This paper examines whether compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures is motivated by wanting to save lives or save the economy (or both), and which implications this carries to fight the pandemic. National representative samples were collected from 24 countries (N = 25,435). The main predictors were (1) perceived risk to contract coronavirus, (2) perceived risk to suffer economic losses due to coronavirus, and (3) their interaction effect. Individual and country-level variables were added as covariates in multilevel regression models. We examined compliance with various preventive health behaviors and support for strict containment policies. Results show that perceived economic risk consistently predicted mitigation behavior and policy support—and its effects were positive. Perceived health risk had mixed effects. Only two significant interactions between health and economic risk were identified—both positive. / New York University Abu Dhabi

This paper considers the pastoral challenge of a diminished experience of liturgy and worship during the Covid-19 pandemic. It explores the ubiquity of the digital realm and a pervasive culture of consumerism as factors in addition to the pandemic contributing to the challenge. We then reflect on the challenge through the theological perspective of Scripture, sacramental theology, Vatican II teaching and liturgical theology before proposing a pastoral plan.

Thesis advisor: Jonathan Krones / The manifold effects of the COVID-19 pandemic include many changes to humanity's impact on the natural environment, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions from air travel and increased personal protective equipment (PPE) waste generation. The pandemic has served as a global natural experiment, revealing interactions between human health and the environment that were not clearly observable before. This research aims to develop a framework for systematically assessing the impacts of human health on the environment. This framework has been structured and populated from a review of the emerging literature on the documented environmental effects of the pandemic in addition to existing literature on environmental impacts of the health care sector in general. The framework tool catalogs observed and expected environmental effects in five stages of a public health crisis (the health issue, the medical response, the public health response, adaptation and rebound, and long-term effects) and five environmental impact categories (water pollution, solid waste, air pollution, global warming, and environmental degradation). The applicability of this framework is examined using two case studies: the 2003 SARS outbreak and the localized experience of COVID-19 in New York City. The application revealed that the framework is both transferable and scalable for use in assessing other human health crises. Overall, many of the beneficial environmental impacts that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic only came at the expense of widespread human suffering, and over time, many of these benefits were reversed. The goal is that this tool will be useful to understanding both the ways COVID-19 will continue to affect the environment as well as the effects of potential public health campaigns and crises in the future. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2021. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Environmental Studies.

The spread of COVID-19 across the globe has produced global and possibly persistent economic disruption. This study follows the design science research process and conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis to identify and investigate Canadian agri-food company responses to COVID-19. The results show the possibility of capturing companies’ responses from web-based data, the breadth of responses, and the relationships between the communication of corporate responses and their reception among social media users. Divergences of regression results across different languages are also discussed in this paper. The findings will help academic researchers, business leaders and policymakers understand corporate responses and subsequent reactions better.

With over 550,000 American lives claimed by COVID-19, over 30 million confirmed infections, and historic job losses across the nation, evaluations of the pandemic response from the Trump Administration have been polarizing. In the eyes of many Americans, President Trump’s Coronavirus response has been lacking in swiftness and efficacy, while many others see the governmental response as competent or having exceeded expectations. In light of previous research, to expect these evaluations to be politically polarized would be reasonable, but at what point do these partisan biases fall away? This survey study will test how partisan biases influence Americans’ evaluations of President Donald Trump’s – and President Biden’s – handling of the Coronavirus pandemic response – factoring in how respondents have been personally affected by the pandemic or personally know someone who has been. These experiences with COVID-19 will be quantified by proximity to loss of life due to, and infection of, COVID-19, as well as job loss as a result of the effects of the virus. As devastating as these experiences may be, I expect the influence of partisan biases to be overwhelmingly correlated with respondents’ evaluations of both President Trump’s and President Biden’s COVID-19 response when compared to the correlation of personal experience. As the findings will suggest, these expectations prove to be accurate; Republicans indicate substantially higher levels of satisfaction with President Trump’s pandemic response when compared to Democrats, with the reverse relationship observed for evaluations of President Biden, and this holds true at all levels of proximity. Further, partisan identity yields a considerably larger magnitude of correlation with these evaluations when compared to personal experience. Unfortunately, Americans do not seem to hold their presidents accountable for their actions (or inaction) by learning from even the most traumatic experiences; party overpowers all else. The findings of this study will greatly enrich the current literature on the extent to which partisan biases influence evaluations of government, and will provide insight into the reliability of democratic accountability, and, resultantly, the very functioning of American democracy.

The research explored the public support towards the political communication carried out during COVID-19 in India. Through the means of a structured questionnaire based on Easton's dimensions of public support, responses were collected from 200 respondents, 100 each from the academic background of journalism and psychology. To determine the support towards the government performance during the crisis times based on the political communication done by the current regime in India. The results suggested that the public support is quite less from the respondents of journalism background. However, the psychology respondents showed relatively high support towards the political communication done by the Indian government in the COVID-19. It suggests that the public support is not one but scattered and also the academic background could play a major role in one's understanding of the political communication and lending of the support. The research demonstrated how respondents from different backgrounds show almost the opposite support towards political communication in the times of crisis. This gives out a good comparison and also concludes the public support. Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, political communication, crisis communication, public support, India.

