Ebola, Zika, Corona…What Is Next for Our World?

Khubchandani, Jagdish; Jordan, Timothy R.; Yang, Y. Tony

doi:10.3390/ijerph17093171

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“…It is important to keep in mind that this is the rst pandemic the world has experienced with social media. Thus, not only do we have a pandemic, we have an infodemic (45). Misinformation and conspiracy theories are spread quickly among those who do not know how to evaluate the veracity of information.…”

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confidence: 99%

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among University Students in Lebanon

Hamdan

Singh

Polavarapu

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Background Lebanon has one of the lowest reported COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rates (21%). Little is known about the decision-making process of college students in Lebanon regarding obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify factors that predicted the behavioral intentions of students enrolled at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine. Methods The study was a randomized, non-experimental, and cross-sectional study of undergraduate and graduate students. A valid and reliable survey was developed. A total of 3,805 students were randomly selected to participate from all academic units. A total of 800 students responded (21% return rate). Results We generated three groups based on students’ intentions to be vaccinated: 1) vaccine accepting (those who are willing to take or already took the vaccine); 2) vaccine hesitant (those who are hesitant to take the vaccine); and 3) vaccine resistant (those who decided not to take the vaccine). The majority were Lebanese (85%), undergraduate students (75%), females (57%) with a mean age of 21 ± 0.14 years. Overall, students were vaccine accepting. Specifically, they were vaccine accepting (87%), vaccine hesitant (10%), and vaccine resistant (3%). Vaccine hesitancy was significantly associated with nationality, residency status and university rank (p value < 0.05). Moreover, there was a significant association between hesitancy and agreement with conspiracies. A significant factor for hesitancy was disagreement with the statement that symptomatic cases are the only carriers of COVID-19 (OR = 5; 95% CI = 1.67–14.29; p value = 0.004). Students believed that that the vaccine was safe (OR = 0.01; 95% CI = 0.002–0.08; p value = 0.000); in agreement with their personal views (OR = 0.1; 95% CI = 0.02–0.51; p value = 0.004) and were less likely to be hesitant than the vaccine accepting group (reference group). Conclusion The factors identified that explain and/or predict each of the three vaccine intention groups can be used as core content for health communication and social marketing campaigns to increase the rate of COVID-19 vaccination.

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confidence: 99%

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among University Students in Lebanon

Hamdan

Singh

Polavarapu

et al. 2021

Preprint

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“…e limits of our research may rely on the degree of certainty of the estimation of the binary data (subjective data), and the fact that the environmental performance is rather difficult to assess, since it can be influenced by a plethora of factors, "with unknown variables that cannot yet be captured as proxies in macro-econometric models (such as catastrophic events due to climate change)" [47] (p.20), or pandemic disease [2][3][4]48]. Relying on the differences observed in the materiality manifestation, and having in mind their high importance for the oil and gas industry, we suggest that the future research should investigate the same environmental measures and the same organizations on the content range, but at the level of an industry with a lower environmental impact.…”

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Materiality Conditions in the Interplay between Environment and Financial Performance: A Graphical Modeling Approach for EEA Oil and Gas Companies

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The recovery after the unprecedented pandemic crisis that Europe has currently been facing is strengthening the strong dependence between social, economic, and environmental fields, maintaining green investments and innovation at the core of the European strategies. Shifting to clean industries is a challenging mission that a complex network of stakeholders and their different interests must take into account. Within this network, the interplay between environmental and financial performance of a company represents a common point with a growing emphasis on the transparency and the materiality capacity of the disclosed information. This paper uses the Structural Equation Modeling and the Gaussian Graphical Models as graphical analysis approaches and offers a first insight about the interaction between environmental materiality measures and financial performance. A preliminary step of the scientific research consisted of a hand-mapping investigation about materiality conditions. Starting from the Materiality Map developed by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), this paper extends the main concept about materiality and investigates it on three different content ranges, which focus on the general environmental policy of the company, the targets set, and its concrete footprint. The methodology approaches were grounded on a newly compiled dataset provided by the Thomson Reuters database for 194 Economic European Area (EEA) oil and gas companies. The results provide significant evidences for the manifestation of materiality and emphasize the informational content of the individual environmental measures as an important condition for its financial impact. Adding to the environmental-financial performance relationship, our findings have both practical and academic relevance for the economic field and sustainable growth goals.

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“…The next viral pandemic will more than likely result from zoonotic infections; therefore, more zoonotic viral pandemics should be expected [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ]. Less likely, but still meaningful, is the possibility of pandemic reemergence from thawing permafrost soils/burial sites (as discussed in a following section).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Less likely, but still meaningful, is the possibility of pandemic reemergence from thawing permafrost soils/burial sites (as discussed in a following section). Recent reviews speculating which pathogen may be next to emerge have recently been published [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 16 ] ( Table 1 ). Numerous government and nonprofit agencies around the world are monitoring these emerging infectious diseases.…”

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confidence: 99%

Soil pathogens that may potentially cause pandemics, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronaviruses

Steffan

Derby

Brevik

2020

Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health

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Soil ecosystems contain and support the greatest amount of biodiversity on the planet. A majority of this diversity is made up of microorganisms, most of which are beneficial for humans. However, some of these organisms are considered human pathogens. In light of the current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak, one may ponder the origin of the next pandemic and if soil may represent a source of pathogens with pandemic potential. This review focuses on several bacterial, fungal, and viral pathogens that can result in human infection due to direct interaction with the soil. Moreover, the current status of knowledge regarding SARS-CoV-2 survival in and transmission from soil is reviewed.

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Ebola, Zika, Corona…What Is Next for Our World?

Cited by 26 publications

References 27 publications

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among University Students in Lebanon

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among University Students in Lebanon

Materiality Conditions in the Interplay between Environment and Financial Performance: A Graphical Modeling Approach for EEA Oil and Gas Companies

Soil pathogens that may potentially cause pandemics, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronaviruses

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