Background. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the provision and use of healthcare services throughout the world. In Slovenia, an epidemic was officially declared between mid-March and mid-May 2020. Although all non-essential health care services were put on hold by government decree, oncological services were listed as an exception. Nevertheless,...
For the “Covid-19 and the Social Sciences” series, Adam Baczko and Gilles Dorronsoro argue for the necessity of resuming fieldwork. They trace how subcontracting research or shifting to methodologies which are remote in time and space—solutions often touted in the pandemic age—in fact produce unreliable, exploitative, and undertheorized work incapa...
The COVID-19 pandemic led to many European countries imposing lockdown measures and limiting people’s movement during spring 2020. During the summer 2020, these strict lockdown measures were gradually lifted while in autumn 2020, local restrictions started to be re-introduced as a second wave emerged. After initial restrictions on visitors accessin...
Laut unseren Vorhersagen bringen die seit dem 2. November geltenden Einschränkungen zwar das Infektionswachstum in die Nähe von null, sind aber nicht deutlich genug, um wieder zu niedrigen Infektionszahlen zu gelangen und die Kontaktnachverfolgung zu entlasten. Nur sehr restriktive Maßnahmen könnten die Infektionszahlen noch vor Weihnachten auf ein...
Published in MMW - Fortschritte der Medizin
Text published in "Post-Covid Fantasies," Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, and Barak Kalir, editors, American Ethnologist website, 19 October 2020.
To keep the spread of the novel coronavirus down people are asked to continue following social distancing guidelines, which can impact employment and feelings of connectedness. Many people have not seen loved ones in-person for months. These are all very difficult on one’s mental health. Building or strengthening resiliency can help one adapt to th...
Published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
The best way of preventing the dispersion of an infectious disease is decreasing of transmissibility of pathogen. To achieve such goal, it is important to have an epidemiological surveillance to retrieve data about its routes of transmission and dispersion. Objective In the current work it was probed the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 detection using fi...
oday’s fast-growing demands at the global level for mobile applications (apps) cause customers to call for the customization of their apps to fit their individualized needs and business realms. Customization is a challenge for apps-development companies when they want to satisfy their numerous users in a crowded competitive market. Moreover, pursui...
