Background: The role of schools and children in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 remains to be determined. Following a first wave in spring and gradual easing of lockdown, Luxembourg experienced an early second epidemic wave before the start of summer school holidays on 15th July. This provided the opportunity to study the role of school-age children...
Published in Healthcare
While the epidemiological impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been relatively moderate in East-Asian countries, the pandemic has significantly impacted on citizens’ lives and livelihoods, and Japan is no exception. In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan managed unprecedented quarantines and realized the diffic...
Published in Thermal Engineering
AbstractThe operational reliability of feed pipelines made of 15GS steel used at thermal power plants is considered. The reason for the study consists in an incident at a Mongolian TPP, constructed according to a Soviet project, consisting in the detection of cracks in one of the bends of the feed pipeline. The zone of metal damage was removed, aft...
Published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic emergency response. Simply stated, telehealth is a tool to provide health care from a distance. Jefferson Health has leveraged its acute care telehealth platform to screen, order testing, and manage patients with COVID-19–related concerns. Objective This study aims ...
Published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
• Redeployed nurse practitioners can effectively provide clinical leadership in COVID-19 testing sites. • Drive-through COVID-19 testing allows for rapid testing of high volumes of patients. • Drive-through testing is cost-effective and generates positive clinical outcomes. • Drive-through testing uses substantially less personal protective equipme...
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background COVID-19 is a rapidly emerging respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. Due to the rapid human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2, many health care systems are at risk of exceeding their health care capacities, in particular in terms of SARS-CoV-2 tests, hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) beds, and mechanical ventilators. Predictiv...
Published in Human reproduction (Oxford, England)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a significant impact on medically assisted reproduction (MAR) services. ESHRE decided to mobilize resources in order to collect, analyse, monitor, prepare and disseminate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) knowledge specifically related to ART and early pregnancy. Th...
Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The aquatic environment offers cardiorespiratory training and testing options particularly for individuals unable to adequately train or test on land because of weight bearing, pain or disability concerns. No systematic review exists describing cardiorespiratory fitness protocols used in an aquatic environment. This review investigated the differen...
Published in Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
As rhinologists return to practice amid SARS-CoV-2, special considerations are warranted given the unique features of their subspecialty. Rhinologist manipulation of nasal tissue, proximity, and frequent aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) create high risk for infection transmission. There are 4 areas of special consideration to mitigate risk: (1)...
