Infectious diseases may cause some long-term damage to their host, leading to elevated mortality even after recovery. Mortality due to complications from so-called 'long COVID' is a stark illustration of this potential, but the impacts of such post
CONCLUSION: The Korean version of the 5C scale is a valid and reliable tool to assess the psychological antecedents of vaccination among Korean adults.
CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrated the ability to objectively quantitate the MG-CE. Our results indicate that the MG-CE should be revisited to consider some of the new metrics that our algorithm identified. We provide a proof of concept involving the MG-CE
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare and may have impacted ethnic inequalities in healthcare. We aimed to describe the impact of pandemic-related disruption on ethnic differences in clinical monitoring and hospital admissions for
Diverse clinical and laboratory features of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) have been reported in the literature. Despite the worldwide distribution, systemic studies regarding the laboratory results do not exist. Therefore, we aimed to
The wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with Omicron variant reached its first peak in Beijing, China in December 2022. We delineated characteristics and factors associated with adverse outcome of patients with plasma cell dyscrasias (PCDs)
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, conducting experiments online is increasingly common, and face masks are often used in everyday life. It remains unclear whether phonetic detail in speech production is captured adequately when speech is recorded
CONCLUSIONS: A significant percentage of public sector pharmacy staff continue to experience burnout two years into the pandemic. Regular well-being assessments and supportive policies are recommended to help them cope with increased stress