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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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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)

January 2025 (2)

4 in 10 Minnesota COVID survivors report having at least 1 lingering symptom

            See also: Impact of Long COVID symptoms in Minnesota

Body mass index Is associated with post-acute elevations in biomarkers of platelet activation and inflammation in unvaccinated adults diagnosed with COVID-19 in the previous 8 weeks

Clinical characteristics and COVID-19-related outcomes of immunocompromised patients receiving tixagevimab/cilgavimab pre-exposure prophylaxis in Japan

A comprehensive pan-cancer analysis of SARS-CoV-2-related cancer malignancy: COVID-19 infection shapes a dynamic immune microenvironment and affects the prognosis

Disinfection effect of ozonated water on SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of salivary proteins

Efficacy of air cleaning units for preventing SARS-CoV-2 and other hospital-acquired infections on medicine for older people wards: a quasi-experimental controlled before-and-after study

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

Infection prevention and control risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers: a global, multi-centre, case–control study

Long COVID Labs Vision Paper (proposed framework for accelerating research into and development of a Long COVID cure)

Long Covid: ‘rest and pacing’ isn’t that easy

Long-term mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection in rural versus urban dwellers with autoimmune or inflammatory rheumatic disease: a retrospective cohort analysis from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative

Non-pharmaceutical infection prevention measures in nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks: a retrospective multi-centre cohort study

Persistence of spike protein at the skull-meninges-brain axis may contribute to the neurological sequelae of COVID-19

The prognostic relevance of pleural effusion in patients with COVID-19 - a German multicenter study

Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and impairs the immune response against a COVID-19 vaccine (preprint – new results)

Therapeutic BCG vaccine protects against long COVID: the BATTLE randomized clinical trial

Tocilizumab in combination with standard of care in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia: efficacy and safety from a phase 3 clinical trial in Japan

What is the spectrum of kidney pathology associated with COVID-19?

Sources

Arthritis Care & Research (Jan); BioRxiv (Jan); Cell Host & Microbe (Dec); Central Bylines website (Jan); CIDRAP website (Jan); Clinical Imaging (Jan); Internal Medicine Journal (Dec); Journal of General Internal Medicine (Jan); Journal of Hospital Infection (Jan); Journal of Infection (Jan); Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (Jan); Journal of Internal Medicine (Jan); Long COVID Labs website (Jan); Minnesota Department of Health website (Jan); Obesity Facts (Dec)

January 2025 (1)

Assessing COVID-19 transmission risk: roommate and unit mate exposures at an inpatient behavioral health facility

CD151 identifies an NK cell subset that is enriched in COVID-19 patients and correlates with disease severity

COVID-19 vaccine uptake inequality among older adults: a multidimensional demographic analysis

Disinfection effect of ozonated water on SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of salivary proteins

The effect of pre-COVID and post-COVID vaccination on long COVID: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Efficacy of air cleaning units for preventing SARS-CoV-2 and other hospital-acquired infections on medicine for older people wards: a quasi-experimental controlled before-and-after study

Erectile dysfunction and ejaculatory dysfunction in Covid-19 recovered patient: temporary or persistent?

Extracellular vesicles from primary human macrophages stimulated with VIP or PACAP mediate anti-SARS-CoV-2 activities in monocytes through NF-κB signaling pathway

Infection prevention and control risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers: a global, multi-centre, case–control study

Long-term recovery in critically ill COVID-19 survivors: a prospective cohort study

Mapping trends and hotspots of research on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of global research

Mechanisms and implications of IgG4 responses to SARS-CoV-2 and other repeatedly administered vaccines

Non-pharmaceutical infection prevention measures in nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks: a retrospective multi-centre cohort study

Outpatient group therapy for post-COVID patients - a naturalistic feasibility study of a face-to-face and online group concept

The PDZ domain of the E protein in SARS-CoV induces carcinogenesis and poor prognosis in LUAD

The persistence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Post-COVID-19 condition and pulmonary embolism

Real-world assessment of reinfection with SARS-CoV-2: implications for vaccines

Reduced durability of hybrid immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in immunocompromised children

Trends of common laboratory biomarkers after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Jan); American Journal of Infection Control (Jan); Frontiers in Immunology (Dec); Frontiers in Psychiatry (Dec); Journal of Hospital Infection (Jan); Journal of Infection (Dec); Journal of Infection and Public Health (Jan); Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare (Dec); Microbes and Infection (Nov-Dec); Urology Journal (Dec)

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