In-vitro Diagnostics (IVD) Market to Reach $118.5 Billion by 2027, Growing at a CAGR of 7% from 2020 with the Increasing Demand for Infectious Disease…

March 10, 2021 medical

London, March 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In-vitro diagnostic (IVD) testing has become an indispensable tool in clinical practice for diagnosing and monitoring diseases, providing prognosis, and predicting treatment response. The IVD industry is growing steadily due to various factors such as increased demand for infectious disease testing as new pathogen strains develop each year and high incidences of hospital acquired infections. The IVD market comprises of kits & reagents, system, and software and services which can be used to detect diseases or other conditions and can be used to monitor a person's overall health to help cure, treat, or prevent diseases.

Thein-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market is projected to reach $118.5 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 7% from 2020. The growth in this market is primarily driven by the rising prevalence of acute & chronic infectious diseases, increasing funding for research activities, growing awareness for early disease diagnosis, the shift in the focus from centralized to point-of-care testing, and the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the emerging economies, development of condition-specific markers and tests, and advances in genomics and proteomics are expected to offer significant growth opportunities for players operating in the IVD market.

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The in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market is segmented based on product & solution, technology, application, end user, and geography.

Based on product and solution, the in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market is broadly segmented into kits &reagents, instruments, and software and services. In 2020, the kits & reagents segment accounted for the largest share of the overall in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market. The large share of this segment is primarily attributed to the frequent use of assays & kits in the detection of various chronic diseases, commercial availability of a diverse range of reagents & consumables for various diseases diagnosis, increase in the volume of testing for infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and influenza, and rise in demand of molecular and immunoassay reagents across the globe.

Based on technology, the in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market is segmented into immunoassay/ immunochemistry, molecular diagnostics, biochemistry/clinical chemistry, microbiology, hematology, coagulation/hemostasis, urinalysis, and other technologies, which include hybridization and loop mediated amplification. In 2020, the immunoassay/ immunochemistry segment accounted for the largest share of the overall in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market due to the increase in the prevalence of infectious diseases, the exponential rise in the number of diagnostic tests for COVID-19, and rise in the number of approvals and emergency use authorizations of COVID-19 test kits & reagents. However, the molecular diagnostics segment is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR during the forecast period due to rising awareness of personalized medicine and companion diagnostics, advancements in molecular techniques, rising focus of market players on the development of diagnostic NGS kits & reagents and rising penetration of cutting-edge clinical laboratory technologies.

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Based on application, the in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market is segmented into infectious diseases, oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, diabetes, nephrology, and other applications, which include toxicology, gastrology, neonatal, genetic, and neurological disorders.

In 2020, the infectious diseases segment accounted for the largest share of the overall IVD market. The large share of this segment is primarily attributed to the recent regulatory approvals, product launches, increase in the availability of COVID-19 test kits across the globe, and the growth of the infectious diseases segment. However, the oncology segment is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR during the forecast period due to the adoption of various strategies for increasing access to new diagnostic technologies in oncology by IVD manufacturers, the growing influx of new products for cancer diagnosis owing to the rising prevalence of cancer, and growing field of personalized medicine in oncology.

Based on the end user, the in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market is broadly segmented into diagnostics reference laboratories, hospitals and clinics, home healthcare, and other end users, including nursing homes, academic and research institutes, forensic laboratories, and transfusion laboratories. In 2020, the diagnostics reference laboratories segment commanded the largest share of the overall IVD market. The large share of this segment is primarily attributed to the rising numbers of samples shared with laboratories for analysis, rising laboratory automation, availability of well-equipped systems, presence of skilled laborers, rise in the number of patient volume owing to the emergence of various infectious diseases, and government initiatives to support the technological advancements of laboratories.

Based on geography, the in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market is categorized into five major regions: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa, with a further analysis of major countries in these regions.

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In 2020, North America commanded the largest share of the global IVD market, followed by Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. The rising prevalence of various infectious diseases, the growing healthcare sector, increasing awareness regarding early disease diagnosis, higher adoption for advanced innovative diagnostic products, and increasing funding activities coupled with novel advanced diagnostic technologies contribute to the growth.

Some of the key players operating in the in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) market are Abbott Laboratories (U.S.), Danaher Corporation (U.S.), Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (U.S.), bioMrieux S.A. (France), Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (U.S.), Agilent Technologies, Inc. (U.S.), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Switzerland), Becton, Dickinson and Company (U.S.), DiaSorin S.p.A. (Italy), Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (U.S.), Siemens Healthcare GmbH (Germany), Sysmex Corporation (Japan), QIAGEN N.V. (Netherlands) among others.

