The study population contains all positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and lateral flow device (LFD) test results from England during the study period. The cancer cohort comprises adults (18 years or older) who underwent SARS-CoV-2 testing, identified from Public Health England’...
(ii) risk of symptoms lasting 12+ weeks versus 0–12 weeks. Study-level results are provided in Supplementary Figs.3–6. Females had higher risk of both long COVID outcomes than males (4+ weeks: OR = 1.49; 95% CI: 1.24–1.79; 12+ weeks: OR = 1.60; 95% CI: 1.23–2.07...
Stephen Griffin, professor of virology at the University of Leeds, warns that although the peaks look less dramatic, repeated waves mean they add up to a very high number of cases. "We're still seeing multiple waves of COVID every year because the vir...
“I felt great after donating plasma. It feels like we are in one interconnected community, helping each other. I was very much pleased and proud to have donated.” Prof David Roberts, NHSBT’s associate medical director for blood donation, said: “These testing results mean we want hear fr...
Proportions were compared using Fisher exact test. For the purposes of this analysis, the ISARIC categories of “Mild Liver Disease” and “Moderate to Severe Liver Disease” were combined into a single “Liver Disease” and “Diabetes without complications” was combined with “Diabetes with ...
The Spanish football federation (RFEF) confirmed Leeds United defender Llorente's test results in astatement on Tuesday, two days after Barcelona'sBusquets tested positiveand raised the spectre of further cases ahead of Spain's first Euros match on Monday. ...
The test is unvalidated and potentially misleading (there is a high incidence of both false negative and false positive results); There is no proven treatment for POTS, so there is no point in testing for it; It is a specialist test for a specialist condition, so it should be done in a...
Going to Slam Dunk? If you’re double-jabbed or have a negative COVID test, you’re in… July 23, 2021 Words: Nick Ruskell So, who’s up for Slam Dunk, then? Yeah, thought so. On September 4 in Leeds and 5 in Hatfield, Don Broco, Sum 41, Waterparks, While She Sleeps, Alkali...
hospitalized COVID-19 phenotype (Extended Data Fig.1). The results of these GenOMICC-only meta-analyses are presented for both critically ill and hospitalized phenotypes (Table1and Extended Data Fig.2). To put these results into the context of existing knowledge, we performed comprehensive meta-...
separate the variations from random noise and account for the spatio-temporal autocorrelation structure in the data. The presence of positive spatial autocorrelation in the COVID-19 infections data was evidenced by performing the Moran’s I test39, which is widely used to measure the level of spa...