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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alessandra Lo Presti, Salvatore Rubino, Gabriele Ibba, Luigina Ambrosio, Angela Di Martino, Federica Ferraro, Alessia Rapiti, Francesco Maraglino, Emanuela Maria Frisicale, Giovanni Rezza, Flavia Angioj, Sergio Uzzau, Maria Luciana Contini, Stefania Manca, Ferdinando Coghe, Germano Orrù, Anna Teresa Palamara, Paola Stefanelli
INTRODUCTION: A COVID-19 outbreak occurred at the end of October 2021 among pilgrims returning from Medjugorje (Bosnia and Herzegovina). METHODOLOGY: Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of SARS-CoV-2, epidemiological data, and phylogenetic analysis were used to reconstruct outbreak dynamics. RESULTS: The results suggest that only in one case, associated with the SARS-CoV-2 sub-lineage AY.9.2, it is possible to trace back the place of contagion to Medjugorje, while the other cases were likely to be acquired in the country of origin...
March 31, 2024: Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ragaey A Eid, Marwa O Elgendy, Ahmed M Sayed, Abdelrahman M Abdallah, Hayam Ma Mostafa, Ahmed Mohammed M Elsisi, Ahmed M Hamed, Marwa Abdallah Shaker
INTRODUCTION: At the beginning in July 2023, there has been a significant increase in daily hospital admissions attributed to the new variant of COVID-19. Aim of this study is to explore the clinical benefits and outcomes of using linezolid in the management of pneumonic COVID-19 patients. METHODOLOGY: The study included 230 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed by RT-PCR. Group 1: 118 patients were managed with Linazolid alongside steroids. Group 2: (control group) patients treated according to the Protocol for Egyptian COVID-19 management outlines and WHO guidelines (112 patients)...
March 31, 2024: Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jennifer Ervin, Ludmila Fleitas Alfonzo, Yamna Taouk, Humaira Maheen, Tania King
The COVID-19 pandemic imposed additional and specific challenges on the lives and wellbeing of informal unpaid carers. Addressing an important gap in the existing literature, this systematic review (prospectively registered with PROSPERO CRD42022376012) synthesises and evaluates the quantitative evidence examining the association between unpaid caregiving and mental health (compared to non-caring), during the pandemic. Five databases were searched (Medline, PsycInfo, EMBASE, Scopus, Web of Science) from Jan 1, 2020, to March 1, 2023...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
So Yeon Park, Rachel Lee, Caroline Newton, Gisung Han
COVID-19 has made working from home routine for many. People who have had to maintain their productivity, particularly in physically and/or socially unacceptable home-working situations, experienced one of the pandemic's disadvantages. The experience can vary substantially among individuals as well as by country. This study presents the results of a comparative study of the Netherlands and Korea. Working from home was not uncommon in the Netherlands before the pandemic; however, in Korea, employers adopted working from home from its start, and that increased rapidly...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zemenu Yohannes Kassa, Vanessa Scarf, Sabera Turkmani, Deborah Fox
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to pose a global public health threat. The pandemic overstretched already weak health systems in low- and low-middle-income countries, including Ethiopia. There is a paucity of studies on the impact of COVID-19 on antenatal care access, uptake, and provision in Ethiopia. This study examines the impact of COVID-19 on antenatal care provision in the Sidama region, Ethiopia. METHODS: A concurrent mixed-methods study was conducted between 14 February and 10 May 2022 at 15 public hospitals in the Sidama region...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud, Marta Reis Castilho, Valeria Pero, João Saboia
Brazil counts among the countries the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. A great deal has been said about the negative role played by President Bolsonaro's denialism, but relatively few studies have attempted to measure precisely what impact it actually had on the pandemic. Our paper conducts econometric estimates based on observational data at municipal level to quantitatively assess the 'Bolsonaro effect' over time from March 2020 to December 2022. To our knowledge, this paper presents the most comprehensive investigation of Bolsonaro's influence in the spread of the pandemic from two angles: considering Covid-19 mortality and two key transmission mitigation channels (social distancing and vaccination); and exploring the full pandemic cycle (2020-2022) and its dynamics over time...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Obi Peter Adigwe, Godspower Onavbavba
Vaccine acceptance is complex and context-specific, varying across time, place and perceived behavioural nature of the community involved. A high vaccine acceptance rate is important to achieve herd immunity, however, vaccine hesitancy is a possible barrier to this. This study aimed to assess attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination and associated factors. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken to investigate the attitudes of Federal Capital Territory residents towards COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Nigeria. Data were collected using questionnaires which were administered to respondents physically and online through random and snowball sampling strategies respectively...
