[HTML][HTML] The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic

JD Sachs, SSA Karim, L Aknin, J Allen, K Brosbøl… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Executive summary As of May 31, 2022, there were 6· 9 million reported deaths and 17· 2
million estimated deaths from COVID-19, as reported by the Institute for Health Metrics and …

A literature review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on covid-19 mortality-II

J Herby, L Jonung, S Hanke - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to determine the effect of
lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality based on available empirical evidence. Lockdowns are …

Excess death rates for republican and democratic registered voters in Florida and Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic

J Wallace, P Goldsmith-Pinkham… - JAMA Internal …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is evidence that Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19
death rates than Democratic-leaning counties and similar evidence of an association …

Protective face masks: current status and future trends

A Tuñón-Molina, K Takayama… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Management of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has relied in part on the use of personal protective equipment …

Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent

T Greenhalgh, D Fisman, DJ Cane, M Oliver… - BMJ Evidence-Based …, 2022 - ebm.bmj.com
Evidence-based medicine (EBM's) traditional methods, especially randomised controlled
trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses, along with risk-of-bias tools and checklists, have …

Effectiveness of face masks for reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a rapid systematic review

L Boulos, JA Curran, A Gallant… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This rapid systematic review of evidence asks whether (i) wearing a face mask,(ii) one type
of mask over another and (iii) mandatory mask policies can reduce the transmission of …

End COVID-19 in low-and middle-income countries

AM Mobarak, E Miguel, J Abaluck, A Ahuja, M Alsan… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Vaccines are changing the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in grossly uneven ways.
Low-and middleincome countries (LMICs) face considerable obstacles in both receiving and …

Medical masks versus N95 respirators for preventing COVID-19 among health care workers: a randomized trial

M Loeb, A Bartholomew, M Hashmi… - Annals of internal …, 2022 - acpjournals.org
Background: It is uncertain if medical masks offer similar protection against COVID-19
compared with N95 respirators. Objective: To determine whether medical masks are …

Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses

T Jefferson, L Dooley, E Ferroni… - Cochrane database …, 2023 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Viral epidemics or pandemics of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) pose a
global threat. Examples are influenza (H1N1) caused by the H1N1pdm09 virus in 2009 …

Canada's response to the initial 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison with peer countries

F Razak, S Shin, CD Naylor, AS Slutsky - CMAJ, 2022 - Can Med Assoc
• Compared with the other Group of 10 (G10) countries, Canada performed better than most
in terms of percentage of the population receiving 2 doses of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, and …