Coronavirus - Science topic

We hereby comment on the interesting systematic review by Grewal et al where they have provided an overall picture of the current status of available tele-health programs in the United States with emphasis on the Amazon Clinic. Their analysis is an appreciable effort in discovering the features available and features lacking in these tele-health pr...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. It was declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, by the World Health Organization. An excessive inflammatory response is a severe respiratory manifestation of COVID-19, which becomes predominant in later stages. Due to its immu...

In today's educational landscape, the online examination system has become crucial, particularly due to the challenges posed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite its advantages in expediting result dissemination and reducing resource consumption, online examinations face significant security threats like leakage, cheating, f...

Background Prejudice related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) reportedly led to violence against healthcare workers by clients and their families. However, the impact of such violence and harassment on the mental health of visiting nurses during the pandemic remains unclear. Aim We aimed to examine the association of violence and harassm...

Objectives: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has encouraged the use of masks in Japan, and areas of the face that are covered by masks are less likely to be seen by others. This concealment may lead to a decrease in laser treatment in masked areas; however, no study has examined this change. This retrospective comparative study investigated th...

In this paper, a fractional coronavirus disease model including unreported cases is suggested. The considered model includes a general fractional derivative incorporating well-known types, specifically Caputo-Fabrizio, Atangana-Baleanu and Weighted Atangana-Baleanu. Our theoretical results are twofold. First, under suitable assumptions, the existen...

Objective: We explored how the effects of obstructive factors changed according to the status of nursing researchers' activities during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Methods: This study included two online questionnaires in 2020 and 2021 to explore the effect of COVID-19. Participants were 321 nursing researchers from the universities who an...

Este estudo aborda o debate sobre a intensificação dos desgastes na saúde dos trabalhadores de enfermagem no contexto da pandemia de Covid-19, destacando o aumento do volume de trabalho como um fator adicional de precarização das condições laborais. Ancora-se no campo de conhecimentos da Saúde do Trabalhador que se pauta na concepção de que o sofri...

Este estudo aborda o debate sobre a intensificação dos desgastes na saúde dos trabalhadores de enfermagem no contexto da pandemia de Covid-19, destacando o aumento do volume de trabalho como um fator adicional de precarização das condições laborais. Ancora-se no campo de conhecimentos da Saúde do Trabalhador que se pauta na concepção de que o sofri...

A doença causada pelo COVID-19 repercutiu na saúde de comunidades indígenas, com taxas de internação e óbitos, principalmente, no segmento infantil. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar evidências científicas acerca das repercussões da COVID-19 na morbidade e mortalidade de crianças indígenas. Trata-se de um estudo de revisão integrativa com a ques...

A doença causada pelo COVID-19 repercutiu na saúde de comunidades indígenas, com taxas de internação e óbitos, principalmente, no segmento infantil. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar evidências científicas acerca das repercussões da COVID-19 na morbidade e mortalidade de crianças indígenas. Trata-se de um estudo de revisão integrativa com a ques...

Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse the meaning-making mechanisms and dynamics that occurred during, and revolved around, the pandemic. Demonstrating the utility of semiotic theory, concepts and analytical methods to make sense of discursiv...

Purpose With the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the usage of e-money has been reinforced to reach the next level. Therefore, this study aims to examine the mediating role of perceived behavioral control (PBC) on the nexus of customers' innovativeness and continuance intention of electronic money (e-money). This study also explore...

Background: The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an ongoing global healthcare challenge that has caused morbidity and mortality at unprecedented levels. Studies have estimated that approximately 10% of all patients who have recovered from COVID-19 are suffering from persistent symptoms of cough, dyspnea, and fatigue over mont...

During the recent Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, different parts of the globe faced indefinite lockdowns. To maintain the lockdown measures, government authorities deployed security forces and police. The primary role of the police is to monitor the movement of the people and advise/guide them to follow the lockdown. In the current work,...

Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and spread rapidly around the world. Effective indicators to evaluate the severity and clinical progress of the disease need to be further investigated so that they can be used to reduce mortality. We sought to analyze the laboratory findings of some cases o...

In view of prolongation of longevity/life expectancy not accompanied by health expectancy, immune system alterations have garnered considerable public health interest .Once age advances, alterations in innate in addition to adaptive immune system occur that have been labelled as inflammageing along with immunosenescence respectively. Considerable a...

