Pandemic lessons from India: inappropriate prioritisation for vaccination

Post-Pandemic Housing Architecture: Lessons from Covid19

Like other crises, the coronavirus epidemic has had a significant impact on our lives. As a result, the built environment has changed in order to adapt to new conditions and needs. Since Covid19 will not be the first and possibly the last epidemic, housing design must also adapt to the new reality. At present, the spatial properties of housing are influenced by strategies of social distance, qu...

Vaccination against pandemic influenza A H1N1 among health care workers. Lessons for the next pandemic.

T World Health Organization (WHO) declared the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century in June 11, 2009.1 As a consequence of the preparedness of the international health authorities for an influenza pandemic, a safe and effective vaccine was ready for use in October 2009, while the pandemic was at an early stage in the Northern Hemisphere. As stated by WHO, health care workers (HCWs) are ...

Antiviral treatment and vaccination for influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus: lessons learned from the pandemic.

The influenza pandemic that was declared by the World Health Organization in June 2009 created a new scenario for the use of influenza antivirals and vaccination. The new strain, influenza A(H1N1)pdm09, was resistant to amantadine and rimantadine, and the most frequently used antiviral was oseltamivir. Randomized studies were not performed comparing neuraminidase inhibitors with placebo. Nevert...

Factors associated with 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) vaccination acceptance among university students from India during the post-pandemic phase

BACKGROUND There was a low adherence to influenza A (H1N1) vaccination program among university students and health care workers during the pandemic influenza in many parts of the world. Vaccination of high risk individuals is one of the recommendations of World Health Organization during the post-pandemic period. It is not documented about the student's knowledge, attitude and willingness to a...

Healthcare Resource Management and Pandemic Preparedness for COVID-19: A Single Centre Experience From Jodhpur, India