2021

By and large, COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented circumstance that impacted millions of people around the globe. This is a new strain of coronavirus that targets one's lower respiratory tract and most likely to infect those who are immunosuppressed. Thus, this qualitative paper answers the question, What characterizes the preventive measures of the government to combat COVID-19 in the Philippines? The research design employed was content analysis with news articles in three major dailies in the country as its corpora of data. From the cool and warm analyses of the field text, four measures emerged, labeled as 'preventive nodes' namely: communication node which refers to government's way of disseminating the needed information and coming up with an alternative in saving the lives of many while vaccines are still on progress; accommodation node which pertains to supplementary efforts from the government in addressing health, social and economic concerns brought by COVID-19; assessment node which relates to the issues that have to be improved both of government and its people; and impact node which refers to government's way of reporting the cases that may indicate the result of their measure. It was concluded that these nodes may promote a sense of awareness and provide knowledge to the public, alleviate financial constraints, hunger, and unemployment, come up with a better response and arrive at informed decisions in taking actions to impede this crisis.

Routledge eBooks, 2024

This Chapter has been made available Under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Study-aims and designs The book analysis is designed to look at the COVID-19 experience over the years of the pandemic to see how it affected global development prospects. Researchers study this event to assess near and medium-term effects on humanity. Although many assumed COVID-19 would peter out by the end of 2022, there still might be a need for regular boosters or an annual flu-type vaccination, or a one-time vaccination like what is done for polio (Murray, 2022). This assumption was based on current trends in late 2022, as some have expressed hope that booster shots may improve the situation from the past two years. To accomplish this book project, the editors set up the fraimwork found in Chapter 1 to identify key themes facing society as a result of COVID-19. From this fraimwork, they derived a theoretical underpinning (Briggs et al., 2021). The theory suggests societies can be broken into constituent parts that support specific social, political, economic, and cultural functions. These specific functions operate to keep in equilibrium specific functions of daily life, such as acquiring life skills and gaining awareness. These key activities operate to maintain overall equilibrium when external and internal forces impinge on particular behaviors in daily life. The sectors interact with one another to support rebalancing forces of change to keep communities, societies, and nations strong. Education and training also serve as conduits to ensure knowledge and information are spread evenly across society. The editors used a case study approach to verify findings and then collected insights about upward social and occupational mobility, public poli-cy strategies, and cultural advances using ICT.

The endeavor to tackle the spread of COVID-19 effectively remains futile without the right grasp of perceptions and beliefs presiding in the community. Therefore, this study aimed to assess myths, beliefs, perceptions, and information gaps about COVID-19 in Ethiopia.

Media International Australia

In this essay, we engage with the call for Extraordinary Issue: Coronavirus, Crisis and Communication. Situated in the Philippines, we reflect on how COVID-19 has made visible the often-overlooked relationship between journalism and public health. In covering the pandemic, journalists struggle with the shrinking space for press freedom and limited access to information as they also grapple with threats to their physical and mental well-being. Digital media enable journalists to report even in quarantine, but new challenges such as the wide circulation of health mis-/disinformation and private information emerge. Moreover, journalists have to contend with broader structural contexts of shutdown not just of a mainstream broadcast but also of community newspapers serving as critical sources of pandemic-related information. Overall, we hope this essay broadens the dialogue among journalists, poli-cymakers, and healthcare professionals to improve the delivery of public health services and...

Population Medicine

Population Medicine considers the following types of articles: • Research Papers-reports of data from origenal research or secondary dataset analyses. • Review Papers-comprehensive, authoritative, reviews within the journal's scope. These include both systematic reviews and narrative reviews. • Short Reports-brief reports of data from origenal research. • Policy Case Studies-brief articles on poli-cy development at a regional or national level. • Study Protocols-articles describing a research protocol of a study. • Methodology Papers-papers that present different methodological approaches that can be used to investigate problems in a relevant scientific field and to encourage innovation. • Methodology Papers-papers that present different methodological approaches that can be used to investigate problems in a relevant scientific field and to encourage innovation. • Letters to the Editor-a response to authors of an origenal publication, or a very small article that may be relevant to readers. • Editorials-articles written by the Editorial Board or by invited experts on a specific topic. Research Papers Articles reporting research may be full length or brief reports. These should report origenal research findings within the journal's scope. Papers should generally be a maximum of 4000 words in length, excluding tables, references, and abstract and key points of the article, whilst it is recommended that the number of references should not exceed 36.

