What is known in scientific literature at this point in time about the effects of the measures against the transmission of the coronavirus and what is the meaning of this for the organisers of events?
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As in many other countries worldwide, the coronavirus pandemic prompted the implementation of an “intelligent lockdown” in the spring of 2020 in the Netherlands, including the closure of nightlife venues and cancellation of festivals. Such restrictions and social distancing could particularly affect people who use alcohol or other drugs in recreational settings and give rise to new challenges and additional needs in the field of addiction prevention and care. To monitor changes in substance use and provide services with practical directions for tailored prevention, an anonymous web survey was set up, targeting a convenience sample aged 16 years or older through various social media and other online channels. Between May and October 2020, a total of 6,070 participants completed the survey, mainly adolescents and young adults (16–24 years old). These data were used to explore and describe changing patterns in substance use. Overall results showed declined current use compared to “pre-corona,” but mask underlying variation in changing patterns, including discontinued (tobacco 10.4%, alcohol 11.3%, cannabis 16.3%, other drugs 30.4%), decreased (tobacco 23.0%, alcohol 29.1%, cannabis 17.4%, other drugs 20.7%), unchanged (tobacco 30.3%, alcohol 21.2%, cannabis 22.3%, other drugs 17.3%), increased (tobacco 29.6%, alcohol 32.1%, cannabis 32.9%, other drugs 25.3%), and (re)commenced use (tobacco 6.7%, alcohol 6.3%, cannabis 11.1%, other drugs 6.2%). Especially the use of drugs like ecstasy and nitrous oxide was discontinued or decreased due to the lack of social occasions for use. Increased use was associated with coping motives for all substance types. As measures combatting the coronavirus may need to be practiced for some time to come, possibly leading to prolonged changes in substance use with lingering “post-corona” consequences, timely and ongoing monitoring of changing patterns of substance use is vital for informing prevention services within this field.
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Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is rapidly expanding across the world, with more than 100,000 new cases each day as of end-June 2020. Healthcare workers are struggling to provide the best care for COVID-19 patients. Approaches for invasive ventilation vary widely between and within countries and new insights are acquired rapidly. We aim to investigate invasive ventilation practices and outcome in COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands.Methods: PRoVENT-COVID ('study of PRactice of VENTilation in COVID-19') is an investigator-initiated national, multicenter observational study to be undertaken in intensive care units (ICUs) in The Netherlands. Consecutive COVID-19 patients aged 18 years or older, who are receiving invasive ventilation in the participating ICUs, are to be enrolled during a 10-week period, with a daily follow-up of 7 days. The primary outcome is ventilatory management (including tidal volume expressed as mL/kg predicted body weight and positive end-expiratory pressure expressed as cmH2O) during the first 3 days of ventilation. Secondary outcomes include other ventilatory variables, use of rescue therapies for refractory hypoxemia such as prone positioning and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, use of sedatives, vasopressors and inotropes; daily cumulative fluid balances; acute kidney injury; ventilator-free days and alive at day 28 (VFD-28), duration of ICU and hospital stay, and ICU, hospital and 90-day mortality.Discussion: PRoVENT-COVID will be the largest observational study to date, with high density ventilatory data and major outcomes. There is urgent need for a better understanding of ventilation practices, and the effects of ventilator settings on outcomes in COVID-19 patients. The results of PRoVENT-COVID will be rapidly disseminated through electronic presentations, such as webinars and electronic conferences, and publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Access to source data will be made available through local, regional and national anonymized datasets on request, and after agreement of the PRoVENT-COVID steering committee.Trial Registration: PRoVENT-COVID is registered at clinicaltrials.gov (identifier NCT04346342).
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Het coronavirus en de maatregelen om het virus in te dammen hebben een ongekende impact op bedrijven in de vrijetijdssector. In de provincie Flevoland is de sector van grote waarde voor de economische structuur. De economische gevolgen van het virus en de bijbehorende maatregelen zijn gevoelsmatig erg groot. Op provinciaal niveau was dit nog weinig onderzocht. De situatie was dus nog goeddeels onbekend. Provincie Flevoland in samenwerking met Visit Flevoland, heeft daarom deze eerste regionale analyse laten uitvoeren door het ETFI, instituut voor toekomststudies en scenarioplanning in vrije tijd, recreatie en toerisme aan NHL Stenden Hogeschool, en met het Kenniscentrum Kusttoerisme van hogeschool HZ Vlissingen. Doel van dit onderzoek is om de schade in het voorseizoen 2020 en de verwachtingen voor zomer en najaar 2020 in beeld te brengen.
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Wat is er op dit moment (medio augustus 2020) in de wetenschappelijke literatuur bekend over (de effecten van maatregelen tegen) de verspreiding van het coronavirus en wat is de betekenis daarvan voor organisatoren van evenementen?
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In this blog, we analyze the (potential) effects of the coronavirus on UN peacekeeping, making use of a number of recent blogs and reports from scholars and think tanks. We argue that peace operations are affected by the coronavirus on three levels: at the level of the operations themselves, at the level of the conflict context and, finally, at the structural level.
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Momenteel worden we allemaal getroffen door de maatregelen omtrent het coronavirus. Niet alleen wassen we vaker onze handen en houden we afstand tot elkaar, maar ook scholen zijn gesloten, samenscholingen zijn verboden en de meeste mensen verrichten alleen nog thuis hun werk. Voor iedereen gaat dit gepaard met minder contacten met mensen buiten het gezin of met contacten via sociale media. Voor de meeste gezinnen is dit hinderlijk en vervelend. Voor gezinnen waarin een persoon een verslaving heeft, betekenen de maatregelen echter nog meer en kan er sprake zijn van grote problemen en dramatische omstandigheden.
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