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The Dual/Global Value of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Surveillance on Migrants Arriving to Europe via the Mediterranean Routes.

2021

Despite the pandemic, 34,154 migrants, refugees or asylum-seekers landed in Sicily (Italy) in 2020, representing the main point of entry by sea into Europe. The SARS-CoV-2 surveillance program among migrants arriving to Sicily via the Mediterranean Sea, made by the combination of clinical examination and molecular testing, has been integrated by full-genome sequencing strains using the NGS technology from the last week of February. To date, more than one hundred full-genome strains have been sequenced and 8 different lineages have been identified mostly belonging to the lineages B.1.1.7 and B.1.525. As global access to COVID-19 vaccines should be ensured, the need to provide more detailed i…

Mediterranean climatePoint of entryCOVID-19 VaccinesCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)RefugeeInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Genome ViralSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E ApplicataGenomeMediterranean seaPandemicHumansSocioeconomicsLetters to the EditorSicilyTransients and MigrantsSARS-CoV-2COVID-19General MedicineGeographyCOVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccines Genome Viral Humans Molecular Diagnostic Techniques SARS-CoV-2Sicily Transients and MigrantsMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270Annals of global health
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Are We at War? Some Remarks on War-Related Language on Covid-19

2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public discourse has been characterized by a massive use of war metaphors. At the same time, this use has been harshly attacked as inappropriate and potentially dangerous. The article proposes a reflection on this debate by questioning the demonization of the war metaphor. Indeed, the appropriateness and the efficacy of a metaphor are not absolute values but depend on many factors such as context, audience and communicative purposes. Therefore, instead of attacking war metaphors it would be more useful to enrich the range of expressions to talk about the pandemic. What is really important is to never forget that expressive choices are never only…

Metaphor Covid-19 War Language
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Potential drawbacks of frequent asymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing

2020

Microbiology (medical)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Epidemiologybusiness.industrySevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)COVID-19VirologyAsymptomatictestingasymptomatic COVID-19 testingInfectious Diseasesmedicineasymptomaticmedicine.symptombusinessInfection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
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Lack of evidence for infectious SARS-CoV-2 in feces and sewage

2021

Purpose: The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is a respiratory virus whose primary route of transmission is airborne. However, it has been shown that the virus can replicate in gastrointestinal cells, can be excreted in feces, and can reach sewage systems. Although viral RNA is known to be found in patient feces and sewage, little is known about the possible fecal-oral transmission of the coronavirus. Determining the presence of infective viral particles in feces and sewage is necessary to take adequate control measures and to discover new routes of coronavirus transmission. Here, we analyzed feces and urine of COVID-19 patients and wastewater samples at the time of high prevalence in the region unde…

Microbiology (medical)medicine.medical_specialtyvirusesSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)COVID-19 Viral infectious particles WastewaterSewageSARS-CoV-2; COVID-19WastewaterBiologymedicine.disease_causeVirusFecal-oral transmissionFecesMedical microbiologymedicineHumansViral infectious particlesViral sheddingFecesCoronavirusInfectivityFecal–oral transmission SARS-CoV-2SewageSARS-CoV-2Transmission (medicine)business.industryBrief ReportCOVID-19General MedicineVirologyInfectious DiseasesWastewaterRNA ViralRespiratory virusFecal–oral transmissionbusinessFecal-Oral TransmissionEuropean Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
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L’impatto dell’emergenza Covid-19 sui processi di integrazione nel sistema di accoglienza

2021

La pandemia Covid-19 ha messo a dura prova l’umanità per gli impatti devastanti e destabilizzanti che ha determinato su tutti gli individui e su tutti gli aspetti della quotidianità. Le restrizioni negli ingressi adottate dai singoli Stati al fine di contenere e contrastare la diffusione del virus, hanno avuto un impatto sia sui flussi regolari in entrata per motivi familiari, economici, di studio, sia sugli arrivi di quanti, affidandosi ai trafficanti, sono in attesa, ad esempio, sulle coste libiche, e avrebbero fatto richiesta di asilo e di protezione internazionale, sia sul mercato del lavoro, determinando, in quest’ultimo caso, il venir meno di manodopera stagionale in alcuni dei settor…

Migranti Covid-19 integrazione accoglienza
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Association between climate and new daily diagnoses of COVID-19

2020

AbstractBackgroundAlthough evidence is accumulating that climate conditions may positively or negatively influence the scale of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks, uncertainty remains concerning the real impact of climate factors on viral transmission. Methods. The number of new daily cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in Verona (Italy) was retrieved from the official website of Veneto Region, while information on daily weather parameters in the same area was downloaded from IlMeteo website, a renowned Italian technological company specialized in weather forecasts. The search period ranged between March 1 to November 11, 2020. The number of new daily COVID-19 cases and meteorological da…

