Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare services, leading to the cancellation of non-urgent tests, screenings and procedures, a shift towards remote consultations, stalled childhood immunisations and clinic closures which had detrimental effects across the healthcare system. This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical admissions and healthcare quality in the Peel, York and Toronto regions within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
Design: In a cross-sectional study, the negative impact of the pandemic on various healthcare sectors, including preventive and primary care (PPC), the emergency department (ED), alternative level of care (ALC) and imaging, procedures and surgeries is investigated.
Monkeypox is an emerging zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which is an infectious agent belonging to the . Currently, commencing from the end of April 2022, an outbreak of monkeypox is ongoing, with more than 43,000 cases reported as of 23 August 2022, involving 99 countries and territories across all the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions. On 23 July 2022, the Director-General of the WHO declared monkeypox a global public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), since the outbreak represents an extraordinary, unusual, and unexpected event that poses a significant risk for international spread, requiring an immediate, coordinated international response.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAirfoil turbulence interaction noise and the flow field up to and over the porous leading edge is experimentally studied. The porous leading edges were of the same base triply periodic minimal surface structure with varying porosity to enable us to understand how the porosity, permeability, and pore size affect the generated turbulence interaction noise. The turbulent flow was generated by means of a passive turbulence grid that does not affect the normal background noise of the wind tunnel.
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