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A year has passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed the lives of millions of people and replaced the way we all interact and navigate with the world. in our lives for more than 12 months? Medical News Today is assessing the situation.
A year ago, on 11 March 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that global COVID-19 epidemics had spread so widespread that they constituted a pandemic.
“[WHO] is assessing this epidemic 24 hours a day, and we are deeply concerned, either by alarming degrees of spread and severity and by alarming degrees of inaction. We think COVID-19 can be classified as a pandemic. “
With those few words, Dr. Tedros made it clear that the way we live is about to replace – and he did.
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Since then, there have been more than 118. 7 million international COVID-19 deaths and more than 2. 6 million COVID-19-related deaths.
Local and foreign restrictions to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the crownvirus guilty of COVID-19, included orders to stay home, bans, restrictions on meetings with other households, and the closure of non-essential stores. , such as gyms, cinemas, museums, art galleries and even places of worship.
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As a result of the pandemic, millions of people around the world flee from home. According to a European Commission memorandum, about 40% of all other people hired in the European Union ” have full-time telerunning due to the ” pandemic.
In the United States, 41. 8% of the workforce worked remotely full-time in December 2020, and 56. 8% worked remotely, according to an Upwork report.
Adam Ozimek, leading economist at Uppaintings, notes: “Our studies show that the long-term effect on remote paintings and COVID-19 is likely to influence the way hiring managers think about their organization. As corporations adapt and report this experience of remote paintings, many are turning their long-term plans to adapt to this way of painting. »
Working from home can have both positive and negative effects on the well-being of the painter. A review published in BMC Public Health in November 2020 relayed several reported effects of remote paintings on physical and intellectual well-being.
Working from home was related to increased emotional exhaustion, especially among others who felt away from their co-workers and therefore had less social support.
Others, however, reported feeling happier because they didn’t have to deal with a stressful paint environment on a basis.
The review also noted that “men had higher degrees of paint exhaustion after starting telepainting,” while “women reported higher degrees of paint exhaustion than their colleagues who stayed in the office. “
This would possibly reflect the patience of classic gender roles, in which women tend to take on most of childcare and family tasks.
A study published in January 2021 and covered through MNT found that in 36. 6% of the nearly two hundred couples surveyed, women working from home due to the pandemic still had the ultimate responsibility in childcare.
The authors were surprised to have to recognize the patience of strict sexual roles, even though Americans and couples had to adapt in a new way to the demanding situations posed by the pandemic.
“Most other people have never experienced anything like this before, where they can no longer depend on their overall childcare, and the scenario of other people’s maximum has also changed. We think it would be a possibility for men to interfere and participate in care as well, however, for many couples, we have not noticed that happening. “
– Correspondent Dr. Kristin M. Shockley
During this time, not everyone was able to keep their jobs. A Pew Research Center report published in September 2020 indicates that 25% of U. S. adults reported that “they or a family member were fired or lost their jobs” as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Surprisingly, a report through the National Center for Women’s Law (NWLC) showed that they accounted for all job losses in the United States in December 2020, alluding to persistent and deeply entrenched gender inequalities.
This location is “devastating,” says Emily Martin, vice president of education and justice at NWLC’s job, in an interview with CNBC. “I’m worried that this could have devastating effects for months and years to come. “
Small independent businesses have also been greatly affected this ‘pandemic year’. Research from a survey of more than 5,800 small businesses discovered in the United States, published in July 2020, found that 41. 3% of companies were “temporarily closed due to COVID-19”, while 1. 8% had definitively closed their doors.
A reader from Brazil who contacted MNT to explain how the pandemic had affected them highlighted the effect of economic insecurity.
“I had to avoid running when the lockdown happened here in Sao Paulo,” we were told. “I had a small business, but [due to fitness issues], I had to stay home. “
“After almost a year, I sell my business,” they explained, “because we have no prospect of going back to a general life, not even with the vaccine. The vaccine is not yet available to everyone. “
It is very likely that this environment of lack of occupational and monetary confidence has had a profound impact, either on people’s intellectual fitness and on their number one physical attention.