2024: PLOS Glob Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
M Mijaíl Martínez-Ramos, Manan Vyas, Parisa Majari, Thomas H Seligman
Analyzing market states of the S&P 500 components on a time horizon January 3, 2006 to August 10, 2023, we found the appearance of a new market state not previously seen and we shall discuss its possible implications as an isolated state or as a beginning of a new general market condition. We study this in terms of the Pearson correlation matrix and relative correlation with respect to the S&P 500 index. In both cases the anomaly shows strongly.
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Verena Bade, Hendrik Schmitz, Beatrice Baaba Tawiah
Vaccination willingness against COVID-19 is generally perceived as low. Moreover, there is large heterogeneity across and within countries. As a whole, Germany has average vaccination rates compared to other industrialized countries. However, vaccination rates in the 16 different German federal states differ by more than 20 percentage points. We describe variation in vaccination rates on the level of the 400 German counties using data on all vaccinations carried out until December 2022. Around 52-72% of that variation can be explained by regional differences in demographic characteristics, housing, education and political party preferences...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Laura D Zambrano, Margaret M Newhams, Regina M Simeone, Amanda B Payne, Michael Wu, Amber O Orzel-Lockwood, Natasha B Halasa, Jemima M Calixte, Pia S Pannaraj, Kanokporn Mongkolrattanothai, Julie A Boom, Leila C Sahni, Satoshi Kamidani, Kathleen Chiotos, Melissa A Cameron, Aline B Maddux, Katherine Irby, Jennifer E Schuster, Elizabeth H Mack, Austin Biggs, Bria M Coates, Kelly N Michelson, Katherine E Bline, Ryan A Nofziger, Hillary Crandall, Charlotte V Hobbs, Shira J Gertz, Sabrina M Heidemann, Tamara T Bradford, Tracie C Walker, Stephanie P Schwartz, Mary Allen Staat, Samina S Bhumbra, Janet R Hume, Michele Kong, Melissa S Stockwell, Thomas J Connors, Melissa L Cullimore, Heidi R Flori, Emily R Levy, Natalie Z Cvijanovich, Matt S Zinter, Mia Maamari, Cindy Bowens, Danielle M Zerr, Judith A Guzman-Cottrill, Ivan Gonzalez, Angela P Campbell, Adrienne G Randolph
Pediatric COVID-19 vaccination is effective in preventing COVID-19-related hospitalization, but duration of protection of the original monovalent vaccine during SARS-CoV-2 Omicron predominance merits evaluation, particularly given low coverage with updated COVID-19 vaccines. During December 19, 2021-October 29, 2023, the Overcoming COVID-19 Network evaluated vaccine effectiveness (VE) of ≥2 original monovalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccine doses against COVID-19-related hospitalization and critical illness among U...
April 18, 2024: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Franklin, Kira Barbre, Theresa A Rowe, Hannah E Reses, Jason Massey, Lu Meng, Philip Dollard, Heather Dubendris, Molly Stillions, Lindsay Robinson, Jacques W Clerville, Kara Jacobs Slifka, Andrea Benin, Jeneita M Bell
Nursing home residents are at increased risk for developing severe COVID-19. Nursing homes report weekly facility-level data on SARS-CoV-2 infections, COVID-19-associated hospitalizations, and COVID-19 vaccination coverage among residents to CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. This analysis describes rates of incident SARS-CoV-2 infection, rates of incident COVID-19-associated hospitalization, and COVID-19 vaccination coverage during October 16, 2023-February 11, 2024. Weekly rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection ranged from 61...
April 18, 2024: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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REVIEW
Sumana Das, Arya Ghosh, Varnita Karmakar, Sourav Khawas, Piyush Vatsha, Kishor Kumar Roy, Padma Charan Behera
Respiratory illnesses and its repercussions are becoming more prevalent worldwide. It is necessary to research both innovative treatment and preventative techniques. Millions of confirmed cases and fatalities from the COVID-19 epidemic occurred over the previous two years. According to the review research, cannabinoids are a class of medicines that should be considered for the treatment of respiratory conditions. Cannabinoids and inhibitors of endocannabinoid degradation have illustrated advantageous anti-inflammatory, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, and pulmonary artery hypotension in numerous studies ( in vitro and in vivo )...
April 19, 2024: Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cj Eubanks Fleming, Abbey L Rose, Alexis T Franzese, Mark Weaver
OBJECTIVE: This study is an investigation of five specific COVID-related stressors and their longitudinal impact on adult depression and anxiety. METHOD: A total of 592 adults comprised the initial sample at Time 1 in April/May 2020. Follow-ups were conducted about a month later, again in March 2021 and then in March 2022. RESULTS: Applied linear mixed effect models showed a significant decrease in mean depression scores and anxiety scores from Time 1 to both Times 3 and 4...
