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:

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)

May 2025 (2)

Aerosol emission and exposure in non-invasive ventilation

Awake prone positioning in adults with COVID-19: an individual participant data meta-analysis

Clinical care guide: managing ME/CFS, Long COVID, and IACCs

Communication-based interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine willingness and uptake: a systematic review with meta-analysis

COVID-19 infection history as a risk factor for early pregnancy loss: results from the electronic health record-based Southeast Texas COVID and Pregnancy Cohort Study

COVID-19 severity and risk of SARS-CoV-2-associated asthma exacerbation by time since booster vaccination: a longitudinal analysis of data from the COVIDENCE UK study

Identification and targeting of regulators of SARS-CoV-2–host interactions in the airway epithelium

Identification of naturally occurring drug-resistant mutations of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease

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

“Long COVID Mode”: seeing the crisis through games

Long-COVID postural tachycardia syndrome: a deep phenotyping study (preprint)

Long-term clinical outcome and exercise capacity in SARS-CoV-2-positive elite athletes

Molnupiravir for treating COVID-19 (new NICE guideline TA1056)

Need for awareness and surveillance of long-term post-COVID neurodegenerative disorders: a position paper from the neuroCOVID‐19 task force of the European Academy of Neurology

Persistent neurocognitive deficits in Long COVID: evidence of structural changes and network abnormalities following mild infection

Removing barriers to COVID-19 vaccine intention in a university population: results of a serial mediation study through the dimensions of the Health Belief Model

SARS-CoV-2 induced immune perturbations in infants vary with disease severity and differ from adults’ responses

Utilizing Google Trends data to enhance forecasts and monitor long COVID prevalence

Sources

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (Apr); Bateman Horne Center website (May); BMC Medicine (May); BMJ Open (May); BMJ Open Respiratory Research (May); Capital B website (May); Communications Medicine (May); Cortex (Jun); German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research (Feb); JAMA Internal Medicine (May); Journal of Neurology (May); medRxiv (Apr); Nature Communications (May); NICE website (Apr); PLoS One (May); Science Advances (May); Scientific Reports (Apr); Sick Times website (May)

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)

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