Living with Covid-19

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Issues

Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Gustavo Marques da Costa, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Gustavo Marques da Costa

• Publisher: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9789814877787
• eBook ISBN: 9781000380989
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

At the end of 2019, the world came across a virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes a disease classified as COVID-19. The virus is highly transmissible and causes an acute respiratory syndrome that ranges from mild symptoms in about 80% cases to very severe symptoms with respiratory failure in 5% to 10% of cases. The epicenter of the outbreak of this pandemic was Wuhan, a city in China's Hubei Province. The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic and classified it as a high global risk. Human health risk assessment for COVID-19 depends on the characteristics of the virus and includes the process of gathering and analyzing environmental and health information using specific techniques to support decision making, systematically taking actions, and articulating the collected information within and between sectors for promoting health and improving the social and living conditions of populations. To assess COVID-19 risk factors, it is important to consider and document all relevant information available at the time of assessment. In this way, decision making will get a direction and the assessment process will get recorded, which includes evaluation of the risk factors, control measures, methods used for evaluation, why they were considered important, and their order of priority. This book addresses in detail the challenges posed by the virus and presents up-to-date knowledge on safety risk assessment and economics, as well as ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of COVID-19.

Index

• accident 106, 108, 110, 115, 117, 122
• ACE2 see angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
• ACE2 receptors 41, 43
• ACE inhibitors 44, 45
• acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) 42, 43
• aerosols 3, 4, 10, 21, 51, 52, 59–61, 65, 68, 69, 119, 123, 255, 256, 270, 273, 276
  • biological 68
  • contaminated 28
  • environmental 80
  • liquid-phase 258
  • microbial 69
  • nanosized 261
  • neutralized 264
  • polydisperse NaC1 69
• air conditioner 256, 266–268
• air filtration 81, 256, 257, 259, 261, 273, 278
• airflow 4, 65, 258, 261, 270, 271
• air quality 19, 23, 25–27, 258, 268
• air quality index (AQI) 19, 26–28
• alcohol 9, 77, 96
• alcohol gel 95, 97, 275, 276
• angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) 3, 40, 41, 44
• angiotensin II type-I receptor blocker (ARB) 44, 45
• antibodies 41, 140
• antibody-dependent amplification 141
• apron 54, 60, 62, 77, 123
  • heavy-duty ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• COVID-19 in the Environment
• Environmental Fate of COVID-19
• Health Hazards of COVID-19
• Personal Protective Equipment and Coronavirus Disease
• Health Service Waste and COVID-19: Monitoring, Risk Assessment, Approaches, and Challenges
• Coronavirus: Exposure and Risk to Workers’ Health
• Ethical Issues in COVID-19
• Brazil against COVID-19: Analysis from a Typology of Public Policies to Face the Pandemic with Development
• Economic Effects of COVID-19 on Brazil in the Twenty-First Century
• New Legalization for COVID-19
• Modern Policy and Decision Making about COVID-19
• Physical Barrier against COVID-19: Materials to Inhibit or Eliminate the Virus
• Index