64.
Chimène I Keitner,
Letter to the Journal To Litigate a Pandemic: Cases in the United States Against China and the Chinese Communist Party and Foreign Sovereign Immunities, 2020.08.09,
https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmaa018 .
This paper demonstrates some civil litigation brought against China in U.S. courts and makes the point that it is not well suited for civil litigation in domestic courts to perform the social functions of condemning harmful behavior, deterring future wrongdoing, and securing compensation for injured parties with respect to a foreign state’s acts or omissions relating to the initial or continued spread of a deadly virus.
63.
Kennedy Gastorn,
Letter to the Journal To Name a New Coronavirus and the Associated Pandemic: International Law and Politics, 2020.08.18,
https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmaa024 .
This piece seeks to shed light on the international rules that govern the naming of a virus and its associated pandemic. The International rules specifically provide that in choosing the nomenclature for a pandemic care must be taken that it does not cause stigma or prejudice to persons belonging to a particular State, region, profession or trade.
62.
David P Fidler,
To Fight a New Coronavirus: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Political Herd Immunity, and Global Health Jurisprudence, 2020.08.13,
https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmaa016 .
This paper expounds that international law and international cooperation are proved to be vulnerable during the pandemic. Author suggests the painstaking work of re-building political herd immunity through international cooperation and international law must begin again. Also, improving pandemic preparedness, revising the IHR (2005), and reforming WHO. The precondition of the success of these proposal is that United States and China forge détente on global health and support cooperation focused on what the pandemic makes painfully clear.
61.
Benjamin Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin,
Human rights must be the foundation of any COVID-19 response, 2020.08.17,
https://blog.oup.com/2020/08/human-rights-must-be-the-foundation-of-any-covid-19-response/ .
Author elucidates the health-related human rights obligations under international law and what states should do to implement human rights in the pandemic response. It is also mentioned that global solidarity is very important in facing this common threat and populist nationalism will destroy this effort.
60.
Arjun S Yadaw, Yan-chak Li, etc,,
Clinical features of COVID-19 mortality: development and validation of a clinical prediction model, 2020.10.01,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30217-X .
In this study, an accurate and parsimonious COVID-19 mortality prediction model based on three features might have utility in clinical settings to guide the management and prognostication of patients affected by this disease. External validation of this prediction model in other populations is needed.
59.
Minghuan Wang, Chen Xia, Lu Huang, Prof Shabei Xu, Chuan Qin, Jun Liu,
Deep learning-based triage and analysis of lesion burden for COVID-19: a retrospective study with external validation, 2020.10.01,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30199-0 .
The research group developed and externally validated a deep learning algorithm for triaging patients with suspected COVID-19 at fever clinics. Given its high accuracy across populations with varied COVID-19 prevalence, integration of this system into the standard clinical workflow could expedite identification of chest CT scans with imaging indications of COVID-19.
58.
Prof Gill Livingston, Hossein Rostamipour, Paul Gallagher, Chris Kalafatis, Abhishek Shastri, Lauren Huzzey,
Prevalence, management, and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infections in older people and those with dementia in mental health wards in London, UK: a retrospective observational study, 2020.10.05 ,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30434-X .
This study shows that patients in psychiatric inpatient settings who were admitted without known SARS-CoV-2 infection had a high risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 compared with those in the community and had a higher proportion of deaths from COVID-19 than in the community. Implementation of the long-standing policy of parity of esteem for mental health and planning for future COVID-19 waves in psychiatric hospitals is urgent.
57.
Alexandria Macmadu, Justin Berk, Eliana Kaplowitz, Marquisele Mercedes, Josiah D Rich, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein,
COVID-19 and mass incarceration: a call for urgent action, 2020.10.09,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30231-0 .
This article outlines the outsized effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who are incarcerated and Black communities and then elucidates the inextricable links between health, race, and incarceration. It also points out that decarceration is urgently needed to mitigate the outbreaks and to reduce the racial health disparities.
Bibio56: Nathan J Brendish, Stephen Poole, Vasanth V Naidu, Christopher T Mansbridge, Nicholas J Norton, Helen Wheeler, Clinical impact of molecular point-of-care testing for suspected COVID-19 in hospital (COV-19POC): a prospective, interventional, non-randomised, controlled study, October 08, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30454-9, this article shows that point-of-care testing is associated with large reductions in time to results and could lead to improvements in infection control measures and patient flow compared with centralised laboratory PCR testing.
56.
Sienho Yee,
To Deal with a New Coronavirus Pandemic: Making Sense of the Lack of Any State Practice in Pursuing State Responsibility for Alleged Malfeasances in a Pandemic—Lex Specialis or Lex Generalis at Work? 2020.08.23,
https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmaa022 .
There has never been any State practice in pursuing State responsibility for alleged malfeasances in pandemics. What effect does this absence of practice have on the framework of applicable law regarding this pursuit of State responsibility? How can we make sense of this absence in the context of global public health?One way would be to see the absence as reflecting a lex specialis providing for no State responsibility for any alleged malfeasances; another as reflecting States’ assessment that there is no or slight chance of success even under a lex generalis not excluding potential responsibility.
55.
Vesna Pusic,
Fear, Hate, and Competence: Could COVID-19 Be a Turning Point? 2020.08.27,
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/2018/ii/202008/t20200827_800218873.html .
COVID-19 has shown that the world cannot successfully confront a major crisis without investing a modicum of fundamental trust and accountability in international relations.
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