Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
D. Phuong Do, Reanne Frank
Summary: The study found that occupational exposure plays an independent role in the unequal spread of COVID-19 in the United States, with non-healthcare frontline workers facing higher risk of infection. Future pandemic response strategies should consider the role of structural factors more.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
B. Buchmann, L. K. Engelbrecht, P. Fernandez, F. P. Hutterer, M. K. Raich, C. H. Scheel, A. R. Bausch
Summary: The authors estimated COVID-19 mortality in Italy using a counterfactual time series analysis, finding that the actual deaths were approximately 1.5 times higher than official statistics. The proportion of population deaths and infection rates were also calculated for the most affected regions, showing significant differences from reported numbers.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Ian W. Pray, Barbara Grajewski, Collin Morris, Komi Modji, Peter DeJonge, Katherine McCoy, Carrie Tomasallo, Traci DeSalvo, Ryan P. Westergaard, Jonathan Meiman
Summary: This study utilizes surveillance data to estimate the incidence of COVID-19 among workers in Wisconsin, identifying high-risk occupations and industries such as personal care, healthcare, and law enforcement. The findings highlight the importance of work-related exposures in SARS-CoV-2 transmission and provide valuable insights for targeted vaccination and mitigation efforts in the workplace.
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Enrique Acosta
Summary: Estimating global deaths caused by COVID-19 is a complex task, as demonstrated by the attempt to measure global excess mortality in 2020 and 2021.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jonas Schoeley, Jose Manuel Aburto, Ilya Kashnitsky, Maxi S. Kniffka, Luyin Zhang, Hannaliis Jaadla, Jennifer B. Dowd, Ridhi Kashyap
Summary: In 2021, there were diverging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancies in different regions, with vaccination rates negatively correlated with life expectancy deficits. Generally, countries in western Europe saw improvements in life expectancy, while those in eastern Europe and the United States experienced sustained deficits.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Luana Salerno, Stefano Pallanti
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on global daily life, potentially leading to increased gambling behavior and new cases of pathological gambling. A study found that 23.6% of the sample exhibited pathological gambling, with some categorized as chronic gamblers and others as new gamblers. Gamblers showed higher levels of perceived stress, distress, and hostility, with a notable proportion of business owners and unemployed individuals reporting gambling issues during the lockdown.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Patricia P. Bloom, Eric A. Meyerowitz, Zoe Reinus, Michael Daidone, Jenna Gustafson, Arthur Y. Kim, Esperance Schaefer, Raymond T. Chung
Summary: In COVID-19 patients, abnormalities in liver biochemistries, particularly AST and ALT, are common on admission and throughout the course of illness. Aminotransferases are frequently elevated, while alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin elevations are rare. AST-dominant aminotransferase elevation seems to correlate with disease severity and reflects true hepatic injury.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Benoit Misset, Michael Piagnerelli, Eric Hoste, Nadia Dardenne, David Grimaldi, Isabelle Michaux, Elisabeth De Waele, Alexander Dumoulin, Philippe G. Jorens, Emmanuel van der Hauwaert, Frederic Vallot, Stoffel Lamote, Walter Swinnen, Nicolas De Schryver, Vincent Fraipont, Nathalie de Mey, Nicolas Dauby, Nathalie Layios, Jean-Baptiste Mesland, Geert Meyfroidt, Michel Moutschen, Veerle Compernolle, Andre Gothot, Daniel Desmecht, Maria I. Taveira da Silva Pereira, Mutien Garigliany, Tome Najdovski, Axelle Bertrand, Anne-Francoise Donneau, Pierre-Francois Laterre
Summary: In this open-label, randomized trial, it was found that patients with Covid-19-associated ARDS who received convalescent plasma had lower 28-day mortality compared to those who received standard care.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Virology
Toshiki Kuno, Matsuo So, Yoshihisa Miyamoto, Masao Iwagami, Mai Takahashi, Natalia N. Egorova
Summary: The study aimed to explore the association between hospitalizations of patients who tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies and reduced in-hospital mortality. Patients with positive COVID-19 antibody tests showed lower in-hospital mortality compared to those with negative test results after adjustments for patient characteristics and treatments. In conclusion, positive COVID-19 antibody test results were linked to a decreased risk of in-hospital mortality for COVID-19 patients.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2021)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Thomas Rohban
Summary: In a real-world data analysis, researchers found that adults aged 50 or above who received a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at least 5 months after their second dose had 90% lower mortality due to Covid-19 compared to those who did not receive a booster. The study suggests that reports on all-cause mortality would have been helpful in improving our understanding of the booster effect.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Devan Hawkins, Anh Tuan Phan
Summary: This study aimed to determine if workers in certain occupations had an increased drug poisoning mortality rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that mortality rates for drug poisoning significantly increased in food preparation and serving, healthcare support, and transportation and material moving occupations in 2020. Further research should be conducted to investigate the role of occupational factors in the increase of drug poisoning mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Leticia Nieto-Garcia, Adela Carpio-Perez, Maria Teresa Moreiro-Barroso, Emilia Ruiz-Antunez, Ainhoa Nieto-Garcia, Montserrat Alonso-Sardon
Summary: This study described and compared the epidemiological and clinical features of pressure injuries (PIs) in COVID-19 patients and patients admitted for other causes. The results showed that during the first wave of COVID-19, COVID-19 patients tended to have a higher number of acute wounds, mainly of hospital origin. Diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension were identified as the main associated comorbidities in patients with COVID-19 diagnosis.
