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Post EG, Anderson T, Samson O, Triplett AN, Gidley AD, Isono SS, Watters J, Donaldson AT, Finnoff JT, Adams WM. High rates of respiratory illnesses upon arrival: lessons from Team USA at the Santiago 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games. Br J Sports Med 2024:bjsports-2024-108384. [PMID: 38981662 DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2024-108384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/11/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence and characteristics of injuries and illnesses among Team USA athletes competing at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games (PAG) and Parapan American Games (PPAG), with a particular focus on the incidence of respiratory illnesses and on injuries for sports new to the Olympic and Paralympic programmes. METHODS Illnesses and injuries occurring among the 870 Team USA athletes competing in the Santiago 2023 PAG or PPAG were documented within Team USA's Injury and Illness Surveillance system. Illness and injury incidence per 1000 athlete-days (ADs) and incidence ratios (IR) were calculated, both with 95% CIs. RESULTS Illness (IR 2.5, 95% CI 1.6, 3.9) and injury (IR 1.8, 95% CI 1.3, 2.5) rates were greater during PPAG compared with PAG. Illness rates were higher in the pre-opening ceremony period compared with the competition period for both PAG (IR 2.7, 95% CI 1.1, 5.9) and PPAG (IR 1.9, 95% CI 0.9, 3.8). Respiratory illness was the most common illness with 3.2% and 8.9% of all Team USA athletes reporting a respiratory illness during the PAG and PPAG, respectively. Sports that are relatively new to the Olympic/Paralympic programmes exhibited the highest injury rates during the Games: breaking (250.0 (91.7, 544.2) per 1000 ADs), Para taekwondo (93.8 (19.3, 274.0) per 1000 ADs) and surfing (88.9 (24.2, 227.6) per 1000 ADs). CONCLUSION Respiratory illness rates were the most common type of illness during both PAG and PPAG and were more likely to occur prior to competition starting. Our data have identified high injury risk populations (breaking, surfing, Para taekwondo) and timing (pre-opening ceremony period) for further risk factor analysis.
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- Eric G Post
- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Department of Kinesiology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK
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Larson EG, Hasley I, Post EG, Cali MG, Clark SC, McPherson AL, Noble-Taylor KE, Robinson DM, Anderson T, Finnoff J, Adams WM. Incidence of staff injury and illness at the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Games. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med 2024; 10:e001835. [PMID: 38645762 PMCID: PMC11029204 DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024] Open
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Objective To report epidemiological data regarding injury and illness among the Team USA staff during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Methods A retrospective review of all Team USA staff (total staff, N=1703 (62.5% female); total staff days (SD)=34 489) medical encounters during the Tokyo 2020 Games and Beijing 2022 Games was conducted. Details related to injury and illness were evaluated. Incidence with 95% CI per 1000 staff days were calculated. Results A total of 32 illnesses (incidence [95% CI] 0.9 [0.6, 1.2]) and 23 injuries (incidence 0.7 [0.4, 0.9]) were sustained by the Team USA delegation staff members during the Tokyo 2020 Games and Beijing 2022 Games. Female staff reported more illnesses (illnesses proportion (IP) 2.9%; incidence 1.4 [0.8, 2.0]), while male staff incurred more injuries (IP 1.8%; incidence 0.9 [0.5, 1.3]). When stratified by physiological system, dermatological and infectious were the most common systems involved with illness (IP 0.5%; incidence 0.2 [0.1, 0.4]). Injuries to the upper limb were most common (IP 0.3%; incidence 0.3 [0.1, 0.5]). Conclusion Injury and illness rates among the Team USA staff during the Tokyo 2020 Games and Beijing 2022 Games were low, but notable. Knowledge of injury and illness risks contributes to staffing decisions and prevention strategies for staff supporting athletes during competition.
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- Emily G Larson
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Summit Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Woodbury, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Steadman Philippon Research Institute, Vail, Colorado, USA
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- Family Medicine, Rehabilitation and Performance Medicine Swedish Medical Group, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Emory Sports Performance and Research Center (SPARC), Flowery Branch, Georgia, USA
- Department of Orthopedics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Sports Medicine, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Department of Kinesiology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
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Al-Thani H, Al Musleh AA, Khan NA, Asim M, Abdurahiman S, Morad YA, Massey A, El-Menyar A. FIFA Arab Cup tournament with full capacity of spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study. SCI MED FOOTBALL 2023; 7:337-346. [PMID: 35950342 DOI: 10.1080/24733938.2022.2110276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND We sought to assess the risk of COVID-19 and seasonal flu including respiratory syncytial (RSV) and influenza viruses during the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 in Qatar with full capacity of spectators. We also, evaluated the post-event attitude toward resumption of mass football events. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study in which spectators (age ≥ 18 years) were invited for reverse-transcription PCR testing for COVID-19 and seasonal flu. At the same time, between 7 and 14 days after the event, the participants completed a self-administered questionnaire regarding their concerns during the tournament. RESULTS The tournament included 16 international football teams from the Arab countries. As per the study protocol, 10,000 spectators were approached and 6,475 participated. Among the participants, 4,195 (65.1%), 2,253 (34.9%) and 27 (0.4%) were vaccinated with 2 doses, vaccinated with 3 doses, and recovered from SARS-Cov-2 infection, respectively. There were 61 (0.9%), 41(0.6%) and 11(0.2%) participants who tested positive for COVID-19, RSV and influenza (A/B), respectively. The average cycle threshold (Ct) value for COVID-19 positive cases was 26.1±7.3. Among those who were electronically approached, 6,102 completed the survey whereas 373 had incomplete survey. Overall, 2069 (33.9%) participants reported symptoms that theoretically could be related to COVID-19, of them 39 had positive PCR test (1.9%). Spectators (94.3%) were optimistic about returning sport events to the pre-pandemic status. CONCLUSIONS There was no significant increase in the daily COVID-19 cases during FIFA Arab Cup 2021 with a full capacity of spectators. Therefore, upcoming mass football events can be held safely.
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- Hassan Al-Thani
- Department of Surgery, Trauma and Vascular Surgery, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Surgery, Trauma &vascular Clinical Research, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Surgery, Trauma &vascular Clinical Research, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Clinical Information Systems (CIS); Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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- Corporate Project management, Primary Health Care Corporation &Corporate Project Management Office, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Medicine, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Surgery, Trauma &vascular Clinical Research, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar
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Tanaka H, Tanaka S, Yokota H, Otomo Y, Masuno T, Nakano K, Sugita M, Tokunaga T, Sugimoto K, Inoue J, Kato N, Kinoshi T, Sakanashi S, Inoue H, Numata H, Nakagawa K, Miyamoto T, Akama T. Acute in-competition medical care at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: a retrospective analysis. Br J Sports Med 2023; 57:1361-1370. [PMID: 37055080 DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2022-105778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To analyse injuries and illnesses during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games. METHODS This retrospective descriptive study included 11 420 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees and 312 883 non-athletes. Incidences of injuries and illnesses during the competition period from 21 July to 8 August 2021 were analysed. RESULTS A total of 567 athletes (416 injuries, 51 non-heat-related illnesses and 100 heat-related illnesses) and 541 non-athletes (255 injuries, 161 non-heat-related illnesses and 125 heat-related illnesses) were treated at the competition venue clinic. Patient presentation and hospital transportation rates per 1000 athletes were 50 and 5.8, respectively. Marathons and race walking had the highest incidence of injury and illness overall (17.9%; n=66). The highest incidence of injury (per participant) was noted in boxing (13.8%; n=40), sport climbing (12.5%; n=5) and skateboarding (11.3%; n=9), excluding golf, with the highest incidence of minor injuries. Fewer infectious illnesses than previous Summer Olympics were reported among the participants. Of the 100 heat-related illnesses in athletes, 50 occurred in the marathon and race walking events. Only six individuals were transported to a hospital due to heat-related illness, and none required hospital admission. CONCLUSION Injuries and heat-related illnesses were lower than expected at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games. No catastrophic events occurred. Appropriate preparation including illness prevention protocols, and treatment and transport decisions at each venue by participating medical personnel may have contributed to these positive results.
