Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries

V Kontis, JE Bennett, T Rashid, RM Parks… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed many social,
economic, environmental and healthcare determinants of health. We applied an ensemble …

COVID-19: A tale of two pandemics across the Asia Pacific region

DA Fitzgerald, GWK Wong - Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The widely diverse impacts of SAR-CoV-2 infection resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic
cannot be held in more stark relief when contrasting the devastating impact upon China …

A scoping review of international policy responses to mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic

C McCartan, T Adell, J Cameron, G Davidson… - Health Research Policy …, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's physical and mental health. Quarantine and
other lockdown measures have altered people's daily lives; levels of anxiety, depression …

Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for covid-19 and other emerging pandemic diseases

MG Baker, N Wilson, T Blakely - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for covid-19 and other emerging pandemic
diseases Page 1 Elimination could be the optimal response strategy for covid-19 and other …

Could masks curtail the post-lockdown resurgence of COVID-19 in the US?

CN Ngonghala, EA Iboi, AB Gumel - Mathematical biosciences, 2020 - Elsevier
The community lockdown measures implemented in the United States from late March to
late May of 2020 resulted in a significant reduction in the community transmission of the …

Comparisons between countries are essential for the control of COVID-19

N Pearce, DA Lawlor, EB Brickley - International journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Perhaps the biggest global difference has been the approach taken to the timing and
intensity of testing and social distancing. Learning from their experiences of the coronavirus …

Two routes to precarious success: Australia, New Zealand, COVID-19 and the politics of crisis governance

N Bromfield, A McConnell - International Review of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Australia and New Zealand are routinely presented as sharing more in common than the
federal and unitary systems separating them. As two modernising Antipodean settler …

Opportunity management of the COVID-19 pandemic: Testing the crisis from a global perspective

S Kuhlmann, G Bouckaert, D Galli… - International …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of COVID-19 crisis governance
in the first half of 2020 from a cross-country comparative perspective. It focuses on the issue …

[PDF][PDF] New Zealand's COVID-19 elimination strategy

MG Baker, A Kvalsvig, AJ Verrall, N Wellington - Med J Aust, 2020 - mja.com.au
New Zealand has implemented an elimination strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
Compared with the mitigation and suppression approaches used in most western countries …

COVID-19 and the portrayal of older people in New Zealand news media

T Morgan, J Wiles, L Williams, M Gott - … of the Royal Society of New …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
International epidemiological data have emphasised that COVID-19 poses a particular
threat to older adults. As media coverage plays an important, direct role in shaping official …