Tag: COVID-19

A new editorial in Frontiers in Public Health reviews how post-Soviet countries, still reforming Soviet-era Semashko health systems, struggled with ...

Researchers in Brazil, Peru, Canada and Germany describe a dialogical, non-extractivist approach to studying community mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A pilot observational study detected alpha-synuclein seeding activity in 35.7% of people with persistent olfactory dysfunction after SARS-CoV-2 infection, compared ...

A systematic review found 43 studies applying artificial intelligence to infectious-disease prediction, management, surveillance or outbreak prediction in Africa between ...

An analysis of 66,193 Spanish health survey responses found persistent socioeconomic differences in primary, specialist and emergency care use from ...

A surveillance analysis found that reported incidence and mortality from five vector-borne diseases were substantially lower in China during 2020–2023, ...

A laboratory screen found that three African natural-product compounds disrupted SARS-CoV-2 spike–ACE2 interactions, while two also reduced viral replication in ...

A retrospective single-center study found higher contamination, true microbial growth and polymicrobial infection rates in blood cultures from adult intensive ...

A mixed-methods perspective based on literature mapping and institutional analysis argues that political polarization can undermine trust, evidence-based action and ...

A 77-year-old woman with herpes zoster ophthalmicus had PCR-detectable VZV DNA for at least two months after symptom onset despite ...

In a retrospective two-center Palestinian cohort, acute kidney injury affected 32.2% of hospitalized adults with COVID-19 and was associated with ...

A 2020–2021 Skåne register cohort found higher COVID-19 diagnosis and hospitalization risks among people with intellectual disabilities, with mortality estimates ...

A retrospective cohort study of 705 hospitalized patients in The Gambia found that advanced age and several chronic conditions were ...

A retrospective multi-center registry study recorded 1,276 maternal near-miss cases among 411,287 live births in northeastern Iran from 2020 to ...

A nationwide retrospective study of French emergency department visits from 2017–2024 found that mental health-related visits rose after 2021, with ...

A 15-center Italian retrospective cohort found 30-day hospitalization or death in 0.9% of 3,916 high-risk outpatients treated early with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, ...

A retrospective single-center analysis of 13,551 urinary Enterobacterales isolates found higher resistance to several antimicrobial classes after March 11, 2020, ...

Interviews with 26 German military and civilian physicians found broad agreement that severe scarcity requires social justice to override individual ...

A retrospective hospital cohort found that resistant-bacterial and fungal infection trajectories in adults hospitalized with COVID-19 were associated with higher ...

A retrospective investigation of 492 cases in a Seoul detention center shows how crowding fueled Omicron spread and how layered ...