Jan 16th, 2021 - To determine the indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric healthcare utilisation and severe disease at a national level following lockdown on 23 March 2020. National retrospective cohort study. Emergency childhood primary and secondary care providers across Scotland; two national paediatric intensive care units (PICUs); statutory death records. 273 455 unscheduled primary ca...

Jan 16th, 2021 - Response to: 'Correspondence on 'Prevalence and clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in patients with autoimmune diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis'' by Yang et al.|2021|Akiyama S,Hamdeh S,Micic D,Sakuraba A,|

Jan 16th, 2021 - The immunomodulatory effects of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy for cancer may act at the crossroads between the need to increase anti-viral immune responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) and to decrease the inflammatory responses in severe cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There is evidence from preclinical models that blocking programmed d...

Jan 16th, 2021 - Covid-19: Doctors' leaders call for revised PPE guidance to reflect new variants.|2021|Iacobucci G,|

Jan 16th, 2021 - Covid-19: Government uses lateral flow tests to keep children in schools against regulator's advice.|2021|Wise J,|

Jan 16th, 2021 - Emergency Medicine Journal COVID-19 monthly top five.|2021|Horner D,O'Rourke J,Collins J,Darbyshire D,Lecky F,|

Jan 16th, 2021 - A 53-year-old man with diabetes came to the emergency department with fever and dry cough for 5 days, swelling of the left leg for 2 days, shortness of breath and chest pain for 1 hour. He had raised temperature, tachycardia, tachypnoea, reduced oxygen saturation and swollen tender left leg on examination. The frontal chest radiograph showed bilateral ground-glass opacities; he tested positive ...

Jan 16th, 2021 - The goals of this review are to evaluate the impact of socioeconomic (SE) status on the general health and cardiovascular health of individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic and also discuss the measures to address disparity. SE status is a strong predictor of premature morbidity and mortality within general health. A lower SE status also has implications of increased cardiovascular disease (CVD...

Jan 16th, 2021 - The quality of healthcare service websites gains particular importance in the time of the pandemic, asthe popularity of electronic services grows. This applies to infectious disease hospitals as well, often on the front line of the effort against COVID-19. The paper aims to assess the quality of infectious disease hospital websites in Poland in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research cover...

Jan 16th, 2021 - An EUA for casirivimab and imdevimab for COVID-19.|2021||

Jan 16th, 2021 - An EUA for baricitinib (Olumiant) for COVID-19.|2021||

Jan 16th, 2021 - COVID-19 caused some worries among pregnant women. Worries during pregnancy can affect women's well-being. We investigated worry and well-being and associated factors among pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 484 pregnant women using an online questionnaire. Sampling was performed in a period between May 5 and Aug 5, 2020. Inclusi...

Jan 16th, 2021 - The actual SARS-CoV-2 outbreak caused a highly transmissible disease with a tremendous impact on elderly people. So far, few studies focused on very elderly patients (over 80 years old). In this study we examined the clinical presentation and the outcome of the disease in this group of patients, admitted to our Hospital in Rome. This is a single-center, retrospective study performed in the Sant...

Jan 16th, 2021 - COVID19 is a respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus. As there has been no definitive treatment for the disease so far, the only way to control the spread is to break the chain of infection. Our study aimed to analyze the preventive behaviors and influencing factors in the Iranian population. This cross-sectional study was a web-based survey in the Iranian population. We performed the...

Jan 16th, 2021 - The relationship between socioeconomic status and the risk of contracting coronavirus disease (COVID-19) remains controversial. We aimed to investigate whether socioeconomic status affected the risk of contracting COVID-19 in the South Korean population. The NHIS-COVID-19 database cohort was used in this population-based study. We collected the data of COVID-19 patients who were diagnosed betwe...

Jan 16th, 2021 - Mental health care systems have been dramatically affected by COVID-19. Containment measures have been imposed, with negative consequences on population mental health. Therefore, an increase in both symptomatology and mental disorder incidence is expected. This research aims to identify, describe and assess the empirical background on online strategies and recommendations developed by internati...

Jan 16th, 2021 - Some studies investigated epidemiological and clinical features of laboratory-confirmed patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) the virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but limited attention has been paid to the follow-up of hospitalized patients on the basis of clinical setting and the expertise of clinical management. In the present single-cent...

Jan 16th, 2021 - Hyperreflective lesions at the level of ganglion cell (GCL) and inner plexiform retinal layers (IPL) by optical coherence tomography (OCT) and cotton wool spots in the examination of the eye fundus have recently been described as findings in patients with COVID-19 infection. We report the case of a 42-year-old healthy Caucasian male anesthetist who had treated COVID-19 patients during the previ...

Jan 16th, 2021 - COVID-19 Pandemic and the Need for Disaster Planning in Surgical Education.|2021|Ellison EC,Shabahang MM,|

Jan 16th, 2021 - COVID-19 and Firearm Injury: A Uniquely American Problem.|2021|Sarani B,|