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

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:

May 2025 (1)

Characterization of binding affinity changes of SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant peptides to population-specific HLA

COVID-19 infection was associated with poor sperm quality: a cross-sectional and longitudinal clinical observation study

Differences in chest imaging between Omicron and non–Omicron coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Driving under viral impairment: linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks

Early effectiveness of the BNT162b2 KP.2 vaccine against COVID-19 in the US Veterans Affairs Healthcare System

Efficacy of early pulmonary rehabilitation in severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients: a retrospective cohort study

Follow-up of long COVID based on the definition of WHO: a multi-centre cross-sectional questionnaire-based study

Identification and validation of programmed cell death related biomarkers for the treatment and prevention COVID-19

Long COVID clinical evaluation, research and impact on society: a global expert consensus

Long COVID prevalence and risk factors in adults residing in middle- and high-income countries: secondary analysis of the multinational Anti-Coronavirus Therapies (ACT) trials

Long-term stroke and mortality risk reduction associated with acute-phase Paxlovid use in mild-to-moderate COVID-19

Measuring the fitted filtration efficiency of cloth masks, medical masks and respirators

Persistent immune dysregulation and metabolic alterations following SARS-CoV-2 infection (preprint)

Risk of post-acute symptoms among adults: a comparison study of severe COVID-19, pneumonia, and influenza

A social network perspective on social cues for COVID risk perception

Short and long-term trajectories of the post COVID-19 condition: results from the EuCARE POSTCOVID study

Towards optimization of community vulnerability indices for COVID-19 prevalence

Sources

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (Apr); Annals of Medicine (Apr); BMC Public Health (Apr); BMC Infectious Diseases (Apr); BMC Pulmonary Medicine (Apr); BMJ Global Health (Apr); Journal of Biomedical Science (Apr); Journal of Medical Virology (Apr); medRxiv (Apr); Nature Communications (Apr); PLOS Global Public Health (Apr); PLOS One (Apr); Scientific Reports (Apr)

April 2025 (2)

Analysis of the A-B Neuropsychological Assessment Schedule as a cognitive screener for Long COVID

Cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: cohort study using electronic health records

Clara cell 16 kDa protein: an important marker for COVID-19 severity

COVID-19 in Norwegian ICUs 2020–2023: patient characteristics, management, and outcomes—a nationwide prospective observational study

COVID-19 inactivated booster vaccines elicit strong protection against SARS-CoV-2 wild-type and Omicron variant in patients with breast cancer

Evaluating the effectiveness of 2024-2025 seasonal mRNA-1273 vaccination against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations and medically attended COVID-19 among adults aged ≥ 18 years in the United States (preprint)

Kidney function following COVID-19 in children and adolescents

Multiple sclerosis and COVID-19: interactions and unresolved issues

A nationwide study of risk factors for long COVID and its economic and mental health consequences in the United States

Pediatric Long COVID subphenotypes: an EHR-based study from the RECOVER program

Predictive ability of previous pain and disease conditions on the presentation of post-COVID pain in a Danish cohort of adult COVID-19 survivors

Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study

Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 in the Omicron era is associated with increased risk of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a RECOVER-EHR cohort study (preprint)

Relationship between multimorbidity, SARS-COV-2 infection and long COVID: a cross-sectional population-based French survey

SARS-CoV-2 airborne detection within different departments of a COVID-19 hospital building and evaluation of air cleaners in air viral load reduction

Use of face shield as a COVID-19 safety protocol: a meta-analysis

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Apr); BMC Medicine (Apr); Cureus (Apr); European Journal of Pain (May); Frontiers in Immunology (Apr); Frontiers in Medicine (Apr); International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (Mar); JAMA Network Open (Apr); Journal of Aerosol Science (Jun); Lancet Infectious Diseases, The (Apr); Lancet Neurology, The (Apr); medRxiv (Mar); Nature Communications (Apr); Nature Communications Medicine (Apr); PLOS Digital Health (Apr)

April 2025 (1)

Asymmetrical glymphatic dysfunction in patients with Long COVID associated neurocognitive impairment- correlation with BBB disruption

Beyond Long COVID – how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage

COVID-19 infection is associated with an elevated risk for autoimmune blistering diseases while COVID-19 vaccination decreases the risk: a large-scale population-based cohort study of 112 million individuals

The COVID-19 pandemic in children and young people during 2022–24: what new did we learn?

Development and multicentric external validation of a prognostic COVID-19 severity model based on thoracic CT

Effect of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with Long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Functioning of post-COVID-19 patients: a cross-sectional study at the outpatient clinic for long-term effects

The health-related quality of life among stroke survivors with post-COVID conditions living in the United States

Identifying and mitigating the public health consequences of meta-ignorance about "Long COVID" risks

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds

Long COVID after SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy in the United States

Methylation patterns of the nasal epigenome of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 positive patients reveal insights into molecular mechanisms of COVID-19

A patient-centered view of symptoms, functional impact, and priorities in post-COVID-19 syndrome: cross-sectional results from the Québec Action Post-COVID cohort

Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG positivity and long COVID-19 in pediatric age group

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

Whole-body visualization of SARS-CoV-2 biodistribution in vivo by immunoPET imaging in non-human primates

Within person predictors of physical activity and fatigue in Long COVID: findings from an ecological momentary assessment study

Sources

BMC Infectious Diseases (Apr); BMC Medical Genomics (Apr); BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (Apr); BMC Neurology (Mar); CBC website (Mar); The Gauntlet website (Mar); JAMA Internal Medicine (Mar); Journal of Global Health (Apr); Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, The (Mar); Journal of Psychosomatic Research (May); Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases (Apr); Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (Mar); Nature Communications (Mar-Apr); Public Health (Apr); Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care (Mar); Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease (Mar)

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