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- Hideharu Tanaka
- Graduate School of Emergency Medical System, Kokushikan University, Tama, Japan
- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Institute of Disaster Management and EMS, Kokushikan University, Tama, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Graduate School of Health and Medical Science, Nippon Sport Science University, Setagaya-ku, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Emergency Department, Saitama City Hospital, Saitama, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Emergency Life Saving Academy Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Sports Medicine, Kokushikan University, Tama, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Emergency and Critical Care Center, Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Emergency and Critical Care Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
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- Graduate School of Emergency Medical System, Kokushikan University, Tama, Japan
- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Emergency Medical System, Kokushikan University, Tama, Japan
- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Emergency Medical System, Kokushikan University, Tama, Japan
- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Sports Medicine, Kokushikan University, Tama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Emergency Medical System, Kokushikan University, Tama, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
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- Medical Services Department, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan
- Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan
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Ambrus M, Fodor E, Berki T, Müller V, Uhlár Á, Hornyák I, Lacza Z. Professional Athletes Maintain High TNF-Alpha or IFN-Gamma Related Inflammatory Status after Recovering from COVID-19 Infection without Developing a Neutralizing Antibody Response. Sports (Basel) 2023; 11:sports11050097. [PMID: 37234053 DOI: 10.3390/sports11050097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Revised: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Professional athletes are endangered by COVID-19 and belong to the high-risk population due to their lifestyle. To obtain information on the behavior of COVID-19 in professional athletes, serological, cytokine, and virus neutralization capacities were analyzed. MATERIALS AND METHODS Hungarian national teams participated in international sports events during the early phases of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020. Altogether, 29 professional athletes volunteered to donate plasma. Their serological status was evaluated by IgA, IgM, and IgG ELISAs and the highest virus neutralization titer in an in vitro live tissue assay. Plasma cytokine patterns were analyzed with a Bioplex multiplex ELISA system. RESULTS Surprisingly, only one athlete (3%) had anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG, while IgA was more common (31%). Neither plasma showed direct virus neutralization in a titer over 1:10; hence, they were not suitable for reconvalescent treatment. The 'cytokine storm' markers IL-6 and IL-8 were at baseline levels. In contrast, either the TNF-alpha-related cytokines or the IFN-gamma-associated cytokines were elevated. There was a strong negative correlation between the TNF-alpha- or IFN-gamma-related cytokines. CONCLUSIONS Professional athletes are susceptible to the SARS-CoV-2 infection without developing long-term immunity through neutralizing immunoglobulins. Elevated secretory and cellular immunity markers indicate that these systems are probably responsible for virus elimination in this subpopulation.
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- Mira Ambrus
- Research Center for Sport Physiology, Hungarian University of Sports Sciences, 1123 Budapest, Hungary
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- Research Center for Sport Physiology, Hungarian University of Sports Sciences, 1123 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Immunology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Clinic of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, 1083 Budapest, Hungary
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- Research Center for Sport Physiology, Hungarian University of Sports Sciences, 1123 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary
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- Research Center for Sport Physiology, Hungarian University of Sports Sciences, 1123 Budapest, Hungary
- Institute of Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, 1094 Budapest, Hungary
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Soligard T, Palmer D, Steffen K, Lopes AD, Grek N, Onishi K, Shimakawa T, Grant ME, Mountjoy M, Budgett R, Engebretsen L. New sports, COVID-19 and the heat: sports injuries and illnesses in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Br J Sports Med 2022; 57:bjsports-2022-106155. [PMID: 36588430 DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2022-106155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence of injuries and illnesses sustained during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games from 23 July to 8 August 2021. METHODS We recorded the daily number of athlete injuries and illnesses (1) through the reporting of all National Olympic Committee (NOC) medical teams and (2) in the polyclinic and medical venues by the Tokyo 2020 medical staff. RESULTS In total, 11 315 athletes (5423 women, 48%; 5892 men, 52%) from 206 NOCs were followed up prospectively for the occurrence of injury and illness. NOC and Tokyo 2020 medical staff reported 1035 injuries and 438 illnesses, equalling 9.1 injuries and 3.9 illnesses per 100 athletes over the 17-day period. Altogether, 9% of the athletes incurred at least one injury and 4% at least one illness. The incidence of injury was highest in boxing (27%), BMX racing (27%), BMX freestyle (22%), skateboarding (21%), karate (19%) and handball (18%), of which both BMX freestyle and skateboarding were new events, and lowest in diving, road cycling, rowing, marathon swimming and shooting (1-2%). Marathon and artistic swimming presented the highest illness incidences (both 8%), followed by skateboarding and karate (both 7%). In the study period, COVID-19 affected 18 athletes, accounting for 4% of all illnesses and 0.16% of all athletes. Exertional heat illness affected 78 athletes (18% of all illnesses, 0.7% of all athletes), the majority (88%) resulting in no time lost from sport. CONCLUSION Overall, 9% of the athletes incurred an injury and 4% an illness during the Games. Comprehensive countermeasures helped mitigate both COVID-19 and exertional heat illnesses.
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- Torbjørn Soligard
- Medical and Scientific Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Edinburgh Sports Medicine Research Network, University of Edinburgh Institute for Sport Physical Education and Health Sciences, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Rheumatology, Orthopaedics and Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yaesekai Doujin Hospital, Okinawa, Japan
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- Institute of Sport and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Medical and Scientific Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Medical and Scientific Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Oslo, Norway
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A network analysis and support vector regression approaches for visualising and predicting the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia. HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS 2022; 2:100080. [PMID: 37520622 PMCID: PMC9293790 DOI: 10.1016/j.health.2022.100080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Revised: 07/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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This study aims to (1) correlate and visualise the Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic spread via Spearman rank coefficients of network analysis (NA) and (2) predict the cumulative number of COVID-19 confirmed and death cases via support vector regression (SVR) based on COVID-19 dataset in Malaysia between July 2020 to June 2021. The NA indicated increasing connectivity between different states throughout the time frame, revealing the most complex network of COVID-19 transmission in the second quarter of 2021. The SVR model predicted future COVID-19 cases and deaths in Malaysia in the second half of 2021. The study demonstrated that the NA and SVR could provide relatively simple yet valuable artificial intelligence techniques for visualising the degree of connectivity and predicting pandemic risk based on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. The Malaysian health authorities used the NA and SVR model results for preventive measures in highly populated states.
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Gričar S, Bojnec Š. Did Human Microbes Affect Tourist Arrivals before the COVID-19 Shock? Pre-Effect Forecasting Model for Slovenia. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:13482. [PMID: 36294060 PMCID: PMC9603530 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192013482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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In 2020, with a substantial decline in tourist arrivals slightly before the time of COVID-19, the innovative econometric approach predicted possible responses between the spread of human microbes (bacteria/viruses) and tourist arrivals. The article developed a conceptually tested econometric model for predicting an exogenous shock on tourist arrivals driven by the spread of disease using a time series approach. The reworked study is based on an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to avoid spurious results. The periods of robust empirical study were obtained from the data vectors i) from January 2008 to December 2018 and ii) from January 2008 to December 2020. The data were obtained from the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. The ARIMA model predicted the number of declines in tourist arrivals for the approaching periods due to the spread of viruses. Before the outbreak of COVID-19, pre-pandemic results confirmed a one-fifth drop in tourist arrivals in the medium term. In the short term, the decline could be more than three-quarters. A further shock can be caused by forecasted bacterial infections; less likely to reduce tourist demand in the long term. The results can improve the evidence for public health demand in risk reduction for tourists as possible patients. The data from the NIPH are crucial for monitoring public health and tourism management as a base for predictions of unknown events.
