The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, starting in China in late 2019, has spread to every corner of the world, and thrown up several important ethical challenges. The rising numbers of infected […]
[From in-person didactic sessions to videoconferencing during the COVID-19 pandemic: satisfaction survey among participants].
COVID-19 pandemic has disturbed many hospital activities, including medical education. We describe the switch from in-person didactic sessions to videoconferencing in a Neurology department. We analyse the opinions and satisfaction […]
Assessment of Length and Readability of Informed Consent Documents for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials.
Informed consent is a fundamental element of research ethics. The COVID-19 vaccine trials are high profile trials that have enrolled more than 100 000 participants. Consent documents must be succinct and […]
COVID-19 Contact Tracing in an Overseas U.S. Military Population.
The purpose of this study was to describe the early epidemiology and contact tracing challenges for Covid-19 infection in an overseas military and DoD population. From February 28, 2020 to […]
Development of infectious mononucleosis as an unusual manifestation of COVID-19.
It has generally been reported that patients with COVID-19 show a fever, cough, and/or respiratory failure as the most common clinical symptoms but some have unusual symptoms, such as anosmia, […]
Emerging materials for the electrochemical detection of COVID-19.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still causing a dramatic loss of human lives worldwide, constituting an unprecedented challenge for the society, public health and economy, to overcome. The up-to-date diagnostic tests, […]
Geographic and demographic heterogeneity of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing in Illinois, USA, March to December 2020.
Availability of SARS-CoV-2 testing in the United States (U.S.) has fluctuated through the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, including in the U.S. state of Illinois. Despite substantial ramp-up in test […]
Real-time suicide mortality data from police reports in Queensland, Australia, during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis.
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. […]