PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care
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Double-Negative Results Matter: A Re-Evaluation of Sensitivities for Detecting SARS-CoV-2 Infection Using Saliva Versus Nasopharyngeal Swabs
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In a recent systematic review, Bastos et al. compared the sensitivities of saliva sampling and nasopharyngeal swabs in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection by assuming a composite reference standard defined as positive if either test is positive
Factors Influencing the Acceptance and Adoption of Mobile Health Apps by Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review
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CONCLUSIONS: This review summarized the evidence on the factors influencing mHealth acceptance and adoption by physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main findings highlighted the importance of addressing organizational readiness to support
Impact of vaccination against severe COVID-19 in the French population aged 50 years and above: a retrospective population-based study
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CONCLUSIONS: The vaccination campaign in France considerably reduced COVID-19 morbidity and mortality, as well as stress on the healthcare system.
Single cell spatial analysis reveals inflammatory foci of immature neutrophil and CD8 T cells in COVID-19 lungs
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Single cell spatial interrogation of the immune-structural interactions in COVID -19 lungs is challenging, mainly because of the marked cellular infiltrate and architecturally distorted microstructure. To address this, we develop a suite of
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Prescription Contraceptive Use and Costs Among Privately Insured Women, 2006-2020
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CONCLUSION: With the exception of oral contraceptives, the proportion of individuals paying $0 for all contraceptive methods declined after peaking in 2014 for IUDs, 2016 for the implant, and 2019 for non-LARC methods. Future monitoring is needed to
Association of Loneliness With Change in Physical and Emotional Health of Older Adults During the COVID-19 Shutdown
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CONCLUSIONS: Resilience factors may mitigate the adverse health outcomes associated with loneliness. Interventions to enhance resilience may help to diminish the detrimental effects of loneliness and hold great importance for vulnerable older adults.
Levels of environmental contamination with SARS-CoV-2 in hospital rooms and salivary viral loads of patients with coronavirus disease 2019
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CONCLUSIONS: Although environmental surfaces surrounding patients with COVID-19 were frequently contaminated with viral RNA, the presence of viable virus was rare and limited only to areas around sinks. These results suggest that contact infection
Estimation of waning vaccine effectiveness from population-level surveillance data in multi-variant epidemics
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Monitoring time-varying vaccine effectiveness (e.g., due to waning of immunity and the emergence of novel variants) provides crucial information for outbreak control. Existing studies of time-varying vaccine effectiveness have used individual-level