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Biochemistry

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Human Behavior

The Role of Influencing Human Behavior to Drive a Circular Economy – waste360

March 10, 2021 medical

The Recycling Partnership (TRP), a national nonprofit committed to improving recycling has released a new white paper titled, Start at the Cart: Key Concepts for Influencing Behavior to Drive a Circular Economy. The paper offers insights on human-behavioral concepts and how to leverage them to successfully drive recycling actions and habits.

First, the paper observes that, Like other behaviorsrecycling behaviors are learned, adopted, prioritized, forgotten or overridden, restarted or remembered. Behaviors shift and evolve and devolve based on conditions and influences. In other words, people and the decisions they make are shaped by many fixed and changing factors, all day every day. But, while there is no one-size-fits-all solution that will turn everyone into a better recycler, there is a growing need and opportunity to connect peoples values to proper and repeated recycling behaviors and positive habits that can be repeated and eventually become natural.

The paper then goes on to discuss the three stages of influencing recycling behavior: infrastructure (the conditions that shape the opportunity and ability to recycle), knowledge (the specific information about what, when, and how to recycle), and engagement (Can the person see or imagine themselves and their peers doing the recycling behaviors, and do these behaviors align with their values?).

Key points related to each stage are as follows:

This work reminds readers that awareness about how, when, and where to recycle is criticaland many municipalities may benefit by increased messagingbut increased awareness does not always drive behavior change. It is not enough to ask people to do better, the authors note. Instead, a recycling-related request must be specific, concise, and clear. For instance, a call to recycle right will not yield specific behaviors, whereas a call to keep diapers out of recycling is clear, and more likely to lead to the desired behavior.The paper offers a framework on how to educate for better behavior and reminds readers of the free resources available through TRP.

The paper goes on to talk about the key measures of recycling behaviorbecause, to influence and ideally change behavior, measurement and data are essential. The three metrics used most commonly are: participation rates, capture rates, and contamination rates. But, the authors remind readers that data doesnt capture underlying dynamics or barriers. So a simple high-level metric is not enough to truly understand what is happening within a community or program. Ask the question: Do people have the tools the recycling container and information they need in order to recycle? What looks like resistance, may also be a lack of ability, clarity, or true access.In many cases, there is a need to better understand the audience that a recycling program is servingand, once this happens (through investigation and research), resources and information can be tailored accordingly to meet the needs and interests of a particular subgroup or community. Building relationships and trust are critical.

Overall, what is most needed, the authors assert, is a system of messaging that is based in behavioral science, data-backed, and includes standards and resources that are measurable and easy to adapt to meet people where they are and influence them from messengers they trust.

Recycling is an ever-moving stream of materials that adds up as a result of billions of decisions and actions, many of which are rooted in personal habits, values, or emotions. And, through research and measurement, ideal behaviors can be effectively instructed, prompted, and often entirely reset within your community. Collective success depends on perpetual support for people to accurately and automatically recycle.

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Human Behavior

Helpful behavior during pandemic tied to recognizing common humanity – UW News

March 10, 2021 medical

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March 10, 2021

A new University of Washington study links helpful behavior during the pandemic, such as donating medical supplies, to individuals feelings of connection to others.Dennis Wise/U. of Washington

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people who recognize the connections they share with others are more likely to wear a mask, follow health guidelines and help people, even at a potential cost to themselves, a new University of Washington study shows.

Indeed, an identification with all humanity, as opposed to identification with a geographic area like a country or town, predicts whether someone will engage in prosocial behaviors particular to the pandemic, such as donating their own masks to a hospital or coming to the aid of a sick person.

The study, published March 10 in PLOS ONE, is drawn from about 2,500 responses, from more than 80 countries, to an online, international study launched last April.

Researchers say the findings could have implications for public health messaging during the pandemic: Appealing to individuals deep sense of connectedness to others could, for example, encourage some people to get vaccinated, wear masks or follow other public health guidelines.

We want to understand to what extent people feel connected with and identify with all humanity, and how that can be used to explain the individual differences in how people respond during the COVID-19 pandemic, said author Rodolfo Cortes Barragan, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, or I-LABS, who co-led the study with postdoctoral researcher Nigini Oliveira at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering.

In psychology, identification with all humanity is a belief that can be measured and utilized in predicting behavior or informing policy or decision-making. Last spring, as governments around the world were imposing pandemic restrictions, a multidisciplinary team of UW researchers came together to study the implications of how people would respond to pandemic-related ethical dilemmas, and how those responses might be associated with various psychological beliefs.

Researchers designed an online study, providing different scenarios based in social psychology and game theory, for participants to consider. The team then made the study available in English and five other languages on the virtual lab LabintheWild, which co-author Katharina Reinecke, an associate professor in the Allen School, created for conducting behavioral studies with people around the world.

