A Scenario-Based Evaluation of COVID-19-Related Essential Clinical Resource Demands in China

Influenza’s Plummeting During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Mask-Wearing, Mobility Change, and SARS-CoV-2 Interference

“…Influenza’s global plummeting provides a great opportunity to understand the individual effects of mask-wearing and mobility mitigation at the policy level and offers a head start on interference from influenza and other respiratory infectious diseases. These findings are valuable for forecasting future influenza seasons [36] and for guiding healthcare policy and the allocation of healthcare resources [37] . Identifying and developing universal influenza vaccines are still of primary importance for influenza control.…”

Long-Term Urban Epidemic and Disaster Resilience: The Planning and Assessment of a Comprehensive Underground Resilience Core

“…The start-up conditions for the epidemic-URCs were determined based on the COVID-19 epidemic control data. A mechanism for the rapid transformation between routine and epidemic states needs to be established with the following requirements: (1) long-term adequate reserves of medical equipment to ensure that surges in demand for healthcare can be adequately addressed; (2) long-term adequate reserves of material supplies to ensure the rapid setup of underground emergency hospitals [33]; (3) modular isolation equipment to ensure rapid start-up of URCs. Based on the above, the start-up conditions for epidemic-URCs require a joint progressive approach with local designated hospitals.…”

Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Antigen- and Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Combination Strategies for Containing COVID-19 Transmission in a Simulated Community

“…In the first five months of 2022, more than 750 000 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections were reported in the mainland of China with the majority in Shanghai [2] . For countries and regions with large population sizes and high population densities, sudden outbreaks of infection in a short time can strain medical resources, including insufficient intensive care unit (ICU) beds, shortage of ventilators, and crowding out of healthcare resources for other diseases, leading to increased mortality [7] , [8] . Therefore, screening infectious populations remains an essential strategy to contain unpredictable outbreaks in the future.…”