Resources – COVID 19

• Pandemic fatigue: Reinvigorating the public to prevent COVID-19 – WHO Europe

This policy brief focuses on the widespread lack of motivation to adhere to COVID regulations that has emerged as the pandemic has gone on. Authors note key observations and provide recommendations.

• Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition – Katrine Bach Habersaat et al

This article offers recommendations policymakers can implement for successfully allowing communities to be heard and engaged as COVID regulations continually adjust to accommodate economic and social costs.

• COVID vaccine hesitancy threatens push to end pandemic…- Democrat and Chronicle

This Democrat and Chronicle article discusses the issues challenges to ending COVID that have arisen as a result of widespread vaccine hesitancy. The CCH Team’s own Dr. T.S. Harvey is quoted

• Safety is Fatal – Aeon

In this piece, David Napier shows the downsides on insular ‘safety’ and why embracing diversity can make communities more resilience

• I heard it through the grapevine: On herd immunity and why it is important – Dr. David Napier

This article argues that viruses must be understood socially because viral outbreaks are herd-driven. It shows that the social drivers of viruses often go understated due to medicalization, which can lead to antibiotic misuse, xenophobic rhetoric, and other counterproductive responses.

• The culture of health and sickness – Le Monde diplomatique

Vulnerability assessments being conducted Uganda before and during the start of the pandemic may be the only reliable real-time information we have of how a community conceptualized and responded to the COVID-19 crisis. This has illustrated importance of assessing vulnerability prior to a disaster’s onset. Read the full article by Dr. David Napier and Dr. Ted Fischer.

• Why COVID-19 is Deadlier for Males – Elemental

This piece discusses the factors that result in higher COVID-19 fatality rates for men. The CCH Team’s own Dr. Derek Griffith is quoted.

• Misunderstanding a Viral Pandemic: The Social and Cultural Contexts of COVID-19 – David Napier, Edward Fischer

This paper utilizes a cultural context of health approach to show how the ways viruses are conceptualized, understood, and misunderstood affect the ways we’re able to deal with them. Authors illustrate how the social framework of viruses should include social theory to optimize results.

• Addressing the COVID-19 Health Equity Chasm – Shari Barkin, Kecia Carroll, Velma McBride-Murry, et al.

This brief addresses the overrepresentation in COVID-19 deaths among Blacks and Latino populations. Certain barriers to positive health outcomes are discussed, including lack of trust and access to testing.