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- Sergej Gričar
- Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, University of Novo Mesto, Na Loko 2, 8000 Novo Mesto, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Izolska Vrata 2, 6000 Koper, Slovenia
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Parvez MO, Öztüren A, Cobanoglu C, Arasli H, Eluwole KK. Employees' perception of robots and robot-induced unemployment in hospitality industry under COVID-19 pandemic. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT 2022; 107:103336. [PMID: 36090958 PMCID: PMC9444506 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The impact of the pandemic is driving the recent upsurge in service automation and the adoption of service robots in the hospitality industry. As service paradigm and customer expectations shift from conventional customized and personalized services towards a digitalized service environment, such customer orientation may favor using service robots at scales that could render service employees redundant. This study aims to answer the above question by investigating service employees' perceptions of service robots. Data solicited from 405 service employees in the United States of America via Amazon's MTurk were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The result revealed that employees' awareness of adopting and using service robots significantly impacts their perception of robot-induced unemployment. Further, results indicated that the perception of robots' social skills significantly influences service employees' perception of robot-induced unemployment. Employee status was found to moderate the relationships mentioned above. Specifically, entry-level employees perceive the unemployment risk more than managers.
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- M Omar Parvez
- Muma College of Business, University of South Florida, USA
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- Faculty of Tourism, Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC, Famagusta, Turkey
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- Muma College of Business, University of South Florida, USA
- National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Taiwan
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- Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey
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Sah R, Alshahrani NZ, Shah P, Mohanty A, Rouniyar R, Shah S, Padhi BK, Amer FA, Mayta-Tristan P, Rodriguez-Morales AJ. FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar: Mitigating the risk of imported infections amid the COVID-19 pandemic, monkeypox outbreak and other emerging diseases. Travel Med Infect Dis 2022; 50:102450. [PMID: 36084882 PMCID: PMC9444849 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Ranjit Sah
- Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal; Research Scholar, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, India
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- Nepalese Army Institute of Health Science-College of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India
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- Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Chair of Viral Infection Working Group, International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (VIWG/ISAC), Zagazig, Egypt
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- Master of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, 4861, Peru
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- Master of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, 4861, Peru; Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, 660003, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Latin American Networks on Monkeypox Virus Research (LAMOVI), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
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A North–South Problem in Civic-Tech and Volunteered Geographic Information as Countermeasures of COVID-19: A Brief Overview. SN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2022; 3:396. [PMID: 35911438 PMCID: PMC9311343 DOI: 10.1007/s42979-022-01262-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hirata A, Kodera S, Diao Y, Rashed EA. Did the Tokyo Olympic Games enhance the transmission of COVID-19? An interpretation with machine learning. Comput Biol Med 2022; 146:105548. [PMID: 35537221 PMCID: PMC9040411 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 04/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND In the summer of 2021, the Olympic Games were held in Tokyo during the state of emergency due to the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. New daily positive cases (DPC) increased before the Olympic Games, and then decreased a few weeks after the Games. However, several cofactors influencing DPC exist; consequently, careful consideration is needed for future international events during an epidemic. METHODS The impact of the Olympic Games on new DPC were evaluated in the Tokyo, Osaka, and Aichi Prefectures using a well-trained and -evaluated long short-term memory (LSTM) network. In addition, we proposed a compensation method based on effective reproduction number (ERN) to assess the effect of the national holidays on the DPC. RESULTS During the spread phase, the estimated DPC with LSTM was 30%-60% lower than that of the observed value, but was consistent with the compensated value of the ERN for the three prefectures. During the decay phase, the estimated DPC was consistent with the observed values. The timing of the decay coincided with achievement of a fully-vaccinated rate of 10%-15% of people aged <65 years. CONCLUSIONS The up- and downsurge of the pandemic wave observed in July and September are likely attributable to high ERN during national holiday periods and to the vaccination effect, especially for people aged <65 years. The effect of national holidays in Tokyo was rather notable in Aichi and Osaka, which are distant from Tokyo. The effect of the Olympic Games on the spread and decay of the pandemic wave is neither dominant nor negligible due to the shifting of the national holiday dates to coincide with the Olympic Games.
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- Akimasa Hirata
- Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan,Center of Biomedical Physics and Information Technology, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan,Corresponding author.Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science, University of Hyogo, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan
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Investigation of the Relationship Between Athletes' Anxiety About Catching Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Their Attitudes Towards Nutrition. JOURNAL OF BASIC AND CLINICAL HEALTH SCIENCES 2022. [DOI: 10.30621/jbachs.1072746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Lockdowns and Physical Activities: Sports in the Time of COVID. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19042175. [PMID: 35206369 PMCID: PMC8872075 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19042175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Revised: 02/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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As aging causes challenges in several countries globally, more and more people are suffering from bad health conditions. Nowadays, COVID-19 causes many problems—and one of the root causes of these problems is the isolation of people from each other. The aim of our article is to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on people’s physical activity. Physical activity is strongly correlated with health status and health preservation is very important to minimize the negative effects of the pandemic. In order to investigate this topic, we prepared an extended literature review, citing the most important sources of COVID-related health-preservation issues. Our results showed that the negative economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic have caused a decrease in physical activities in several cases. A reduction in possible physical activities has a potential negative effect on the life expectancies of elderly people. In order to underline the importance of physical activities, we prepared an extended literature review, aiming to summarize the available knowledge related to COVID-19. As a conclusion we recommend to strengthen, maintain, and develop available sporting possibilities for people. The most important of these recommendations is the development of physical activities that are available for free.
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Sedeaud A, De Larochelambert Q, Schipman J, Toussaint JF. The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Away and Home Victories in Soccer and Rugby Union. Front Sports Act Living 2021; 3:695922. [PMID: 34734180 PMCID: PMC8560007 DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2021.695922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective: To measure the impact of restrictions due to COVID on the proportion of matches won at home, away and draw in professional soccer and rugby union. Materials and Methods: Two samples of professional soccer and rugby union matches were collected from 2012–13 to 2020–21 seasons. For soccer, data involved first and second division matches of the England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Scotland, Greece, Portugal, and Turkey championships. For rugby union, championships concerned are Premiership Rugby, Celtic League, Top 14, and Pro D2. The proportions of home, away wins and draw were calculated and compared. A chi-square test of independence between years and types of result was realized to identify an overall inhomogeneity. Results: The proportion of away matches won between the 2012–13 and 2020–21 seasons increased significantly from 28.5 ± 1.2% to 32.5 ± 1.5% in soccer and from 38.0 ± 3.6% to 42.8 ± 5.0% in rugby union. In Premiership Rugby championship, the victory percentage at home dropped from 55.8 ± 3.1% when tifosi were present to 45.8 ± 12.8% when they were not. Conclusion: The home advantage was drastically reduced in empty stadiums for several European soccer and rugby union professional championships. It vanished in the Premiership Rugby and Celtic League during the 2020–21 season.
