RECOVER19

Publications

Listing of RECOVER19-funded publications. See below for related publications written by RECOVER19 investigators in 2023-2025 but not directly funded by the project.

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, and ESSAYS:

  • Chaufan, C., Gabbay, B., Manwell, L., Heredia, C., & McDonald, J. (2025). Framing problems, governing practices: A critical scoping review of COVID-19 policy in Canadian post-secondary education. Global Health Economics and Sustainability, 025370063. https://doi.org/10.36922/GHES025370063
  • Rinner, C. (2025). The Class Gap in Pandemic Attitudes and Experiences. COVID, 5(12), 195. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid5120195
  • Chaufan, C., Manwell, L., Heredia, C., & McDonald, J. (2025). COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune disorders: A scoping review. AIMS Medical Science, 12(4), 325–349. https://doi.org/10.3934/medsci.2025023
  • Chaufan, C., Hemsing, N., Moncrieffe, R. (2025) “If all of this was about health, I’d still be working:” Lived experiences of healthcare workers under COVID-19 vaccine mandates in British Columbia, Canada. Global Health Economics and Sustainability, 025240043. https://doi.org/10.36922/GHES025240043
  • Chaufan, C., Hemsing, N., & Moncrieffe, R. (2025) COVID-19 vaccination decisions and the impact of vaccination mandates: An exploratory cross-sectional survey of healthcare workers in British Columbia, Canada. Global Health Economics and Sustainability, 025080014. https://doi.org/10.36922/GHES025080014
  • Rinner, C., Uda, M., & Manwell, L. (2025). A Global Index to Quantify Discrimination Resulting from COVID-19 Pandemic Response Policies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(4): 467. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22040467
  • Chaufan, C., Hemsing, N., & Moncrieffe, R. (2025). “It isn’t about health, and it sure doesn’t care”: a qualitative exploration of healthcare workers’ lived experience of the policy of vaccination mandates in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Public Health and Emergency, 9: 16. https://jphe.amegroups.org/article/view/10515/html
  • Chaufan C. (2024) Is Covid-19 “vaccine uptake” in postsecondary education a “problem”? A critical policy inquiry. Health, 28(6): 831-857, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593231204169
  • Chaufan, C., Hemsing, N., & Moncrieffe, R. (2024). COVID-19 vaccination decisions and impacts of vaccine mandates: a cross sectional survey of healthcare workers in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Public Health and Emergency, 9: 4. https://jphe.amegroups.org/article/view/10313
  • Chaufan, C., & Hemsing, N. (2024). Is resistance to Covid-19 vaccination a “problem”? A critical policy inquiry of vaccine mandates for healthcare workers. AIMS Public Health, 11(3): 688-714, https://doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2024035
  • Chaufan, C., Manwell, L., Heredia, C., & McDonald, J. (2023). COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune disorders: A scoping review protocol. AIMS Medical Science 10(4): 318-328, https://doi.org/10.3934/medsci.2023025
  • Chaufan, C., Manwell, L., Gabbay, B., Heredia, C., & Daniels, C. (2023). Appraising the decision-making process concerning COVID-19 policy in postsecondary education in Canada: A critical scoping review protocol. AIMS Public Health, 10(4): 918-933, https://doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2023059
  • Rinner, C. (2023). Unexpected patterns in the global COVID-19 pandemic data. International Journal of Scholarly Research in Multidisciplinary Studies, 3(1): 56-68, https://doi.org/10.56781/ijsrms.2023.3.1.0078
  • Rinner, C. (2023). Pandemic Open Data: Blessing or Curse? In V. Kakulapati (ed.): New Trends and Challenges in Open Data. London, UK: IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1001594

ABSTRACTS, PRESENTATIONS, and OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS:

