aside government announcement of the lockdown, certain social practices triggered changes in electricity consumption and use leading to momentary energy transition. keywords: business; change; commercial; consumption; covid-19; demand; different; electricity; electricity consumption; electricity demand; energy; fig; increase; industrial; lagos; lockdown; lockdown scenario; momentary; nigeria; pandemic; partial; practices; professional; residential; scenario; section; sector; services; social; study; systems; table; total; transition; use; usual; week cache: cord-342622-jqmz0mkz.txt plain text: cord-342622-jqmz0mkz.txt item: #34 of 35 id: cord-346664-ilebaqx3 author: Rahul title: Non-COVID Surgical Emergency During the Nationwide Lockdown due to Corona Pandemic: a Critical Appraisal date: 2020-08-10 words: 2677 flesch: 50 summary: Through this study, we intend to assess any change in number and pattern of non-COVID surgical emergencies during the lockdown as well as the interventions required. In group 2, an increase (17%) in number of patients was noted. keywords: care; cases; center; change; corona; coronavirus; covid; covid-19; days; department; disease; emergencies; emergency; facilities; group; health; healthcare; hospital; increase; india; infection; interventions; load; lockdown; lockdown period; majority; management; march; neurosurgical; non; number; pandemic; patients; period; services; significant; study; support; surgical; surgical emergencies cache: cord-346664-ilebaqx3.txt plain text: cord-346664-ilebaqx3.txt item: #35 of 35 id: cord-354475-im2py2or author: Ioanna, Giannopoulou title: Adding stress to the stressed: Senior high school students’ mental health amidst the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown in Greece. date: 2020-11-06 words: 3675 flesch: 35 summary: A two-stage multiple regression was conducted with depression symptoms severity score as the dependent variable. The present study reports the results from 442 last year senior high school students who completed an online survey (16-30 April 2020) concerning the lockdown impact on their mental health. keywords: adolescents; anxiety; baseline; confinement; covid-19; data; depression; distress; education; entrance; exams; experienced; greece; greek; health; high; home; item; levels; lockdown; measure; mental; national; nationwide; pandemic; panhellenic; patient; positive; questionnaire; rates; school; score; screen; self; senior; severe; severity; sex; stage; students; study; survey; symptoms; thoughts; time; university; weeks; year; young cache: cord-354475-im2py2or.txt plain text: cord-354475-im2py2or.txt