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COVID-19 Public Health Response and Related Measures7
For ease of analysis, and not rigour, we can classify roughly four
complementary sets of anti-COVID-19 public health and economic
responses. The first are measures to regulate social and behavioural
conduct. The second are measures targeting institutional capacity andÂ
therapeutic strategy. The third are measures in support of R&D efforts
aimed at development of a COVID-19 vaccine, production of pan-
demic necessities, and scenario management—and associated policy
interventions. Fourth are mostly financial and in-kind reliefs targeted
at members of the public and businesses to cushion them, and the
broader economy, against the disruptive effects of COVID-19.
Regulation of Social and Behavioural Conduct
A strain related to SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus in the
Corona family of viruses. It is the cause of the COVID-19 disease.
Human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 happens through trans-
mission from an infected person’s respiratory droplets and through
contact with fomites infected with viable COVID-19 RNA.8 Airborne
transmission is possible in treatment settings where the COVID-
19 RNA particles are captured in aerosol-generating procedures or
other pressurized devices.9 Outside of these settings, the detection of
COVID-19 virus in air samples, and its viability for airborne trans-
mission for the purposes of its classification as an airborne disease,
remains, at the moment, an urgent matter of public health curiosity10
and part of COVID-19’s unclear transmission dynamic.11
Given the literal and figurative fluidity in the transmission of the
disease, governments have implemented social and behavioural con-
trol measures. They include human movement restrictions of intra-
and international scope, the latter via total or partial closures of land,
air, and sea borders. Some jurisdictions have implemented curfews,
7. The online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has a country-by-country list of mea-
sures. See “National Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic” (last modified
11 May 2020), online: Wikipedia <https://bit.ly/2SXz1HF>.
8. See “Modes of Transmissions of Virus Containing COVID-19: Implications
for IPC Precaution Recommendations” (29 March 2020), online: World HealthÂ
OrganizationÂ
<https://bit.ly/2YVsv86>.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. See Tao Liu et al, “Transmission Dynamics of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-
nCoV)” [forthcoming 2020].
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International