The COVID-19 pandemic in Greenland, epidemic features and impact of early strict measures, March 2020 to June 2022

P Noahsen, LL Faber, S Isidor, J Fonager… - …, 2023 - eurosurveillance.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic was of major concern in Greenland. There was a high
possibility of rapid transmission in settlements, and an increased risk of morbidity and …

Influenza transmissibility among patients and health-care professionals in a geriatric short-stay unit using individual contact data

MP Gustin, L Pujo-Menjouet, P Vanhems - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Detailed information are lacking on influenza transmissibility in hospital although clusters
are regularly reported. In this pilot study, our goal was to estimate the transmission rate of …

Direct impact of COVID-19 by estimating disability-adjusted life years at national level in France in 2020

R Haneef, M Fayad, A Fouillet, C Sommen, C Bonaldi… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background The World Health Organization declared a pandemic of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV …

The Burden of Disease due to COVID-19 (BoCO-19): A study protocol for a secondary analysis of surveillance data in Southern and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia

C Cawley, J Gabrani, A Stevanović, R Aidaraliev… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has had an extensive impact on public health
worldwide. However, in many countries burden of disease indicators for COVID-19 have not …

COVID-19 and mental distress among health professionals in eight European countries during the third wave: a cross-sectional survey

F Dechent, G Mayer, S Hummel, M Steffen, C Benoy… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Even during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic health professionals were facing
mental health challenges. The aim of this study was to examine the mental health of doctors …

COVID-19-related deaths: a 2-year inter-wave comparison of mortality data from Germany

BMJ Lampl, B Edenharter, MF Leitzmann, B Salzberger - Infection, 2023 - Springer
Purpose The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has
caused substantial mortality worldwide. We investigated clinical and demographic features …

The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021

B Devleesschauwer, L Willem, J Jurčević, P Smith… - BMC public health, 2023 - Springer
Background Burden of disease estimates have become important population health metrics
over the past decade to measure losses in health. In Belgium, the disease burden caused by …

The mortality burden related to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021-years of life lost and excess mortality in 13 countries and sub-national regions in Southern and Eastern …

C Cawley, MÇ Barsbay, T Djamangulova… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Between 2021 and 2023, a project was funded in order to explore the mortality
burden (YLL–Years of Life Lost, excess mortality) of COVID-19 in Southern and Eastern …

Measuring disease burden of dominant variants of COVID-19 in Taiwan

HC Tsai, YF Yang, CC Hsieh, SY Chen, SC Chen - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Objectives The disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of COVID-19 have been applied as a
time-based measurement to estimate years of life lost due to premature mortality or healthy …

Burden changes in notifiable infectious diseases in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic

YF Yang, YM Chen, SY Chen, PH Chiu, SC Chen - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Background This study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the
disease burden of Taiwan's notifiable infectious diseases (NIDs). We compared disease …