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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

Frequency: Fortnightly

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LitCovid

LitCovid provides access to COVID-19 related records in PubMed. Content is updated daily. Click the link below for access.

COVID Impacts

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

March 2025 (1)

Advances in understanding inflammation and tissue damage: markers of persistent sequelae in COVID-19 patients

Association of cognitive deficits with sociodemographic characteristics among adults with post-COVID conditions: findings from the United States Household Pulse Survey

The burden, clinical features and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2, influenza and co-infections during concurrently out-of-season outbreaks in Brazil

COVID impacts (Memorial Sloan Kettering Library online guide)

COVID-19 and the new hidden curriculum of moral injury and compassion fatigue

COVID-19 death exposure among adults in the United States

COVID-19 may enduringly impact cognitive performance and brain haemodynamics in undergraduate students

COVID-19 vaccination and odds of post-COVID-19 condition symptoms in children aged 5 to 17 years

Differences in Long COVID severity by duration of illness, symptom evolution, and vaccination (INSPIRE)

The effect of COVID-19 on cardiovascular function and exercise tolerance in healthy middle-age and older individuals

Humoral responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in vasculitis-related immune suppression

Immunocompromised individuals remain at risk of COVID-19: 2023 results from the observational INFORM study

Impact of COVID-19 infection on Kawasaki disease and immune status in children

Incidence and prevalence of post-COVID-19 myalgic encephalomyelitis: a report from the observational RECOVER-Adult study

Learn COVID pandemic lessons — before it’s too late

Left ventricular assessment by 3D-echocardiography in post-COVID-19 syndrome

Non-hospitalized Long COVID patients exhibit reduced retinal capillary perfusion

Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks

Prevalence of cardiovascular symptoms in post-acute COVID-19 syndrome: a meta-analysis

Prothrombotic antibodies targeting the spike protein's receptor-binding domain in severe COVID-19

Revealed: women face much higher risk of Long COVID, but why?

Sources

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine (Feb); Biology Methods and Protocols (Jan); BioRxiv (Feb); Blood (Feb); BMC Medicine (Feb); Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (Mar); Egyptian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (Feb); JAMA Network Open (Feb); Journal of Clinical Medicine (Feb); Journal of General Internal Medicine (Jan); Journal of Imaging (Feb); Journal of Infection (Jan); Lancet Regional Health: Americas, The (Apr); Memorial Sloan Kettering Library website (Feb); Nature (Feb); Nature Medicine (Feb); Omega (Feb); Public Health (Jan); Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal (Feb); Science Advances (Feb); ScienceAlert website (Feb); Scientific Reports (Feb)

February 2025 (2)

Active surveillance of cats and dogs from households with human COVID-19 cases reveals over one quarter of pets infected with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020-2021 in Texas, United States

The blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier as a potential entry site for the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Clinical and multiorgan proteomics characteristics of the diverse fatal phase in super elderly patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a descriptive study

Clinical features of COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis: a multicenter, retrospective study

Cognitive deficits and cortical volume loss in COVID-19-related hyposmia

Cognitive domains affected post-COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Convalescent COVID-19 monocytes exhibit altered steady-state gene expression and reduced TLR2, TLR4 and RIG-I induced cytokine expression

Differential protection against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection pre- and post-Omicron

Dynamic changes and trends of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies induced by infection and vaccination across multiple time points

The European Academy of Neurology NeuroCOVID-19 Task Force: a lesson for the future

Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths

Genetic conservation and diversity of SARS-CoV-2 envelope gene across variants of concern

Hippocampal subfield volume alterations and associations with severity measures in long COVID and ME/CFS: a 7T MRI study

Immune damage in Long Covid

Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 induces acute skeletal muscle damage in human K18-hACE2 transgenic mice

Localised wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels linked to COVID-19 cases: a long-term multisite study in England

A multi-city COVID-19 forecasting model utilizing wastewater-based epidemiology

The “pandemic of abandonment”: navigating friendships five years into COVID-19

Plasma proteomic evidence for increased β-amyloid pathology after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Profiling the persistent and episodic nature of long COVID symptoms and the impact on quality of life and functional status: a cohort observation study

Quantitative association of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and clinically confirmed cases in different areas of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village

SARS-CoV-2 infection association with atherosclerotic plaque progression at coronary CT angiography and adverse cardiovascular events

SARS-CoV-2 productively infects human hepatocytes and induces cell death

SARS-COV-2 re-infection and incidence of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) among essential workers in New York: a retrospective cohort study

Sleep and long COVID: preexisting sleep issues and the risk of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a large general population using 3 different model definitions

Small fiber neuropathy in the postā€COVID condition and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: clinical significance and diagnostic challenges

Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in long COVID

Tofacitinib mitigates the increased SARS-CoV-2 infection susceptibility caused by an IBD risk variant in the PTPN2 Gene

Unraveling brain fog in post-COVID syndrome: relationship between subjective cognitive complaints and cognitive function, fatigue, and neuropsychiatric symptoms

Visceral fat as the main tomographic risk factor for COVID-19 mortality

Sources

BioRxiv (Feb); Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Jan); Clinical Respiratory Journal, The (Jan); European Journal of Neurology (Jan); Heart & Lung (Mar-Apr); Human Immunology (Mar); Journal of Global Health (Feb); Journal of Medical Virology (Jan-Feb); Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (Feb); Lancet Infectious Diseases, The (Feb); Lancet Regional Health, The (Feb); Life Sciences (Jan); Nature (Feb); Nature Medicine (Jan); PLoS One (Jan); PNAS (Feb); Radiology (Feb); Science (Jan); Science of the Total Environment (Jan); Sick Times website (Jan)

February 2025 (1)

COVID-19 may enduringly impact cognitive performance and brain haemodynamics in undergraduate students

Derivation and validation of a point-based forecasting tool for SARS-CoV-2 critical care occupancy

Ethnic and racial differences in children and young people with respiratory and neurological post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: an electronic health record-based cohort study from the RECOVER Initiative

From viral infection to skin affliction: unveiling mechanisms of cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19 and post-COVID conditions

Global prevalence of Long COVID, its subtypes and risk factors: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis (preprint)

The impact of COVID-19 infection on the development of stroke, pulmonary embolism, and myocardial infarction: a retrospective study

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 spike antibody positivity on infection and hospitalisation rates in immunosuppressed populations during the omicron period: the MELODY study

In search of COVID-19 vaccines that elicit mucosal immunity and stop transmission

Insight into potential long COVID effects: antidepressant use in post SARS-CoV-2 Infection scenarios. A multiregional nested case-control study

Long COVID for the rheumatologist: current understanding and approach to management

Long-term risk of autoimmune and autoinflammatory connective tissue disorders following COVID-19

Maternal COVID-19 infection and risk of respiratory distress syndrome among newborns: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Neurologic manifestations of Long COVID disproportionately affect young and middle-age adults

Post infectious fatigue and circadian rhythm disruption in long-COVID and other infections: a need for further research

Prevalence and symptoms of Long Covid-19 in the workplace

Racial/ethnic differences in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents in the United States

SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 outcomes across mental disorders and the role of sex: a register-based study from Catalonia

Severity and long-term mortality of COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus

Sex differences in Long COVID

Sources

Annals of Neurology (Feb); BMC Infectious Diseases (Nov); Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (Mar); Cureus (Jan); eClinicalMedicine (Feb); JAMA (Jan); JAMA Dermatology (Dec); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jan); JAMA Network Open (Jan); Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Feb); Lancet, The (Jan); MedRxiv (Jan); Nature Communications (Jan); Occupational Medicine (Jan); Psychiatry Research (Feb); Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America (Feb)

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