Response to COVID-19 in Lebanon: update, challenges and lessons learned

FF Abou Hassan, MB Hamdan, F Ali… - Epidemiology & …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The COVID-19 pandemic remains a public health problem threatening national and global
health security. The socio-economic impact of COVID-19 was more severe on developing …

Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study to investigate how mental health, lifestyle, and socio-demographic factors shape students' quality of life

I Bou-Hamad, R Hoteit, S Hijazi, D Ayna, M Romani… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Purpose The high prevalence of COVID-19 has had an impact on the Quality of Life (QOL) of
people across the world, particularly students. The purpose of this study was to investigate …

Towards using deep reinforcement learning for better COVID-19 vaccine distribution strategies

F Trad, S El Falou - 2022 7th International Conference on Data …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vaccination has been the most promising hope to get back to normal ever since the COVID-
19 outbreak started. But as promising as this sounds, vaccinating all of the population at the …

Predictors of all-cause mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients taking corticosteroids: a multicenter retrospective cross-sectional study

V Mahmoud, G Hatem, A Al-Saleh… - Annals of Medicine …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Methods: A multicenter retrospective study was performed over three months targeting 422
COVID-19 patients from six hospitals in Lebanon. Data were collected from patients' medical …

Testing different covid-19 vaccination strategies using an agent-based modeling approach

F Trad, S El Falou - SN Computer Science, 2022 - Springer
Vaccination has been the long-awaited solution ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
But the problem is that vaccine shots cannot be delivered at the same time to all populations …

Factors motivating lebanese youth to adopt COVID-19 good practices: a cross-sectional study

I Bou-Hamad, R Hoteit - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background It is now widely acknowledged that young people can be asymptomatic carriers
of the COVID-19 virus. While vaccines are successful, COVID-19 good practices continue to …