April 18, 2024: Journal of Clinical Psychology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mingda Wang, Enkhchimeg Lkhagva, Sura Kim, Chongkai Zhai, Md Minarul Islam, Hyeon J Kim, Seong-Tshool Hong
Despite the potential protective role of the gut microbiome against COVID-19, specific microbes conferring resistance to COVID-19 have not yet been identified. In this work, we aimed to identify and validate gut microbes at the species level that provide protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection. To identify gut microbes conferring protection against COVID-19, we conducted a fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from an individual with no history of COVID-19 infection or immunization into a lethal COVID-19 hamster model...
2024: Gut Microbes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christina G Hutten, Kishan Padalia, Alexi Vasbinder, Yiyuan Huang, Anis Ismail, Ian Pizzo, Kristen Machado Diaz, Tonimarie Catalan, Feriel Presswalla, Elizabeth Anderson, Grace Erne, Brayden Bitterman, Pennelope Blakely, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Sven H Loosen, Frank Tacke, Athanasios Chalkias, Jochen Reiser, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, Mousumi Banerjee, Rodica Pop-Busui, Salim S Hayek
CONTEXT: Obesity is a risk factor for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related outcomes; however, the mechanism remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this analysis was to determine whether inflammation mediates the association between obesity and COVID-19 outcomes. DESIGN: The International Study of Inflammation in Covid-19 (ISIC): A Prospective Multi-Center Observational Study Examining the Role of Biomarkers of Inflammation in Predicting Covid-19 Related Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients...
April 18, 2024: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Robert J Suss, Eric A F Simões
IMPORTANCE: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) resurgences have been noted following the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries. Recent findings suggest that the 2021 and 2022 RSV seasons were more severe than in past seasons, and age distribution may have shifted toward older children in the younger than 5 years age group. OBJECTIVES: To estimate age-specific changes in RSV hospital-based burden of disease before and after the COVID-19 pandemic and to compare incidence by Medicaid use...
April 1, 2024: JAMA Network Open
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zoe E Taylor, Alexia Carrizales, Ariana Moffitt, Yumary Ruiz
OBJECTIVES: We tested an extended family stress model of economic hardship (FSM; Conger et al., 2010) incorporating structural risks (discrimination, immigration, and COVID-19 experiences) and qualitative data, to better understand the impact of culturally relevant experiences on family stress processes in rural, immigrant Latine families in the U.S. Midwest. METHOD: Participants were Latine families (N = 307) with a child aged 10-15 ( M age = 12.21 years, 51.0% boys; 71...
April 18, 2024: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marci L Gaither, Elena D Bassett, Amy L Wilson, Stephen R Marder, Daniel W Bradford, Jared D Bernard, Shirley M Glynn
Individuals living with psychosis are often underserved in the United States, partly due to the dearth of providers trained in evidence-based practices for this population. One such practice is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis, which the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has identified as a standard of care for this population. The explosion of telehealth, in large part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to increased opportunities for virtual psychotherapy. Telehealth offers a number of benefits, such as the ability to address service inequities, including lack of access to a local provider well-trained in the modality of therapy needed...
April 18, 2024: Psychological Services
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tanner R Newbold, Elif Gizem Demirag Burak, Glenn Leshner, Shane Connelly, Norman Wong, Sun Kyong Lee, Seulki Rachel Jang
OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the interaction between message framing and point-of-reference (self vs. others) for vaccine benefits on young adults' COVID-19 vaccine confidence and intentions. It also examines how COVID-19-related health beliefs-such as perceived severity of COVID-19 and perceived benefits of obtaining the vaccine to protect others-mediate these interactions. METHOD: In a 2 (framing: gain vs. loss) × 3 (reference point: self, others, university community) between-subjects experiment (Fall 2021), 202 participants ages 18-23 were shown animated messages with embedded manipulations to convey vaccine information...
April 18, 2024: Health Psychology: Official Journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carlotta E Grünjes, Birthe Macdonald, Gizem Hülür
It is well-established that more frequent social interaction is associated with higher well-being across the lifespan. The present study examines the role of frequency of interactions via different modalities on older adults' weekly well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, where people had to adapt their communication behavior and reduce in-person contact due to precautionary measures. We use data from 98 participants (age: M = 71, SD = 5), who documented their weekly frequency of communication via four interaction modalities as well as their loneliness, positive affect, and negative affect over up to 64 weeks...
April 18, 2024: Psychology and Aging
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