Diagnostic utility of rapid tests to detect IgG/IgM antibodies against COVID-19 by Pedro Sánchez Frenes, Dayamí García Torres, María de Jesús Sánchez Bouza, Gippsy Mendoza Cartaya, Mavis Portela Sánchez

“…<p><strong>Background</strong>: Rapid tests for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 are attractive options due to their simplicity, speed and cost-effectiveness; but they have different degrees of sensitivity and diagnostic specificity.…”
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Long COVID in patients with rheumatologic disease: A single center observational study by Horacio Quinones-Moya, Armando Ocampo-Del Valle, Adolfo Camargo-Coronel, Francisco Javier Jimenez-Balderas, Miriam Berenice Bernal-Enriquez, Pedro Madinabeitia-Rodríguez, Kenia Nahomi Morales-Medino, Cynthia Roque-Ibanez, Mario Raúl Hernandez-Zavala

“…Background: Special attention has been paid to the sequelae caused by SARS-CoV 2 infection (Long-COVID), the prevalence of these sequelae in patients with rheumatological diseases has not been studied in detail. …”
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Healthcare workers as a sentinel surveillance population in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic by Indumathi Venkatachalam, Edwin Philip Conceicao, May Kyawt Aung, Molly Kue Bien How, Liang En Wee, Jean Xiang Ying Sim, Ban Hock Tan, Moi Lin Ling

“…Results: In the ten-week period between 6 January 2020 and 16 March 2020, 333 (17.1%) of 1,946 HCWs at risk of occupational COVID-19 presented with ARI. 32 (9.6%) screened negative for SARS-CoV-2 from throat swabs. Five other HCWs developed COVID-19 attributed to non-clinical exposures. …”
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COVID-19 and its impact in the dental setting: A scoping review. by Bashier Ahmed Kathree, Saadika B Khan, Rukshana Ahmed, Ronel Maart, Nazreen Layloo, Winifred Asia-Michaels

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>The scoping review examined the evidence related to infection control and transmission measures of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a dental setting during this pandemic. …”
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Association between smoking status and death from COVID-19 in South Korea: A nationwide cohort study by Jae Woo Choi

“…Methods This study used nationwide cohort data collected from the Korean National Health Insurance Service, linking to information on all individuals who tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The smoking status of subjects who participated twice in national health screenings between 2015 and 2018 was measured. …”
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Integrating agent-based disease, mobility and wastewater models for the study of the spread of communicable diseases by Néstor DelaPaz-Ruíz, Ellen-Wien Augustijn, Mahdi Farnaghi, Sheheen A. Abdulkareem, Raul Zurita Milla

“…Combined modelling of COVID-19 disease cases and the concentration of its causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, in wastewater will necessarily deepen our understanding. …”
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Modulation of behavior before COVID-19, in contact patients treated at the Villa Azucarera isolation center by Isela Casas Olazabal, Enia Lorenzo Pérez, Maria Cristina Pérez Guerrero, Jaqueline García Rodríguez, Ricardo Vázquez Casas

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> The prevention of the contagion of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the main weapon against the disease, and in Cuba it is carried out, fundamentally, with social isolation in specific centers where a modeling of the behavior of classified people is intended as contacts.…”
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Neutrophil adhesion to vessel walls impairs pulmonary circulation in COVID-19 pathology by Hiroshi Ueki, I-Hsuan Wang, Maki Kiso, Kenta Horie, Shun Iida, Sohtaro Mine, Michiko Ujie, Hung-Wei Hsu, Chen-Hui Henry Wu, Masaki Imai, Tadaki Suzuki, Wataru Kamitani, Eiryo Kawakami, Yoshihiro Kawaoka

“…In this study, we investigated mouse models with severe pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection by using our in vivo two-photon imaging system. …”
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Epidemiology and risk factors of self-reported systemic allergic reactions to a Hymenoptera venom in beekeepers worldwide: a protocol for a systematic review of observational studi... by Igor Locatelli, Tanja Carli, Mitja Košnik, Andreja Kukec

