• Variations in Personal Protective Equipment Preparedness in Intensive Care Units during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Asia-Pacific Countries 

      Rajamani, Arvind; Subramaniam, Ashwin; Shekar, Kiran; Haji, Jumana; Luo, Jinghang; Bihari, Shailesh; Wong, Wai Tat; Gullapalli, Navya; Renner, Markus; Alcancia, Claudia Maria; Ramanathan, Kollengode
      Published 2020
      Objectives: To evaluate PPE-preparedness across intensive care units (ICUs) in 6 Asia-Pacific countries. PPE-preparedness was defined as the adherence to guidelines, training HCWs, procuring PPE stocks and responding ...
      Preprint
    • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders 

      Papa, Stella M.; Brundin, Patrik; Fung, Victor S.C.; Kang, Un Jung; Burn, David J.; Colosimo, Carlo; Chiang, Han-Lin; Alcalay, Roy N.; Trenkwalder, Claudia
      Published 2020
      Human coronaviruses have classically caused mild respiratory infections. Two previous outbreaks caused by newly identified coronaviruses, SARS-CoV in 2002 and MERS-CoV in 2012, caused serious respiratory disease with ...
      Article
    • Pathways to COVID-19 ‘community protection’ 

      Marais, Ben J; Sorrell, Tania C
      Published 2020
      To date, no country has reached a natural COVID-19 epidemic peak and observed peaks essentially reflect the effectiveness of ‘lockdown’ measures. The major challenge is finding a responsible way out of ‘lockdown’, given ...
      Article
    • Keeping our eyecare providers and patients safe during the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Teo, Kelvin Yi Chong; Chan, R. V. Paul; Cheung, Chui Ming Gemmy
      Published 2020
      The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the defining event of this generation. To date, there are over 2 million cases including more ...
      Article
    • Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Outbreak: the Need for Epidemic Preparedness 

      Pak, Anton; Adegboye, Oyelola A.; Adekunle, Adeshina I.; Rahman, Kazi M.; McBryde, Emma S.; Eisen, Damon P.
      Published 2020
      COVID-19 is not only a global pandemic and public health crisis; it has also severely affected the global economy and financial markets. Significant reductions in income, a rise in unemployment, and disruptions in the ...
      Article