In Pieter Bruegel's painting, "The Seven Acts of Charity" he portrays 2 subjects with flexed knees. One of them cannot walk while the other can walk but does so with excessive energy expenditure.
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Inventors seeking to protect their intellectual property in Europe now have an important choice to make. More than a decade after its approval, a new patent system came into effect last month, which some European Union (EU) countries already have signed on to. Inventors in these countries can use either the new unitary patent (UP) system or the previously existing route of European patents.
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July 2022
, Bruegel, Belgium.
In the COVID-19 pandemic many countries required COVID certificates, proving vaccination, recovery, or a recent negative test, to access public and private venues. We estimate their effect on vaccine uptake for France, Germany, and Italy using counterfactuals constructed via innovation diffusion theory. The announcement of COVID certificates during summer 2021 were associated - although causality cannot be directly inferred - with increased vaccine uptake in France of 13.
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October 2021
Oxford Vaccine Group, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Lancet Glob Health
January 2022
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
There is increasing evidence that elimination strategies have resulted in better outcomes for public health, the economy, and civil liberties than have mitigation strategies throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccines that offer high protection against severe forms of COVID-19, and increasing vaccination coverage, policy makers have had to reassess the trade-offs between different options. The desirability and feasibility of eliminating SARS-CoV-2 compared with other strategies should also be re-evaluated from the perspective of different fields, including epidemiology, public health, and economics.
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