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May 18, 2021
Size and Duration of COVID-19 Clusters Go along with a High SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load: A Spatio-Temporal Investigation in Vaud State, Switzerland
Clustering of SARS-CoV-2 cases in Switzerland from January to June 2020 by region and date of diagnosis found that of the 457 clusters with significantly higher risk of infection compared to the surrounding region, 57% had at least one person with extremely high viral load (>1 billion copies/mL). Clusters with the highest viral loads tended…
March 11, 2021
International Heterogeneity in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pediatric Mortality Rates
An analysis of 23 countries found that pediatric (aged <15 years) COVID-19 mortality varied from 0 to 12.1 deaths per million with the highest rate in Peru. The pediatric to general population COVID-19 mortality was highest in India (10.4%). Pediatric COVID-19 mortality strongly correlated with neonatal mortality from 2018, but only had moderate-to-no correlation with…
January 4, 2021
Emergency Visits and Hospitalizations for Child Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A multicenter study of US children’s hospitals found declines in child physical abuse (CPA) encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the severity of the encounters similar to those in prior years. There was a decline in the overall volume of emergency department visits in children’s hospitals in March and a decline in CPA encounters at…
December 23, 2020
Changes in Elder Abuse Risk Factors Reported by Caregivers of Older Adults During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the caregivers of elders report experiencing adverse experiences previously established as risk factors for elder abuse. Persons responsible for the care of community-dwelling adults over the age of 60 report increasing financial hardship, greater worry about finances, heavier use of alcohol, increasing feelings of social isolation and loneliness, and greater physical,…
Comparison of Knowledge and Information-Seeking Behavior After General COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Tailored for Black and Latinx Communities
In a randomized trial, participants who identified as Black and Latinx who were assigned to watch public health video messages recorded by a physician of the same race/ethnicity were less likely have knowledge gaps regarding COVID-19 when compared to those who were received messages delivered by race-discordant physicians. Participants were presented videos regarding the symptoms,…
Clinical Outcomes, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies for Adults Experiencing Sheltered Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In a modeling study that simulated adults living in shelters, daily symptom screening with PCR testing of individuals who had positive symptom screening and use of alternative care sites for COVID-19 management were associated with substantially reduced new cases and costs compared with other strategies. When community transmission surges, adding universal testing every two weeks…
Changes in UK Hospital Mortality in the First Wave of COVID-19 the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol Prospective Multicentre Observational Cohort Study
[pre-print; not peer-reviewed] Among people recently admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, there was a 19% reduction in the odds of mortality compared to the first wave of the epidemic. After adjusting for demographics, comorbidities, and illness severity, the authors compared the mortality observed during a four-week interval in March to…
Epidemiology of COVID-19 Infection in Young Children under Five Years: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
A meta-analysis of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 in children under 5 years of age determined that children were frequently prescribed antibiotics and that the majority of the reported cases were children less than one year old. Bhuiyan et al. identified 65 studies of epidemiological and clinical characteristics of lab-confirmed COVID-19 infections in 1,214 children under age…
Variation in US Hospital Mortality Rates for Patients Admitted With COVID-19 During the First 6 Months of the Pandemic
COVID-19 mortality rates in the US declined among hospitalized patients over the first few months of the pandemic with better outcomes associated with low community prevalence of COVID-19, according to a retrospective cohort analysis. The authors constructed a cohort of 38,517 adults from a deidentified administrative database in patients admitted with COVID-19 from January 1…
Assessment of Maternal and Neonatal SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load, Transplacental Antibody Transfer, and Placental Pathology in Pregnancies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A prospective cohort study of 127 pregnant women found inefficient transplacental transfer of maternal SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies and no evidence for prolonged viremia in either maternal or fetal circulation. No detectable viremia in maternal or cord blood was identified in 64 participants diagnosed with COVID-19 and no SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in 88 tested placentas….
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