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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: COVID-19: Long-Term Effects

COVID-19: Long-Term Effects current awareness bulletin

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LitCovid

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COVID Impacts

Memorial Sloan Kettering Library curates an online guide to the long-term health and social impacts of COVID-19:

September 2025 (2)

Characteristics of Kawasaki disease in children with a history of COVID-19

Debunking the mistruths and misinformation about COVID-19

Global COVID-19 vaccination challenges: inequity of access and vaccine hesitancy

Hospital-acquired COVID-19 is associated with increased length and cost of stay in an Australian health care setting

The hypercoagulable state in COVID-19 and implications for free flap surgery in the lower limb: a retrospective multi-centre study

Incident COVID-19 infections before Omicron in the U.S.

Inequities in COVID-19 antiviral dispensation in Victoria, Australia: a retrospective cohort study using linked data

Interferon-α nasal spray prophylaxis reduces COVID-19 in cancer patients: a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial

Learning associations of COVID-19 hospitalizations with wastewater viral signals by Markov modulated models

Long COVID hitting doctors and nurses hard

Long COVID-19: a four-year prospective cohort study of risk factors, recovery, and quality of life

Long-term physical capacity following COVID-19: a prospective, three-year study

Modelling the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 during the first 14 days of infection

Molnupiravir or nirmatrelvir–ritonavir plus usual care versus usual care alone in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

Optimisation of wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 after resumption of normalcy from the pandemic: a case of Hong Kong

Post-COVID syndrome in symptomatic COVID-19 patients: a retrospective cohort study

Preexisting symptoms increase the risk of developing long COVID during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Revisiting oral antivirals for COVID-19 in the hospital setting

SARS-CoV-2 induces Alzheimer’s disease–related amyloid-β pathology in ex vivo human retinal explants and retinal organoids

SARS-CoV-2 PCR and antibody positivity in asymptomatic health care workers with a known SARS-CoV-2 exposure: December, 2020 to December, 2021

Stellate ganglion block for the treatment of COVID-19−induced parosmia: a randomized clinical trial

Work absenteeism across economic activity sectors and its association with COVID-19-like illness prevalence in the Netherlands, 2020–2023

Sources

American Journal of Infection Control (Sep-Oct); Australian Journal of General Practice (Sep); BMC Infectious Diseases (Aug > 15th Sep); Clinical Infectious Diseases (Aug); Epidemics (Sep-Dec); Infection Control Today (Sep/Oct); JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery (Aug); Journal of Infection (Sep); Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (Sep); Journal of Internal Medicine (Aug); Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health (Aug); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Sep); Lancet Infectious Diseases, The (Sep); Medscape (Sep); Science Advances (Jul)

September 2025 (1)

Accelerated vascular ageing after COVID-19 infection: the CARTESIAN study

A comparative analysis of clinical characteristics between primary and recurrent COVID-19 infections in China

Correlation between androgenetic alopecia and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Omicron variant infection in China

COVID-19 infection raises respiratory type-2 inflammatory disease risk, whereas vaccination is protective (pre-print)

Dexamethasone chronotherapy of COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit: an exploratory study

Effectiveness of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Vaxzevria) primary series vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 beta and delta variants: a nationwide study

Effectiveness of remdesivir for hospitalized COVID-19 patients depending on the severity of respiratory status: a multicenter retrospective study in Japan

Estimating the effect of contact tracing during the early stage of an epidemic

The interaction between population age structure and policy interventions on the spread of COVID-19

Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s – see also: Impacts of long COVID on disability, function and quality of life for adults living in Australia

Molecular sequence comparison for genome and S protein of COVID-19 virus from different countries

Multiorgan involvement and particularly liver injury in Long COVID: a narrative review

Risk factors and effectiveness of vaccination for nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 acquisition throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein mutation variants: recent advances in theragnostic and vaccines development

The silent legacy of COVID-19: exploring genomic instability in long-term COVID-19 survivors

Subdomains of Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS) – a population-based study

TMPRSS2 rs2070788 and rs383510 polymorphisms and laboratory markers as predictors for severity and mortality among COVID-19 patients: a single center study

Visual preferences for communicating modelling: a global analysis of COVID-19 policy and decision makers

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

Sources

Australian Journal of Primary Health (Aug); BMC Infectious Diseases (Aug); BMJ, The (Aug); Conversation website, The (Aug); European Heart Journal (Aug); Infectious Disease Modelling (Sep); Infectious Medicine (Sep); Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The (Jul); Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Jul); Life (Aug); Microbes and Infectious Diseases (Aug)

August 2025 (2)

Acute haemorrhagic necrotizing encephalopathy and inflammatory demyelinating encephalopathy associated with COVID-19 in adults in Southern China

Characteristics of Kawasaki disease in children with a history of COVID-19

CLIA immunoassay as an alternative and accurate method to detect SARS-CoV-2 antigen compared to ELISA

Climate crossroads: how global warming drives coronavirus emergence, the long COVID crisis of tomorrow, and AI’s role in navigating our future

Clinical and immunological insights into SARS-CoV-2 reinfection: a propensity score-matched cohort study

Comparison of adverse reactions to COVID-19 XBB.1.5 and influenza vaccination in the 2023-24 Japanese influenza season

Determining population-specific risk factors for COVID-19 susceptibility and severity to inform future individual-level integrated risk scoring

Effect of air flow rate over time on SARS-CoV-2 viability during representative sampling using MD8 airport air sampler

Effects of booster vaccination on post-treatment oxygen deterioration in hospitalized mild-to-moderate COVID-19 Japanese patients with comorbidities during the Omicron wave

HERV-W ENV transcription in B cells predicting symptomatic COVID-19 and risk for long COVID can express a full-length protein despite stop codon in mRNA from chromosome X via a ribosome readthrough

Impact of distribution of facemasks on community incidence and outcomes of COVID-19: a cluster randomised trial in India

Improving the accuracy of emergency department clinicians in detecting SARS-COV-2 on chest X-rays using a bespoke virtual training platform

Intranasal measles virus– and mumps virus–based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission

Metabolic brain changes in post-acute COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis of [18F]-FDG-PET findings

The National Academies’ 2024 diagnostic criteria for Long COVID: concerns that could affect the rheumatology community

Sensitively detecting antigen of SARS-CoV-2 by a homogeneous immunoassay based on ortho-touch reaction and graphene oxide (GO) quenched acridine esterification chemiluminescence

Sources

Arthritis & Rheumatology (Jul); BMC Infectious Diseases (Aug); BMC Medical Education (Aug); Brain Structure and Function (Aug); Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease (Aug); Infectious Diseases Now (Sep); Journal of Infection (Aug); Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (Aug-Sep); Journal of Hospital Infection (Aug-Sep); Microbes and Infection (Jul-Aug); PNAS (Aug)

 

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