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- Adrien Sedeaud
- EA7329 Institut de Recherche BioMédical et d'Epidémiologie du Sport (IRMES), Paris, France.,Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP), Paris, France
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- EA7329 Institut de Recherche BioMédical et d'Epidémiologie du Sport (IRMES), Paris, France.,Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP), Paris, France
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- EA7329 Institut de Recherche BioMédical et d'Epidémiologie du Sport (IRMES), Paris, France.,Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP), Paris, France
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- EA7329 Institut de Recherche BioMédical et d'Epidémiologie du Sport (IRMES), Paris, France.,Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP), Paris, France.,Centre d'Investigation en Médecine du Sport, Paris, France
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McLarnon M, Heron N. The COVID-19 athlete passport: a tool for managing athlete COVID-19 status surrounding the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games. PHYSICIAN SPORTSMED 2021; 49:367-370. [PMID: 33535866 DOI: 10.1080/00913847.2021.1885964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Michael McLarnon
- School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Queens University Belfast, Institute of Clinical Science B, Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, Antrim, UK
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- School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Queens University Belfast, Institute of Clinical Science B, Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, Antrim, UK.,Centre for Public Health Research, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.,Centre for Public Health, UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research (NI), Belfast, UK.,Department of General Practice, Keele University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
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Abdel-Haq N, Asmar BI. Fever in the Returned Pediatric Traveler. Glob Pediatr Health 2021; 8:2333794X211026188. [PMID: 34423077 PMCID: PMC8375340 DOI: 10.1177/2333794x211026188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Global mobility has been steadily increasing in recent years. The assessment of the febrile child returning from international travel is a diagnostic challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected international travel and made evaluation and management of the sick returned traveler more challenging. Children visiting friends and relatives abroad remain at higher risk of infection compared to tourists. This review presents a guidance on the initial assessment of a traveling febrile child including interpretation of medical history, physical examination, and laboratory findings. Important clues to etiology include exposure to different infectious agents, incubation periods of pathogens, and prophylaxis regimens and vaccines received. Early identification of potentially life-threatening and highly contagious infections is essential. In this article, we discuss the epidemiology, evaluation, and management of specific travel related infections such as malaria, typhoid fever, dengue fever, viral hemorrhagic fever, rickettsiosis, leptospirosis, schistosomiasis, gastrointestinal, and respiratory infections.
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- Nahed Abdel-Haq
- Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA
- Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
- Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA
- Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
- Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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Societal Changes Due to “COVID-19”. An Analysis of the Tourism Sector of Galicia, Spain. SUSTAINABILITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/su13158449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented global health and economic crisis started. This situation has had a devastating effect on all economic and social sectors, provoking either a decrease or cessation of business or profound changes in life habits. One of the most affected industries has been tourism, due to the resulting travel restrictions and a sharp drop in demand among travellers as well as temporary hotel and restaurant closures. Thus, the primary purpose of this study is to analyse the changes during the pandemic in individual consumers’ behaviour patterns in the tourism sector. Predictive market research techniques through quantitative analysis were carried out via surveys (n = 712). One of the more significant findings to emerge from this study is that recollection of these times will be in people’s minds for a long time after the pandemic. Notably, tourists will reward safety over leisure and will continue to undertake independent tours with their own vehicles. Findings also proved—and for the tourism sector this is good news—that travellers’ trust will be rebuilt, and tourists will be travelling again.
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Hashimoto T, Ozaki A, Bhandari D, Sawano T, Murayama A, Shrestha S, Sah R, Tanimoto T, Montenegro-Idrogo JJ, Rodriguez-Morales AJ. Limited capacity of SARS-CoV-2 variants testing in Japan: A secondary analysis using publicly available data. Travel Med Infect Dis 2021; 43:102145. [PMID: 34298174 PMCID: PMC8294103 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Revised: 07/18/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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- Takanao Hashimoto
- Department of Pharmacy, Sendai City Medical Center, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan; Medical Governance Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan
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- School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 47500, Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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- Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Service of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, Lima, Peru; Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru
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- Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru; Grupo de Investigacion Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Américas, Pereira, Colombia; Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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Jewett RL, Mah SM, Howell N, Larsen MM. Social Cohesion and Community Resilience During COVID-19 and Pandemics: A Rapid Scoping Review to Inform the United Nations Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES : PLANNING, ADMINISTRATION, EVALUATION 2021; 51:325-336. [PMID: 33827308 PMCID: PMC8204038 DOI: 10.1177/0020731421997092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Shock events uncover deficits in social cohesion and exacerbate existing social inequalities at the household, community, local, regional, and national levels. National and regional government recovery planning requires careful stakeholder engagement that centers on marginalized people, particularly women and marginalized community leaders. The aim of this rapid scoping review was to inform the United Nations Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery, based on Pillar 5 of the United Nations Framework for the Immediate Socioeconomic Response to COVID-19: Social Cohesion and Community Resilience. We present a summary of key concepts across the literature that helped situate this review. The results include a description of the state of the science and a review of themes identified as being crucial to sustainable and equitable recovery planning by the United Nations. The role of social cohesion during a disaster, particularly its importance for upstream planning and relationship building before a disaster occurs, is not well understood and is a promising area of future research. Understanding the applicability of social cohesion measurement methodologies and outcomes across different communities and geographies, as well as the development of new and relevant instruments and techniques, is urgently needed in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS),
Jacobs University
Bremen, Germany
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Han Q, Li X, Wang Z. How Should Athletes Coping With COVID-19: Focus on Severity and Psychological Support. Front Psychol 2021; 12:559125. [PMID: 34248725 PMCID: PMC8264358 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.559125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Objective: Athletes are suffering from many uncertainties and hope to achieve the best possible position under the current circumstances of this global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In this study, we aimed to address the severity and psychological support for athletes with COVID-19. Methods: We extracted public data and news reports of the up-to-date first seven cases of elite athletes with COVID-19 confirmed in China and made psychological recommendations based on scientific evidence. Results: The severity and mortality in athletes who tested positive to COVID-19 are mild and extremely low. The included cases from different sports are two soccer players, two athletes from ice hockey, and three from fencing. In this study, we adapted well-recognized psychological questionnaires, improvised it for athletes to use under the COVID-19 pandemic, and also provided recommended psychological support. Conclusion: The severity and mortality in Chinese athletes contracted with COVID-19 are mild and low with zero death. Psychological support of any kind from nurses, team medical staff, psychologists, family, and friends through social media and telecommunication should be adopted and can be of great help.