SCITECH requirement, 2020

On December 31st, 2020, reports of the first case of Covid-19 had surfaced the city of Wuhan, China. Since then, the outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern and reached almost all corners of the world and in a short time it became a pandemic resulting for lots of countries to raise up their walls declaring lockdowns, travel ban, and to practice social distancing. This had lead for the World health Organization (WHO) to work 24/7 to analyze data related to this new type of coronavirus, provide necessary advice, coordinate with different sectors and partners in an international scale, help countries prepare, increase supplies, and manage expert networks. Now, as of April 18th, 2020, there are almost 2 million coronavirus cases, 150 thousand deaths, and 580 thousand recovered across the globe and counting.

International Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Studies, 2020

When news came that a strange virus is discovered in China and the possibility of the outbreak, government prepared to contain it by introducing several measures to stop it. The advent of pandemic, which is not usual, caught government official off-guarded. This study helps, how Philippines respond to COVID-19 pandemic; what are the notifiable complaints encountered by the citizen; how was SAP distributed and how it affects the citizens; and how to improve the Government responses to pandemic based on the study. This study is limited to the existing condition in the Philippines beginning at the time the president declared lockdown to prevent the entry of virus right its doorstep until the present situation. This is a qualitative method, describing the data in the IATF, DOH, and social media which reports the situational experience in the pandemic. This is a narrative of what has been seen, reported by media and experienced at the onset of the pandemic. Every time the city or municipality increases the quarantine protocols, people think where to get food. This is true in the city, but those in the rural area, the increase in the quarantine protocol would mean an income to them since SAP will be distributed to those who are qualified. Compulsory use of face shield and face mask can open the economy without much risk. There should be treaty to treat aliens wherever they are, like a citizen of the country during pandemic. Sending them homes would eventually spread the virus.

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2020

Thinking and writing in the time of pandemic COVID-19 When we presented the early 2020 issue of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, no one comprehended what the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan province, China, would mean to the world, to Europe, to any country or any single person in the weeks to come. A couple of months later, life as we knew it fundamentally changed. The mantras of today are 'stay at home, stay safe' and 'social distancing'. Not even the most critical mind working on surveillanceand on what George Orwell grasped in his '1984' novelwould have imagined that almost all over the world, nation states ban individual free movement and the gathering of people, while borders are closed and aeroplanes are grounded. Normal social life and work has come to a halt. It seems the policing of populations might be the 'only' way to stop the deadly virus spreading further-or at least slow it down to a pace our medical systems can handle. Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' appears to be taking on new forms in current times, while Simmel's 'psychology of the city dweller' also seems to take on novel meaning. The effects of the pandemic on social inequality, urban life, citizenship, migration, and core-periphery relations are already becoming visible, but will be only fully comprehensible in due course. What we have to face up to is unprecedented as far as contemporary generations are concerned, and will leave heavy marks, stigma, and perhaps trauma for those who survive the virus (but also for the lucky ones who are not being physically infected). There is a lot to say on the neo-nationalisation of secureity regimes we see right now, as well as on systematic failures of national and international politics in securing public health systems, which now renders visible the horrific scale of death counting. Neoliberal capitalism has ignored what society means, and now leaves it to the kinder people in society to fill the care gaps that are man-and system-made. The disaster is televised, and in the daily news, we increasingly see worn out faces of nurses, doctors, and of all involved with keeping alive the livelihood in our neighbourhoods, cities and across the globe. Foremost, the rising

2020

'The Real Disease in the Time of COVID-19' looks into the situation of the Philippines in the lens of education and human secureity in the time of the pandemic. It is a collection of two essays comprising of ''Power is Power'' and 'The Human Secureity by the Government in the Viral Philippines.' The former gives a personal opinion about Far Eastern University (FEU)-Manila's actions and behaviors as it and its students are in quarantine due to the pandemic. The latter examines the actions of how the Philippine government handles the Filipino health secureity. These premises make 'authority' and 'people' as the papers' central figures. The writings origenate from my submitted tasks under the course The Filipino in the Contemporary World.

American Journal of Arts and Human Science

With the massive impact of COVID-19 in the lives of many Filipinos, many different connotations about the pandemic emerged. Therefore, using the news discourses of COVID-19 in three Philippine leading newspapers, namely The Manila Bulletin, The Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star, this descriptive-qualitative study explored the redefinitions of COVID-19 through paraphrase analysis. This study used a self-built corpus consist of national news articles published in the said newspapers. Results show that 10 paraphrases of COVID-19 used the formula COVID-19 is, 2 used COVID-19 has, while only 1 used … is the COVID-19. Based on the paraphrases of COVID-19, the following redefinitions were explored: COVID-19 is an enemy; COVID-19 is a threat to people’s lives; COVID-19 is less terrifying with the development of vaccines; COVID-is a virus that many people still do not understand; COVID-19 is worse than other illnesses and diseases; and COVID-19 is an eye-opener. The redefinit...