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Covid-19

Also known as: COVID-19 respiratory disease, Covid

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How China is responding to escalating strategic competition with the ... brookings.edu Ryan Hass · Brookings Mar 1, 2021 5 facts

claimWang Yi, the Foreign Minister of China, outlined a 2021 China-ASEAN agenda focused on defeating COVID-19, bolstering economic recovery, and pushing forward poverty reduction, disaster prevention, climate change, and environmental protection.

claimChinese media outlets generate commentaries praising China's governance model and criticizing Western democratic governments for their handling of COVID-19, economic growth, and social stability.

claimFollowing the spread of COVID-19, President Donald Trump shifted his rhetoric to brand China as an enemy and the source of American suffering, while China reciprocated by criticizing the United States' response to the public health crisis.

claimXi Jinping stated at the 12th BRICS Summit on November 17, 2020, that BRICS nations should fight COVID-19 in solidarity and advance cooperation through concerted efforts.

claimThe Chinese government imposed economic penalties on Australia in response to the Australian government's call for an independent assessment of the origins of COVID-19 and reports issued by an Australian think tank regarding Xinjiang.

Overview of Anxiety Disorders - Psychiatry - MSD Manuals msdmanuals.com MSD Manuals 4 facts

referenceTroyer EA, Kohn JN, Hong S published "Are we facing a crashing wave of neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19? Neuropsychiatric symptoms and potential immunologic mechanisms" in Brain Behav Immun 87:34-39, 2020.

claimTriggers for increased anxiety in symptomatic COVID-19 patients include physiologic factors (shortness of breath), psychological factors (immediate fears of death), social factors (isolation from loved ones), and pharmacologic factors (corticosteroids used in treatment).

referenceShafran R, Rachman S, Whittal M, et al. published "Fear and anxiety in COVID-19: Preexisting anxiety disorders" in Cogn Behav Pract 28(4):459-467, 2021.

claimIt has been hypothesized that COVID-19 induces a host immune response that directly leads to neuropsychiatric symptoms such as anxiety, mood changes, and neuromuscular dysfunction, which may be acute or part of a syndrome known as long COVID.

Publications - Parenting Across Cultures parentingacrosscultures.org Parenting Across Cultures Apr 25, 2025 2 facts

referenceSkinner et al. (2021) published 'Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries' in Developmental Psychology, analyzing how relationship quality influenced adjustment during the pandemic.

referenceThe study 'Parent–adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers’ and young adults’ adjustment in five countries' by A. T. Skinner, J. Godwin, L. P. Alampay, et al. (2021) analyzes the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on parent-adolescent relationships and adjustment.

Amid Anticipation of Government Disclosure, 'We Are Not Alone ... religiondispatches.org Religion Dispatches Jan 25, 2024 2 facts

claimMany people discovered the CE5 movement in 2020 during the stress of the COVID-19 lockdown.

quoteAn individual identified as DC recounts her experience with CE5: "It was the middle of Covid and I was bored and I had become an alcoholic I think at that point, like everybody else. Living in my pajamas. I watched this movie and I was like “Wow, this is so cool! I’ve always believed in ETs but I’ve never seen anything… . So I’m like OK I’m gonna go out into a field with my partner at the time and we’re gonna do CE5 and maybe we’ll see something… . We do the meditation, open our eyes, look at each other and start laughing, feeling like we’re two idiots in a field, you know? And then it happened. And I saw the most profound unbelievable UFO sighting ever—way more than I was expecting! And that just changed my life forever."

Environmental factors and mental health | Research Starters - EBSCO ebsco.com EBSCO 2 facts

claimFollowing the global spread of the COVID-19 respiratory disease in 2020, the implementation of lockdowns and travel restrictions by nations and local communities resulted in a significant increase in cases of anxiety, panic disorder, and depression in subsequent years.

claimFollowing the global spread of the COVID-19 respiratory disease in 2020 and the subsequent implementation of lockdowns and travel restrictions, there was a significant increase in cases of anxiety, panic disorder, and depression in the following years.

U.S.-China Relations cfr.org Council on Foreign Relations 2 facts

claimPresident Donald Trump repeatedly referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus” and asserted that it spread due to failures by the Chinese government.

claimA Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson claimed without evidence that the United States military brought the COVID-19 virus to China.

Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends arxiv.org arXiv Nov 7, 2024 1 fact

referenceArnaud Nguembang Fadja, Michele Fraccaroli, Alice Bizzarri, Giulia Mazzuchelli, and Evelina Lamma developed a neural-symbolic ensemble learning method for the early-stage prediction of the critical state of Covid-19 patients in 2022.

Global perspectives on energy technology assessment and ... link.springer.com Springer Oct 30, 2025 1 fact

referenceTian et al. (2022) analyzed the global low-carbon energy transition in the post-COVID-19 era.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Counseling Nexus manifold.counseling.org American Counseling Association 1 fact

referenceA 2025 cross-sectional analysis by Kumra and Patange examined the ethnic, socioeconomic, and demographic determinants of generalized anxiety disorder and fear of COVID-19 among teenagers in California.

The Role of Taxation in Family Inequality: Possibilities for Reform ncfr.org National Council on Family Relations Dec 20, 2024 1 fact

measurementChildhood poverty in the United States dropped by 46% in 2021, primarily due to increased value and expanded eligibility for tax credits such as the Child Tax Credit, the Child and Dependent Care Credit, and COVID-19-era stimulus payments.

Real-Time Evaluation Models for RAG: Who Detects Hallucinations ... cleanlab.ai Cleanlab Apr 7, 2025 1 fact

referenceThe CovidQA dataset contains scientific articles as retrieved context to help experts answer questions related to the Covid-19 pandemic based on medical research literature.

Biases in Behavioral Finance - World Scholars Review worldscholarsreview.org Daria Azhyshcheva, Vi Dinh, Aanya Gothal, Abhinav Sisodiya · World Scholars Review Sep 15, 2024 1 fact

referenceRahim, A., Khan, F., Mehmood, S., and Muhammad, L. published 'Post Covid-19 Impact of Availability Bias Effect on Investment Decisions of Pakistan Stock Exchange Registered Brokers Investors' in Psychology and Medicine in 2022.