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- Qi Han
- Sport Science College, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China.,Department of Sports Nutrition Research Center, National Research Institute of Sports Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Sport Science College, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China.,Department of Academic Affairs, Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.,School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China
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LA Torre A, Vitale JA, Codella R, Filipa S L. Road to Tokyo 2020: has this atypical 5-year Olympic cycle represented an opportunity? J Sports Med Phys Fitness 2021; 61:1039-1041. [PMID: 34156182 DOI: 10.23736/s0022-4707.21.12715-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Antonio LA Torre
- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy - .,IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy -
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.,Department of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS MultiMedica, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.,Department of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, IRCCS MultiMedica, Milan, Italy
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Aref ZF, Bazeed SEES, Hassan MH, Hassan AS, Rashad A, Hassan RG, Abdelmaksoud AA. Clinical, Biochemical and Molecular Evaluations of Ivermectin Mucoadhesive Nanosuspension Nasal Spray in Reducing Upper Respiratory Symptoms of Mild COVID-19. Int J Nanomedicine 2021; 16:4063-4072. [PMID: 34163159 PMCID: PMC8215847 DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s313093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Ivermectin is an FDA-approved broad-spectrum anti-parasitic agent that has been shown to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro. OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the therapeutic efficacy of ivermectin mucoadhesive nanosuspension intranasal spray in treatment of patients with mild COVID-19. METHODS This clinical trial included 114 patients diagnosed as mild COVID-19. Patients were divided randomly into two age and sex-matched groups; group A comprising 57 patients received ivermectin nanosuspension nasal spray twice daily plus the Egyptian protocol of treatment for mild COVID-19 and group B comprising 57 patients received the Egyptian protocol for mild COVID-19 only. Evaluation of the patients was performed depending on improvement of presenting manifestations, negativity of two consecutive pharyngeal swabs for the COVID-19 nucleic acid via rRT-PCR and assessments of hematological and biochemical parameters in the form of complete blood counts, C-reactive protein, serum ferritin and d-dimer which were performed at presentation and 7 days later. RESULTS Of the included patients confirmed with mild COVID-19, 82 were males (71.9%) and 32 females (28.1%) with mean age 45.1 ± 18.9. In group A, 54 patients (94.7%) achieved 2 consecutive negative PCR nasopharyngeal swabs in comparison to 43 patients (75.4%) in group B with P = 0.004. The durations of fever, cough, dyspnea and anosmia were significantly shorter in group A than group B, without significant difference regarding the duration of gastrointestinal symptoms. Duration taken for nasopharyngeal swab to be negative was significantly shorter in group A than in group B (8.3± 2.8 days versus 12.9 ± 4.3 days; P = 0.0001). CONCLUSION Local use of ivermectin mucoadhesive nanosuspension nasal spray is safe and effective in treatment of patients with mild COVID-19 with rapid viral clearance and shortening the anosmia duration. CLINICALTRIALSGOV IDENTIFIER NCT04716569; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04716569.
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- Zaki F Aref
- ENT Department, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
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- Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medicine, South Vally University, Qena, Egypt
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- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
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Zaborova V, Gurevich K, Chigirintseva O, Gavrilov V, Rybakov V. Pandemical Influence on Athletic Events and Communications in Sport. Front Sports Act Living 2021; 3:653291. [PMID: 33898987 PMCID: PMC8060475 DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2021.653291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Victoria Zaborova
- I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
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- UNESCO Chair, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia
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- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
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- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
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Will the Consequences of Covid-19 Trigger a Redefining of the Role of Transport in the Development of Sustainable Tourism? SUSTAINABILITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/su13041887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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As there are very marked relationships between tourism and transport, integrated knowledge of these processes is essential if destinations and tourism enterprises are to be developed, an effective tourism policy pursued, and emerging local and global issues and conflicts surrounding tourism resolved. Beyond this, in an era of huge change reflecting the consequences of the COVID-19 viral pandemic, the importance of sustainable transport in tourism’s sustainable development appears to be of critical importance. Adopting this kind of perspective, this paper seeks to achieve a critical overview of conceptual dimensions of sustainability that link up with tourism and transport. To this end, ideas based on the literature and previous discussions are extended to include certain new propositions arising out of a (hopefully) post-COVID-19 world. Proceeding first with a systematic literature review (SLR), this article discusses the importance of transport to the development of tourism, dealing critically with modes of transport and their changing roles in sustainable development under COVID and post-COVID circumstances. The author summarises likely new way(s) of thinking in the aftermath of the pandemic, with the need for this/these to be far more sustainable and responsible, and characterised by a reorientation of behaviour in a “green” direction. It is further concluded that three aspects of transport–tourism relations will prove crucial to more sustainable utilisation—i.e., proximity, slower and less energy-intensive travel, and green transport.
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Santi G, Quartiroli A, Costa S, di Fronso S, Montesano C, Di Gruttola F, Ciofi EG, Morgilli L, Bertollo M. The Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Coaches' Perception of Stress and Emotion Regulation Strategies. Front Psychol 2021; 11:601743. [PMID: 33584438 PMCID: PMC7874101 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.601743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The recent global outspread of the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the lives of people across multiple countries including athletes, coaches, and supporting staff. Along with everybody else, coaches found themselves constrained to an at-home self-isolation, which limited their ability to normally engage with their profession and to interact with their athletes. This situation may also have impacted their own psychological well-being. With this study, we explored coaches’ perceptions of stress in relation to their emotion regulation strategies depending upon their gender and competitive level (elite vs. non-elite). A sample of 2272 Italian coaches were surveyed during the period of lockdown. Mean values for perceived stress and emotion regulation strategies were compared to normative data of the two instruments as reported in the original studies. Furthermore, two Multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) were completed to observe the potential differences in the coaches’ emotion regulation strategies and perception of stress. Finally, a blockwise regression analysis was run to assess how coaches’ emotion regulation strategies impacted upon their perception of stress. Both women and men reported higher levels of perceived stress than those reported in the normative data. Similarly, average scores for emotion regulation strategies were significantly different from those reported for normative data, in particular, coaches reported slightly higher use of emotion regulation strategies than participants in the original study. Significant gender-based differences emerged in terms of emotional regulations, with men adopting more suppression than women. No differences by competitive level were found. In terms of perceived stress, male coaches and elite coaches showed to be more in control of the situation (positive stress) than female coaches and non-elite coaches, respectively, while women experienced more negative stress than men. The blockwise regression evidenced how reappraisal resulted to be predictive in helping coaches to reduce their perception of stress, while suppression predicted higher stress perceptions.
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- Giampaolo Santi
- Department for Life Quality Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Behavioral Imaging and Neural Dynamics Center, Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Behavioral Imaging and Neural Dynamics Center, Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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Håkansson A, Moesch K, Jönsson C, Kenttä G. Potentially Prolonged Psychological Distress from Postponed Olympic and Paralympic Games during COVID-19-Career Uncertainty in Elite Athletes. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 18:E2. [PMID: 33374935 PMCID: PMC7792570 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18010002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on the world of sports due to periods of home quarantine, bans against public gatherings, travel restrictions, and a large number of postponed or canceled major sporting events. The literature hitherto is sparse, but early indications display signs of psychological impact on elite athletes due to the pandemic. However, beyond acute effects from lockdown and short-term interrupted athletic seasons, the postponed and still uncertain Olympic and Paralympic Games may represent a major career insecurity to many athletes world-wide, and may lead to severe changes to everyday lives and potentially prolonged psychological distress. Given the long-term perspective of these changes, researchers and stakeholders should address mental health and long-term job insecurity in athletes, including a specific focus on those with small financial margins, such as many female athletes, parasports athletes, athletes in smaller sports, and athletes from developing countries. Implications and the need for research are discussed.
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- Anders Håkansson
- Depterment of Clinical Sciences Lund, Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, S-22100 Lund, Sweden
- Region Skåne, Malmö Addiction Center, Clinical Sports and Mental Health Unit, S-20502 Malmö, Sweden; (K.M.); (C.J.)
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- Region Skåne, Malmö Addiction Center, Clinical Sports and Mental Health Unit, S-20502 Malmö, Sweden; (K.M.); (C.J.)
- Swedish Sports Confederation, 114 33 Stockholm, Sweden;
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University, S-22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Region Skåne, Malmö Addiction Center, Clinical Sports and Mental Health Unit, S-20502 Malmö, Sweden; (K.M.); (C.J.)