Multivariate analysisCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Leadership and ManagementStrategy and Management2020. The number of new daily COVID-19 cases and meteorological data in Verona were correlated using both univariate and multivariate analysis. Results: The number of daily COVID-19 diagnoses in Verona was positively associated with the number of days in lockdown and humidity1% decrease in humidityWind speedmin and max temperatureand influence the likelihood or course of local COVID-19 outbreaks. Preventive measuresHealth Information Managementa renowned Italian technological company specialized in weather forecasts. The search period ranged between March 1 and November 11mean air temperature1.2% and 5.4% reduction in new COVID-19 daily diagnoses. A significant difference was observed in values of all-weather parameters recorded in Verona between days with &ltHealth Policy1 km/h increase in wind speed and day with rainfall were independently associated with 1.0%Significant differencehumidityUnivariateOutbreakHumidityand inversely correlated with meanmean wind speed and number of days with rainfall. Days of lockdownwhile information on daily weather parameters in the same area was downloaded from IlMeteo websitetesting policies and hospital preparedness should be reinforced during periods of higher meteorological risk and in local environments with adverse climate conditions.Background: Although evidence is accumulating that climate conditions may positively or negatively influence the scale of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks0.3%uncertainty remains concerning the real impact of climate factors on viral transmission. Methods: The number of new daily cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in Verona (Italy) was retrieved from the official website of Veneto RegionGeography100 or ≥100 new daily COVID-19 diagnoses. Conclusions: Climate conditions may play an essential role in conditions of viral transmissionAir temperaturemean wind speed and number of days with rainfall remained significantly associated in multivariate analysis. The four weather parameters contributed to explaining 61% of variance in new daily COVID-19 diagnoses. Each 1% increase in air temperatureBackground: Although evidence is accumulating that climate conditions may positively or negatively influence the scale of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks uncertainty remains concerning the real impact of climate factors on viral transmission. Methods: The number of new daily cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in Verona (Italy) was retrieved from the official website of Veneto Region while information on daily weather parameters in the same area was downloaded from IlMeteo website a renowned Italian technological company specialized in weather forecasts. The search period ranged between March 1 and November 11 2020. The number of new daily COVID-19 cases and meteorological data in Verona were correlated using both univariate and multivariate analysis. Results: The number of daily COVID-19 diagnoses in Verona was positively associated with the number of days in lockdown and humidity and inversely correlated with mean min and max temperature mean wind speed and number of days with rainfall. Days of lockdown mean air temperature humidity mean wind speed and number of days with rainfall remained significantly associated in multivariate analysis. The four weather parameters contributed to explaining 61% of variance in new daily COVID-19 diagnoses. Each 1% increase in air temperature 1% decrease in humidity 1 km/h increase in wind speed and day with rainfall were independently associated with 1.0% 0.3% 1.2% and 5.4% reduction in new COVID-19 daily diagnoses. A significant difference was observed in values of all-weather parameters recorded in Verona between days with <100 or ≥100 new daily COVID-19 diagnoses. Conclusions: Climate conditions may play an essential role in conditions of viral transmission and influence the likelihood or course of local COVID-19 outbreaks. Preventive measures testing policies and hospital preparedness should be reinforced during periods of higher meteorological risk and in local environments with adverse climate conditions.DemographyJournal of Hospital Management and Health Policy
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Sbarchi

2021

During 2020, the Mediterranean Sea was again the testing ground for migration flows from North Africa and the Middle East to Italy, Greece and Spain. 2020 was also a complex year due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Movements between countries were affected by the spread of the virus that spared no one and imposed the need to reflect on 'global health' and the consequences that this has, also in the relationship between countries and in travel.

Nel corso del 2020 il mar Mediterraneo è stato ancora il banco di prova dei flussi migratori provenienti dal Nord Africa e dal Medio Oriente verso l’Italia la Grecia e la Spagna. Il 2020 è stato anche un anno complesso a causa della diffusione della pandemia COVID-19. I movimenti tra i Paesi sono stati influenzati dal propagarsi del virus che non ha risparmiato nessuno e ha imposto la necessità di riflettere sulla “salute globale” e sulle conseguenze che tutto questo ha anche nella relazione tra i Paesi e negli spostamenti.
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In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries

2022

Contains fulltext : 284232.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in terms of potential losses (e.g., "If you do not practice these steps, you can endanger yourself and others") or potential gains (e.g., "If you practice these steps, you can protect yourself and others")? Collecting data in 48 languages from 15,929 participants in 84 countries, we…

NudgesBehaviour Change and Well-beingddc:150230 Affective NeuroscienceSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingmessage framing ; anxiety ; nudges ; COVID-19/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_beingMessage framingCOVID-19General MedicineAnxiety
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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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The rapid spread of SARS-COV-2 Omicron variant in Italy reflected early through wastewater surveillance

2022

The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant emerged in South Africa in November 2021, and has later been identified worldwide, raising serious concerns. A real-time RT-PCR assay was designed for the rapid screening of the Omicron variant, targeting characteristic mutations of the spike gene. The assay was used to test 737 sewage samples collected throughout Italy (19/21 Regions) between 11 November and 25 December 2021, with the aim of assessing the spread of the Omicron variant in the country. Positive samples were also tested with a real-time RT-PCR developed by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), and through nested RT-PCR followed by Sanger sequencing. Overall, 115 samples tested po…

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