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Sustainable policy: Don't get infected and don't infect others

COVID-19 is an environmental policy problem. The goal of this paper is to show sustainable policies against the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical professionals tend to stick only to pharmacological approaches such as vaccination and boosting, but that is not sustainable. The scorecovid and hiscovid tools r...

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Autor principal: Takefuji, Yoshiyasu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9484861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36619825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100165
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Sumario:COVID-19 is an environmental policy problem. The goal of this paper is to show sustainable policies against the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical professionals tend to stick only to pharmacological approaches such as vaccination and boosting, but that is not sustainable. The scorecovid and hiscovid tools revealed that the sustainable and the best policy against COVID-19 is based on the mandatory test-and-isolation by law. Because COVID-19 variants have the ability to spike mutations and immune escape, pharmacological approaches such as vaccination alone cannot mitigate or end COVID-19. The scorecovid tool is a Python Package Index (PyPI) application for scoring individual policies against COVID-19. In scorecovid, scoring policies is calculated by dividing the number of deaths due to COVID-19 by the population in millions. The hiscovid tool was developed to identify mistakes by policymakers in order to monitor their policies in time-series scores. The lower the score, the better the policy.