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As metáforas guerreiras que se insinuaram nos discursos sobre a crise da Covid requerem uma explicação sociológica, tanto mais que a presente epidemia, contrariamente às do passado, é pouco mortífera, seviciando num mundo relativamente pacificado, socialmente e economicamente "securizado". O recurso a um léxico bélico muito variado serve de mote aos poderes político-sanitários para legitimar o estado de emergência e as medidas de contenção que este implica, sufocando assim o instinto gregário do homem e o seu incomprimível desejo de socialização. Ao alvejar prioritariamente os fins de semana e as noites, o confinamento, o distanciamento social e o recolher obrigatório penalizam todas a formas de socialização e de jubilação dionisíaca que lhes são inerentes. Ao salvaguardar a todo o custo o valor-trabalho, o produtivismo dos poderes político-sanitários faz-nos pensar num slogan de antiga e má memória: "o trabalho liberta".

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused overwhelming changes in individual and community daily-life, resulting from the public health measures implemented to contain it, and also from its psychological and socio-economic consequences. These shifts and consequences impacted the entire population, but some groups are more likely to be affected by these changes, including higher education students.Objectivesa) to investigate mental health status and its determinants among higher-education students in Portugal and Switzerland; and b) to explore adjustment patterns used by these students to overcome the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsA cross-sectional study with a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was conducted in two phases. First, an online survey was conducted among higher education students in Portugal and Switzerland, in Portuguese and French respectively. A convenience sampling method was used. Second, some participants from the first phase were invited to participate in four online focus group discussions (two in each country) using a maximum variation sampling method.ResultsThe survey was answered by 1,880 students. Portuguese students revealed higher levels of stress and anxiety, but lower depression symptoms and less resilient coping compared to Swiss respondents. Hope was identified as an explanatory variable for mental health symptoms in students from both countries. In the focus groups (n = 27), 13 adjustment strategies were found, which were subdivided into three spheres: personal, social, and contextual.ConclusionsThe results suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic had a mild to moderate impact on most of the evaluated mental health variables. Nevertheless, the students reacted and mobilized positive short-term strategies, which need to be reinforced in order to prevent long-term psychological harm. In addition, our results can inform psychosocial interventions to minimize psychological impact, anxiety, depression, and stress due to sanitary crises or other population-wide problems or disasters.

Funding Information: Type of funding sources: Foundation—015_595935779—Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), in collaboration with the Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation (AICIB) opened special funding, “RESEARCH 4 COVID-19”, to R&D projects and initiatives that respond to the needs of the National Health Service (SNS) as a response to this and future pandemics in a very short time Horizon. Project: “Early recognition of cardiac injury associated with COVID-19 and clinical outcomes”. Background: We aimed to explore immune parameters in COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) to identify distinctive features in patients with cardiac injury. Methods: A total of 30 COVID-19 patients >18 years admitted to the ICU were studied on days D1, D3 and D7 after admission. Cardiac function was assessed using speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE). Peripheral blood immunophenotyping, cardiac (pro-BNP; troponin) and inflammatory biomarkers were simultaneously evaluated. Results: Cardiac dysfunction (DYS) was detected by STE in 73% of patients: 40% left ventricle (LV) systolic dysfunction, 60% LV diastolic dysfunction, 37% right ventricle systolic dysfunction. High-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) was detectable in 43.3% of the patients with a median value of 13.00 ng/L. There were no significant differences between DYS and nDYS patients regarding mortality, organ dysfunction, cardiac (including hs-cTn) or inflammatory biomarkers. Patients with DYS showed persistently lower lymphocyte counts (median 896 [661–1837] cells/µL vs. 2141 [924–3306] cells/µL, p = 0.058), activated CD3 (median 85 [66–170] cells/µL vs. 186 [142–259] cells/µL, p = 0.047) and CD4 T cells (median 33 [28–40] cells/µL vs. 63 [48–79] cells/µL, p = 0.005), and higher effector memory T cells (TEM) at baseline (CD4%: 10.9 [6.4–19.2] vs. 5.9 [4.2–12.8], p = 0.025; CD8%: 15.7 [7.9–22.8] vs. 8.1 [7.7–13.7], p = 0.035; CD8 counts: 40 cells/µL [17–61] vs. 10 cells/µL [7–17], p = 0.011) than patients without cardiac dysfunction. Conclusion: Our study suggests an association between the immunological trait and cardiac dysfunction in severe COVID-19 patients. publishersversion published

