PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

Nucleocapsid and Spike Protein-Based Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Assay Performance in the Minority and Rural Coronavirus Insights Study: Characteristics of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Populations with Health Disparities

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: Analytical agreement is 96.4% for anti-spike-protein vs anti-nucleocapsid-protein comparisons. Physiologically, seroreversion of anti-nucleocapsid reactivity after infection occurred in the disadvantaged population similarly to general

Network analysis-guided drug repurposing strategies targeting LPAR receptor in the interplay of COVID, Alzheimer's, and diabetes

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has greatly affected global health. Emerging evidence suggests a complex interplay between Alzheimer's disease (AD), diabetes (DM), and COVID-19. Given COVID-19's involvement in the increased risk

Public Health in the Crosshairs of Culture Wars

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

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COVID-19 Immunity in the Cohort of IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital Employees after BNT162b2 Vaccination: A Retrospective Observational Study

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: The evidence suggests that vaccinations are essential in protecting high-risk groups, such as healthcare workers, from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Providing adequate vaccination coverage to healthcare workers limits the spread of infections

Cost-effective 3D lung tissue spheroid as a model for SARS-CoV-2 infection and drug screening

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that coculture spheroids of epithelial and stromal cells can serve as a cost-effective infection model for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We suggest using this 3D spheroid as a drug screening platform to explore new

COVID-19 virus and clinical outcome on the newborns at the Neonatal Department of Intensive Medicine in Bratislava, Slovakia

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: COVID-19 pandemic had a great impact on the pregnant women as well as on prenatal and postnatal development of the child. Our results reveal that the severity of symptoms in COVID-19 infected newborns from our sample was low. It is

Predicting Mortality of COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Developed Scores

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: Kidney and other solid-organ transplant patients are at greater risk of infection and mortality than other groups. Accurate risk-predicting tools are imperative for managing the COVID-19 pandemic with limited health resources.

Selective under-representation of Pacific peoples in population estimates for health indicator measurements in Aotearoa New Zealand misinforms policy making

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: The current use of BAP denominators for health statistics does not enable reliable monitoring of key health indicators for Pacific people. HSU denominators are also unsuitable for monitoring health. Exploring the feasibility of a real

Insights into attention and memory difficulties in post-COVID syndrome using standardized neuropsychological tests and experimental cognitive tasks

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to post-acute cognitive symptoms, often described as 'brain fog'. To comprehensively grasp the extent of these issues, we conducted a study integrating traditional neuropsychological assessments with experimental

Personality Trait Change Across a Major Global Stressor

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM

The current research examined three related questions in a 21-month longitudinal study of a diverse sample of U.S. participants (N = 504): (a) How did Big Five traits change during the COVID-19 pandemic? (b) What factors were associated with