Previous studies have shown that lack of economic confidence has a “substantial” negative effect on intellectual aptitude and that considerations about long-term finance seem to have the greatest effect. forced to play the role of “family support” for their families.
An exam published in September 2020 and covered through MNT showed that a lack of monetary confidence is linked to a greater threat of suicide attempts.
Because researchers gathered this knowledge before the pandemic, they were involved in the most likely magnitude of the effect of economic difficulties caused by global blockades.
“Our studies show that monetary stressors play a key role in suicides, and this will need to be identified and appreciated despite the unprecedented monetary instability caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We may see a dramatic increase in suicide rates,” warns Lead Professor Eric Elbogen.
The pandemic has also forced more parents and caregivers to send their children from home to school. The UK National Statistics Office found that between May and June 2020, 87% of parents reported training at home to at least one child in their family after the pandemic.
In the United States, the National Institute of Home Education Research proposes a “cautious estimate” of a “10% increase in the absolute number of home education students during the 2020-2021 school year. “
This, they say, would bring the number of academics in the house to “about 2. 75 million,” a significant increase of the estimated 2. 5 million in spring 2019.
Last fall, Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), warned that “at least 24 million young people leave school because of COVID-19” and that “the longer young people remain out of school, the more likely they are to return. “
Fore also expressed fear that prolonged schooling at home could simply lead to relief in children’s emotional well-being and, in some excessive cases, may even compromise their safety.
“We know that final schools over long periods of time [have] devastating consequences for children. They are more exposed to physical and emotional violence. His intellectual aptitude is affected. They are more vulnerable to child labour, sexual abuse and are less likely to break the cycle of poverty. »
– HENRIetta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director
A published in European Child
Researchers spoke to 6,720Array of these, 2,002 had a child with a diagnosed intellectual fitness problem. They came here from seven countries: United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Italy.
Parents in the seven countries reported that they and their children were feeling the negative effects of prolonged lack of face-to-face education.
These effects “included increased domestic conflicts, parents’ use of alcohol/drugs, and poor quality home education,” the researchers explain.
Some parents in all countries also “reported that their children could not attend school at home,” and test authors recommend that this can have a significant negative effect on school development.
“Most parents of young people with [special educational needs] reported that they received no help or inadequate home schooling,” the researchers said. However, test authors also found that some parents reported having had positive reports similar to home schooling.
Several MNT readers have also pointed out how much they spend more quality time with their children due to local restrictions and restrictions.
In some cases, our readers have described combined experiences: in an effort for the well-being of their children, some parents, especially women, have had to quit their jobs, alluding to the persistent gender inequalities reported above.
One reader told MNT: “My grandson, in his senior year, has struggled with online teaching. His mother, a teacher, expressed her frustration and lack of concentration. She didn’t paint this year to help her adjust. He now excels in his studies and well-being.
A year after the start of the pandemic, national and regional closures and other preventive restrictions continue in Europe, the United States and some Asian countries, such as Japan.
For many, the global is very different from what it was before March 2020.
A study published in January 2021 and covered through MNT suggests that while recipes to stay at home may have had a negative effect on intellectual health, the effect would possibly go away as others adjusted to their situation.
Many MNT readers report that restrictions that prevent them from going to work, school, gym, film, etc. , have in fact approached their loved ones and helped them access resources in the past without exploiting themselves.
An American reader told us that staying there allowed her to get closer to nature: “I enjoyed being home. My husband and I built pens for our chickens [and] duplicated our garden. [. . . ] And right now, they’re digging a small pond to attract frogs and maybe catch ducks by the end of this year. “
He also explained that seeing less of others has really strengthened his bond:
“[By] dedicating 2 hours a week to someone else, only outdoors and remotely, we have much closer than in the many years we have met. I’m very grateful for that. “
“Finally,” he added, “I resumed a meditation practice and found that I took time out of the day to be mindful and provide help with politics, the weather emergency and viruses. “
According to recent research, meditation can be a tool to adapt to crises.