The scenarios presented participants with situations that could arise during the pandemic and asked people to what extent they would:

In addition to demographic details and information about their local pandemic restrictions, such as stay-at-home orders, participants were asked questions to get at the psychology behind their responses: about their own felt identification with their local community, their nation and humanity, in general. For instance, participants were asked, How much would you say you care (feel upset, want to help) when bad things happen to people all over the world?

Researchers found that an identification with all humanity significantly predicted answers to the five scenarios, well above identifying with country or community, and after controlling for other variables such as gender, age or education level. Its effect was stronger than any other factor, said Barragan, and popped out as a highly significant predictor of peoples tendency to want to help others.

This bar chart shows that identification with all humanity had a larger effect size than any other variable on cooperative behavior during the pandemic.Barragan et al., 2021, PLOS One

The authors noted that identifying with ones country, in fact, came in a distant third, behind identification with humanity in general and ones local community. Strong feelings toward ones nation, nationalism, can lead to behavior and policies that favor some groups of people over others.

There is variability in how people respond to the social aspects of the pandemic. Our research reveals that a crucial aspect of ones world view how much people feel connected to others they have never met predicts peoples cooperation with public health measures and the altruism they feel toward others during the pandemic, said co-author Andrew Meltzoff, who is co-director of I-LABS and holds the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Chair in psychology.

Since last spring, of course, much has changed. More than 2.5 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19, vaccines are being administered, and guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, especially regarding masks, has evolved. If a new survey was launched today, Barragan said, the research group would like to include scenarios tuned to the current demands of the pandemic and the way it challenges us to care for others even while we maintain physical distancing.

While surveys, in general, can be prone to whats known as self-serving bias the participant answers in ways that they believe will make them look good researchers say thats not evident here. They point to the sizeable differences between responses that identify with all humanity, and those that identify with community or country, and note there would be little reason for participants to deliberately emphasize one and not the others.

The project is part of a larger multidisciplinary effort by this same UW research team to bring together computer scientists and psychologists interested in decision-making in different cultural contexts, which could inform our understanding of human and machine learning.

An eventual aim of the study is to use tools from artificial intelligence research and online interactions with humans around the world to understand how ones culture influences social and moral decision-making.

This project is a wonderful example of how the tools of computer science can be combined with psychological science to understand human moral behaviors, revealing new information for the public good, said co-author Rajesh Rao, the Hwang Endowed Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the UW.

For COVID-19 and future humanitarian crises, the ethical dilemmas presented in the study can offer insight into what propels people to help, which can, in turn, inform policy and outreach.

While it is true that many people dont seem to be exhibiting helpful behaviors during this pandemic, what our study shows is that there are specific characteristics that predict who is especially likely to engage in such behavior, Barragan said. Future work could help people to feel a stronger connection to others, and this could promote more helpful behavior during pandemics.

Additional co-authors were Koosha Khalvati, a doctoral student in the Allen School and Rechele Brooks, a research scientist with I-LABS.

The study was funded by the UW, the Templeton World Charity Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

For more information, contact Barragan at barragan@uw.edu or Meltzoff at meltzoff@uw.edu.

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Human Behavior

Dessa adds one more to her long rsum podcaster with BBC’s ‘Deeply Human’ – Minneapolis Star Tribune

March 10, 2021 medical

The idea was hatched long before the pandemic. And it wasn't even her idea.

Dessa wants people to know this about her new science podcast, "Deeply Human," so no one thinks she turned all nerdy on us just because her cool full-time gig as a touring musician was abruptly shut down last spring.

"I was always pretty nerdy about this stuff," the Minneapolis rapper/singer unabashedly admitted.

Premiering this week as a joint venture from the BBC and St. Paul-based American Public Media (APM) you can hear the first episode now via various streaming sites "Deeply Human" nonetheless became a great way for Dessa to remain the dynamo she's famous for being during the COVID-19 lockdown.

It's actually a pretty cool podcast, too.

Where most science-related TV and radio shows sorely lack colorful language, delivery and personality, Dessa has been fine-tuning all of those skills for 15-plus years of writing songs and performing them on stage, starting with the Doomtree crew.

"I would never say to anyone, 'Hey, I'm a scientist!'" she said in an interview two weeks ago from New York, where she splits her time these days.

"I'd say, 'I'm a communicator and writer who loves science.' A lot of my education in science is autodidact. I'm just a scientist by night or I guess you might say by day, since my real day job is at night."

As the title suggests, "Deeply Human" is centered around human behavior and the real-life experiences of everyday people.

Episode One, for instance, is all about how people go about choosing the right romantic partner, especially in the era of swipe-approving dating apps. Subsequent topics include shows about dj vu, living with chronic pain and menopause.

Just as she does in her songs and concerts, Dessa infuses the show with personal stories or those of people she knows. Episodes are a half-hour long and premiere every Monday via the BBC.

