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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COVID Impacts

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

October 2025 (2)

Applicability and adaptation of cognitive behavior therapy for long COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms: a review with insights from ME/CFS

Association between mental health symptoms and autoimmunity in patients with long COVID

Association between SARS-CoV-2 levels in urban wastewater and reported COVID-19 cases in Changsha, Central China

Bioinformatics analysis of the proteome in the pathway of complement and coagulation cascades in COVID-19: discovering potential biomarkers of FGB and SERPINA5

Chronic cardiovascular disorders associated with COVID-19: a literature review

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

Desensitization reduces some COVID-19-associated symptoms in minors with allergic rhinitis

The effect of monotherapy versus combination antiviral therapy on all-cause mortality risk in COVID-19 patients

Effectiveness of SARS‐CoV‐2 testing strategies in reducing COVID‐19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths (new Cochrane review)

Efficacy of novel SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in preventing SARS-CoV- 2 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Enhanced seropositivity and sustained antibody response among healthcare workers: A seroprevalence study during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Exploring Alice in Wonderland syndrome in adults with persistent headache after COVID-19: a cross-sectional study in Latin America

Impact of complement system proteins on the clinical progression of hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Impact of vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 infections and long COVID symptoms: a cross-sectional study in China

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the Omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study

Long COVID in the population of COVID-19 hospitalized patients discharged from SUS’ hospitals in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil: a patient-engaged cohort survey study

Long-term symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a cohort of healthcare workers in Qatar

Lymphocyte-to-procalcitonin ratio: a new predictor of prognosis in COVID-19

Multiple detection method for SARS-CoV-2 with aptamer cocktails depending on their localization in paper-based assays

RNA extraction-free CRISPR-based SARS-CoV-2 detection in viral transport medium and dry swab-a comparative analysis

Serum VEGF-A and sVEGFR-1 levels as predictors of disease severity in COVID-19 patients

Sources

AJPM Focus (Oct); BMC Infectious Diseases (30th Sep-13th Oct); BMC Neurology (Oct); Cochrane Library (Oct); Cureus (Sep); Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease (Nov); Lancet Infectious Diseases (Sep)

October 2025 (1)

Antiviral combination therapy in severely immunocompromised patients with persistent or recurrent COVID-19

Assessing SARS-CoV-2 vaccine effectiveness in health workers: a cohort study conducted during the pandemic decline phase in five hospitals, affiliated to Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates from COVID-19 patients: a single-center retrospective analysis in a tertiary hospital, China

A composite symptoms severity score based on survey self-reports as a predictor of SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral load

Continuing to be cautious: Japanese contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic and their association with public health recommendations

Development of SARS-CoV-2 as a viral vector: a novel intranasal bivalent vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 and RSV

The effectiveness of repeated vaccination for COVID-19 symptom resolution during the KP.3-dominant epidemic period in Japan: a retrospective multicenter study

Efficacy of oral antivirals and combination therapy with remdesivir in hematological patients with COVID-19

Evaluating saliva for SARS-CoV-2 detection: a practical alternative

Immunotherapies for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, other common autonomic disorders, and Long COVID: current state and future direction

Long-term impact of COVID-19 in patients with lung cancer receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors: a multicenter cohort study during Omicron pandemic

Long-term physical capacity following COVID-19: a prospective, three-year study

Medical complexity and healthcare utilization among patients attending three U.S. post-COVID clinics

A meta-analysis of vaccine efficacy from phase III clinical trials of approved vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and variants

Neutralizing antibody responses over time in a demographically and clinically diverse cohort of individuals recovered from SARS-CoV-2 acquisition in Africa: a cohort study

Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection: clinical characteristics from a US hospital

The quirky story behind New York's SARS-CoV-2 preparations

SARS-CoV-2 PCR and antibody positivity in asymptomatic health care workers with a known SARS-CoV-2 exposure: December, 2020 to December, 2021

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Ethiopia: findings from the 2022 national population-based survey (second round)

Towards consensus: the need for standardised definitions in Long (post) COVID care in 34 European countries

Sources

American Journal of Infection Control (Oct); BMC Infectious Diseases (16th-29th Sep); Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease (Oct); European Journal of General Practice (Sep); Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (Sep); Journal of Infection (Oct); Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (Oct); Lancet Infectious Diseases (Oct); PLOS Global Public Health (Sep); Science Advances (Aug-Sep)

September 2025 (1)

Accelerated vascular ageing after COVID-19 infection: the CARTESIAN study

A comparative analysis of clinical characteristics between primary and recurrent COVID-19 infections in China

Correlation between androgenetic alopecia and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Omicron variant infection in China

COVID-19 infection raises respiratory type-2 inflammatory disease risk, whereas vaccination is protective (pre-print)

Dexamethasone chronotherapy of COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit: an exploratory study

Effectiveness of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Vaxzevria) primary series vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 beta and delta variants: a nationwide study

Effectiveness of remdesivir for hospitalized COVID-19 patients depending on the severity of respiratory status: a multicenter retrospective study in Japan

Estimating the effect of contact tracing during the early stage of an epidemic

The interaction between population age structure and policy interventions on the spread of COVID-19

Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s – see also: Impacts of long COVID on disability, function and quality of life for adults living in Australia

Molecular sequence comparison for genome and S protein of COVID-19 virus from different countries

Multiorgan involvement and particularly liver injury in Long COVID: a narrative review

Risk factors and effectiveness of vaccination for nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 acquisition throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein mutation variants: recent advances in theragnostic and vaccines development

The silent legacy of COVID-19: exploring genomic instability in long-term COVID-19 survivors

Subdomains of Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS) – a population-based study

TMPRSS2 rs2070788 and rs383510 polymorphisms and laboratory markers as predictors for severity and mortality among COVID-19 patients: a single center study

Visual preferences for communicating modelling: a global analysis of COVID-19 policy and decision makers

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

Sources

Australian Journal of Primary Health (Aug); BMC Infectious Diseases (Aug); BMJ, The (Aug); Conversation website, The (Aug); European Heart Journal (Aug); Infectious Disease Modelling (Sep); Infectious Medicine (Sep); Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The (Jul); Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Jul); Life (Aug); Microbes and Infectious Diseases (Aug)

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