  • Valente, A.C. (2024) Pandemic Children’s Literature: A question of moral behaviour or biopolitics? Abstract and oral presentation at the International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2024), July 7-10, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Rinner, C. (2024) Challenging hate of “the unvaccinated”: An imperative for sustainable post-pandemic recovery. Abstract and oral presentation at CSA 2024, June 17-21, Montreal, Canada. Available at https://www.csa-scs.ca/files/www/Conference_Archives/2024_CSA-SCS_Conference_Program_Archive_REV.pdf (page 446)
  • Chaufan, C. (2024) Appraising the decision-making process concerning Covid-19 policy in postsecondary education in Canada: A critical scoping review. Abstract and oral presentation at Canadian Sociological Association Conference (CSA 2024), June 17-21, Montreal, Canada
  • Valente, A.C. (2024) Where’s the Rhetoric in Playing? Embodied Experiences and Symbolic Meanings in Contagio. Abstract and oral presentation at RhetCanada 2024, June 12-14, Montreal, Canada
  • Rinner, C., & Manwell, L. (2023) The Pandemic Report Cards – Context and Design Proposal for a World Atlas of COVID-19 Restrictions and Mandates. Abstract and poster presentation at Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE 2023), June 13-16, Delft, The Netherlands. Available at https://rshare.library.torontomu.ca/articles/conference_contribution/The_Pandemic_Report_Cards_Context_and_Design_Proposal_for_a_World_Atlas_of_COVID-19_Restrictions_and_Mandates/23244506
  • Valente, A.C. (2023) Reckoning the Rhetoric of ‘Pedagogy of Preparedness’ and its Classroom Implications. Abstract and oral presentation at the Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (RhetCanada 2023), May 30-June 1, Toronto, Canada
  • MacDonald, A. (2023) The Semmelweis Hypothesis: Lessons about Hygiene in the Age of Covid-19. Abstract and oral presentation at Canadian Sociological Association Conference (CSA 2023), May 29-June 2 (pre-conference session May 24), Toronto, Canada
  • Speicher, D.J., Rose, J., & McKernan, K. (2025). Quantification of residual plasmid DNA and SV40 promoter-enhancer sequences in Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna modRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Ontario, Canada. Autoimmunity, 58(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/08916934.2025.2551517
  • Rinner, C. (2025) Peer Review Report for: Conflict between freedom and health in the COVID-19 pandemic: An appraisal of China’s zero-COVID-19 policy [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]. F1000Research 13: 1548, https://doi.org/10.5256/f1000research.173445.r360018
  • Caron, E.E., Drody, A. C., Carriere, J.S.A., & Smilek, D. (2024). The impact of a global pandemic on undergraduate learning experiences: Lifting the restrictions. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 39(3), 2435–2459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-023-00790-6
  • Chaufan, C., Hemsing, N., Heredia, C., & McDonald, J. (2023). What do experts mean by “misinformation” in the COVID-19 era? A critical scoping review protocol. International Journal of Scholarly Research in Multidisciplinary Studies, 3(2). https://srrjournals.com/ijsrms/content/what-do-experts-mean-%E2%80%9Cmisinformation%E2%80%9D-covid-19-era-critical-scoping-review-protocol
  • Chaufan, C., Hemsing, N., Heredia, C., & McDonald, J. (2024). Trust Us—We Are the (COVID-19 Misinformation) Experts: A Critical Scoping Review of Expert Meanings of “Misinformation” in the Covid Era. COVID, 4(9), 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid4090101
  • Elisha, E., Guetzkow, J., Shir-Raz, Y., & Ronel, N. (2024). Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-perceptions of researchers and practitioners. HEC Forum, 36(1), 71–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10730-022-09479-7
  • Simandan, D., Rinner, C., & Capurri, V. (2023) The academic left, human geography, and the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography 106(2): 175-195, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/04353684.2023.2168560
  • Halma, M.T.J., & Guetzkow, J. (2023). Public Health Needs the Public Trust: A Pandemic Retrospective. BioMed, 3(2), 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomed3020023
  • Heisig, J., Bücker, B., Schmidt, A., Heye, A.-L., Rieckert, A., Löscher, S., Hirsch, O., Donner-Banzhoff, N., Wilm, S., Barzel, A., Becker, A., & Viniol, A. (2023). Efficacy of a computer based discontinuation strategy to reduce PPI prescriptions: A multicenter cluster-randomized controlled trial. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 21633. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48839-2
  • Hicks, L.J., Caron, E.E., & Smilek, D. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 and learning: The impact of a global pandemic on undergraduate learning experiences. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 9(3), 235–253. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000250