Case in point: In the first episode, Dessa candidly recounts her own experiences using the dating app Tinder and ponders whether it has helped or hurt her chances of settling on the right partner. Her mom, Sylvia, even gets in on the discussion, as do a couple of true scientists well versed on the topic.

"I am the type of person who thinks about checking every box when I meet someone, which is a bad mental habit," Dessa admitted.

"The hyper-abundance of choices out there [via dating apps] cannot only lead to decision paralysis, but also to more of an insidious phenomenon where you're taking a survey of all the decisions available to you and making an amalgamation of everyone's best features in your head.

"That isn't the real world. That amalgamation is not a real choice."

That first episode also casts a light on the origins of the podcast, and how Dessa got the job to host it.

She was picked largely on the strength of her 2019 memoir, "My Own Devices," and subsequent concerts and TED Talks, in which she recounted working on a study with neuroscientists at the University of Minnesota trying to pinpoint lovesickness in her brain.

That work caught the attention of the podcast's co-creators at the BBC and APM. They wanted to launch a podcast "exploring why we do the things we do" and quickly settled on their host, explained Chandra Kavati, APM's vice president of distribution and underwriting.

"Dessa's talent, combined with her natural curiosity to understand herself through science, seemed like an amazing fit," Kavati said.

Unfortunately, the podcast became an easier fit for Dessa once the pandemic suddenly cleared her calendar of all tour dates. She was actually in London working on the podcast last March and "had to scramble to get home before the travel bans," she recounted.

After spending much of last year back in the Midwest, she is now in New York again, finishing up "Deeply Human" episodes. She's also working on music there.

Throughout 2021, Dessa plans to release one new song on the 15th of every month in a series of singles she's calling "Ides." Two songs, "Rome" and "Bombs Away," are already out.

"It's 100 percent a response to the pandemic," she said. "We still don't how much longer we're going to be stuck at home, so I liked the idea of issuing one song a month, something to look forward to, like when you're watching a TV series and it feels good just knowing there's another episode."

True to form, Dessa believes she can balance her podcast "actually an insane amount of work," she said alongside her music career once things start to become more normal.

Also just like her: She used a personal anecdote based off "Deeply Human's" dating episode to predict how the podcast might affect her personal life coming out of the COVID lockdown.

"I learned all this good info to help me, and then the pandemic shut down dating altogether," she complained.

More seriously, she said the great payoff for her new podcast has simply been "learning useful stuff."

"I get to talk to brilliant people and have a real conversation with them, not just asking them for a sound bite," she raved.

"I get to have a personal Q&A with someone who knows a ton of stuff about some topic that fascinates me. And at the end, when I'm connecting all the pieces together for each episode, it does feel a bit like an art instead of a science. It feels creatively satisfying, too."

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Human Behavior

‘The Adjustment Bureau’: The Death of Free Will and the Problem of Fate – The Great Courses Daily News

March 10, 2021 medical

By David K. Johnson, Ph.D., Kings CollegeThe bureau is a secret organization that controls all world history by designing a plan for it. (Image: jgolby/Shutterstock)The Bureau at Work

The Adjustment Bureau is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick entitled Adjustment Team. The story is about the bureau: a secret organization that controls all world history by designing a detailed plan for it, and then makes sure no one deviates from that plan.

To prevent humans from deviating from the plan, they recalibrate peoplereconfiguring their neural pathwaysto get people to behave as they should. They have tried letting us do things on our own. The first time was toward the end of the Roman Empire. That led to the Dark Ages. The second time was around 1910, which led to two world wars, a Great Depression, Fascismbasically the worst horrors of the 20th century.

The story follows David Norris, a candidate for Senate, who accidentally finds out about the bureau. They threaten to reset himwipe his memories and personalityif he ever reveals their existence, and then tell him to stay away from a girl he has fallen in love with, Elise Sellas because their being together is not in the plan.

But David and Elise choose to be together despite the cost. And in the end, because of their persistence, the Chairmanwho created the plan in the first placedecides to change the plan so that they could stay with each other.

This is a transcript from the video series Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy. Watch it now, on The Great Courses Plus.

At first glance, The Adjustment Bureau appears to be a movie about the triumph of free will, but upon closer examination, there is no reason to think humans in the movie actually have free will.

David doesnt choose to pursue or be with Elise despite being recalibrated by the bureau. In fact, the bureau never even touches Davids brain in the film. They just threaten to reset him and tell him the consequences of his actions.

Indeed, the reason David is so attracted to Elise is because a previous version of the plan meant for them to be together, and parts of it never got erased. Also, the film depicts humans as clearly not free. Their rational decision process is always predictable; thats how the agents know when they must make an adjustment.

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In one scene, a Bureau agent called Thompson suggests that while humans have the free will to choose which toothpaste to use or which beverage to order, for the important things, they only have the appearance of free will.

