Pandemics throughout history

J Piret, G Boivin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The emergence and spread of infectious diseases with pandemic potential occurred
regularly throughout history. Major pandemics and epidemics such as plague, cholera, flu …

COVID-19: breaking down a global health crisis

SI Mallah, OK Ghorab, S Al-Salmi, OS Abdellatif… - Annals of clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the second pandemic of the twenty-first
century, with over one-hundred million infections and over two million deaths to date. It is a …

Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric presentations associated with severe coronavirus infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis with comparison to the COVID …

JP Rogers, E Chesney, D Oliver, TA Pollak… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Before the COVID-19 pandemic, coronaviruses caused two noteworthy
outbreaks: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), starting in 2002, and Middle East …

Origin, transmission, diagnosis and management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

S Umakanthan, P Sahu, AV Ranade… - Postgraduate …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Coronavirus has emerged as a global health threat due to its accelerated geographic
spread over the last two decades. This article reviews the current state of knowledge …

Mental health care for medical staff and affiliated healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

M Walton, E Murray… - European Heart Journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for society. Supporting the mental
health of medical staff and affiliated healthcare workers (staff) is a critical part of the public …

Diagnostic testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus 2: a narrative review

MP Cheng, J Papenburg, M Desjardins… - Annals of internal …, 2020 - acpjournals.org
Diagnostic testing to identify persons infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome–
related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is central to control the global pandemic of …

Comparative replication and immune activation profiles of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV in human lungs: an ex vivo study with implications for the pathogenesis of …

H Chu, JFW Chan, Y Wang, TTT Yuen… - Clinical Infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an
emerging coronavirus that has resulted in more than 2 000 000 laboratory-confirmed cases …

Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Gollwitzer, C Martel, WJ Brady, P Pärnamets… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States.
Using the geotracking data of 15 million smartphones per day, we found that US counties …

Optimal levels of vaccination to reduce COVID-19 infected individuals and deaths: A global analysis

M Coccia - Environmental research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to be a pandemic threat that is
generating a constant state of alert in manifold countries. One of the strategies of defense …

Herd immunity–estimating the level required to halt the COVID-19 epidemics in affected countries

KO Kwok, F Lai, WI Wei, SYS Wong… - Journal of …, 2020 - journalofinfection.com
Previous workers have attempted to predict the cumulative number of cases of Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. 1 However, since then, the epidemic has rapidly …