Israel sees 70% spike in number of seriously ill COVID patients within a week


‘It’s an unpredictable and unstable situation,’ says immune system expert Prof. Cyrille Cohen, urging lawmakers to ‘actively encourage herd immunity among the vulnerable’ Authors:  Times of Israel June 2022 The…[...]

Age-Adjusted Associations Between Comorbidity and Outcomes of COVID-19: A Review of the Evidence From the Early Stages of the Pandemic


Authors: Kate E. Mason*, Gillian Maudsley, Philip McHale, Andy Pennington, Jennifer Day and Ben Barr Objectives: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, people with underlying comorbidities were overrepresented in hospitalised cases of COVID-19, but the relationship between comorbidity…[...]

The Age-Related Risk of Severe Outcomes Due to COVID-19 Infection: A Rapid Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression


Authors: Karla Romero Starke 1, Gabriela Petereit-Haack 2, Melanie Schubert 1, Daniel Kämpf 1, Alexandra Schliebner 1, Janice Hegewald 1, Andreas Seidler 1 Abstract Increased age appears to be a strong risk factor for COVID-19 severe outcomes. However, studies do not sufficiently consider…[...]