Mackey, Tim Purushothaman, Vidya Li, Jiawei Shah, Neal Nali, Matthew Bardier, Cortni Liang, Bryan Cai, Mingxiang Cuomo, Raphael
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JMIR public health and surveillance
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health emergency with over 6 million cases worldwide as of the beginning of June 2020. The pandemic is historic in scope and precedent given its emergence in an increasingly digital era. Importantly, there have been concerns about the accuracy of COVID-19 case counts due to issues such as lack...
Yamahata, Yoshihiro Shibata, Ayako
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Japan implemented a large-scale quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in an attempt to control the spread of the novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in February 2020. We aim to describe the medical activities initiated and difficulties in implementing quarantine on a cruise ship. Reverse transcrip...
Sheehy, Lisa Mary
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported on December 31, 2019. Because it has only been studied for just over three months, our understanding of this disease is still incomplete, particularly regarding its sequelae and long-term outcomes. Moreover, very ...
Clements, John M
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JMIR public health and surveillance
The early days of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States brought uncertainty in the knowledge about COVID-19 and what to do about it. It is necessary to understand public knowledge and behaviors if we are to effectively address the pandemic. The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that knowledge about COVID-19 infl...
Opoku, Jenevieve Doshi, Rupali K Castel, Amanda D Sorensen, Ian Horberg, Michael Allston, Adam Kharfen, Michael Greenberg, Alan E
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JMIR public health and surveillance
HIV cohort studies have been used to assess health outcomes and inform the care and treatment of people living with HIV disease. However, there may be similarities and differences between cohort participants and the general population from which they are drawn. The objective of this analysis was to compare people living with HIV who have and have n...
Cole, Jennifer Ezziane, Saphia Watkins, Chris
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JMIR public health and surveillance
During health emergencies, the people within affected communities ask many questions at a time when professional medics and health agencies are overstretched and struggling to cope. Our previous research has shown that, during the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola crisis, volunteer-moderated online discussion forums were able to provide peer-to-peer reli...
Hansen, Arne Herrmann, Maximilian Ehlers, Jan P Mondritzki, Thomas Hensel, Kai Oliver Truebel, Hubert Boehme, Philip
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Health care systems worldwide are struggling to keep rising costs at bay with only modest outcome improvement among many diseases. Digitization with technologies like Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning algorithms might address this. Although digital technologies have been successfully applied in clinical studies the effect on the overall h...
Cooper, Hannah Luke Fenimore Crawford, Natalie D Haardörfer, Regine Prood, Nadya Jones-Harrell, Carla Ibragimov, Umedjon Ballard, April M Young, April M
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Epicenters of harmful drug use are expanding to US rural areas, with rural young adults bearing a disproportionate burden. A large body of work suggests that place characteristics (eg, spatial access to health services) shape vulnerability to drug-related harms among urban residents. Research on the role of place characteristics in shaping these ha...
Araj, Rawan Alqasrawi, Sultan Samy, Sahar Alwahdanee, Ghaya Wadi, Jamal Mofleh, Jawad Alsanouri, Tarek
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JMIR public health and surveillance
The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, supported by the Biosecurity Engagement Program, contributed significantly to strengthening the preparedness and response to the emerging and re-emerging infections in the region. This study aimed to determine the gaps, challenges, and priorities for preventing the emerging and re-emerging infections...
Ford, Kelsey Lynett Albritton, Tashuna Dunn, Tara A Crawford, Kacy Neuwirth, Jessica Bull, Sheana
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JMIR public health and surveillance
The use of paid social media advertising for targeted study recruitment is an effective strategy in health research and evaluation, specifically to reach diverse youth participants. Although the literature adequately describes the utility of Facebook in recruitment, limited information exists for social media platforms that are more popular with yo...