- FIFPRO (Global Representative for Professional Football Players), 2132 Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
- Spelarföreningen (National Representative for Football Players), 433 63 Sävedalen, Sweden
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- Swedish Sports Confederation, 114 33 Stockholm, Sweden;
- The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, 114 33 Stockholm, Sweden
- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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Abenza-Cano L, Leiva-Arcas A, Vaquero-Cristóbal R, García-Roca JA, Meroño L, Sánchez-Pato A. Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes' Perception of the Dual Career. Front Psychol 2020; 11:620042. [PMID: 33408676 PMCID: PMC7779607 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.620042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The aim of the present research was to assess elite student-athletes’ perception of the dual career during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, compared with a group of elite student-athletes who could develop their dual career under normal conditions. A total of 150 elite athletes who were also undergraduate or postgraduate students self-completed the “Perceptions of dual career student-athletes (ESTPORT)” questionnaire. From them, 78 did it during the mandatory lockdown period due to the state of emergency caused by COVID-19 (COVID-19 group) and 72 completed it in the previous year to Rio 2016 Olympic Games (control group). The COVID-19 group was found to spend a significantly higher number of hours per week studying, while no significant differences were observed between groups in any training time variable. Student-athletes of the COVID-19 group showed better perception of whether their sport career could help them cope with their academic career and better general perception of remote learning and the use of tasks and videoconferencing as learning support tools. A lower percentage of athletes of the COVID-19 group than of the control group wished to continue with their sport career once they finished their studies. To conclude, student-athletes of the COVID-19 group show adaptations with regard to the organization of their studies and the importance they give to them and to the services provided by dual-career programs, compared with student-athletes from an ordinary pre-Olympic year. In general, student-athletes’ perception of the dual career is very positive.
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- Lucia Abenza-Cano
- Olympic Studies Center, Faculty of Sport, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Olympic Studies Center, Faculty of Sport, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Olympic Studies Center, Faculty of Sport, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Olympic Studies Center, Faculty of Sport, Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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Miki Y, Chubachi N, Imamura F, Yaegashi N, Ito K. Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the research environment and motivation of researchers in Japan. PROGRESS IN DISASTER SCIENCE 2020; 8:100128. [PMID: 34173446 PMCID: PMC7575455 DOI: 10.1016/j.pdisas.2020.100128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The environment surrounding researchers has changed significantly in the face of COVID-19 restrictions. An online self-reported questionnaire was completed by 10,557 participants between June 15 and 19, 2020. The impact on work/research activities and harassments under COVID-19 conditions was higher among researchers (1963) compared to non-researchers (8572). We further examined the effect of COVID-19 restrictions on 300 researchers. Women were significantly more likely to report being harassed than males. The overall "decrease in research motivation" was higher in women. The restrictions on research activities because of COVID-19 restrictions caused future anxiety and a decrease in research motivation.
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- Yasuhiro Miki
- Research Field of Disaster Obstetrics and Gynecology, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Public Relations Office, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Research Field of Tsunami Engineering, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Research Field of Disaster Obstetrics and Gynecology, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Disaster Medical Science Group, Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Madurai Elavarasan R, Shafiullah GM, Raju K, Mudgal V, Arif MT, Jamal T, Subramanian S, Sriraja Balaguru VS, Reddy KS, Subramaniam U. COVID-19: Impact analysis and recommendations for power sector operation. APPLIED ENERGY 2020; 279:115739. [PMID: 32904736 PMCID: PMC7458120 DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Revised: 08/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The demand of electricity has been reduced significantly due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Governments around the world were compelled to reduce the business activity in response to minimize the threat of coronavirus. This on-going situation due to COVID-19 has changed the lifestyle globally as people are mostly staying home and working from home if possible. Hence, there is a significant increase in residential load demand while there is a substantial decrease in commercial and industrial loads. This devastating situation creates new challenges in the technical and financial activities of the power sector and hence most of the utilities around the world initiated a disaster management plan to tackle this ongoing challenges/threats. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the global scenarios of power systems during COVID-19 along with the socio-economic and technical issues faced by the utilities. Then, this study further scrutinized the Indian power system as a case study and explored scenarios, issues and challenges currently being faced to manage the consumer load demand, including the actions taken by the utilities/power sector for the smooth operation of the power system. Finally, a set of recommendations are presented to support the government/policymakers/utilities around the world not only to overcome the current crisis but also to overcome future unforeseeable pandemic alike scenario.
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Key Words
- ACT, Actual
- CEEW, Council of Energy Environment and Water
- CERC, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission
- COVID-19
- DISCOMs, Distribution Companies
- DSM, Deviation Settlement Mechanism
- ER, Eastern Region
- ERLDC, Eastern Regional Load Dispatch Centre
- FVI, Frequency Variation Index
- FY, Financial Year
- Global power systems
- IEGC, Indian Electricity Grid Code
- IEX, Indian Energy Exchange
- IISD, Institute for Sustainable Development
- IR, Indian Rupee
- Indian power system
- Load demand
- MCP, Market Clearing Price
- MCV, Market Clearing Volume
- NER, North Eastern Region
- NERLDC, North Eastern Regional Load Dispatch Centre
- NHPC, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation
- NLDC, National Load Dispatch Centre
- NR, Northern Region
- NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- NRLDC, Northern Regional Load Dispatch Centre
- NTPC, National Thermal Power Corporation
- PGCIL, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd
- POSOCO, Power System Operation Corporation
- PXI, Power Energy Exchange
- Power systems
- RES, Renewable Energy sources
- RLDC, Regional Load Dispatch Centre
- Recommendations for sustainable power systems
- SCH, Schedule
- SLDC, State Load Dispatch Centre
- SR, Southern Region
- SRLDC, Southern Regional Load Dispatch Centre
- STATCOM, Static Var Compensator
- UFLS, Under Frequency based Load Shedding
- USAID, United States Agency for International Development
- VAR, Volt Ampere Reactive
- VDI, Voltage Deviation Index
- WR, Western Region
- WRLDC, Western Regional Load Dispatch Centre
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- Discipline of Engineering and Energy, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai 602117, India
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- Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- School of Engineering, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- State Load Despatch Centre, Grid Operation, TANTRANSCO, Chennai 600002, India
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India
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- Non Conventional Energy Sources, TANGEDCO, Chennai 600002, India
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India
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- Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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- Department of Communications and Networks, Renewable Energy Laboratory, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 12435, Saudi Arabia
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Rankin A, Heron N. Infographic. Managing a confirmed or suspected COVID-19 case: a guide for sports. Br J Sports Med 2020; 55:456-457. [PMID: 33219114 DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-103409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Alan Rankin
- Department of Sports Medicine, Sports Institute Northern Ireland, Newtownabbey, Antrim, UK.,Sport Medicine Department, Sports Medicine NI, Belfast, UK
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- Department of Family Practice, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK .,The Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Mohapatra RK, Pintilie L, Kandi V, Sarangi AK, Das D, Sahu R, Perekhoda L. The recent challenges of highly contagious COVID-19, causing respiratory infections: Symptoms, diagnosis, transmission, possible vaccines, animal models, and immunotherapy. Chem Biol Drug Des 2020. [PMID: 32654267 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.v96.510.1111/cbdd.13761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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COVID-19 is highly contagious pathogenic viral infection initiated from Wuhan seafood wholesale market of China on December 2019 and spread rapidly around the whole world due to onward transmission. This recent outbreak of novel coronavirus (CoV) was believed to be originated from bats and causing respiratory infections such as common cold, dry cough, fever, headache, dyspnea, pneumonia, and finally Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in humans. For this widespread zoonotic virus, human-to-human transmission has resulted in nearly 83 lakh cases in 213 countries and territories with 4,50,686 deaths as on 19 June 2020. This review presents a report on the origin, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, possible vaccines, animal models, and immunotherapy for this novel virus and will provide ample references for the researchers toward the ongoing development of therapeutic agents and vaccines and also preventing the spread of this disease.