Underserved communities were disproportionately affected during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Limited data exist on the impact of COVID-19 among refugee populations because refugee status is not often classified in electronic medical record (EMR) systems, unlike race or primary language. The study aim was to evaluate the PCR-based prevalence...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a complex and life-threatening disease characterized by severe respiratory failure. The lethality of ARDS remains alarmingly high, especially with the persistent ravages of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in recent years. ARDS is one of the major complications of neocoronavirus pneumonia and the lea...

Purpose To develop a breath‐hold cardiac quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) sequence for noninvasive measurement of differential cardiac chamber blood oxygen saturation (ΔSO2). Methods A non‐gated three‐dimensional stack‐of‐spirals QSM sequence was implemented to continuously sample the data throughout the cardiac cycle. Measurements of ΔSO...

This section presents four chapters reviewing the current state of research on cyberbullying, digital cruelty, and online hate speech, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and their association with mental health. Researchers in this field face challenges, including the different forms that cyberbullying and hate speech can take, the definition...

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Wuhan COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) on four strategic sectors of the Chinese economy: tourism, air transportation, international trade, and electricity consumption. To achieve this, we develop and apply a novel model-the Economic Crisis from Massive Contagious Infectious Diseases Simulator (ECMCID-Simu...

Numerous studies have explored whether and how the spread of the SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), responds to environmental conditions without reaching consistent answers. Sociodemographic factors, such as variable population density and mobility, as well as the lack of effective epidemiological monitoring, ma...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic posed an unprecedented global challenge, with past evidence suggesting negative psychological effects with the additional concern that social and physical restrictions might disproportionately affect adolescents. Aims To explore mental health and its wider determinants in young people in the UK during 1 year of the...

The Covid-19 virus is a type of coronavirus that infects humans, causing a pandemic that began in 2019 in China. The vaccine against Covid-19 is capable of protecting the human body against the coronavirus and has reduced the number of morbidity and mortality, although, given the various unreliable information, there is vaccine hesitancy, especiall...

Background: Different platforms were used to develop vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 which were instrumental in bringing an end to the pandemic. Nevertheless, long term efficacy and safety profiles of the various vaccine types is still being investigated. The current trial aimed to assess the safety and immunogenicity of the Gam-COVID-Vac combined vect...

Background Few studies have evaluated the incidence of various psychiatric disorders during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic using hospital visit data for the entire population of a nation. We used Korea’s universal compulsory health insurance data to conduct a descriptive analysis to evaluate changes in psychiatric disorder incidence du...

. Literature data on the risk of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection in people with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (RD) are contradictory. According to most studies, the risk of infection and development of severe forms of COVID-19 is higher in patients with RD compared to the general population, but largely depends on the type and activity of RD. Pa...

Improving adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) detection is vital for vaccine safety surveillance, as an early safety signal can help minimize risks. In February 2022, the World Health Organization reported a preliminary signal on sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination, 54 million...

Background/Objectives: Host cell protein (HCP) content is a major attribute for biological and vaccine products that must be extensively characterized prior to product licensure. Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and Mass Spectrometry (MS) are conventional methods for quantitative host cell protein analysis in biologic and vaccine products....

A pandemia COVID-19 desencadeou eventos estressantes para toda a população. No entanto, por ser um estágio crítico de desenvolvimento, os adolescentes não possuem todas as habilidades regulatórias ainda desenvolvidas para enfrentar os estressores pandêmicos. Este estudo teve como objetivo desenvolver e avaliar as evidências de validade do “Question...

O desenvolvimento do potencial criativo pode ser influenciado por aspectos relacionados ao próprio indivíduo e por suas experiências ao longo da vida. O estudo teve como objetivo identificar e analisar aspectos relacionados ao percurso e à atuação criativa e educativa de uma ilustradora, com foco no papel de professora. Foi utilizado o conteúdo das...

Globally, the introduction of the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine within one year of the pandemic brought doubts to the general population including health professionals. Even though Health Care Workers (HCWs) are at a high risk of contracting and transmitting the coronavirus due to their work, their COVID-19 vaccine uptake is unknow...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be tracked through wastewater, enabling the prediction of cases by wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). An issue that complicates WBE is that humans are not static, moving in and out of sewer drainage areas throughout the day. During large-scale events (i.e., sports, music, culture), large populations move du...

