CONCLUSION: In patients aged 20-49 years, vaccinated patients had a significantly lower prevalence of pneumonia and chest X-ray severity score than non-vaccinated patients.
CONCLUSIONS: Although there have been anecdotal reports of adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccine, our review of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database did not produce positive signals across all 4 measures for any potential
CONCLUSIONS: Sarcopenia should be closely monitored in patients with cases of severe inflammatory effect, inadequate food intake, and diminished physical activity such as hospitalized survivors of COVID-19.
CONCLUSION: Our ecological study demonstrates significant decreases in the frequency of paediatric intussusception admissions during the COVID-19 lockdown periods. The unexpected magnitude of the reductions suggests that the true proportion of
CONCLUSION: Lower-educated people within working age and highly-educated people at older ages showed the greatest increase in all-cause mortality in 2020, compared to the pre-pandemic period.
CONCLUSIONS: The observed patterns in host immune response revealed a turning point in COVID-19 disease on hospital day 3 and the potential utility of IP-10 and TRAIL as sensitive markers associated with disease severity and time to recovery.
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 vaccines effectively reduced the severity of the pandemic, but the mass rollout was challenged by vaccine hesitancy, which was related to heterogenous factors-such as religiosity, mistrust, and a lack of scientific knowledge
The ongoing coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) still urgently requires effective treatments. The 3C-like (3CL) protease of SARS-CoV-2 is a highly conserved
CONCLUSIONS: These results highlight potential disparities in ongoing symptoms, even after accounting for demographic differences, and reinforce the need for culturally appropriate and targeted strategies to increase access to health care and reduce