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- Ranjan K Mohapatra
- Department of Chemistry, Government College of Engineering, Keonjhar, Odisha, India
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- Department of Synthesis of Bioactive Substances and Pharmaceutical Technologies, National Institute for Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Microbiology, Pratima Institute of Medical Sciences, Karimnagar, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Sukanti Degree College, Subarnapur, Odisha, India
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- College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of medicinal chemistry, National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Mohapatra RK, Pintilie L, Kandi V, Sarangi AK, Das D, Sahu R, Perekhoda L. The recent challenges of highly contagious COVID-19, causing respiratory infections: Symptoms, diagnosis, transmission, possible vaccines, animal models, and immunotherapy. Chem Biol Drug Des 2020; 96:1187-1208. [PMID: 32654267 PMCID: PMC7405220 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.13761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2020] [Revised: 06/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
Abstract
COVID-19 is highly contagious pathogenic viral infection initiated from Wuhan seafood wholesale market of China on December 2019 and spread rapidly around the whole world due to onward transmission. This recent outbreak of novel coronavirus (CoV) was believed to be originated from bats and causing respiratory infections such as common cold, dry cough, fever, headache, dyspnea, pneumonia, and finally Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in humans. For this widespread zoonotic virus, human-to-human transmission has resulted in nearly 83 lakh cases in 213 countries and territories with 4,50,686 deaths as on 19 June 2020. This review presents a report on the origin, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, possible vaccines, animal models, and immunotherapy for this novel virus and will provide ample references for the researchers toward the ongoing development of therapeutic agents and vaccines and also preventing the spread of this disease.
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- Department of Synthesis of Bioactive Substances and Pharmaceutical TechnologiesNational Institute for Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research and DevelopmentBucharestRomania
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- Department of MicrobiologyPratima Institute of Medical SciencesKarimnagarHyderabadIndia
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- Department of ChemistrySchool of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and ManagementOdishaIndia
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- Department of ChemistrySukanti Degree CollegeSubarnapurOdishaIndia
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- College of PharmacySeoul National UniversitySeoulSouth Korea
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- Department of medicinal chemistryNational University of PharmacyKharkivUkraine
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Hoang VT, Al-Tawfiq JA, Gautret P. The Tokyo Olympic Games and the Risk of COVID-19. CURRENT TROPICAL MEDICINE REPORTS 2020; 7:126-132. [PMID: 33145147 PMCID: PMC7596810 DOI: 10.1007/s40475-020-00217-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Purpose of Review We reviewed the occurrence of outbreaks at past Olympics and discuss the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic at the Tokyo Games. Recent Findings Evidence for large respiratory tract infection outbreaks at past Olympics is scant. Nevertheless, in order to control the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were postponed for 2021. Given the high contagiousness of the disease and the epidemiology of COVID-19 in Japan, this decision was appropriate and important in order to safeguard athletes and the public. However, it is a major problem for Japan, involving massive financial losses and a lost opportunity for athletes, coaches, and instructors. Summary Up-to-date epidemiological data is needed on which to base an appropriate decision regarding the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. The actual effect of cancellations of such events in reducing the spread of COVID-19 needs to be determined.
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- Van Thuan Hoang
- Aix Marseille University, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.,Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France.,Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Thai Binh, Vietnam
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- Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN USA.,Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
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- Aix Marseille University, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.,Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France
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Giulianotti R, Collison H. Sport and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structuralist Analysis of Key Themes in the UK Mass Media. Front Sports Act Living 2020; 2:578472. [PMID: 33345143 PMCID: PMC7739720 DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2020.578472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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This paper provides a systematic, detailed analysis of UK mass media online reports and narratives on sport and Covid-19 during the main lockdown period over March-May 2020. A “structuralist thematic” approach is utilized to identify and to map systematically the main themes within the mass media. The research is based on reports and narratives on sport-Covid which featured in five leading online UK mass media outlets. The analysis sets out four underpinning statuses or dimensions of sport: the existential, normative, socio-cultural, and political. These dimensions connect directly and, respectively, to four sets of binary opposite media themes on sport during the Covid-19 lockdown: sport as absence/presence, selfish/altruistic, crisis/escape, and threat/solution. Each theme features several types of media report or commentary (which we term “narrative or substantive strands”) on sport-Covid. The paper examines the four binary opposites, and their various types of media report and narrative, in detail. It concludes by discussing the theoretical contributions and substantive findings from the study, and some areas for future research.
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- Richard Giulianotti
- School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom.,University of South-Eastern Norway, Bϕ, Norway
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- Institute for Sport Business, Loughborough University, London, United Kingdom
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The Impact of Postponing 2020 Tokyo Olympics on the Happiness of O-MO-TE-NA-SHI Workers in Tourism: A Consequence of COVID-19. SUSTAINABILITY 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/su12198168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The implications for industries related to the Olympics—tourism, hotels and restaurants, and others—are expected to be affected by reduced demand. Japanese workers in these industries were prepared to offer their hospitality to visitors from around the world. They would be benefited not only by an increase in income but also in offering visitors a taste of Tokyo’s great hospitality if the Olympics had been held in 2020. However, postponement of the sporting event is likely to have a significant impact on their happiness level. We independently collected individual-level panel data from March to April 2020. In the survey, the respondents were asked about their happiness levels by choosing from 11 categories: 1 (very unhappy) and 11 (very happy). They were also asked about expected income changes from 2020 to 2021. Based on this, we examined the effect of postponement on happiness level and expected income change. The sample was divided into sub-samples of areas including and excluding Tokyo. We found that the happiness level of workers in the tourism and restaurant sectors declined drastically after the announcement of the postponement. Only two weeks later, their happiness level did not alter from the pre-announcement level. This tendency was strongly observed in Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures, but not in other prefectures. However, workers engaged in the tourism and restaurant sectors did not predict a decrease in their income even after the postponement. Combined, these findings indicate that loss of extending hospitality, rather than reduction in income, temporarily reduces the happiness level of workers.
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Hagen J, Stone JD, Hornsby WG, Stephenson M, Mangine R, Joseph M, Galster S. COVID-19 Surveillance and Competition in Sport: Utilizing Sport Science to Protect Athletes and Staff during and after the Pandemic. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol 2020; 5:jfmk5030069. [PMID: 33467284 PMCID: PMC7739263 DOI: 10.3390/jfmk5030069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The ongoing Coronavirus 2 (COVID-19) pandemic abruptly halted athletic competition and standard training practices, consequently generating great confusion surrounding when and how to safely reintroduce sports. Therefore, tangible solutions disseminated to performance staff, coaches, and athletes are warranted to ensure optimal levels of health and physical performance for all personnel during both the current social distancing standards as well as the impending return of competition despite continued risks. In this commentary, we offer strategies for utilizing technology and data tools as components of longitudinal COVID-19 surveillance based on ongoing research efforts as well as current guidance from governing bodies, while also serving the performance needs of the athletes and staff. Recommended data sources include digital symptom and well-being surveys, standardized and routine physical performance testing, sleep and sleep physiology monitoring, cognitive applications, and temperature. This system is flexible to numerous commercially available products and is designed for easy implementation that permits instant feedback provided directly to the athlete as well as their support staff for early intervention, ultimately mitigating COVID-19 risks. We will discuss multiple options, including examples of data, data visualizations and recommendations for data interpretation and communication.
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- Joshua Hagen
- Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA; (J.D.S.); (S.G.)
- Correspondence:
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- Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA; (J.D.S.); (S.G.)
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- College of Physical Activity and Sport Science, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA;
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- Athletic Department, University of Cincinnati, NovaCare Rehabilitation, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA;
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- Athletic Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA;
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- Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA; (J.D.S.); (S.G.)
