If a vaccine or cure could be found and mass-produced, this could all be put back together as rapidly as it fell apart. Most people could go back to their old jobs, and this would all be an asterisk to the economic statistics and a horrible shared dream. This scenario would mean a V...
However, they tend to underperform COVID-19-specific clinical scores [10,29]. The first COVID-19-specific scores were developed in China [11,45], during the first wave of the pandemic. Further scores for prediction of COVID outcomes were later developed all over the world [46,47,48], ...
Regarding COVID-19, the pathological changes of the disease and its pathogenesis in humans have not been clearly explained to date. Dissemination of information is key, including timely publication of statistics data, early diagnosis, reporting, and isolation and treatment. What is certain is that ...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to SARS-CoV-2 is associated with a wide spectrum of symptoms, ranging from asymptomatic infection to acute respiratory distress syndrome [1,2,3,4]. COVID-19 is often biphasic, with acute respiratory distress syndrome developing after a few days of init...
used to compare the non-parametric continuous data. The Student’st-test was used to compare the data with a normal distribution and the chi-2 test was used for the categorical data. IBM SPSS Statistics software (version 27) and Microsoft Excel were used for the data analysis and graph ...
malnutrition;weight loss;COVID-19;nutritional risk;SARS-CoV-2;nutritional status Graphical Abstract 1. Introduction Malnutrition is a major public health problem, affecting more than 30% of hospitalised patients [1,2,3,4]. Malnutrition is associated with high mortality and morbidity, functional decli...
Penicillium digitatum;COVID-19;pulmonar infection;pneumonia 1. Introduction Penicillium digitatumis a mesophilic fungus and one of the most devasting agents of deterioration and rotting of citrus fruits [1,2]. Together withPenicillium italicum, it causes about 90% of losses worldwide, mainly affecting...
Prognostic models to predict the deterioration and mortality risk in COVID-19 patients are utterly needed to assist in informed decision making. Most of these models, however, are at high risk of bias, model overfitting, and unclear reporting. Here, we aimed to externally validate the modified ...
Table 1.Descriptive Statistics, Intercorrelations between, and Reliabilities of, Study Variables. As further shown inTable 1, teaching satisfaction was negatively related to the predictors of psychological well-being (RC:r= −0.19,p< 0.001, 95% CI = [−0.29, −0.09]; RA:r= −0.38,p...
We conducted a retrospective study using the records retrieved from the Teaching Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and the main referral center for COVID-19 in Cluj County, Romania. We included adult patients admitted in our hospital with a positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chai...