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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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December 2024 (2)

Air travel-induced COVID-19 risk and mortality across US counties

Case report of a 47-year-old Long COVID patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (preprint)

Change in frailty among older COVID-19 survivors

Comparison of mortality and cardiovascular complications due to COVID-19, RSV, and influenza in hospitalized children and young adults

COVID-19 vaccination and long COVID among 50 years older and above European: the role of chronic multimorbidity

The effect of sample site and collection procedure on identification of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted: study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

Long COVID and financial hardship: a disaggregated analysis at income and education levels

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

Mitochondrial dysfunction in acute and post-acute phases of COVID-19 and risk of non-communicable diseases

Neuroimaging markers of cognitive fatigue in individuals with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Oral minocycline therapy as first-line treatment in patients with Myalgic encephalomyelitis and long COVID: a pilot study

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

Productive infection of the retinal pigment epithelium by SARS-CoV-2: Initial effects and consideration of long-term consequences

Rapid diagnosis and severity scale of post-COVID condition using advanced spectroscopy

Real-world effectiveness and causal mediation study of BNT162b2 on long COVID risks in children and adolescents

The relationship between long COVID, labor productivity, and socioeconomic losses in Japan: a cohort study

SARS-CoV-2 infection and risk of subsequent demyelinating diseases: national register–based cohort study

Supplemental oxygen prescriptions after hospitalization for coronavirus disease 2019

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Nov); BMC Cardiovascular Disorders (Nov); Brain and Cognition (Feb); Brain Communications (Nov); Cochrane Library (Dec); eClinicalMedicine (Jan); eNeurologicalSci (Mar); Health Services Research (Dec); Heart and Lung (Jan-Feb); IJID Regions (Mar); JAMA Dermatology (Nov); Journal of Infection (Dec); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Dec); NPJ: Metabolic Health and Disease (Dec); PNAS Nexus (Dec); Research Square (Dec); Science.org website (Dec); Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy (Mar); Transport Economics and Management (Dec 2025)

December 2024 (1)

Air travel-induced COVID-19 risk and mortality across US counties

Cardiac arrhythmias and autonomic dysfunction associated with COVID-19: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Characterization of change in cognition before and after COVID-19 infection in essential workers at midlife

Clinical and functional assessment of SARS-CoV-2 sequelae among young marines – a panel study

Congenital heart defects during the COVID-19 pandemic

A critical analysis of UK media characterisations of Long Covid in children and young people

Factors predicting COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and longevity of humoral immune responses

Interventions for the management of long covid (post-covid condition): living systematic review (BMJ review)

            See also: That BMJ review of Long Covid therapies does not show what it says it does

Live imaging of airway epithelium reveals that mucociliary clearance modulates SARS-CoV-2 spread

Long COVID facts and findings: a large-scale online survey in 74,075 Chinese participants

A new definition of Long COVID

Olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19: self-report or olfactory dysfunction test?

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

Precision phenotyping for curating research cohorts of patients with unexplained post-acute sequelae of COVID-19

A review of the immunogenicity and safety of booster doses of omicron variant-containing mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccines in adults and children

Risk of transmission of COVID-19 from the mother to the foetus: a systematic review

Robust antiviral humoral immunity induced by JN.1 monovalent mRNA vaccines against a broad range of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants including JN.1, KP.3.1.1 and XEC (preprint – new results)

SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in captive animals at the Belo Horizonte zoo, Minas Gerais, Brazil

            See also: Report: 1 in 5 animals at zoo tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, perhaps from people

The UK’s pandemic preparedness and early response to the COVID-19 pandemic

What exactly Is Long Covid? — NEJM Intention to Treat podcast episode 37

Sources

American Journal of Medicine Open (Dec); American Psychological Association website (Nov); bioRxiv (Nov); BMJ, The (Nov); Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine (Winter 2025); Cell Host and Microbe (Nov); CIDRAP website (Nov); Circulation (Oct); Expert Review of Vaccines (Dec); Global Public Health (Dec); Journal of Mother and Child (Nov); Lancet Regional Health Americas, The (Nov); Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific, The (Nov); Med (Nov); Nature Communications (Nov); NEJM (Nov); PLOS Global Public Health (Nov); Science Bit website (Nov); Transport Economics and Management (Dec 2025); Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Nov); Vaccines (Nov); Virology Journal (Nov)

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