“…Introduction Systemic allergic reaction (SAR) to a Hymenoptera venom is a potentially life-threatening disorder. …”
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Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos by Kelley Lee, Julianne Piper

“…Substantial evidence of the role of human travel in spreading SARS-CoV-2 worldwide throughout the evolving pandemic supported new thinking about the use of different types of travel measures (ie, screening, restrictions, quarantine, immunity documentation) to limit the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into jurisdictions with low incidence and onward transmission. …”
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Footprint of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: A Study of Immune Landscape and Other Factors Shielding Mortality by Noura Al-Dayan, Divya Venugopal, Sugapriya Dhanasekaran

“…The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has significantly affected global health and created a world crisis. …”
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Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia after first dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine: a case report by K. Kolodynskaja, S. Stankevičiūtė, A. Krikščionaitienė, N. Balčiūnienė

“…Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are considered to be safe and effective measures to cope with COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Update on Remdesivir in the Treatment of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia by Huang Feng, K. Vijaya Lakshmi, Chin Tat Ng, Murthy Sasikumar, Masita Arip, Masriana Hassan, Voon Kin Chin, Mogana Rajagopal, Omotayo Fatokun, N. Parvathi, Malarvili Selvaraja

“…Remdesivir, a COVID-19 therapeutic medication developed by Gilead Sciences, exerts antiviral effects by suppressing the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Remdesivir has maintained high inhibitory activity against all existing SARS-CoV-2 variants, including the Omicron variant. …”
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Symptoms in Pregnancy and Maternal and Neonatal Complications Due to COVID-19: A Systematic Review by Sepideh Miraj, Azadeh Asgarian, Abolfazl Mohammadbeigi, Maryam Derakhshani

“…Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in pregnant women is associated with severe maternal and neonatal complications including maternal and newborn death. …”
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The guided fire from within: intratumoral administration of mRNA-based vaccines to mobilize memory immunity and direct immune responses against pathogen to target solid tumors by Renhao Li, Jing-Chu Hu, Li Rong, Yige He, Xiaolei Wang, Xuansheng Lin, Wenjun Li, Yangfan Wu, Chaiyaporn Kuwentrai, Canhui Su, Thomas Yau, Ivan Fan-Ngai Hung, Xiang Gao, Jian-Dong Huang

“…In mice previously immunized with BNT162b2, an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine encoding the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, intratumoral injections of the same vaccine efficiently tagged the tumor cells with mRNA-expressed spike protein. …”
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Health-related adverse work outcomes associated with post COVID-19 condition: a cross-sectional study by Peter M Smith, Hind Sbihi, Wei Zhang, Adeera Levin, Naveed Z Janjua, Hiten Naik, Bingyue Zhu, Lee Er, Karen Tran

“…Participants comprised adults who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR at least 2 years before questionnaire completion and were working age (18–64) at the time of infection. …”
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Management of a COVID-19 outbreak using a multidisciplinary approach and infection prevention control practices at a community living center in Veterans Administration Hospital, No... by Ikwo K. Oboho, John Hanna, Denisse Silva-Rodriguez, Angela Christie-Smith, Andrew Psenicka, Ampava Khongmongkhon, Marcus A. Kouma, Sherry Reid, Roger Bedimo

“…Serial testing of all CLC residents was conducted, and residents with polymerase chain reaction-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection were included in the analysis. …”
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Some simple epidemic models by Fred Brauer

“…The SARS epidemic of 2002-3 led to the study of epidemic models including management measures and other generalizations of the original 1927 epidemic model of Kermack and McKendrick. …”
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“Two Hands Can Save a Life”

“…Launching the 2020 World Restart a Heart initiative, the letter notes a global increase in out-of-hospital cardiac rates as a result of the COVID-19-SARS pandemic as well as a worrying decrease in bystander CPR rates and survival rates. …”
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Severe Bradycardia Leading to Hemodynamic Instability Associated with Remdesivir Use in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia by Bhargavi Donepudi, Shikhar Agarwal, Lokendra Thakur

“…Remdesivir (RDV) is an approved treatment for hospitalized patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. There is limited literature on the cardiac adverse effects of RDV. …”
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