In December 2019, a cluster of atypical cases of pneumonia was reported in Wuhan, China, which was later designated as Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 Feb 2020 (Anand et al., 2020). The causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, was identified as a...
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Initially identified as a pneumonia with an unknown cause, COVID-19 soon became, in Xi's words, the fastest spreading, most extensive and most challenging public health emergency the country had encountered since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Under the leadership of ...
New-onset dementia among survivors of pneumonia associated With severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection Open Forum Infect. Dis., 9 (2022), p. ofac115, 10.1093/ofid/ofac115 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Remsik et al., 2021 J. Remsik, J.A. Wilcox, N.E. Babady, T.A. Mc...
China has made an array of active adjustments in its COVID response, including announcing 20 measures in November and 10 new measures in December in 2022, and changing the Chinese term for COVID-19 from "novel coronavirus pneumonia" to "novel coronavirus infection." ...
COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, has claimed approximately 5 million lives and 257 million cases reported globally. This virus and disease have significantly affected people worldwide, whether directly and/or indirectly, with a virulent pathog
Creating a toxic storm of death and illness, the pandemic is devastating black communities across the United States and revealing the deadly legacy of inequality.
(6)January 4: The head of China CDC held a telephone conversation with the director of the US CDC, briefing him about the new pneumonia. The two sides agreed to keep in close contact on information sharing and cooperation on technical matters.The NHC and related health departments in Hubei ...
Broad tropism of SARS-CoV-2 infection has been shown in various tissues, including lung, small intestine, kidney, and pancreas [24,25,26,27]; however, most severe SARS-CoV-2 infections in patients are commonly associated with extensive lung damage that results in pneumonia, acute respiratory ...
In fact, a Mendelian randomization study with 35,833 participants showed that low levels of plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin (OH)D, a biomarker of vitamin D status, were associated with a higher risk of bacterial pneumonias during a 38-year follow-up [165]. Additionally, vitamin D deficiency has ...