Sooyoung Kim's research while affiliated with New York University and other places

... Nevertheless, despite their understandable frustration with the chaotic information landscape during the pandemic, many participants demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of the widespread misinformation. In contrast to past research that suggests demographic factors such as older age, low-income, and belonging to a minority race/ethnicity are associated with a higher tendency to consume and believe in misinformation [24,25], the narratives presented in this study show otherwise. Many participants were aware of current issues, able to discern inaccurate information, and even took further steps to inform others. ...

... Furthermore, the meta-analysis was conducted on twenty-four articles, including 1100 pregnancies, were selected. The pooled prevalence of pneumonia was found to be 89% (95% CI 70-100), while the prevalence of women admitted to the intensive care unit was 8% (95% CI [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Three stillbirths and five maternal deaths were reported. ...

... The WHO has provided guidelines for organizations to ensure the protection of their nonetheless, controlling employees' behavior might be challenging, considering that some people may ignore self-isolation instructions. The recent development of vaccines against COVID-19 has brought the light of hope all over the world, but it has also generated two additional new challenges for organizations, specifically the management of the vaccination campaign in the workplace as well as their capacity to sponsor it and cover its costs considering the financial difficulties that they have witnessed due to this pandemic (Capasso, et al., 2022). COVID-19 is not only a physical health risk, but it also represents a significant risk for individuals' mental health It might be psychologically demanding for employees who work from home, who can feel isolated and torn between their work and their private life Moreover, employees who are required to be physically present in the workplace might return to work with the fear of contracting the virus or transmitting it to their family which might increase their level of stress as well as the risk of mental health issues especially for employees who were facing high psychological demands at work, prior to the pandemic or those who have a high-risk job position, e.g., healthcare workers The main challenge for managers and HRM practitioners, in this context, is to identify the risk factors and to implement the proper prevention measures in the workplace, including for employees working from home. ...

... In this sense, nancial vulnerability (associated with food insecurity, lack of steady income, incapacity to afford quarantine, low annual household income, income loss due to the pandemic, and inability to work from home) has been proposed as predictor for mental health hardship during the COVID pandemic (Capasso et al., 2022). It is worth mentioning, however, that this differential impact on mental health has not been found in all populations; for example, in Norway, the impact of the pandemic on mental health was equitable across all income and education levels (Reme et al., 2022). ...

... 11 And a study from NYU School of Global Health found that informal sources like social media had the greatest potential to sway individuals towards preventive behaviors against the virus. 12 Social media, therefore, offers a new tool for health officials to improve health literacy, raise awareness, and reach a larger audience with timely truths ahead of fatal fictions. 13 This was the case with Ebola 14 as well as with COVID-19 in West Africa, for which a study that found the number of social media accounts an individual owned was a significant predictor of their awareness of methods to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. ...

... MSaT is effective in reducing malaria transmission in areas with low to moderate malaria prevalence. However, its success depends on the availability of accurate diagnostic tools, effective antimalarial drugs, and strong community participation [70,142]. Pv SeroTAT is a method for identifying individuals with recent blood-stage infections who are potential hypnozoite carriers by measuring antibodies and providing treatment with radical cure [98]. ...