Identifying common baseline clinical features of COVID-19: a scoping review by Matilde Monteiro-Soares, Daniela Ferreira-Santos, Priscila Maranhão

“…Our major aim was to identify common baseline clinical features that could help recognise adult patients at high risk of having COVID-19.Design We conducted a scoping review of all the evidence available at LitCovid, until 23 March 2020.Setting Studies conducted in any setting and any country were included.Participants Studies had to report the prevalence of sociodemographic characteristics, symptoms and comorbidities specifically in adults with a diagnosis of infection by SARS-CoV-2.Results In total, 1572 publications were published on LitCovid. …”
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Modeling the Impact of Air Pollution and Meteorological Variables on COVID-19 Transmission in Western Cape, South Africa by John Kamwele Mutinda, Amos Kipkorir Langat

“…This study suggests that meteorological and pollution parameters play a vital independent role in the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.…”
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Modifying non-coding regions of linear DNA vaccines to explore the interplay of expression and inflammation in immunogenicity by David C. Stirling, Maria de Miguel Ferrer, Sungwon Kim, Madina Wane, Daniel Kysh, Lisa J. Caproni, John S. Tregoning

“…We also found that the effect of non-coding sequences was target specific, with differing effects in influenza HA, SARS-CoV-2 Spike and eGFP constructs. To separate the effects of immune sensing of the DNA construct and the expression of the encoded antigen, we combined a separate CpG oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) with the highest expressing DNA vaccine; we observed reduced expression, but higher inflammation resulting in equivalent immunogenicity. …”
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Development of an expectation management intervention for patients with Long COVID: A focus group study with affected patients. by Manuel Funk, Max Reinke, Bernd Löwe, Petra Engelmann

“…<h4>Background</h4>A significant number of individuals who have contracted SARS-CoV-2 report persistent somatic symptoms after the infection has resolved. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Adults in India: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by M. D. Sangeetha, P. K. Sreenath Menon, Bhalangki Kupar Kharmawphlang, Darshan Hoysanahalli Shivashankarappa, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja

“…The global health crisis triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 in 2019, known as the COVID-19 pandemic, prompted vaccination drives worldwide, including in India, to address the crisis. …”
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Evaluation of Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet to Lymphocyte Ratio in Covid-19 Patients Treated with Tocilizumab Due to Cytokine Storm by Serkan Yavuz, Cengiz Burnik, Mehmet Mermer, Faysal Duksal

“…Background/Aims: There is a significant increase in proinflammatory cytokine levels in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) patients entering cytokine storm. Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), also increase in inflammatory diseases. …”
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Expectant Management of a Critically Ill Pregnant Patient with COVID-19 with Good Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes by Farah Alsayyed, Victoria Hastings, Sanford Lederman

“…We had a high suspicion of COVID-19 disease despite repeated negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing, with eventual positive COVID IgG antibody testing. …”
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Digestive Disease Mortality Dynamics During New Coronavirus Infection Pandemic in Different Subjects of Russian Federation by V. T. Ivashkin, A. A. Sheptulin, O. P. Alekseeva, S. A. Alekseenko, A. Yu. Baranovsky, O. Yu. Zolnikova, N. V. Korochanskaya, S. N. Mammayev, I. B. Khlynov, V. V. Tsukanov

“…Most regions of Russia have registered a growing mortality from digestive diseases at the new coronavirus infection pandemic due to the SARS-CoV-2 adverse impact on illness progression, as well as imposed difficulties in providing specialty medical aid.…”
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Case Report by Dela Hangri Jalmas, Fauzar Fauzar, Roza Kurniati, Deka Viotra, Harnavi Harun, Vesri Yoga, Alexander Kam

“…Older patients, male gender and those with preexisting comorbidities such as chronic kidney disease are reported to be more likely infected with SARS CoV-2 and are at higher risk of severe illness or death. …”
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Examining the Intergovernmental and Interorganizational Network of Responding to Major Accidents for Improving the Emergency Management System in China by Pan Tang, Haojia Chen, Shiqi Shao

“…Since the SARS crisis in 2003, institutionalized emergency management systems have been established in each government level for improving inter-organizational collaboration in China. …”
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SERS-based quantitative vertical flow assay using dual Au-Ag SERS nanoprobes by Jinhyeok Jeon, Ji-In Park, Chulhyun Lee

