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Evidence-Based, Cost-Effective Interventions To Suppress The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review
(2020-06-15)Background: In an unparalleled global response, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 90 countries asked 3.9 billion people to stay home. Yet some countries avoided lockdowns and focused on other strategies, like contact tracing ... -
Policing in pandemics: A systematic review and best practices for police response to COVID-19
(2020-08-20)The COVID-19 pandemic has created a range of unforeseen and unprecedented challenges for police departments worldwide. In light of these challenges, the goal of this review is to understand the potential short- and long-term ... -
Transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 through breast milk and breastfeeding: a living systematic review
(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 ... -
Evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews for controlling the dissemination of COVID-19 infection. A narrative review
(2020-07)BACKGROUND: COVID-19 infection has high transmissibility and several measures have been adopted for controlling its dissemination. OBJECTIVE: To identify and summarize the evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs) ... -
Safety and effectiveness of dose-sparing strategies for seasonal influenza vaccine
(2020-08-04)The current evidence for the administration of intramuscular influenza vaccines suggests there is no significant difference in safety and clinical effectiveness with the use of low-dose compared to full-dose vaccines, which ... -
Psychological impact of lockdown (confinement) on young children and how to mitigate its effects: Rapid review of the evidence
(2020-07)The aim of this article is to review the available evidence on the psychological impact of confinement in children, seeking to identify the main stressors and protective factors at play. -
RT-qPCR assays based on saliva rather than on nasopharyngeal swabs are possible but should be interpreted with caution: results from a systematic review and meta-analysis.
(2020-09-07)Background and aim of the work: The ongoing pandemic has elicited an increasing interest regarding the SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA detection in saliva specimens rather than through nasopharyngeal swabs. Our aim was to conduct a ... -
Effects of temperature and humidity on the spread of COVID-19: A systematic review
(2020-09-18)Background: Faced with the global pandemic of COVID-19, declared by World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th 2020, and the need to better understand the seasonal behavior of the virus, our team conducted this systematic ... -
Travel‐related control measures to contain the COVID‐19 pandemic: a rapid review
(2020-09-16)BackgroundIn: In late 2019, first cases of coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, were reported inWuhan, China. Subsequently COVID-19 spread rapidly around the world. To contain ... -
Artificial Intelligence for COVID-19: Rapid Review
(2020-10-27)Background: COVID-19 was first discovered in December 2019 and has since evolved into a pandemic. Objective: To address this global health crisis, artificial intelligence (AI) has been deployed at various levels of the ...