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Week 3: Issue Review: COVID-19
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Week 3: COVID-19 Vaccine

COVID-19 (coronavirus diseases 2019) is a communicable respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus that causes illness. It was declared a public health emergency of international concerns on January 30, 2020 and a pandemic on March 11, 2020. This pandemic has stroked many controversies around the globe.

Vaccine

Pro: Corey, L., Mascola, J. R., Fauci, A. S., & Collins, F. S. (2020). A strategic approach to COVID-19 vaccine R&D. Science, 368(6494), 948-950.
Covid 19 has led to manufacture and distribution of enough effective as well as safe vaccines that will immunize a large number of people thus protecting the world from covid. This has brought different sectors together during this time of global urgency to find a better vaccine.
Con: Persad, G., Peek, M. E., & Emanuel, E. J. (2020). Fairly prioritizing groups for access to COVID-19 vaccines. Jama, 324(16), 1601-1602.
In this resource, author view how the supply of successful covid vaccine is done such as who are supposed to access the vaccine first. Different organizations like the US National Academy of Medicine have put forward a framework for covid vaccine allocation. However, the vaccine does not prevent the transmission of the virus but reduces the severity if the illness. Distribution of vaccines is unfair without following the ethical values in some countries.

Safety measures

Pro: Hu, X., Yan, H., Casey, T., & Wu, C. H. (2021). Creating a safe haven during the crisis: How organizations can achieve deep compliance with COVID-19 safety measures in the hospitality industry. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 92, 102662.
Employee compliance to the covid-19 safety measure is important to ensure safe operations in different hospitality organizations thus prioritizing safety in the community.
Con: Douglas, M., Katikireddi, S. V., Taulbut, M., McKee, M., & McCartney, G. (2020). Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response. Bmj, 369.
Safety measures set as pandemic response such as social distance can affect the economic, education, led to social isolation, family relationship and health.

Social media

Pro: González-Padilla, D. A., & Tortolero-Blanco, L. (2020). Social media influence in the COVID-19 pandemic. International braz j urol, 46, 120-124.
Social media has one of the biggest advantage during covid019 pandemic since it provided educational content such as prevention measures on different platforms such as YouTube and sharing protocols such as personal protection.
Con: Cinelli, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Galeazzi, A., Valensise, C. M., Brugnoli, E., Schmidt, A. L. & Scala, A. (2020). The covid-19 social media infodemic.
The author explains how social media strongly influences people’s behavior during the time of covid due to the unprecedented amount of contents in these Medias example fake news. “Infodemic outlines the perils of misinformation phenomena during the management of disease outbreak” (Scala, A., et al, 2020).

Reference
Cinelli, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Galeazzi, A., Valensise, C. M., Brugnoli, E., Schmidt, A. L. & Scala, A. (2020). The covid-19 social media infodemic.
Corey, L., Mascola, J. R., Fauci, A. S., & Collins, F. S. (2020). A strategic approach to COVID-19 vaccine R&D. Science, 368(6494), 948-950.
Douglas, M., Katikireddi, S. V., Taulbut, M., McKee, M., & McCartney, G. (2020). Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response. Bmj, 369.
González-Padilla, D. A., & Tortolero-Blanco, L. (2020). Social media influence in the COVID-19 pandemic. International braz j urol, 46, 120-124.
Hu, X., Yan, H., Casey, T., & Wu, C. H. (2021). Creating a safe haven during the crisis: How organizations can achieve deep compliance with COVID-19 safety measures in the hospitality industry. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 92, 102662.
Persad, G., Peek, M. E., & Emanuel, E. J. (2020). Fairly prioritizing groups for access to COVID-19 vaccines. Jama, 324(16), 1601-1602.