“…., analysis of respiratory diseases including SARS-CoV-2, influenza and RSV). To evaluate the feasibility of multiplexing performance of SERS-VFA platform, vertical flow cartridges with 2 × 2 test areas on the nitrocellulose membrane and two different Raman reporter-labeled SERS nanoprobes were prepared, to detect samples including two different immunoglobulins (mouse IgG and rabbit IgG). …”
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Comportamento alimentar, prática de atividade física e questões referentes à saúde mental de adolescentes de um Colégio de Aplicação, antes e durante a pandemia da COVID-19 by Ariane RIBEIRO, Jessica Aparecida da SILVA, Núbia de Souza de MORAIS, Patrícia Seixas Lopes PEREIRA, Emanuelle Valadares de Jesus ACÁCIO, Roberta Costa Lima de OLIVEIRA, Geovanna Rafaela Lourenço FARIA, Rayane Sibéria Souza SILVA, Silvia Eloiza PRIORE

“…Durante o cenário crítico imposto pela pandemia do SARS-CoV-2, ocorreram mudanças positivas nos hábitos alimentares dos adolescentes e no padrão de atividade física, principalmente por estarem morando com os pais, contudo, foram observados importantes impactos negativos na saúde mental. …”
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Immunogenicity of Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination Followed by J&J Adenovirus COVID-19 Vaccination in Two Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia by Zoe L. Lyski, Myung Sun Kim, David Xthona Lee, David Sampson, Hans-Peter Raué, Vikram Raghunathan, Debbie Ryan, Amanda E. Brunton, Mark K. Slifka, William B. Messer, Stephen E. Spurgeon

“…It is important to understand the role a heterologous boost would have in patients who did not respond to the initial two-dose mRNA vaccine series. SARS-CoV-2 specific immune responses, including antibodies and memory B-cells, CD4 and CD8 T-cells were assessed prior to vaccination, as well as postinitial vaccination series and post-third dose in two subjects. …”
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E a Covid-19 na Comunidade Manzo Ngunzo Kaiango? by Aisha Diéne

“… Em meio ao período da pandemia ocasionada pelo vírus SARS-CoV-2 durante o ano de 2020 no contexto brasileiro, e refletindo sobre as possibilidades de dar continuidade às análises do campo antropológico paralisadas por esse momento atípico, se fez necessário utilizar novos/outros meios e métodos que respeitassem a tradição e as formas de vivência do candomblé, considerando o afastamento físico imposto. …”
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Cardiovascular manifestations in COVID-19 patients by Jyotsna Maddury, Mani Krishna, Achukatla Kumar

“…Most important medical challenge during the past 2 years is the COVID-19 pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2 virus. COVID-19 morbidity is increased in the presence of CAD risk factors. …”
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Enhancing Medical Image Classification With Context Modulated Attention and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion by Renhan Zhang, Xuegang Luo, Junrui Lv, Junyang Cao, Yangping Zhu, Juan Wang, Bochuan Zheng

“…The experimental results demonstrate that MSFF significantly outperforms existing methods in multiple performance metrics (including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), Kappa coefficient, Area Under the Curve (AUC), balanced accuracy, and geometric mean) on four datasets (Endoscopic Bladder Tissue, Kvasir, SARS-COV-2 Ct-Scan, and Thyroid Nodule), showing its excellent performance in the task of medical image classification.…”
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Diagnosis of COVID-19 from Chest X-Ray Images Using Wavelets-Based Depthwise Convolution Network by Krishna Kant Singh, Akansha Singh

“…The disease is caused by a beta coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The severity of the disease can be understood by the massive number of deaths and affected patients globally. …”
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Application of nanotechnology in air purifiers as a viable approach to protect against Corona virus by Ali Mahmoudi, Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany, Marzieh Ahari Salmasi, Ali Bakhshi, Arad Bustan, Sahar heydari, Majid Rezayi, Fatemeh Gheybi

“…This review aimed at summarising the safety and effectiveness of the recent approaches in this field including using nanofibres that prevent the spread of airborne viruses like SARS‐CoV‐2. Here, the efficacy of controlling COVID‐19 by means of combining multiple strategies is comprehensively discussed.…”
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Role of Chest Computed Tomography versus Real Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction for Diagnosis of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Dina M. Ali, Lamiaa G. Zake, Nevine K. El Kady

“…We searched three electronic databases (PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Scopus) from April 1 to April 20, 2020, to find out articles including the accuracy of chest computed tomography scan versus RT-PCR for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Observational studies, case series, and case reports were included. …”
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Confidence intervals for the COVID-19 neutralizing antibody retention rate in the Korean population by Catherine Apio, Md. Kamruzzaman, Taesung Park

“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global pandemic. No specific therapeutic agents or vaccines for COVID-19 are available, though several antiviral drugs, are under investigation as treatment agents for COVID-19. …”
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