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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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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-94848612022-09-21 Sustainable policy: Don't get infected and don't infect others Takefuji, Yoshiyasu J Hazard Mater Adv Article 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. The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-11 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9484861/ /pubmed/36619825 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100165 Text en © 2022 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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