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Impact of Geographic Distribution of COVID-19 Cases on Hotels’ Performances: Case of Polish Cities. SUSTAINABILITY 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/su12114697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The main goal of the article is to describe the short-term impacts of reported new cases and deaths of the COVID-19 disease on hotels’ performances in the nine major Polish urban hotel markets: Kraków, Warszawa, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Lublin, Łódź, Katowice, and Sopot. Time range of the analysis covers the period from January 5, 2020 (the beginning of the very first week when the COVID-19 cases were evidenced) to March 14, 2020 (the initial phase of lockdown was introduced by the Polish government). Various geographical contexts of the COVID-19 impacts are considered: national, European, and global. Generalized method of moments was applied to investigate the influence of reported COVID-19 cases (deaths) on both occupancy and revenue per available room. The results show that the most significant, negative impact of the pandemic on hotel performances is confirmed at the European level of the COVID-19 outbreak. Moreover, the negative influence of national cases of COVID-19 is more significant in less internationalized (or less-populated) urban destinations. Thus, the hotel industry (especially in the most internationalized, biggest Polish cities) might be recovered only when issues of the COVID-19 epidemic will be solved at the European level.
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Chang CM, Tan TW, Ho TC, Chen CC, Su TH, Lin CY. COVID-19: Taiwan's epidemiological characteristics and public and hospital responses. PeerJ 2020; 8:e9360. [PMID: 32551205 PMCID: PMC7292018 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a global health threat with significant medical, economic, social and political implications. The optimal strategies for combating COVID-19 have not been fully determined and vary across countries. METHODS By the end of February 2020 in Taiwan, 2,150 patients received diagnostic COVID-19 testing and 39 confirmed cases were detected. This is a relatively lower rate of infection compared to other Asian countries. In this article, we summarize the epidemiological characteristics of the 39 infected patients as well as public and hospital responses to COVID-19. RESULTS Thirty-nine COVID-19 cases and one death have been confirmed in Taiwan. Seventeen of these patients were infected by family members or in hospital wards, emphasizing how COVID-19 is mostly spread by close contact. We examined how hospital have responded to COVID-19, including their implementation of patient route control, outdoor clinics, hospital visit restrictions and ward and staff modifications. We also studied the public's use of face masks in response to COVID-19. These strategies may reduce the spread of COVID-19 in other countries. CONCLUSION The emergence and spread of COVID-19 is a threat to health worldwide. Taiwan has reported lower infected cases and its strategies may contribute to further disease prevention and control.
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- Chih-Ming Chang
- Department of Nursing, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Department of Healthcare Management, Yuanpei University of Medical Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Nursing, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Nursing, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Teaching Center of Natural Science, Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Department of Medicine, MacKay Medical College, New Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, MacKay Medical College, New Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Pediatrics, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Alsayed A, Sadir H, Kamil R, Sari H. Prediction of Epidemic Peak and Infected Cases for COVID-19 Disease in Malaysia, 2020. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:E4076. [PMID: 32521641 PMCID: PMC7312594 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17114076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The coronavirus COVID-19 has recently started to spread rapidly in Malaysia. The number of total infected cases has increased to 3662 on 05 April 2020, leading to the country being placed under lockdown. As the main public concern is whether the current situation will continue for the next few months, this study aims to predict the epidemic peak using the Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model, with incorporation of the mortality cases. The infection rate was estimated using the Genetic Algorithm (GA), while the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) model was used to provide short-time forecasting of the number of infected cases. The results show that the estimated infection rate is 0.228 ± 0.013, while the basic reproductive number is 2.28 ± 0.13. The epidemic peak of COVID-19 in Malaysia could be reached on 26 July 2020, with an uncertain period of 30 days (12 July-11 August). Possible interventions by the government to reduce the infection rate by 25% over two or three months would delay the epidemic peak by 30 and 46 days, respectively. The forecasting results using the ANFIS model show a low Normalized Root Mean Square Error (NRMSE) of 0.041; a low Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 2.45%; and a high coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9964. The results also show that an intervention has a great effect on delaying the epidemic peak and a longer intervention period would reduce the epidemic size at the peak. The study provides important information for public health providers and the government to control the COVID-19 epidemic.
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- Abdallah Alsayed
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Computer and Wireless Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia;
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
- Laboratory of Computational Statistics and Operations Research, Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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- College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang 43000, Malaysia;
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Sato S, Oshimi D, Bizen Y, Saito R. The COVID-19 outbreak and public perceptions of sport events in Japan. MANAGING SPORT AND LEISURE 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/23750472.2020.1773301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Shintaro Sato
- Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Physical Education, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Human Development, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Culture and Sport Policy, Toin University of Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan
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Kar SK, Yasir Arafat SM, Kabir R, Sharma P, Saxena SK. Coping with Mental Health Challenges During COVID-19. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [PMCID: PMC7189395 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4814-7_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Millán-Oñate J, Millan W, Mendoza LA, Sánchez CG, Fernandez-Suarez H, Bonilla-Aldana DK, Rodríguez-Morales AJ. Successful recovery of COVID-19 pneumonia in a patient from Colombia after receiving chloroquine and clarithromycin. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 2020; 19:16. [PMID: 32331519 PMCID: PMC7180682 DOI: 10.1186/s12941-020-00358-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND COVID-19 pandemics is a challenge for public health and infectious diseases clinicians, especially for the therapeutical approach that is not yet adequately defined. Amid this situation, investigational agents are being used, including chloroquine. We report here the clinical features and therapeutic course of the first reported patient with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia that recovered in Colombia, after the use of chloroquine and clarithromycin. CASE PRESENTATION A 34-year-old male, returning from Spain, presented with complaints of fever, and cough, and class-II obesity, being hospitalized. The respiratory viruses and bacteria tested by FilmArray® PCR were negative. Two days later, clarithromycin was started because the patient was suspected as community-acquired pneumonia. At the third day, the rRT-PCR confirmed the SARS-CoV-2 infection. A day later, chloroquine was started because of that. His chest computed tomography was performed and showed bilateral multifocal ground-glass opacities with consolidation, which suggested viral pneumonia as a differential diagnosis. Progressively his clinical condition improved and at day 9, patient rRT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 became negative. The patient was discharged and isolated at home per 14 days. CONCLUSIONS Our patient improved significantly. This and other COVID-19 cases are urgently demanding results from clinical trials that support evidence-based therapeutical approaches to this pandemic and the clinical management of patients, especially those at critical care.
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- José Millán-Oñate
- Infectious Diseases Division, Centro Médico Imbanaco, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.,Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá DC, Colombia
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- Fundación Hospital San Jose de Buga, Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá DC, Colombia.,Incubator in Zoonosis (SIZOO), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation Research Group (BIOECOS), Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Sede Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.,Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
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- Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá DC, Colombia. .,Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. .,Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
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Yanguas X, Dominguez D, Ferrer E, Florit D, Mourtabib Y, Rodas G. Returning to Sport during the Covid-19 pandemic: The sports physicians’ role. APUNTS SPORTS MEDICINE 2020. [PMCID: PMC7291998 DOI: 10.1016/j.apunsm.2020.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Should the Holy Week 2020 be cancelled in Latin America due to the COVID-19 pandemic? Travel Med Infect Dis 2020; 36:101633. [PMID: 32205270 PMCID: PMC7142679 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Gautret P, Al-Tawfiq JA, Hoang VT. COVID 19: Will the 2020 Hajj pilgrimage and Tokyo Olympic Games be cancelled? Travel Med Infect Dis 2020; 34:101622. [PMID: 32171882 PMCID: PMC7270534 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Philippe Gautret
- Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
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- Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France; IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Thai Binh, Viet Nam
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