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6 hours ago · Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television issued a statement accusing United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of "wantonly spewing poison and spreading lies" about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in response to Pompeo's statement claiming that the coronavirus had originated in a laboratory in Wuhan.
4 days ago · The term long COVID, also known as post-COVID-19 condition, was coined in spring, 2020, by individuals with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19 in response to unsatisfactory recognition of this emerging syndrome by health-care practitioners.1 In September to November, 2020, clinical codes for persistent post-COVID-19 condition and related referrals were introduced and became available for use ...
4 days ago · Due to the name of its causative organism; most would consider COVID-19 as a primarily respiratory illness. This is substantiated by the readily obvious respiratory symptoms and the popular use of facemasks as a means of prevention.COVID–19 presents as a respiratory disease with a multi-systemic representation, multi-sectorial importance and ...
4 days ago · Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in England, there has been evidence of nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 transmission to both patients and healthcare workers (HCWs) [1,2,3,4], with 0.5–1.25% of susceptible inpatients (55,000–90,000 patients) identified as having developed a nosocomial infection between 01-March-2020 and 01-Sept-2021 [5, 6].
4 days ago · SARS-related coronavirus is a member of the genus Betacoronavirus (group 2) and monotypic of the subgenus Sarbecovirus (subgroup B). [12] Sarbecoviruses, unlike embecoviruses or alphacoronaviruses, have only one papain-like proteinase (PLpro) instead of two in the open reading frame ORF1ab. [13] SARSr-CoV was determined to be an early split-off ...
1 day ago · The recent decision at the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB152/3)1 to recommend that the World Health Assembly adopt a resolution on “Integrated emergency, critical and operative care for universal health coverage and protection from health emergencies” provides an extraordinary opportunity for coordinated action in countries. The decision also offers a solid foundation ...
5 days ago · Overall, COVID-19, in 2021, was accompanied by a similar burden of secondary infections to that reported in 2020 . Although there was variability in the crude number of ICU-acquired infections between waves, there was great variability when evaluating the incidence per 1000 ICU days within the matched units without evidence of systematic ...