But these ordinary not-important choices are, at best, based on impulse without direction or purpose. Decisions dictated by randomness are no freer than those that are determined. Furthermore, since these choices are predictable, they cannot be considered free.

The moral of the movie seems to be that a simple life with your true love is more important than the fulfillment of grandiose goals that will ultimately leave you empty. But on the other hand, this movie clearly illustrates how humans can lack free will without being fated.

Although the term is slippery and can mean many things, the most common understanding of being fated includes the notion of conscious control by an outside force, like the bureau. If you are fated, you are fated by something. If some event is fated, its included in some plana plan someone wrote. The word fate might sometimes just mean inevitable, but notice that, for example, once a person jumps off a cliff, hitting the ground is inevitable, but we usually wouldnt call it fated.

With this understanding in mind, we can see how humans could lack free will but not be fated to behave as they do. When the bureau steps back, human behavior is not fatedit is not forcibly aligned to the Chairmans plan. But if human nature is as it is depicted in the film, and our actions are either determined or random, then human behavior is still not free.

Even if our behavior is dictated by our environment and DNA, unless you think that our environment and DNA have a conscious will, we are not fated to behave as we do. So we can lack free will without being fated.

Learn more about the human free will in the sequels of The Matrix.

None of this means that humans are not fatedeither individually or collectivelyto behave as they do. It just means that humans lacking free will doesnt necessarily mean they are fated. But there are arguments that suggest fate can determine our actions.

One possibility is we consider the Chairman in the movie as God. In this case, the plan David is rebelling against in The Adjustment Bureau may simply be Gods. Indeed, at one point in the film, Agent Mitchell suggests that the Agents of the Chairman are sometimes called angels.

God is traditionally defined as a perfect beingthat is, a being with ultimate power, knowledge and goodness. Those who believe God exists are called theists. And many theists believe that God has a plan for their lifeindeed, for all of humanityand that God himself ensures that plan is brought to fruition.

Christian philosophers, like Clark Pinnock and Thomas Jay Oord, for example, believe that God has granted humans robust free will. Therefore, how our lives and human history pans out is totally up to us. Others believe that God doesnt dictate individual lives but is in control of the broad strokes of human history.

But many think that our actionsboth individually and collectivelyare fated by God. Indeed, denominational divisions in the church are often drawn along these lines. It should be pointed out that no major Christian philosopher holds the view that we are fated in a complete manner because such a view would be impossible to defend philosophically.

The most common understanding of being fated implies the notion of conscious control by an outside force, such as God. If some events are fated, it is part of some plana plan that will inevitably happen.

Some Christian philosophers believe that God has granted humans robust free will. Hence, how our lives and human history pans out is totally up to us. Others believe that God doesnt dictate individual lives but is in control of the broad strokes of human history.

No major Christian philosopher holds the view that our actions are fully fated because such a view would be impossible to defend philosophically.

Human Behavior

Voice of the People: All nations have a breaking point with government – Kankakee Daily Journal

March 10, 2021 medical

Recently there seems to be a great deal of rhetoric about how politically diverse our nation has become. Yet, a study of our history, both prior to and many decades after our becoming a nation, indicates that divisiveness is the expected, rather than the exception.

It seems as if every nation contains an element of disagreement. Even the smallest of communities has its "ins" and its "outs." Human behavior throughout the world indicates a need to gravitate to those who are like-minded, whether it be political, religious, ethnicity, or racial, and differences become accentuated.

While divisiveness can many times be a problem, there are occasions in which it can be helpful. The biggest problem is how extreme or physical those divisions are carried out. Strong vocal opinions should be able to be expressed in a somewhat tactful manner without the threat of court action. We are not a democratic nation if opinions are muted for fear of reprisal.

More than a few of our founding fathers did not want to break off the colonies' relationship with England. However, an arrogant and misguided English government foisted its problems onto the colonies in a manner which necessitated the colonies to gradually resort to physical steps to assure their not being taxed to the point of being slaves.

In my opinion, our current Congress is on its way to driving the citizenry to the point of feeling like the colonists of yore. Heavy taxation and nonsensical rules, laws and mandates can eventually precipitate divisiveness. Sometimes that divisiveness becomes physical. Leaders need to be careful what they sow.

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Variants and behavior could push new COVID deaths 20% higher in Pa., projection shows – lehighvalleylive.com

March 10, 2021 medical

A new projection of COVID-19 deaths in Pennsylvania shows thousands more people dying this spring, and the toll could be 20% higher under unfavorable circumstances.

The worse-case scenario is based on increased mobility among those vaccinated and unvaccinated, how fast virus variants spread and how effective vaccines are against one variant in particular, and how many people wear face coverings.