  • Junger, N., & Hirsch, O. (2024). Ethics of Nudging in the COVID-19 Crisis and the Necessary Return to the Principles of Shared Decision Making: A Critical Review. Cureus 16(4): e57960. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.57960
  • Kepp, K.P., Bardosh, K., De Bie, T., Emilsson, L., Greaves, J., Lallukka, T., Muka, T., Rangel, J.C., Sandström, N., Schippers, M.C., Schmidt-Chanasit, J., & Vaillancourt, T. (2024). Zero-covid advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of views on Twitter/X. Monash Bioethics Review, 42(2), 169–199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-024-00205-2
  • Kisielinski, K., Hockertz, S., Hirsch, O., Korupp, S., Klosterhalfen, B., Schnepf, A., & Dyker, G. (2024). Wearing face masks as a potential source for inhalation and oral uptake of inanimate toxins – A scoping review. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 275, 115858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.115858
  • Kisielinski, K., Wagner, S., Hirsch, O., Klosterhalfen, B., & Prescher, A. (2023). Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents – A scoping review. Heliyon, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14117
  • Kone, A.P., Martin, L., Scharf, D., Gabriel, H., Dean, T., Costa, I., Saskin, R., Palma, L., & Wodchis, W. P. (2023). The impact of multimorbidity on severe COVID-19 outcomes in community and congregate settings. Dialogues in Health, 2, 100128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100128
  • Kourgiantakis, T., Craig ,S.L., Sur, D., Muskat, B., & and Kirkland, A. (2024). Hospital social workers and mental health: Essential roles during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Work in Mental Health, 22(3), 393–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2024.2314474
  • Kourgiantakis, T., Vicknarajah, R., Logan, J., Edwards, T., Lee, E., Craig, S., Kaura, A., Williams, C.C. & Marshall, S. (2024). Understanding youth and young adult cannabis use in Canada post-legalization: a scoping review on a public health issue. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 19(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-024-00615-9
  • Kourgiantakis, T., Markoulakis, R., Lee, E., Hussain, A., Lau, C., Ashcroft, R., … & Levitt, A. (2023). Access to mental health and addiction services for youth and their families in Ontario: perspectives of parents, youth, and service providers. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 17(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-023-00572-z
  • Kourgiantakis, T., Markoulakis, R., Hussain, A., Lee, E., Ashcroft, R., Williams, C., Lau, C., Goldstein, A.L., Kodeeswaran, S., & Levitt, A. (2022). Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of youth, families, and service providers. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 113(6), 806–816. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-022-00670-4
  • Rojas, D., Tailor, J., Fournier, K., Cheung, J.J., & Rangel, J.C. (2023). Zoomification of medical education: Can the rapid online educational responses to COVID-19 prepare us for another educational disruption? A scoping review. Canadian Medical Education Journal / Revue Canadienne de l’éducation Médicale, 14(5), 33–48. https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.74697
  • Roy, M., & and Gandsman, A. (2023). Polarizing figures of resistance during epidemics. A comparative frame analysis of the COVID-19 freedom convoy. Critical Public Health, 33(5), 788–802. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2023.2284633
  • Roy, M., Gandsman, A., & Plante, N. (2024). The polarized “naturalizations” of the 2022 Freedom Convoy. Discover Global Society, 2(1), 83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44282-024-00107-y
  • Shir-Raz, Y., Elisha, E., Martin, B., Ronel, N., & Guetzkow, J. (2023). Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics. Minerva, 61(3), 407–433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4
  • Smith, T.D. (2024). On Never Explaining Anything and Forgetting Almost Everything. International Political Anthropology Journal, 17(1): 41-54, http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12187599
  • Thunder, D. (2023). How the Attempt to Cleanse Public Discourse of ‘Misinformation’ Undermines Science and Rational Inquiry. Journal for Critical Society Studies, 2. https://www.criticalsocietystudies.com/Journal/Article/65/53
  • Thunder, D. (2025). The Polycentric Republic: A Theory of Civil Order for Free and Diverse Societies. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, https://www.routledge.com/The-Polycentric-Republic-A-Theory-of-Civil-Order-for-Free-and-Diverse-Societies/Thunder/p/book/9781032888897.
  • Vickers, D.M., Hardie, J., Eberspaecher, S., Chaufan, C., & Pelech, S. (2023). Counterfactuals of effects of vaccination and public health measures on COVID-19 cases in Canada: What could have happened? Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1173673
  • Wilson, J., Rinner, C., Kone, A.P., & Bosveld, E. (2023). Vaccine hesitancy was not shown to be associated with traffic safety or driver behavior. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1204205