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When Two Pandemics Meet: Why Is Obesity Associated with Increased COVID-19 Mortality?

A growing body of evidence indicates that obesity is strongly and independently associated with adverse outcomes of COVID-19, including death. By combining emerging knowledge of the pathological proce…

To avoid the noncausal association between environmental factor and COVID-19 when using aggregated data: Simulation-based counterexamples for demonstration.

In the infectious disease epidemiology, the association between an independent factor and disease incidence (or death) counts may fail to infer the association with disease transmission (or mortality …

When to lift the lockdown in Hubei province during COVID-19 epidemic? An insight from a patch model and multiple source data.

After diagnosed in Wuhan, COVID-19 spread quickly in mainland China. Though the epidemic in regions outside Hubei in mainland China has maintained a degree of control, evaluating the effectiveness and…

When Pandemics Collide: The Impact of COVID-19 on Childhood Obesity.

Children experienced new or worsening tic issues when they were separated from their parents during the Italian COVID-19 lockdown.

Are we measuring the same thing? Psychometric and research considerations when adopting new testing modes in the time of COVID-19.

As the world navigates unchartered territories and witnesses the overwhelming impact of COVID-19, investigators face important challenges to ensure continuity of research studies in a scientifically s…

Letter to the Editor: Additional Factors to Consider When Studying Liver Injury Indicators and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients.

Reporting radiographers' interpretation and use of the British Society of Thoracic Imaging's coding system when reporting COVID-19 chest x-rays.

The United Kingdom (UK) has experienced one of the worst initial waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical signs help guide initial diagnosis, though definitive diagnosis is made using the laboratory t…

COVID-19 effective reproduction number dropped during Spain's nationwide dropdown, then spiked at lower-incidence regions.

COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread worldwide. Spain has suffered one of the largest nationwide bursts, particularly in the highly populated areas of Madrid and Barcelona (two of the five largest con…

If not now, when?

The editor of the BJPsych Bulletin reflects on the extraordinary recent events triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health professionals are at the front line of managing the pandemic and emerge…

Privacy concerns can explain unwillingness to download and use contact tracing apps when COVID-19 concerns are high.

Governments around the world have increasingly relied on technology to promote public health, such as using electronic health records and portable fitness devices. During the COVID-19 pandemic, "conta…

Enhanced PM Decreases and O Increases in China During COVID-19 Lockdown by Aerosol-Radiation Feedback.

We apply an online-coupled meteorology-chemistry model (WRF-Chem) embedded with an improved process analysis to examine aerosol-radiation feedback (ARF) impacts on effectiveness of emission control du…

Myocardial injury in COVID-19: When observations become reality.

Ruling out COVID-19 by chest CT at emergency admission when prevalence is low: the prospective, observational SCOUT study.

It is essential to avoid admission of patients with undetected corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to hospitals' general wards. Even repeated negative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction …

What Happens When Training Goes Virtual? Adapting Training and Technical Assistance for the School Mental Health Workforce in Response to COVID-19.

The Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) provides workforce training and technical assistance (TA) to support evidence-based school mental health practices. Historically, this su…

When "model minorities" become "yellow peril"-Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Using the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as a case study, this paper engages with debates on the assimilation of Asian Americans into the US mainstream. While a burgeoning schola…

When will the Covid-19 pandemic peak?

We carry out some analysis of the daily data on the number of new cases and the number of new deaths by (191) countries as reported to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Ou…

The handling of safety concerns among anaesthetists when restarting full surgical lists during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Around June 2020, many institutions restarted full operating schedules to clear the backlog of postponed surgeries because of the first wave in the COVID-19 pandemic. In an online survey distributed a…

When Following the Rules Feels Wrong.

The Covid-19 pandemic has created a clinical environment in which health care practitioners are experiencing moral distress in numerous and novel ways. In this narrative reflection, a pediatric pallia…

Recovering Critical Curriculum: Hypothesis-Driven Physical Examination as a Method to Increase Clinical Skills Teaching When Bedside Teaching Remains Limited.