The projection comes from the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation that has been tracking the coronavirus pandemic from the beginning.

IHMEs latest numbers come at a critical juncture for the United States ability to control the virus spread, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There is so much thats critical riding on the next two months, the CDCs director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, told the National League of Cities on Monday, according to cnn.com. How quickly we will vaccinate versus whether we will have another surge really relies on what happens in March and April.

The IHME projections released March 6 show an additional 3,308 deaths likely in Pennsylvania by July 1, bringing the toll from the virus to 27,511 lives lost since March 2020. Under the worse-case scenario, the toll could reach 32,914 -- a difference of 5,403 people or 19.6% compared to the projection considered most likely.

The following chart looks at Pennsylvanias total projected COVID-19 deaths as of July 1. Click here to view it, since it may not display on all platforms, or to view a full-screen version.

IHMEs projection for New Jersey shows 2,347 more people dying by July 1 from COVID-19, with a difference of 3,445 deaths (13.3%) between that most-likely scenario and the worse case. Click here to view the New Jersey death toll projection.

Nationwide, IHME projects 57,940 more people likely to die as of July 1, but that toll could be 65,306 or 11.3% higher if the worse-case scenario becomes reality. Click here for the United States death toll projection.

Note that each IHME projection includes a best-case scenario where mask-wearing increases to 95%, slightly cutting the number of new deaths beyond March 6.

Fully vaccinated Americans can gather with other vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or social distancing, The Associated Press reports, citing long-awaited guidance this week from federal health officials.

Each IHME projection also considers the spread of virus variants, with the worse-case scenario factoring in lower effectiveness on the part of vaccines against the B.1.351 variant first identified in South Africa.

IHME researchers last week looked at the future of the COVID-19 pandemic, and said it will be challenging for the world to reach herd immunity.

The researchers also looked at whether COVID-19 will become a chronic seasonal disease, saying its unclear but more likely as immunity from infections or vaccines drops.

There is too much uncertainty about the probability and frequency of emergence of new variants, the reduction in vaccine efficacy for each variant, the critical question of cross-variant immunity, and the consistency of safe human behavior, the researchers wrote. However, the prospect of persistent and seasonal COVID-19 is real.

Projection shows Pa. COVID-19 deaths doubling by years end, with masks sharply cutting new toll (Sept. 6, 2020)

Pennsylvanias coronavirus death toll is more than tripled in new projection (May 5, 2020)

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3 Questions: Vaccines and the power of positive reinforcement – MIT News

March 10, 2021 medical

Public health officials have issued plenty of warnings about people who are reluctant to get vaccinated for Covid-19. But an MIT research team centered at MITs Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) says this may be counterproductive: When shown basic numbers about how popular Covid-19 vaccines are, the fraction of people reluctant to get the vaccine drops by 5 percent. To reach these conclusions, the researchers drew on a massive international survey about the pandemic, including 1.8 million responses from 67 countries, and developed an experiment covering 300,000 people in 23 countries. The group has described their findings in a working paper and a recent LA Times op-ed.

The MIT team consists of Alex Moehring, a PhD candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Avinash Collis PhD 20, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin; Kiran Garimella, a postdoc at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); M. Amin Rahimian, a postdoc at IDSS; Sinan Aral, the David Austin Professor of Management at MIT Sloan, co-director of IDE, and author of the recent book The Hype Machine; and Dean Eckles, the Mitsubishi Career Development Professorand an associate professor of marketing at MIT Sloan. MIT News talked to Aral and Eckles about the findings.

Q: You have written that there is a dangerous irony in public health officials and other people highlighting those who are reluctant to get a Covid-19 vaccine. Why is that?

Eckles: It makes sense for public health officials and others to be worried about vaccine hesitancy, because we need a very high level of vaccine acceptance. But a lot of the time, officials make it seem as if more people are hesitant than is really the case.

Many people who say theyre unsure if theyll get the vaccine may be pretty easy to sway, and one way is by telling them, Actually, a large fraction of people in your country say theyre going to accept the vaccine. We found that simply by giving people accurate information about the percentage of people in their country who say they will accept a vaccine, it increased vaccine-acceptance intentions across 23 countries. Part of whats exciting is how consistent this finding is.

Aral: Id like to add three points. Before this study, there were at least two plausible countervailing hypotheses. One is that if more people heard that others would take the vaccine, the more they [themselves] would be inclined to take the vaccine. The other is that people would free-ride on the vaccine intentions of others: Well, if theyre going to take it, they can create herd immunity and I can avoid taking a vaccine myself. Our research shows pretty clearly that the first is true, while the second is not true [on aggregate].

Second, its interesting that the treatment most changes the behavior of those people who are most underestimating the amount of vaccine acceptance among others. And third, theres an overarching theme here: Simply providing people the truth, the accurate information, is also very effective at swaying people to accept the vaccine.