In March 2020, COVID-19 was announced as a pandemic, and the whole world was affected. Lockdown and restrictions happened in several nations, and populations were told to keep their distance and avoid public places such as clinics and hospitals. Nation after nation started to implement or increase telemedicine usage to continue providing healthcare. In South Korea, telemedicine was prohibited before the pandemic but is now temporarily allowed. In the USA, telemedicine has increased its usage by 4000% at NYU Langone Health. However, there have been benefits such as easy accessibility, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and barriers such as technical issues, limited access, and low experience with technology. It has affected several populations such as the elderly, younger, low-income, and people living in rural areas. In this scoping review, COVID-19s impact telemedicine usage will be investigated as well as its benefits and barriers.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka arbetspendling med kollektiva färdmedel i Västra Götalandsregionen under covid-19-pandemin samt faktorer som spelar in vid val av kollektivtrafik som färdmedel för att förklara eventuell påverkan på mobilitet. De frågeställningar som besvarats är: Hur har resandet med kollektiva färdmedel i Västra Götalandsregionen förändrats till följd av covid-19-pandemin? Hur kan valet av kollektiva färdmedel för arbetspendling under covid-19-pandemin förklaras?Hur har mobiliteten bland personer som använder kollektiva färdmedel för arbetspendling påverkats av covid-19-pandemin?För att besvara frågeställningarna har en induktiv studie med kvantitativa och kvalitativa metoder genomförts. Ett omfattande material om antalet resor med kollektivtrafik i Västra Götalandsregionen från 2019 och 2020 har använts för att visa hur resandet förändrats. En enkätundersökning med personer som arbetspendlat med kollektiva färdmedel under covid-19-pandemin har genomförts. Studien bekräftar att antalet resenärer i kollektivtrafiken har minskat kraftigt i majoriteten av kommunerna i Västra Götalandsregionen. Ekonomiska faktorer visas vara en stark förklaringsfaktor för valet av kollektivtrafik som färdmedel. Studien visar även att en avgörande faktor för möjligheten att arbeta hemifrån ligger i vilken typ av arbete en individ har och att covid-19-pandemin kan ha bidragit till en ökad transportrelaterad social exkludering. Studiens tydligaste slutsats är att personer som använt kollektiva färdmedel för arbetspendling har tagit till olika mobilitetsstrategier för att kringgå de barriärer i form av oro och upplevd otrygghet som pandemin givit upphov till. Slutligen visade studien att covid-19-pandemin har mobilitetsbegränsande effekter på den grupp som inte haft några alternativa färdmedel än kollektivtrafik för sina resor till och från arbetet. / The purpose of this study was to investigate commuting by public transport in the Västra Götaland region during the covid-19 pandemic and the factors that play a role in the choice of public transport as a means of transport to explain any impact on mobility. The questions answered are: How has travel by public transport in the Västra Götaland region changed as a result of the covid-19 pandemic?How can commuting for work with public transportation during the covid-19 pandemic be explained?How has the mobility of people using public transport for commuting been affected by the covid-19 pandemic?To answer these questions, an inductive study with quantitative and qualitative methods has been conducted. Extensive material on the number of travels with public transport in the Västra Götaland region from 2019 and 2020 has been used to show how travel has changed. A survey of people who commuted to work by public transport during the covid-19 pandemic has been conducted. The study confirms that the number of passengers using public transport has decreased vastly in the majority of municipalities in the Västra Götaland region. Economic implications are shown to be a strong explanatory factor for the choice of public transport as a means of transport. The study also shows that a key factor for the opportunity to work from home lies in the type of work an individual has and that the covid-19 pandemic may have contributed to an increased transport-related social exclusion. The clearest conclusion of the study is that people who have used public transport for work commuting have resorted to different mobility strategies to circumvent barriers in the form of anxiety and perceived insecurity that the pandemic has given rise to. Moreover, it can be concluded that the covid-19 pandemic has mobility-limiting effects on the group that does not have any other means of transport than public transport for their commuting to and from work.   Keywords: covid-19, commuting, public transport, mobility

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Objetivo: identificar la asociación entre el uso de redes sociales para informarse sobre la pandemia de COVID-19 y el nivel de actividad física en estudiantes de ciencias de la salud de una universidad peruana en el 2021. Metodología: estudio transversal analítico. Población compuesta por estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud de la UPC en la sede Villa entre enero y julio del 2021. Se utilizó el cuestionario autoaplicado sobre uso de redes sociales para informarse sobre la pandemia de COVID-19 para la variable independiente y el Cuestionario Internacional de Actividad Física (IPAQ) en formato corto para medir la variable dependiente.