A May 2020 article in the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine states that mindfulness and meditation can be helpful when it comes to negative emotional experiences, “anxiety, overcoming, and despair. “
“Meditation and mindfulness are help skills that can help us take down our fears and cases and practice that, like our thoughts, this age of our lives will also pass,” concludes the author.
Another NDM reader described how the pandemic helped them and their spouse renew enthusiasm for small things and strengthened their empathy and compassion.
“As retired nurses, we have become more patient and understanding of others and our feelings. We’ve also become potential world champions of riddles!Although we have done so since March last year, we are in no hurry to alleviate the existing blockade. ,” they said.
Another reader told MNT that his time at home had allowed him to rediscover artistic works that brought him joy and monetary gain:
“I am a retired fashion designer and studied art many years ago. Animated through my adult granddaughter, I started drawing again. It’s amazing, because I never learned that I can be completely engrossed in drawing for fun. It brought me peace and quiet this chaotic and complicated period. The real wonder was that I kept drawing at home and sold several of my sketches. I discovered a glorious and productive advance.
Another reader, founded in Spain, described how much they enjoyed the time they spent with the early family, despite initial considerations about locking up at the beginning of the pandemic.
“The first few months of [the pandemic] were dramatic and we didn’t know if it would succeed in my spouse for the birth of our son at the time, because hospitals were restricting the number of visitors, so we borrowed cash to use one instead, birth center. “
Experience, they said, “went and we spent the rest of the confinement nesting with our new baby. “
This reader also stated that he had a renewed sense of community, as family kept in touch closer: “We are quite remote here, even in general times, however, at this time there was a lot of interaction with the circle of family and friends online. it was as if the other people we knew were checking on others. “
Other readers have told us about the challenges of fitness, depression and isolation, a challenge that is sore over the next year.
In a preliminary paper published in World Psychiatry in January 2021, Professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, argues that social isolation has a pandemic in her own right, posing threats to fitness that are ignored through policies. manufacturers or national authorities.
She writes:
“In the midst of a global pandemic, immediate threats of a deadly new virus are naturally a priority. However, social isolation and loneliness can have effects on short- and long-term fitness that should be ignored. The fatal effects of social isolation and loneliness” would possibly be faster, in the case of suicide or domestic violence, or in the longer term, in the event of disease-related deaths. The international knowledge of more than 3. 4 million others shows the disposition of social isolation and loneliness with a particular greater threat of all causes of death. »
A study, also from January 2021, in humanities
He unequivocally reports that “the new joy of mass physical estating after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic suggests that social isolation is one thing in the public fitness crisis. “
It also notes that perceived social isolation has a negative effect on the well-being of adults of all ages.
An MNT reader who moved to Spain for a while before the pandemic began described the difficulties of the delight that followed. “The pandemic meant that my life of “freedom” under the Spanish sun was by no means what I had planned, “she said, explaining:
“I haven’t noticed my circle of family or friends in a year. I’ve spent [the] last six months alone. As an extrovert in a new country, with no connections here and no Spanish, it’s hard. I feel lucky”. having my online business and a glorious online community, in a different way, would have affected my intellectual capacity much more. “
He added that the concept of lacking vital moments in the lives of his enjoyed beings is difficult to manage.
“I hope to see my circle of relatives again soon. My sister is pregnant with her first child [and] I will miss her total pregnancy. My other nieces are 1 and 3 years old and I didn’t expect to miss so much of their growth,” the reader told us.
Another reader, founded in Brisbane, Australia, also described the record for the indefinite separation of the circle of family members in other countries, he was able to enjoy more or less other facets of life as usual.
“[I] feel fortunate that [COVID-19] has been reviewed here in Australia. Life is almost as general in Brisbane, and apart from some public office scans and a small one-week blockade, [this] has been [general] since June last year,” he said.
However, he explained: “There is a strange feeling that we will not be able to return to [our country of origin] to make a stopover in the family, and they will not be able to come here to see us for another year. practically, and even when reopened abroad, it may not be the same again for a long time. “
“Suddenly, being so far away turns out to be like an eternity, almost like being on the planet,” the reader told MNT.