Q: What does this teach us about human behavior, at least in these kinds of situations?

Aral: One really important thing is [the power of] social proof. When you see large portions of people behave in a certain way, it legitimizes that behavior. And there are countless examples of this. When a lot of people say a restaurant is good, youre swayed. This is another instance of that.

Eckles: Theres an informational process of social learning. People are trying to figure out: Whats the quality of this thing? It might seem weird to some of us following the news more, or watching whats happening with [vaccine] trials, but a lot of people are not paying attention. They may know there are these vaccines, but even so, other peoples choices can be quite informative to them.

Q: What should be the core of good messaging about vaccination programs, based on your research over the last year?

Aral: As recently as February, a coronavirus task force started its communications by focusing on vaccine hesitancy. That is not, per our findings, as effective as leading with the vast and growing majority who are accepting. Thats not to say we think public health officials shouldnt talk about vaccine hesitancy, or that people who are hesitant shouldnt be targeted with outreach to convince them of the safety and efficacy of vaccines we believe that should all happen. But neglecting to emphasize the vast and growing majorities who are accepting vaccines doesnt increase vaccine acceptance as much.

Eckles: What were saying is one part of a broader messaging strategy. Giving people this information is enough to shift their motivation to get the vaccine in a lot of cases. Though, getting them motivated is not enough if they dont know what website to go to, or if its hard to get an appointment. Its good to couple motivational messages with actionable information.

Aral: To our knowledge this is the largest global survey of Covid-19 behaviors, norms, and perceptions. Weve been running it since July. Weve also done many published studies, whether about social spillovers [during the pandemic], vaccines, vaccine misinformation all of this is part of a very forceful effort by the Initiative on the Digital Economy to make meaningful contributions to changing the trajectory of this pandemic.

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A Year of the Pandemic: How Have Birds and Other Wildlife Responded? – National Audubon Society

March 10, 2021 medical

Lesser Flamingos fly through Mumbai in April, 2020. Photo: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

Last spring, people opened their windows to a symphony. Swallows burbled, doves cooed, and sparrows chirpedand to many listeners, these passerine performers had never seemed so loud. For nature lovers, wearied by the tragedy of coronavirus and lockdown challenges, this music was a source of joy. It hinted that even in these dark times, nature adapts.

But to scientists, these reports presented a puzzleas did the stream of sometimes surreal sightings like pumas strolling Santiago, Chile, and wild boar trotting traffic-free streets in Haifa, Israel, and masses of pink-plumed flamingos in Mumbais waterways. Were animals really changing their behaviors in significant ways? Were these flukes,orin the case of birds, were housebound humans simply extra observant?

To answer these questions, scientists have been studying the complex consequences of what they are calling the anthropause, or the unprecedented global slowdown in human activity linked to efforts to control COVID-19. With continued orrepeat lockdowns and social-distancingmeasures extending more than a year, scientists have tried to document all of the myriad changes as humans have adjusted, again and again.

Understanding natures varied responses to our sharp shifts in behavior could be vitally important, says Michael Schrimpf, an ecologist at the University of Manitoba. If we can change our behavior and have a significant positive or negative effectif shutting things down in our society has an effectthose are important things to know.

Birdsong, for example, may not have actually gotten any louder. In fact, studies from the San Francisco Bay area suggest the crooning of White-crowned Sparrows dropped by several decibels. But without human traffic and activity blaring, their calls may have been all the more audible.

As scientists weave together all possible threads of evidence to decipher how animals behaved before and after our societies hit pause, a nuanced tapestry is coming into view. This idea that everything will be wonderful, nature rebounds, and its all fantastic once humans are locked up and stay at home, that doesnt seem to be the case, says Christian Rutz, a behavioral ecologist at the University of St. Andrewsin Scotland. Its a mixed bag. Yet out of this jumble, he and others are confident they can find new and important insights into better ways of living with the rest of the natural world.

In Italy, the first country to go into lockdown in Europe, researchers have combined several streams of data to assemble a picture of how animal behavior changed in 2020. Big picture, they write in Biological Conservation, which is publishing a series of anthropause findings, the repercussions for plants, animals, and ecosystems have spanned the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The team gathered community-science observations, along with questionnaires to conservation managers, and analyses of social media and news posts. They confirmed that animals were on the move and frequenting new locales. For example, the Kentish Plover, a small shorebird that breeds on the beaches on Venices Treporti peninsula, is typically very sensitive to the presence of people. In 2020, however, this shy species spread its nesting sites along the unusually quiet shorelines, laying eggs in spots where they had not beenrecorded in recent years.

