CONCLUSION: We found mortality benefit and reduction in O2 requirements/ventilatory support in RDV plus STP-administered cases as compared to STP only, but statistically, this difference is not significant, which suggests that mortality benefit in
Systemic corticosteroids (CSs), a keystone in pulmonology, are drugs with strong antiinflammatory activity. They are cheap, easily available, and accessible, but with common and serious side effects. Moreover, the use of exogenous CSs may suppress
CONCLUSION: This first-of-its-kind nebulizer score can be used by primary care physicians to decide which patients should be put on nebulizer treatment.
The COVID-19 pandemic remains a global challenge now with the long-COVID arising. Mitigation measures focused on case counting, assessment and determination of variants and their likely targets of infection and transmission, the pursuit of drug
The data on legal support, resources, structure, staffing of the geriatric service are given. The state of the geriatric service during the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed, as well as plans and directions for development in the post-COVID period. At
A large surge of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions leading to mortal outcome was observed in wave-2 of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to the higher virulence of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, which led to the scarcity of
The earliest documented COVID-19 case caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus occurred in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Since then, several SARS-CoV-2 mutants have rapidly disseminated as exemplified by the community spread of the recent omicron
Graduate programs in medicine and biomedical sciences have been severely impacted by the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic over the last 2 years. Following 2 years since beginning of the pandemic, data on student support, educational and academic