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, enabling them to rapidly detect and eliminate targets. In addition, many AMPs are natural peptides, making them promising candidates for therapeutic drugs. This review discusses the basic properties and mechanisms of action of AMPs, highlighting their ability to disrupt micro...

Handwashing is a simple habit that can stop the spread of infectious diseases, making it one of the most widely advocated COVID-19 control and prevention measures

Long coronavirus disease (COVID) is characterized by persistent symptoms following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) infection and has emerged as a significant health concern. As SARS‐CoV‐2 evolved from the wild‐type strain to the Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron variants, there may be a variant‐specific influence on long...

Background and Aim Patients who have undergone solid organ transplantation are at an elevated risk of severe coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) because of post‐transplantation immunosuppressive therapy. However, optimization of vaccination, modification of immunosuppression, and implementation of monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy in transplant recipien...

Bats are recognized as natural reservoirs for an array of diverse viruses, particularly coronaviruses, which have been linked to major human diseases like SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. These viruses are believed to have originated in bats, highlighting their role in virus ecology and evolution. Our study focuses on the molecular characterization of bat-de...

Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health emergency, and SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia poses significant challenges to health systems worldwide. Renal transplant recipients (RTRs) are a special group and are more vulnerable to viral pneumonia. However, few studies have elucidated the risk factors of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in RT...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and is continuously spreading globally. The continuous emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants keeps posing threats, highlighting the need for fast-acting, mutation-resistant broad-spectrum therapeutics. Protein translation is vital...

The article is devoted to studying the exercise of the right to a fair trial in the face of global challenges, namely, due to the impact of the situation related to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The main tendencies of implementing certain aspects of the right to a trial in criminal proceedings are analysed and determined, in particular,...

Purpose: This research is about a new COVID-19 SIR model containing three classes; susceptible S(t), infected I(t), and recovered R(t) with the convex incident rate. Methodology: The NCOVID-19 model was formulated in the following system, the whole population N(t) was divided into three classes S(t), I(t), and R(t), which represented Susceptible, I...

Introdução: O isolamento social devido a pandemia pela COVID-19, ditou um novo padrão de convivência e comunicação, responsáveis por novos comportamentos culturais de relacionamento humano pessoal, social, sendo mais desafiador às famílias de vítimas fatais. Objetivo. Conhecer os impactos e desafios de cuidado à família na experiência da morte cult...

Aim: to investigate the content of eNOS in the blood serum of patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with pneumonia in association with hemostatic parameters and to determine its prognostic value in assessing the risk of oxygen dependence and death. Material and methods. There were 123 patients with COVID-19 with pneumonia under observation....

Background Coinfections in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affect patient prognosis. Patients with hematologic malignancies (HMs) are usually immunosuppressed and may be at high risk of coinfection, but few related data have been reported. Here, we conducted a retrospective study to explore coinfections in patients with HMs and CO...

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants presents challenges to vaccine effectiveness, underlining the necessity for next-generation vaccines with multiple antigens beyond the spike protein. Here, we investigated a multiantigenic booster containing spike and a chimeric construct composed of nucleoprotein (N) and membrane (M) proteins, comparing its eff...

O distanciamento social imposto pela pandemia de COVID-19 levou à reconfiguração dos espaços habitacionais para a integração de novas atividades. Neste contexto, o Grupo [MORA] Pesquisa em habitação iniciou investigações sobre a [CASA RESILIENTE] a partir do desenvolvimento de instrumentos de avaliação pós-ocupação dos impactos e da resiliência — a...

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have demonstrated antibacterial properties and are widely recognized as one of the most prominent types of nanoparticles. Recent studies have highlighted their effectiveness against coronaviruses. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms underlying the action of AgNPs on viruses and their impacts on the human body rem...

Introdução: As redes sociais se tornaram ferramentas de uso significativo no cotidiano de toda a população, proporcionando entretenimento e acesso à informação de forma democrática. Nas últimas décadas, o aumento dos problemas relacionados à saúde mental tem sido notavelmente associado ao uso das mídias sociais. De acordo com dados do Instituto Bra...

Background/Objectives: the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly impacted a large portion of the global population. Numerous studies have investigated the potential outcomes of Coronavirus infection in pregnant women, aiming to identify variables that may be associated with either improved or worsened outcomes. In this context, nutrition...

Background The vitamin D binding protein (DBP) plays a critical role in both innate and adaptive immune systems, participating in several clinical conditions, including coronavirus disease 2019 infection severity, and mortality rate. The study aimed to investigate the correlation between rs7041 and rs4588 polymorphisms in the DBP gene and Coronavir...

