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Leveraging the Crisis for Equity and Access in the Long Term: A Brief Research Report

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For years, crises have occurred in and out of schools. School leaders have had to make meaning of these crises and lead during them. Common rhetoric in today’s media describes the educational inequities children have faced as a result of the current crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. In an effort to understand how school leaders respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke directly to principals, listening for ways in which they confronted issues of inequity. Our research was guided by the question: How do principals advance equity for students and families while leading during the COVID-19 crisis? This study focuses on the opportunity’s principals have created during the COVID-19 pandemic to address issues of equity in their schools. We present three main findings resulting from our data analysis. Overall, our findings indicate principals acted upon two primary opportunities for achieving equity in their school community. The findings from our study illustrate two specific opportunities principals were presented with as a result of the crisis to engage in equity responses.

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T1 - Leveraging the Crisis for Equity and Access in the Long Term

T2 - A Brief Research Report

AU - Virella, Patricia Marisol

AU - Cobb, Casey

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Copyright © 2021 Virella and Cobb.

PY - 2021/4/12

Y1 - 2021/4/12

N2 - For years, crises have occurred in and out of schools. School leaders have had to make meaning of these crises and lead during them. Common rhetoric in today’s media describes the educational inequities children have faced as a result of the current crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. In an effort to understand how school leaders respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke directly to principals, listening for ways in which they confronted issues of inequity. Our research was guided by the question: How do principals advance equity for students and families while leading during the COVID-19 crisis? This study focuses on the opportunity’s principals have created during the COVID-19 pandemic to address issues of equity in their schools. We present three main findings resulting from our data analysis. Overall, our findings indicate principals acted upon two primary opportunities for achieving equity in their school community. The findings from our study illustrate two specific opportunities principals were presented with as a result of the crisis to engage in equity responses.

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Intravenous immunoglobulins for the treatment of prolonged covid-19 in immunocompromised patients: a brief report.

• 1 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France
• 2 Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor, Créteil, France

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Primary humoral deficiency and secondary B-cell depletion may lead to prolonged Sars-Cov-2 infection due to a decreased viral clearance. Prolonged infection is mainly driven by the lack of anti-Sars-Cov-2 immunoglobulin (IVIg) especially in patients with no vaccine response. Anti-spike immunoglobulin can be provided by infusion of convalescent patients' plasma: recent studies highlighted that commercial immunoglobulin show high titers of neutralizing IgG. We conducted a single center retrospective cohort. We included 9 patients (6 males, median age 74 years old): one patient with X-linked agammaglobulinemia and 8 patients treated with rituximab (2 granulomatosis with polyangiitis, 1 neuromyelitis optica, 4 low grade B-cell lymphoma and 1 EBV post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder). Mean serum globulin was 4 ± 1.6 g/L. 7/8 had received at least 3 doses of mRNA anti-Sars-Cov-2 vaccine (median 4) with no response (anti-Spike IgG 0 for 6 patients). In this specific population requiring oxygen therapy but no intensive care support, the administration of IVIg was well tolerated and provided a swift improvement of clinical status, a significant decrease of inflammation associated to the an improvement of radiological patterns. Our results suggest that immunoglobulin could be used as a salvage therapy as an alternative to convalescent plasma but highly stringent patient selection is required due to the worldwide shortage of IVIg.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2, immunodeficiency, B-cell depletion, rituximab, Intravenous Immunoglobulin

Received: 11 Mar 2024; Accepted: 08 Apr 2024.

Copyright: © 2024 Billi, Cholley, Grobost, Clément, Rieu, Le Guenno and Lobbes. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Hervé Lobbes, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France

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Associations Between Change in Outside Time Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Public Health Restrictions and Mental Health: Brief Research Report

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• 1 Department of Kinesiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States.
• 2 The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
• 3 School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
• 4 Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster, Health Research Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
• 5 Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
• PMID: 33585393
• PMCID: PMC7874172
• DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.619129

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and associated pandemic has resulted in systemic changes to much of life, affecting both physical and mental health. Time spent outside is associated with positive mental health; however, opportunities to be outside were likely affected by the COVID-19 public health restrictions that encouraged people not to leave their homes unless it was required. This study investigated the impact of acute COVID-19 public health restrictions on outside time in April 2020, and quantified the association between outside time and both stress and positive mental health, using secondary analyses of cross-sectional data from the COVID and Well-being Study. Participants ( n = 3,291) reported demographics, health behaviors, amount of time they spent outside pre/post COVID-19 public health restrictions (categorized as increased, maintained, or decreased), current stress (Perceived Stress Scale-4), and positive mental health (Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale). Outside time was lower following COVID-19 restrictions ( p < 0.001; Cohen's d = -0.19). Participants who increased or maintained outside time following COVID-19 restrictions reported lower stress ( p < 0.001, 5.93 [5.74-6.12], Hedges' g = -0.18; p < 0.001, mean = 5.85 [5.67-6.02], Hedges' g = -0.21; respectively) and higher positive mental health ( p < 0.001, 24.49 [24.20-24.77], Hedges' g = 0.21; p < 0.001, 24.78 [24.52-25.03], Hedges' g = 0.28) compared to those who decreased outside time. These findings indicate that there are likely to be negative stress and mental health implications if strategies are not implemented to encourage and maintain safe time outside during large-scale workplace and societal changes (e.g., during a pandemic).

Keywords: COVID-19; coronavirus; outside time; positive mental health; stress.

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