Deaths by suicide can increase during infectious disease outbreaks. This study analysed suspected suicide rates in 2020 relative to 2015-19 to assess any early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in […]
Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in the COVID-19 era: An expected new entity.
Information on the recently COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) entity is scarce. We describe eight CAPA patients, compare them to colonised ICU patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and review the […]
Congressional Budget Responses to the Pandemic: Fund Health Care, Not Warfare.
The coronavirus outbreak is not the first crisis to affect a large swath of the nation’s population: the Great Depression, World War II, and the HIV epidemic did so previously. […]
Gender Disaggregation in COVID-19 and Increased Male Susceptibility.
Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a growing public health crisis. Despite initial focus on the elderly population with comorbidities, it seems that large studies from the worst affected countries […]
Cutaneous and histopathological features of Coronavirus disease 2019 in pediatrics: A review article.
Prevalence of dermatologic manifestations of COVID-19 disease is estimated between 0.25 % and 3% in children and adolescents. In this review article, we decided to describe cutaneous and histopathological manifestations […]
COVID-19 in pregnancy: A review.
COVID-19 has led on to a global healthcare crisis, similar to none in the recent past. Special emphasis must be laid on the status of pregnant women amid this outbreak, […]
Increased IL-10-producing regulatory T cells are characteristic of severe cases of COVID-19.
The pandemic spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is due, in part, to the immunological properties of the host-virus interaction. The clinical presentation varies from individual to individual, with asymptomatic carriers, […]
Distinct expression of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 correlates with endotypes of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) entry factors, ACE2 and TMPRSS2, are highly expressed in nasal epithelial cells. However, the association between SARS-CoV-2 and nasal inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis […]
Knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding COVID-19: A cross-sectional study among rural population in a northern Indian District.
First case of COVID-19 was reported in December 2019 and within a timespan of few months, it has become a pandemic. It has created havoc globally and India is no […]
Can MMR Vaccination Enhance COVID-19 Immunity?
A new study published in the journal of the American Society for Microbiology indicates that the mumps IgG titers, or levels of IgG antibody, are inversely correlated with severity in recovered COVID-19 patients previously vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
Published on November 20, 2020, the researchers in this study found a significant inverse correlation (rs = -0.71, P < 0.001) between mumps titers and COVID-19 severity within the MMR II sub-group.