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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/29205.]. ©Cici Bauer, Kehe Zhang, Miryoung Lee, Susan Fisher-Hoch, Esmeralda Guajardo, Joseph McCormick, Isela de la Cerda, Maria E Fernandez, Belinda Reininger. Originally published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (https://publichealth.jmir.org), 18.08.2021.
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Despite limitations on the use of cycle threshold (CT) values for individual patient care, population distributions of CT values may be useful indicators of local outbreaks. Conduct an exploratory analysis of potential correlations between the population distribution of cycle threshold (CT) values and COVID-19 disease dynamics, operationalized as p...
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The opioid crisis in the United States may be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Increases in opioid use, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) runs for opioid-related overdoses, and opioid-overdose deaths have been reported. No study has examined changes in multiple naloxone administrations, an indicator of overdose severity, during the COVID-19 pand...
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SARS-CoV-2 is known to cause severe bilateral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome or COVID-19 in patients, which can be debilitating and even fatal. With no drugs or vaccines available yet, a wide range of treatment regimens used are being repurposed. The need of the hour is to analyze various currently available regimens and devise a...
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Hyderabad, Pakistan, was the first city to witness an outbreak of extensively drug resistant (XDR) typhoid fever. The outbreak strain is resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, fluoroquinolones, and third-generation cephalosporin, thus greatly limiting treatment options. However, despite over 5000 documented cases, ...
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Despite the presence of scientific evidences supporting the importance of wearing masks to curtail the widespread of the COVID-19 virus, wearing masks has stirred up a significant debate particularly on social media. To investigate the topics associated with the public discourse against wearing masks in the United States. Further, we studied the re...
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Nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis (nPEP) is an effective HIV biomedical prevention strategy. The research and use of nPEP are mainly concentrated in the developed world, while little is known about the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of nPEP among HIV medical care providers in developing countries. We aimed to assess the nPEP knowledge a...
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With the fourth highest HIV burden globally, Nigeria is characterized as having a mixed HIV epidemic with high HIV prevalence among key populations, including female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people who inject drugs. Reliable and accurate mapping of key population hotspots is necessary for strategic placement of services and alloc...
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COVID-19 pandemic is severely affecting people all over the world. Nowadays, an important approach to understand such a phenomenon and its impacts on the lives of people consists of monitoring social networks and news on the Internet. The purpose of this study is to present a methodology to capture the main subjects and themes under discussion by n...
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In 2005, China established an internet-based Tuberculosis Information Management System (TBIMS) to monitor changes in tuberculosis (TB). Many scholars have conducted epidemiological research using TBIMS; however, few studies assessing control strategies have been performed based on this platform data. Henan province is a high TB incidence area in C...
