A hospital physician from Northern Italy describes his own experience as caregiver of COVID-19 patients and as a patient himself who required treatment in urgent care. From this experience he learned that an untapped reserve of human solidarity
CONCLUSION: The flexibility and convenience of virtual OSCE teaching enables the sharing of knowledge and skills to a wider audience and thus may be a very useful adjunct to face-to-face OSCE teaching in the future.
We present a novel approach to estimate the time-varying ascertainment rate in almost real-time, based on the surveillance of positively tested infectious and hospital admission data. We also address the age dependence of the estimate. The
After the near absence of influenza and other respiratory viruses during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, an increased activity of mainly influenza A(H3N2) was detected at the beginning of August 2022 in Greece on three islands. Of 33
CONCLUSIONS: Volunteerism required sacrifice and tremendous support in the form of training and administrative direction, family support, and peer collaboration. Volunteers' physical and psychosocial wellbeing was a priority. Recognizing the
The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed interest in streamlining processes which allow refugee doctors and other healthcare workers to make up for the shortfall in healthcare delivery, which many countries are facing increasingly. The protracted conflict
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this cohort study, SARS-CoV-2 infection during COS was negatively associated with embryo and blastocyst quality. Reproductive physicians should be more attentive to patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection during COS and
CONCLUSION: Through the first 18 months of the pandemic, routine vaccines were delivered to children 2 years old at close to pre-pandemic rates. There was a high proportion of incomplete well-child visits, indicating that developmental surveillance
CONCLUSION: Boosting CoronaVac-immunized adults with full or half doses of SCB-2019 was well tolerated with superior immunogenicity than homologous boosting, particularly against newly emerged variants, supporting use of SCB-2019 for booster