PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented global health crisis. Recent studies suggest that socially vulnerable communities were disproportionately impacted, although findings are mixed. To quantify social vulnerability in the US, many studies

Brain fog is an undefined term describing a cluster of symptoms related to fatigue and impaired memory, attention, and concentration. Brain fog or brain fog-like symptoms have been reported in central disorders of hypersomnolence and in a range of

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a dramatic increase in Medicare reimbursed telehealth utilization in the United States, but significant racial disparities persist. Methods: This research analyzed trends and disparities in Medicare reimbursed

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 introduced new barriers to health care including cancer screenings. This study evaluated the role of pandemic- and copay-related barriers to colonoscopy and the extent to which home-based testing methods were utilized.

CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on violent deaths in the Šumadija region (Central Serbia), with an overall increase in the number of violent deaths and a major impact on deaths due to domestic violence. Policies to address

CONCLUSION: Our study provides evidence that vaccinated patients with COVID-19 are not associated with platelet hyperactivation and are characterized by platelet-leukocyte aggregates that foster immune protection but not excessive immunothrombosis

Immunofocusing is a strategy to create immunogens that redirect humoral immune responses towards a targeted epitope and away from non-desirable epitopes. Immunofocusing methods often aim to develop "universal" vaccines that provide broad protection

Patients on dialysis (PoD) are at high risk of severe morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. Characterizing long-term vaccine immune responses in these patients will help optimize vaccine schedule for PoD. This study aimed to determine whether long

CONCLUSIONS: High age-adjusted NT-proBNP levels at the time of hospital admission for COVID-19 are associated with poor short and long-term prognosis. High NT-proBNP seems also to be related to worse prognosis in survivors of the acute phase of COVID

COVID-19 is caused by the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, resulting in the highest worldwide mortality rate. Gustatory dysfunction is common among individuals infected with the Wild-type Wuhan strain. However