The author reflects on the COVID pandemic four years after it accelerated in March 2020. She talks about her knee replacement surgery on March 2, 2020, the understanding of COVID in terms of science (and politics), and the need for more advanced practice nurses at the first level of care...
New long COVID study uncovers high inflammation in patients as Senate calls for more research on 'crisis' "We know much more today than we did four years ago; that's a fact," Dr. Alba Azola, an assistant professor of physical medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, told AB...
informative evidence—came to include vaccine approval for kids 6 months to 4 years old. The series of events around EUA in the United States raised countless concerns. I will highlight the most important
Furthermore, Waite and colleagues (2021) found that the sub-group of SEND children was more greatly impacted by the pandemic than the TD control group, but only if the children were younger (aged 4 to 10-years-old, compared to 11 to 16-years-old). Studies did, however, provide clearer...
year 1, despite living in households with fewer members and adjusting for isolation status. This may be due to students in later years already having established social networks that are less disturbed by the COVID-19 guidelines than the nascent social networks being formed by the first years....
We show that it is possible to reverse these excess deaths by increasing the pre-covid diagnosis capabilities from 15 to 50% for 2 to 4 years. This would prevent almost all TB-related excess mortality that could be caused by the COVID-19 pandemic if no additional preventative measures are...
4. Experiments 4.1. Dataset In our work, we particularly construct a large-scale chest CT dataset with two significant contributions. 1) Our dataset provides the annotations of both 3D volume-level and 2D slice-level CT samples for COVID-19 diagnosis research and development. 2) We specially ...
This 4-year follow-up study was conducted to evaluate the predictive effects of prepandemic individual and environmental factors on problematic smartphone use (PSU) among young adult lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals during the COVID-19 pandem
(2002) showed that average affect tends to decrease from 11 to 15 years old, after which it tends to remain stable, and does not improve until later, in youth. Some studies carried out during lockdowns showed that older adolescents were more concerned than younger adolescents about the CO...
Murthy and Kessler agreed that the pandemic has not been over, warning that "it would be a grave mistake to assume COVID-19 no longer requires our action and investment." "As we have seen repeatedly over the last two years, periods of declining cases have been followed by waves of increa...