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COVID-19 Models for Hospital Surge Capacity Planning: A Systematic Review

Klein, Michael G et al. (2020-09)

Objective: Health system preparedness for COVID-19 includes projecting the number and timing of cases requiring various types of treatment. Several tools were developed to assist in this planning process. This review ...

A Systematic Review of the Neuropathologic Findings of Post-Viral Olfactory Dysfunction: Implications and Novel Insight for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lee, Jason C et al. (2020-09-11)

Background: Post-viral olfactory dysfunction is a common cause of both short- and long-term smell alteration. The coronavirus pandemic further highlights the importance of post-viral olfactory dysfunction. Currently, a ...

COVID-19 Surface Persistence: A Recent Data Summary and Its Importance for Medical and Dental Settings

Fiorillo, Luca et al. (2020-05)

Recently, due to the coronavirus pandemic, many guidelines and anti-contagion strategies continue to report unclear information about the persistence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the environment. This certainly ...

Covid-19 Pandemic: What Changes for Dentists and Oral Medicine Experts? A Narrative Review and Novel Approaches to Infection Containment

Bizzoca, Maria Eleonora; Campisi, Giuseppina; Muzio, Lorenzo Lo (2020-06)

The authors performed a narrative review on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome- CoronaVirus-2 ( SARS-CoV-2) and all infectious agents with the primary endpoints to illustrate the most accepted models of safety protocols in ...

The dilemma of COVID-19 in dental practice concerning the role of saliva in transmission: a brief review of current evidence

Hamedani, Shahram et al. (2020-05)

From December 12, 2019, a pandemic of acute respiratory syndrome, the novel human coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by a novel β-coronavirus (2019-nCoV) began to grow globally by person-to-person transmission. The ...

Coronavirus and Its Implications for Psychiatry: A Rapid Review of the Early Literature

Cabrera, Maximilliam A.; Karamsetty, Lakshmipriya; Simpson, Scott A. (2020-05-27)

Background: The coronavirus pandemic has changed health care rapidly and dramatically. Objective: To provide a critical synthesis of the scientific literature on the pandemic's implications for psychiatric practice. Methods: ...

Staying at home with severe Covid-19: risks to family and carers

Jenkins, Lyn (2020-09-01)

It’s one thing to imagine myself dying – or recovering – from severe Covid-19 in the comfort of my own home, surrounded by my family; and quite another to contemplate how this could affect them. How can we assess the risk ...

Rapid, point‐of‐care antigen and molecular‐based tests for diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

Dinnes, Jacqueline et al. (2020-08-26)

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) and the resulting COVID‐19 pandemic present important diagnostic challenges. Several diagnostic strategies are available to identify or rule out ...

A novel strategy for community screening of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Sample pooling method

Lim, Khai Lone et al. (2020-08-28)

The rapid global spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has inflicted significant health and socioeconomic burden on affected countries. As positive cases continued to rise in Malaysia, public health laboratories ...

City lockdown and nationwide intensive community screening are effective in controlling the COVID-19 epidemic: Analysis based on a modified SIR model

Peng, Tailai et al. (2020-08-28)

Background: In December 2019, an outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic occurred in Wuhan, China and infection spread rapidly around the world. To limit the rapid spread locally and nationwide, the Chinese government locked down ...

Proportion of asymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

He, Jingjing et al. (2020-07-21)

We aim to systematically review the characteristics of asymptomatic infection in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). PubMed and EMBASE were electronically searched to identify original studies containing the rate of ...

Transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 through breast milk and breastfeeding: a living systematic review

Centeno‐Tablante, Elizabeth et al. (2020-08-28)

The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is caused by infection with a novel coronavirus strain, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2). At present, there is limited information on ...

Zika Research Projects List: A Pilot Study Examining for the Presence of Fecal Coliforms in Peruvian Water Sources and the Association of Tropical Diseases Within Peru

Unknown author (2017-03)

Tropical diseases are continuously on the rise throughout the world as they are spreading and manifesting in various locations globally. The more prominent vector tends to be the mosquito after it bites a previously infected ...

Preventing the transmission of COVID-19 and other coronaviruses in older adults aged 60 years and above living in long-term care: a rapid review

Rios, Patricia et al. (2020-09-25)

Background: The objective of this review was to examine the current guidelines for infection prevention and control (IPAC) of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) or other coronaviruses in adults 60 years or older living in ...

Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children and Adolescents Compared With Adults A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Viner, Russell M. et al. (2020-09-25)

Importance The degree to which children and adolescents are infected by and transmit severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is unclear. The role of children and adolescents in transmission of SARS-CoV-2 ...

Immune response following infection with SARS‐CoV‐2 and other coronaviruses: A rapid review

Murchu, Eamon O. et al. (2020-09-23)

In this review, we systematically searched and summarized the evidence on the immune response and reinfection rate following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. We also retrieved studies on SARS‐CoV and MERS‐CoV to assess the long‐term ...

Occurrence and transmission potential of asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: A living systematic review and meta-analysis

Buitrago-Garcia, Diana et al. (2020-09-22)

Background: There is disagreement about the level of asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We conducted a living systematic review and meta-analysis to address three questions: ...