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:

July 2025 (1)

The 1-year functional recovery from severe COVID-19 in a Swedish working-age cohort

4D Flow MRI derived aortic pulse wave velocity and wall shear stress in COVID-19

Adult long coronavirus disease 2019

Changed recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines for children and pregnant women: a failure of process, policy, and science

Clinical manifestations and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents

Clinical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection in immunocompetent adults in the era of widespread population immunity and Omicron sublineage viruses

Common misconceptions about COVID hold strong as new variant spreads

Early suPAR levels as a predictor of COVID-19 severity: a new tool for efficient patient triage

The effect of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reinfection on long-term symptoms in the Innovative Support for Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infections Registry (INSPIRE)

An evidence-based approach to COVID-19 vaccination

HLA-A*03 may confer protection against Long COVID through an enhanced immune response

“I pretty much haven't worked since 2020”: how the effects of Long COVID have harmed professional musicians and DJs

Immunogenicity and safety of influenza and COVID-19 multicomponent vaccine in adults ≥50 years: a randomized clinical trial

The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on vulnerable communities

Long-term neurological and cognitive impact of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis in over 4 million patients

Navigating coronavirus disease 2019 in immunocompromised populations

Neuroimmune pathophysiology of Long COVID

Next-generation coronavirus disease 2019 vaccines

Pharmacologic treatment and management of coronavirus disease 2019

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 immunology and coronavirus disease 2019 clinical outcomes

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Jul); BMC Neurology (Jun); Clinical Imaging (Aug); Clinical Infectious Diseases (Jun); Gauntlet website (Jun); Infectious Disease Clinics of North America (Jun); Infectious Diseases Now (Jun); JAMA (Jun); MusicRadar website (Jun); NEJM (Jun); PCN Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (Jun)

June 2025 (2)

Association of SARS-CoV-2 with health-related quality of life 1 year after illness using latent transition analysis

Characterizing Long COVID symptoms during early childhood

COVID-19 versus influenza: the need to align policies with COVID-19 realities

Decoding post-mortem infection dynamics of SARS-CoV-2, IAV and RSV: new insights for public health and emerging infectious diseases management

Drug treatments for mild or moderate COVID-19: systematic review and network meta-analysis

Exercise-induced changes in microclotting and cytokine levels point to vascular injury and inflammation in people with Long COVID (preprint)

The hospital and mortality burden of COVID-19 compared with influenza in Denmark: a national observational cohort study, 2022–24

Impact of co-infection with SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses on illness: pooled analyses of 11 COVID-19 cohorts

Impact of COVID-19 on long-term outcomes in Parkinson's disease

Long COVID in young children, school-aged children, and teens

Long-term persistent headache after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a follow-up population-based study

Monitoring the emergence of resistance with sotrovimab in immunocompromised patients with COVID-19: LUNAR study

Parents' level of COVID-19 fear, anxiety and their attitudes and behaviors toward vaccination of their children

Perception of coronavirus in children through the interpretation of metaphors

SARS-CoV-2 test sensitivity and duration of positivity in the UK during the 2023/2024 winter: a prospective cohort study based on self-reported data

Symptom burden and post-COVID-19 syndrome 24 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection: longitudinal population-based study

Underlying health biases in previously-infected SARS-CoV-2 vaccination recipients: a cohort study

Vaccines and Long COVID

Vaccines for preventing infections in adults with haematological malignancies (new Cochrane intervention review)

Sources

BMJ, The (May); European Journal of Neurology (May); JAMA Pediatrics (May); Journal of Infection (Jun-Jul); Lancet Infectious Diseases, The (Jun); Omega (Jun); Open Forum Infectious Diseases (Jun); Research Square website (May)

June 2025 (1)

COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing COVID-19 (updated NICE guideline NG191)

Dissemination of local sub-variants of SARS-CoV-2 detected by detailed mutation analysis in wastewater-based epidemiology

Drug repurposing targeting COVID-19 3CL protease using molecular docking and machine learning regression approaches

Early suPAR levels as a predictor of COVID-19 severity: a new tool for efficient patient triage

Enhanced antibody response to the conformational non-RBD region via DNA prime-protein boost elicits broad cross-neutralization against SARS-CoV-2 variants

HLA-A*03 may confer protection against long COVID through an enhanced immune response

The impact of signal variability on COVID-19 epidemic growth rate estimation from wastewater surveillance data

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 downgrade on non-COVID-19 respiratory diseases in Japan

The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid could help to personalize corticosteroid therapy in severe COVID-19 pneumonia

Nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir, sotrovimab and tocilizumab for treating COVID-19 (updated NICE guideline TA878)

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and immunity in a New York county in 2022 reveals frequent asymptomatic or undiagnosed infections

Production of a monoclonal antibody targeting the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike protein and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron mutations related to monoclonal antibody resistance

Protection and waning of vaccine-induced, natural and hybrid immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong

The SARS-CoV-2 antibody-dependent enhancement façade

SARS-CoV-2 enhances complement-mediated endothelial injury via the suppression of membrane complement regulatory proteins

Sulfonohydrazide as a potential inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Tracing the spatial origins and spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages in South Africa

Wastewater sequencing from a rural community enables identification of widespread adaptive mutations in a SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant

Wastewater surveillance as a predictive tool for COVID-19: a case study in Chengdu

Sources

Emerging Microbes & Infections (Mar); Expert Review of Vaccines (Mar); Infectious Diseases Now (May-Jun); Microbes and Infection (Mar-Apr); NICE website (May); PloS One (May); Public Health (Jun); Scientific Reports (May)

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