Schrimpf, too, has found evidence that confirms that birds are using habitats in different ways when humans are absent. He is working with several colleagues to analyze thousands of reports from the Cornell Lab of Ornithologys eBird program, a community-science project where birders log sightings. Their preliminary findings suggest that, thanks to drasticallyreduced air travel,birds appeared in greater numbers around airports last year than in the past.

In addition to exploring and exploiting new habitats, wildlife benefitted from fewer carsroadkill mortality dropped in many U.S. statesand less pollution. Industrial pollution, for example, can harm the health of swifts and swallowsas well as the insects these birds hunt. As air quality improved in northern Italy last spring, for example, Common Swifts in the region laid more eggs than in previous years.

But not every species wonwhen humans stepped away. Lockdowns severely limited conservation projects and protection efforts for at-risk animals. Amazonian deforestation rose. Invasive plants and animals went unchecked. And illegal hunting and poaching may have risen in several nations, including Italy and India. And in many cases, humanitys absence set off a cascade of consequences with uncertain results. In Canada, behavioral ecologist Pierre Legagneux of LavalUniversity studied the complex effects of lockdown for a species whose numbers are typically kept in check through hunting: the Greater Snow Goose.

Since 1999, Canada has allowed Lesser and Greater Snow Goose hunting in spring, in part because some evidence suggests these birds overgraze vegetation in the Arctic tundra where they migrate each year. In addition, some communities in the UnitedStates andCanada hunt these birds for food.

Legagneux and some of his students went to study whether these geese carried coronavirus, a concern that Inuit communities had raised. We found no virus in the birds, he says. Its really a mammal virus, not a bird one. But their investigationdid reveal that birds were significantly fatter, earlier in the season than in past years. In fact, their physical condition resembled that of Snow Geese in the years before Canada had allowed hunting.

In 2020, hunting may have declined by as much as 50 percent in Quebec. And, Legagneux says, its not just the hunting. Fewer humans out and about meant the birds were less stressed in general and could graze freely and easily, earlier in the season. Whether these beefier birds will pose a problem in the Arctic, he adds, is somethingLegagneux is investigatingnow.

Indeed, human disturbance may have simultaneously helped some wildlife while hindering others. In Sweden, researchers discovered that tourists may have inadvertently served as wildlife guardiansfor seabird colonies in the Baltic Sea. Typically, the crush of camera-clad visitors disturbs wildlife so much that it keeps White-tailed Eagles away. But in 2020, without tourists around, these raptors frequented the islands and stressed breeding murres such that the seabirds laid fewer eggs and saw more eggs preyed upon by gulls and crows than in past years.

The simplest message from the research to date is that animals rapidly detect and respond to our presenceand that often our activity stresses them out. Put briefly, the lockdown, Legagneux says, confirmed the importance of human disturbance. While thats not surprisingscientists have long recognized that other animals are sensitive to our presencewhats clearer now is how quickly and dramatically some animals adapt.

Among the largest efforts to study the anthropause comes from the International Bio-logging Society. The group has pooled together data from hundreds of separate wildlife tracking projectsincluding work with whales, birds, and fishmany of which began before the pandemic and involved some form of remote animal monitoring.

Rutz, who is president of the society, aims to publish initial findings this year. Through careful analysis, they hope to identify new conservation strategies based on subtle changes to human activity. The overall project, he says, aims to use these extraordinary circumstances to spot opportunities that previously werent obvious, even to the experts, for making relatively minor changes to the way we lead our modern lives.

Shifting the course of a road, for example, might dramatically benefit the surrounding ecosystem, Rutz notes. Better controlling air pollution in a region,as the findings with Italian swifts reveal, could help several species flourish. Or, as a study from Singapore suggests, cutting down on the treats left out for wildlife can help manage populations of pests in urban areas. Malcolm Soh,a senior researcher at Singapores National Parks Board,and his colleagues found that the drop in human food linked to lockdown changed the foraging behaviorand size of pigeon flocks. In areaswith open spaces and many restaurants, where pigeons normally find snacks, Soh reports that the abundance of these birds dropped by more than half in less than two months after lockdown began.If you reduce the food, its not going to remove the pigeons totallybut these smaller flocks are much less problematic, soiling public spaces less,"Soh says.

In the big picture, the anthropause studies have revealed how interconnected humans are with the rest of the natural world. We not only rely on ecosystem services like clean water and food, Rutz says, but our ability to coexist with nature broadly relates to the spread of disease that jumps across speciesas COVID-19 itself has so painfully illustrated.

Another lesson is the power of nature enthusiasts to contribute to research. Participation in ongoing community science projects surged this year, as did annual birding events like the Global Big Day, says plant ecologist Theresa Crimmins, who has been studying these trends. Schrimpf, for example, has drawn on eBird reports from more than 16,000 observers across North America. I think it says a lot about how the public can help make science happen in the 21st century, he says.

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