Article
Immunology
Itunu Sokale, Juan Alvarez, Omar Rosales, Eric Bakota, Christopher Amos, Hoda Badr, Abiodun O. Oluyomi
Summary: This cross-sectional ecological study explored the relationship between standard occupational groups and COVID-19 vaccine uptake at the neighborhood level in the USA. It found that healthcare practitioners, business/management/legal professionals, computer/engineering/life/physical/social science workers, and arts/design/entertainment/sports/media personnel were more likely to have received the full regimen of a COVID-19 vaccine. In contrast, building/installation/maintenance/repair, construction/extraction/production, transportation/material moving, food preparation/serving related, and personal care/services workers were less likely to have received the complete dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The study highlighted the importance of engaging labor-centered stakeholders to improve vaccine uptake.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Robert C. Reiner, Ryan M. Barber, James K. Collins, Peng Zheng, Christopher Adolph, James Albright, Catherine M. Antony, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Steven D. Bachmeier, Bree Bang-Jensen, Marlena S. Bannick, Sabina Bloom, Austin Carter, Emma Castro, Kate Causey, Suman Chakrabarti, Fiona J. Charlson, Rebecca M. Cogen, Emily Combs, Xiaochen Dai, William James Dangel, Lucas Earl, Samuel B. Ewald, Maha Ezalarab, Alize J. Ferrari, Abraham Flaxman, Joseph Jon Frostad, Nancy Fullman, Emmanuela Gakidou, John Gallagher, Scott D. Glenn, Erik A. Goosmann, Jiawei He, Nathaniel J. Henry, Erin N. Hulland, Benjamin Hurst, Casey Johanns, Parkes J. Kendrick, Apurva Khemani, Samantha Leigh Larson, Alice Lazzar-Atwood, Kate E. LeGrand, Haley Lescinsky, Akiaja Lindstrom, Emily Linebarger, Rafael Lozano, Rui Ma, Johan Mansson, Beatrice Magistro, Ana M. Mantilla Herrera, Laurie B. Marczak, Molly K. Miller-Petrie, Ali H. Mokdad, Julia Deryn Morgan, Paulami Naik, Christopher M. Odell, James K. O'Halloran, Aaron E. Osgood-Zimmerman, Samuel M. Ostroff, Maja Pasovic, Louise Penberthy, Geoffrey Phipps, David M. Pigott, Ian Pollock, Rebecca E. Ramshaw, Sofia Boston Redford, Grace Reinke, Sam Rolfe, Damian Francesco Santomauro, John R. Shackleton, David H. Shaw, Brittney S. Sheena, Aleksei Sholokhov, Reed J. D. Sorensen, Gianna Sparks, Emma Elizabeth Spurlock, Michelle L. Subart, Ruri Syailendrawati, Anna E. Torre, Christopher E. Troeger, Theo Vos, Alexandrea Watson, Stefanie Watson, Kirsten E. Wiens, Lauren Woyczynski, Liming Xu, Jize Zhang, Simon I. Hay, Stephen S. Lim, Christopher J. L. Murray
Summary: This study uses data from the first 8 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to explore potential future scenarios of social distancing mandates and mask use at the state level, projecting the epidemic's course through winter 2021.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Krisztina Toth, Stefano Fresilli, Nicola Paoli, Giacomo Maiucci, Mariateresa Salvioni, Yuki Kotani, Stephan Katzenschlager, Markus A. Weigand, Giovanni Landoni
Summary: There is no significant difference in D-dimer levels between non-COVID-19 ARDS and COVID-19 ARDS patients, but the length of hospital stay is shorter in non-COVID-19 ARDS patients.