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Moving Medical Students into Shared Housing During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

A new academic year began in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to allow for in-person learning, a fundamental part of medical education, some medical schools grappled with how to safely mov…

Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Response in a Major New York City Hot Zone.

The COVID-19 pandemic had significant impact on radiology departments across the United States. Radiology departments have adjusted to the effects of the pandemic. This article presents the changes ma…

Use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to predict SARS-CoV-2 infection from Full Blood Counts in a population.

Since December 2019 the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has been identified as the cause of the pandemic COVID-19. Early symptoms overlap with other common conditions such as common cold and Influenza, m…

Mechanistic Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Infectious Diseases and the Effects of Therapeutics.

Modern viral kinetic modeling and its application to therapeutics is a field that attracted the attention of the medical, pharmaceutical, and modeling communities during the early days of the AIDS epi…

Potential Protective Effect from COVID-19 Conferred by Altitude: A Longitudinal Analysis in Peru During Full Lockdown.

Thomson, Timothy M., Fresia Casas, Harold Andre Guerrero, Rómulo Figueroa-Mujíca, Francisco C. Villafuerte, and Claudia Machicado. Potential protective effect from COVID-19 conferred by altitude: A lo…

The Sensitivity of Respiratory Tract Specimens for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2: A Protocol for a Living Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Highly sensitive, non-invasive, and easily accessible diagnostics for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are essential for the control of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-…

[COVID-19: Knowledge, risk perception and strategies for handling the pandemic].

In order to stem the spread of an epidemic, widespread adherence to safety measures and their acceptance within the German population are of key importance. This survey examines the levels of knowledg…

The relationship between diabetes and clinical outcomes in COVID-19: a single-center retrospective analysis.

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic. Diabetic patients tend to have poorer outcomes and more severe disease (Kumar et al. in Diabetes Metab Syndr 14(4):535-545, 2020. https://doi.o…

Telehealth for the cognitively impaired older adult and their caregivers: lessons from a coordinated approach.

The Covid-19 pandemic forced providers to alter their delivery of care to special populations, including older adults with cognitive impairment. The Montefiore-Einstein Center for the Aging Brain, a s…

Non-specific blood tests as proxies for COVID-19 hospitalisation: are there plausible associations after excluding noisy predictors?

This study applied causal criteria in directed acyclic graphs for handling covariates in associations for prognosis of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. To identify non-specific blood …

Predictors of venous thromboembolism in patients with COVID-19 in an underserved urban population: A single tertiary center experience.

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is reported in up to 27% of patients with COVID-19 due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Dysregulated systemic inflammation and various patient traits are presumed to underlie this…

TLR4 as a therapeutic target for respiratory and neurological complications of SARS-CoV-2.

Introduction : The COVID-19 pandemic remains aglobal challenge. While there are mRNA agents on the horizon as apotential prevention, adefinitive drug therapy is an unmet medical need. The hyperinflamm…

Response to: 'Correspondence on 'Factors associated with COVID-19-related death in people with rheumatic diseases: results from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance physician reported registry' by Arnaud and Devilliers.

Polarisation, incivility, and scientific debate during covid-19-an essay by Agnes Arnold-Forster.

How COVID-19 Rapidly Transformed Clinical Practice at the Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center Now and for the Future.

Science during crisis and the Arnold Berliner Award 2020.

Implementing an intensive care unit (ICU) diary program at a large academic medical center: Results from a randomized control trial evaluating psychological morbidity associated with critical illness.

Psychological morbidity in both patients and family members related to the intensive care unit (ICU) experience is an often overlooked, and potentially persistent, healthcare problem recognized by the…

Teaching surgery during COVID-19: The experience of Albert Einstein Medical School, Brazil.

Insulin Use, Diabetes Control, and Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19.

Background : The novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) has caused significant morbidity and mortality in patients with diabetes. However, the effects of diabetes control including insulin use remain uncertai…

The Effect of COVID-19 on Training and Case Volume of Vascular Surgery Trainees.

In many facilities, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused suspension of elective surgery. We therefore sought to determine the impact of this on the surgical experience of vascular traine…