A Revista Contexto & Educação publica o número 117, especial, com os melhores trabalhos apresentados no 7° Congresso Internacional em Saúde, realizado em outubro de 2020 em uma parceria colaborativa entre a Unijuí e o Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança (CIEC) da Universidade do Minho/Portugal. Os trabalhos abordaram temas emergentes, vinculados às áreas da educação e da saúde, posto que o momento atual de pandemia, ocasionado pela Covid-19, mostra a necessidade de maior articulação destas áreas do conhecimento. Para este número foram selecionados 16 trabalhos que tematizam: práticas humanizadoras, em uma perspectiva freiriana; percepções de saúde e preparação para o ensino remoto em contextos de confinamento da Covid-19; trajetória das políticas de saúde brasileira; dimensão afetiva de futuros professores da Colômbia; situação de vulnerabilidade e uso de álcool e outras drogas por adolescentes; sexualidade e gênero; bullying escolar. As temáticas abordadas apresentam contribuições importantes para reflexão tanto entre professores e estudantes de educação básica e superior quanto por profissionais da saúde em seus diferentes espaços de atuação. A seguir apresentamos os artigos que constituem este número. Este trabalho foi financiado por Fundos Nacionais por meio da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) no âmbito do projeto do Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança da Universidade do Minho (CIEC), com a referência UIDB/00317/2020.

Abstract The universalization and full realization of the objectives and goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can be called into question by the significant drop in international funding available to support developing countries. This situation may be worsened by the effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent increase in nonregular cooperation programs, based on humanitarian and emergency actions. The promotion of horizontalization strategies for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considering interventions with a transversal nature, in a 360° view, which encourages the promotion of strategic alliances, multisectoral and multidimensional partnerships as well as shared financing mechanisms, appears as a credible hypothesis to assure the commitment with sustainable development. The article addresses some perceptions of multilateral organizations, namely within the scope of the United Nations System and Bretton Woods institutions, and how the strategic development cooperation instruments created by Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries may contribute to boosting post-COVID-19 cooperation scenarios aligned with the accomplishment of the SDGs in this community.

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O presente relatório surge após a experiência de estágio passada na agência de comunicação LKCOM – Marketing of Tomorrow, entre 14 de setembro de 2020 e 12 de março de 2021. A problemática desenvolvida foca-se no comércio online e nas redes sociais, no contexto nacional e num período marcado pela pandemia COVID-19. Estas questões foram surgindo depois de trabalhar com a loja e-commerce EuComproPortuguês.pt, sendo este o estudo de caso em análise. Inserido num período de crise sanitária mundial, o crescimento do comércio online desta loja, em paralelo com as redes sociais e a sua comunicação, serão os pontos abordados e investigados. O objetivo passa por perceber de que forma estes temas se interligam. Assim, este trabalho segue uma investigação qualitativa e quantitativa, com a análise do conteúdo e das estatísticas das páginas sociais da EuComproPortuguês.pt. This report comes after the internship experience spent at the communication agency LKCOM – Marketing of Tomorrow, between September 14 of 2020 and March 12 of 2021. The issue developed focuses on the online commerce and social media, in the national context and in a period shaped by the pandemic. These interests emerged after working with the e-commerce store EuComproPortuguês.pt, the case analyzed here. In a period of global health crisis, the growth of this online store's commerce in parallel with communication in social media networks will be the points addressed and investigated. The objective is to understand how these themes are interconnected. Therefore, this work follows a qualitative and quantitative investigation, with the analysis of the content and statistics of the social media of EuComproPortuguês.pt. Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (especialização em Publicidade e Relações Públicas)