In this paper, we consider a mathematical model of a coronavirus disease involving the Caputo-Fabrizio fractional derivative by dividing the total population into the susceptible population S(t), the vaccinated population V(t), the infected population I(t), the recovered population R(t), and the death class D(t). A core goal of this study is the an...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is adapting to continuous presence in humans. Transitions to endemic infection patterns are associated with changes in the spike (S) proteins that direct virus-cell entry. These changes generate antigenic drift and thereby allow virus maintenance in the face of prevalent human antiviral a...

Objective: With COVID-19 came a range of public health measures that impacted people’s routine activities. According to routine activity theory, these could affect the rate and nature of crime. This has largely been examined with volume crime (e.g., burglary, robbery) or crimes committed in the home. Stranger sex offenses greatly vary in nature and...

The goal of this work was to quantify the effect of school closure during the first year of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Switzerland. This allowed us to determine the usefulness of school closures as a pandemic countermeasure for emerging coronaviruses in the absence of pharmaceutical interventions. The use of multivariate endemi...

La pandemia por coronavirus y las medidas implementadas impactaron en la vida de las personas, en particular de los adolescentes; quienes están en una etapa de transición de la infancia a la edad adulta., modificando su vida estudiantil, su tiempo libre y de recreación, así como la forma en que se relacionan con otros. Objetivo: Evaluar la capacida...

Respiration-related disease refers to a wide range of conditions, including influenza, pneumonia, asthma, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and the latest outbreak, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and many other respiration issues. However, real-time monitoring for the detection of respiratory disorders is currently lacking and needs to be i...

As coronavirus disease (Covid-19) it is a contagious disease that is spread by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, one of the most common causes of disease in humans. The disease was initially discovered in Wuhan, China, in 2019, and has now spread throughout the world, including Malaysia. A large number of people have lost their life partners and families becau...

Background During the fifth wave of COVID‐19, accident and emergency departments in Hong Kong experienced significant overcrowding yet there was limited evidence available regarding emergency services and patients' clinical outcomes. The aim of this study was to compare the 28‐day mortality, emergency department (ED) visits, and length of stay (LOS...

Distance learning has been an option during the last few years due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The aim of this research is to identify the effectiveness of distance learning compared to conventional learning in terms of student learning achievement. This research is meta-analysis of random group contrast design (experiment-...

Background/Aim. Psoriasis is a chronic, immune-mediated, genetically determined disease, which is manifested by the appearance of erythematous scaly plaques. Treatment includes conventional therapies and biologics. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) raised widespread concern for patients with psoriasis treated with immunosuppressive drugs, esp...

The study focused on strategies of interfacing traditional health and western in fight against Coronavirus. Experts contend that government agencies and health officials should collaborate with traditional healers rather than oppose them to successfully tackle COVID-19. Various stakeholders appear to be undermining South Africa's traditional health...

A chest X-ray can convey a lot about a patient's condition. However, it requires a specialized and skilled doctor to determine the type of lung disease with high accuracy. Here comes the role of deep learning techniques (DL) and artificial intelligence (AI) in accelerating the process of detecting lung diseases and classifying them with high precis...

The Omicron variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus is an extremely contagious variant that has garnered global attention due to its potential for rapid spread and its impact on the effectiveness of vaccines and non-pharmacological measures. In this paper, we investigate mathematical models involving vaccin...

This study aims to explore the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on urban planning and the future of Yemeni cities, focusing on the factors that make cities more vulnerable to the spread of the virus, such as population density and social interactions. The study also discussed the measures taken by cities to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, r...

The global pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is unprecedented in scale and speed and has literally changed urban and rural behaviours in various countries and the global economy.. The first cases were noted on 26 December 2019 and the World Health Organisation (WHO) was notified by 31 December of the same year. On 30 January 2020, WHO decl...

In this paper a mathematical model of SEIR type is formulated. represented by modeling the coronavirus epidemic. In this present study, we consider a mathematical model that incorporates the whole population and variability in transmission between reported and unreported populations. The global stability of the disease free equilibrium (DFE) point...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led many colleges and students to use online learning. In educational databases with so much data, evaluating student development is difficult. E-learning is essential for egalitarian education since it uses technology and contemporary learning techniques. This review research found three ways for predicting...