Predicting the Need for Advanced Respiratory Support in COVID-19 Patients During the Initial Pandemic Phase: A Retrospective Analysis


Tuğba Çiçek • Melahat Uzel Sener • Ayperi Öztürk, Published:, 2024, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.64678  Abstract Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), led to high morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. It is known that some patients, initially hospitalized in general wards, deteriorate over time and require advanced respiratory support (ARS). This study […]

Study identifies risk factors for long-haul COVID disease in adults


Researchers surveyed more than 3,000 adults over the age of 18 who were treated via Mayo Clinic’s virtual COVID-19 clinics in Florida, Arizona and Minnesota between March 2020 and March 2021. They reviewed the patients’ symptoms, the incidence of long-haul COVID in the group and how many were hospitalized due to COVID-19. The patients were […]

Three-year outcomes of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19


Miao Cai, Yan Xie, Eric J. Topol & Ziyad Al-Aly Nature Medicine (2024) Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection causes post-acute sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (PASC) in many organ systems. Risks of these sequelae have been characterized up to 2 years after infection, but longer-term follow-up is limited. Here we built a cohort of 135,161 people with […]

Retrospective Evaluation of Hematological Parameters in COVID-19 Patients: Insights From the Emergency Department


Ahmed Jerah, May 28, 2024, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.61258 Cite this article as: Jerah A (May 28, 2024) Retrospective Evaluation of Hematological Parameters in COVID-19 Patients: Insights From the Emergency Department. Cureus 16(5): e61258. doi:10.7759/cureus.61258 Abstract Background: This retrospective study evaluated hematological parameters in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients to gain clinical insights. Methods: Data from the Emergency Department of Samtah […]

Covid becomes plague of elderly, reviving debate over ‘acceptable loss’


Authors: Ariana Eunjung Cha, Dan Keating November 27, 2022 President Biden may have declared the coronavirus pandemic “over,” but from John Felton’s view as the Yellowstone County health officer in Billings, Mont., it’s not over, just different. In October, Felton’s team logged six deaths due to the virus, many of them among vaccinated people. Their […]

Risk of Myocarditis After Sequential Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Age and Sex


Authors: Martina Patone, PhD; Xue W. Mei, PhD; Lahiru Handunnetthi, PhD; Sharon Dixon, MD; Francesco Zaccardi, PhD; Manu Shankar-Hari, PhD; Peter Watkinson, MD; Kamlesh Khunti, PhD; Anthony Harnden, PhD; Carol A.C. Coupland, PhD; Keith M. Channon, MD; Nicholas L. Mills, PhD; Aziz Sheikh, MD; Julia Hippisley-Cox, MD August 28, 2022 ORIGINAL RESEARCHARTICLECirculation. 2022;146:00–00. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059970 […]

How COVID Could Screw You Worse With Each Reinfection


Authors: David Axe Tue, July 5, 2022 The more times you catch COVID, the sicker you’re likely to get with each reinfection. That’s the worrying conclusion of a new study drawing on data from the U.S. Veterans Administration. Scientists stressed they need more data before they can say for sure whether, and why, COVID might get worse […]

COVID-19 outcomes and the human genome


Authors: Michael F. Murray MD, Eimear E. Kenny PhD, Marylyn D. RitchiePhD, Daniel J. Rader MD, Allen E. Bale MD, Monica A. Giovanni MS, CGC & Noura S. Abul-Husn MD, PhD Genetics in Medicine  volume 22, pages1175–1177 BACKGROUND In the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity to link host genomic factors to the highly variable clinical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection has been widely recognized.1,2 The overt motivation for […]

COVID long-haulers: Study shows who is most at risk, impact on local communities


Authors:  Hiroshima University Medical Express Posted June 9. 2022 A Japanese research team looking at COVID-19’s lingering impacts on survivors and local communities found that having a mild case of COVID-19, smoking status, comorbidities, or your sex aren’t significant predictors to tell if you are less likely to develop long-term symptoms, but age is. “The […]

During COVID’s omicron wave in U.S., death rates soared for older people


Authors: BENJAMIN MUELLER and Eleanor LutzThe New York Times May 31, 2022  Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, COVID killed them at vastly higher rates during this winter’s omicron wave than it did last year, preying on long delays since their last shots and the variant’s ability to skirt immune defenses. This winter’s wave of […]