By City News Service
Jan 27, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - COVID-19 “fatigue is having a negative effect on some protective measures that people are taking to guard against the coronavirus although mask-wearing is up, according to a new USC survey.
Protective measures such as avoiding close contact with non-household members and staying home are waning as the pandemic drags on, the study reported.
The findings were called worrisome, given the importance of the “Swiss cheese model of pandemic defense in which multiple layers of protection block the spread of the new coronavirus.
“There has been a lot of talk about `pandemic fatigue, and this study clearly shows that people are less willing to take precautions to limit the risk of infection and slow the spread of the virus, said John Romley, lead researcher on the study and a senior fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
Even as the first vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are being distributed, scientists and clinicians around the world have remained steadfast in their efforts to better understand how the human immune system responds to the virus and protects people against it. Now, a research team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and in collaboration with ImmunoScape, a U.S.-Singapore biotechnology company has published one of the most comprehensive characterizations to date of a critical contributor to that protection: the response of immune system cells called T lymphocytes (more commonly known as T cells) in people who have recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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IMAGE: Artist illustrations of the microbes behind the three sexually transmitted infections for which reporting and tracking have been impacted by the clinical focus on COVID-19, according to a study by. view more
Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using bacterial illustrations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
With the health care community heavily focused on COVID-19 since the first quarter of 2020, there have been concerns that reporting of other diseases and the resulting data that enables them to be more effectively treated and controlled may have been impacted. For example, little is known about how the pandemic may have affected the reporting of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).