Research on the scope of the pandemic has an effect on depression and anxiety in various populations around the world. Until now, non-public knowledge and anecdotes recommend that the negative effect should be taken into account.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for example, cited in Nature, show that 11% of adults surveyed in the United States reported symptoms of anxiety or depression in 2019; by 2020, this has increased to 42%.
A reader of NNTM, who said he was 75 years old and suffered from diabetes and center failure, said his intellectual ability had deteriorated particularly because of the pandemic.
We were told that “they should start taking antidepressants now” and that they “can’t sleep more than four hours in a row. “
This delight is distressing, they said, and they explained that “they do not live, that they simply exist. There’s a big difference. “
People around the world have reported an increase in anxiety similar to fears of contracting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Such anxiety has aroused racist and xenophobic feelings, as others have come to associate the new coronavirus with the position in which it was first identified: China.
A study published in the American Journal of Public Health in November 2020 notes that “discrimination and aggression against Asians increases, in particular the pandemic [COVID-19], contributing to a ‘secondary contagion’ of racism. “
Other researchers, such as Dr. Isaac Yeboah Addo of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, agree that the term “pandemic” can better describe the accumulation of racism and discrimination over the following year.
In an article in Social Sciences
“The points related to racial discrimination that are opposed to non-citizens and other people of color, this pandemic can be complex and possibly would come with the postcolonial belief of racial superiority, concern about COVID-19 infection, ‘incendiary’ comments from public figures have been abused elsewhere and have perceived differences in sensitivity to COVID-19 due to differences in physical characteristics” Writes.
An Indonesian-based NTM reader admitted that she is not immune to anti-Asian sentiment, especially in the early stages of the pandemic, when concern about infection is a surprise to the system.
“The whole thing was a crazy roller coaster,” he said. I don’t forget in the January assembly a friend who had just finished a coaching contract in Wuhan from all over!He told me how strange they behaved to the “flu,” how total elegance stays at home for four days if a student had symptoms. “
Then he explained:
“As things started to progress, I became racist and judged all the Chinese I came here with or passed through. I gave them a giant place, I held my breath . . . Bali and back to paintings in the remote Sulawesi region.
With the advent of COVID-19 vaccines and promising candidate vaccines, there is renewed hope that the world will open up in due course.
To date, 12 vaccines have been authorised in at least one country and COVID-19 vaccination programmes have been initiated in countries around the world.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, an mNR vaccine, is now authorised in 68 countries, the United States, the United Kingdom and all european Union countries.
The Moderna-NIAID vaccine, also an mRNA vaccine, has been approved in 40 countries, while the Oxford-AstraZeneca viral vector vaccine is now authorised in 74 countries.
In the UK, official reports imply that more than 2. 8 million others have won the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while in the United States, more than 62. 4 million others have earned at least one dose, according to the CDC Report.
While many are eager to return to their pre-pandemic lives, this global crisis has brought a new awareness of existing disruptions prioritized by global and local decision-makers.
Some of these problems, such as inequalities in physical fitness and domestic violence, aggravated the pandemic and fit more urgently than ever before.
On 11 March 2021, Dr. Tedros noted that:
“Worldwide, 59% of COVID-19 deaths occur among men, but women have suffered disproportionately in many other ways. We have noticed a dreadful increase in violence against women and reduced to sexual and reproductive fitness services. Job losses were high, even when women bear a disproportionate burden of caring for young people and the elderly. “
“Women have been at the forefront of the [pandemic] response, representing about 70% of the world’s fitness care staff. However, women hold 25% of the leadership roles in fitness,” she continued, explaining that this challenge wants to be addressed in the future.
Dr. Tedros also discussed a “growing global interest in the concept of a pandemic treaty,” referring to a recent call for a foreign treaty describing coherent preparation for a long-term pandemic.
“The world will have to be informed to lasting classes of this pandemic,” Dr. Tedros said, precisely one year after pointing out the classification of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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