Après la déclaration d’urgence de santé publique d’importance internationale, les hôpitaux sont devenus une référence dans la réponse à la pandémie. Il est donc important d’évaluer la capacité à répondre à la pandémie de COVID-19 parmi les professionnels de la santé d’un hôpital de référence à Pernambuco, dans le nord-est du Brésil. Cette étude tra...
Este artículo pretende analizar la relación entre la biopolítica, la teoría de la securitización y la geopolítica en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19. Para ello se ha revisado la bibliografía sobre la pandemia en estudios de seguridad, postestructuralistas y geopolíticos, confirmándose una ausencia de investigaciones que consideren conjuntam...
Published in Polish Journal of Microbiology
The study aimed to explore the protective effect of mask use against respiratory tract viral agents during the pandemic. The study included patients with a COVID-19 negative test who were hospitalized in the pulmonary disease clinic with the diagnoses of asthma attack, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation, and pneumonia in two ...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Even though death due to COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency, less virulent but highly transmissible forms of SARS-CoV-2 continue to spread in many countries leading to outbreaks and rise in hospitalizations in the affected regions. Lessons learned during the pandemic must be put into action to protect the world's population from anothe...
Published in Structure (London, England : 1993)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a novel coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which spreads rapidly all over the world. The main protease (Mpro) is significant to the replication and transcription of viruses, making it an attractive drug target against coronaviruses. Here, we introduce...
Published in Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the use of technology to continue societal functions, maintain daily living, and gather information became near ubiquitous overnight. In the United States, universities moved to remote online education, non-essential personnel were asked to work from home, many businesses were forced to rapidly embrace online p...
Published in Acta Medica Bulgarica
The aim of the study was to assess both self-perceived health and life satisfaction during one of COVID-19 pandemic peaks and to reveal their correlates among the study characteristics. Materials and methods. An online survey was conducted at the end of 2020 among 930 participants recruited via Facebook. Results. A quarter of the participants (26.2...
Published in Journal of Virology
SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, is highly transmissible and continues to have a significant impact on public health and the global economy. While several vaccines mitigate the severe consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection, mutant viruses with reduced reactivity to current vaccines continue to emerge and circulate. This study aimed to ide...
Published in Journal of Virology
Coronaviruses (CoVs), SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV, the respective causative agents of coronavirus disease 2019, SARS, and MERS, continually threaten human health. The spike (S) protein and its receptor-binding domain (RBD) fragment of these CoVs are critical vaccine targets. Nevertheless, the highly mutated RBD of SARS-CoV-2 variants, especi...
Published in Journal of Virology
CoV accessory genes are largely studied in overexpression assays and have been identified as innate immune antagonists. However, functions identified after overexpression are often not confirmed in the infected animal host. Furthermore, some accessory proteins are components of the CoV virion, but their role in viral replication and release remains...
