COVID-19 has impacted many aspects of life, quickly spiraling into a global health threat since it was first reported in late 2019. Its impact on the healthcare sector was catastrophic, causing mass panic in hospitals and medical centers worldwide. The otolaryngology and speech and language ...
Reminders of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our healthcare system, economy, and day-to-day lives are everywhere. To date, most of the focus has understandably been on the immediate effects of the virus and the efforts to enforce physical distanci
Owing to its prolonged nature, the pandemic will have widespread indirect effects. Among these effects, concern is increasing that lasting declines in healthcare use could reverse decades of progress in improving health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and puts people at increase...
Lasting effects More than 39% of the patients interviewed said they hadn't gotten back to normal activities yet, two months after leaving the hospital. Twelve percent of the patients said they couldn't carry out basic care for themselves anymore, or as well as before. Nearly 23% said they ...
While literature on psychological consequences among frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) flourishes, understanding the psychological burden on this group is particularly crucial, as their exposure to COVID-19 makes them especially at high risk. We explored what is known about psychological effects of th...
Long lockdowns, food shortages, and the inability to receive basic primary healthcare have aggravated the effects of pandemics. However, most studies have focused on the health problems of the infected people or the measures employed to keep the disease under control. This cross-sectional study ...
Long lockdowns, food shortages, and the inability to receive basic primary healthcare have aggravated the effects of pandemics. However, most studies have focused on the health problems of the infected people or the measures employed to keep the disease under control. This cross-sectional study ...
One of the main reasons why healthcare workers are in high demand is that a significant percentage of them are also succumbing to the disease. Since they are on the front lines, they are most exposed. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new light to how vital healthcare workers are. Even...
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a lasting impact on health and well-being. We compare current self-reported health, quality of life and symptom profiles for people with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19 to those who have never tested positive for SARS-
Corrigendum to ‘The psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health careworkers in a MERS-CoV endemic country’ [Journal of Infection and Public Health 13 (2020) 877–882] Journal of Infection and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 10, October 2020, Pages 1599 Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Fahad ...