Abstract Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie showed how a single story is limited and thereby distorts the true nature of an issue. During this COVID-19 pandemic there have been, at least, three consecutive single stories—the ‘lethal threat’ story, followed by the ‘economic threat...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to government-enforced limits on activities worldwide, causing a marked reduction of human presence in outdoors environments, including in coastal areas that normally support substantial levels of boat traffic. These restrictions provi...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a global lockdown in mid-2020, leading to a rapid decline in international travel and tourism. In French Polynesia, marine-based tourism activities ceased in March 2020 with the suspension of international flights (i.e., 45 days - between 20...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and associated containment measures dramatically affected the health care systems including the screening of human immunodeficiency virus and the management people living with HIV around the world by making the access to preventive care...

The latest advances of deep learning and particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven more than once their high accuracy in disease detection. In this chapter, we propose a new deep learning-based approach for COVID-19 detection from chest X-ray images....

Fast and efficient collaboration among researchers is a crucial task to advance effectively in Covid-19 research. In this chapter, we present a new collaborative platform allowing to exchange and share both medical benchmark datasets and developed applications rapidly a...

Introduction: One of the consequences of the global pandemic linked to COVID-19 was the confinement of the general population in metropolitan France and the overseas departments This situation changed the organization of care, emphasizing the urgent respond against the ...

L’objectif de la présente étude était de mesurer, via une enquête en ligne, l’impact péritraumatique des mesures de confinement liées au covid-19 sur les parents et sur leur sentiment de compétence parentale ainsi que le lien avec la détresse péri-traumatique de leurs e...

Introduction: the implementation of neonatal screening to identify infants with sickle cell disease during the COVID-19 pandemic is a major challenge in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The purpose of this study is to determine whether socio-economic factors ...