According to the New UNESCO global survey studying the effect of Covid-19 on higher education (2021) the pandemic has had an impact on higher education systems in terms of access and quality of teaching and learning. Covid-19 has caused the suspension and cancellation of teaching activities and its major impact on teaching and learning is the increase in online education. The Engimath - Mathematics on-line learning model in engineering education - was successfully carried out at the very right moment, as in recent two years there has been a significant increase in demand for a 100% online mathematics course with interactive learning materials and largescale practicing opportunities as well as for a mathematics online assessment model. This project has successfully developed a high-level online course as a basis for offering output-oriented education in engineering mathematics. Some of development stages, that led this project – EngiMath - to an outstanding successful end, will be presented in this paper. These go from the educational needs’ analysis to its implementation and use, even allowing an open and live test.

Face à situação sanitária decorrente do contexto pandémico, devido à COVID-19, as atividades de ensino/aprendizagem programadas para o ano letivo de 2019/2020 sofreram uma profunda reformulação. Partindo deste contexto, esta comunicação expõe duas experiências desenvolvidas no âmbito da UC de Geometria, do 1º ano do Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura da EAUM, sob o constrangimento do ensino tecnologicamente mediado: uma de trabalho individual incidindo sobre a conceção, desenvolvimento e representação de estrutura formal, e uma segunda desenvolvida em grupo, incidente sobre o levantamento arquitetónico, articulação espacial e aplicação de recursos projetivos a proposta de comunicação gráfica. Experiências que, respondendo ao programa da UC, exploraram a simultaneidade entre Geometrias de Relação e de Representação, nomeadamente no que se refere à vocação da primeira na compreensão e conceção de estruturas, a par dos processos de transformação e geração de forma, e da segunda na mecânica projetiva e domínio instrumental da representação espacial.

Introdução: Desde março 2020, Portugal tem sofrido os efeitos da pandemia COVID-19. A mortalidade por todas as causas aumentou em março e abril de 2020 comparativamente a anos anteriores, mas este aumento não é explicado pelas mortes reportadas de COVID-19. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar e considerar outros critérios para estimar o excesso de mortalidade durante a pandemia COVID-19. Material e Métodos: Utilizaram-se bases de dados públicas para estimar o excesso de mortalidade por idade e região entre 1 de março e 22 de abril, propondo níveis basais ajustados ao período de estado de emergência em vigor. Resultados: Apesar da incerteza inerente, é seguro assumir um excesso de mortalidade observada de 2400 a 4000 mortes. O excesso de mortalidade encontra-se associado aos grupos etários mais idosos (idade superior a 65 anos). Discussão: Os dados sugerem uma explicação tripartida para o excesso de mortalidade: COVID-19, COVID-19 não identificado e diminuição do acesso a cuidados de saúde. As estimativas efetuadas possuem implicações ao nível da comunicação de acções não farmacológicas, da investigação científica e dos profissionais de saúde. Conclusão: Da análise dos resultados é possível concluir que o excesso de mortalidade ocorrido entre 1 de março e 22 de abril foi 3 a 5 vezes superior ao explicado pelas mortes por COVID-19 reportadas oficialmente. Introduction: Portugal is experiencing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020. All-causes mortality in Portugal increased during March and April 2020 compared to previous years, but this increase is not explained by COVID-19 reported deaths. The aim of this study was to analyze and consider other criteria for estimating excessive all-cause mortality during the early COVID-19 pandemic period. Material and Methods: Public data was used to estimate excess mortality by age and region between March 1 and April 22, proposing baselines adjusted for the lockdown period. Results: Despite the inherent uncertainty, it is safe to assume an observed excess mortality of 2400 to 4000 deaths. Excess mortality was associated with older age groups (over age 65). Discussion: The data suggests a ternary explanation for early excess mortality: COVID-19, non-identified COVID-19 and decrease in access to healthcare. The estimates have implications in terms of communication of non-pharmaceutical actions, for research, and to healthcare professionals. Conclusion: The excess mortality occurred between March 1 and April 22 was 3 to 5 fold higher than what can be explained by the official COVID-19 deaths. Copyright © Ordem dos Médicos 2020