What the world and our health systems and societies look like in the future depends on the meaning(s) we take from this pandemic, and in turn how we collectively respond Before the pandemic, we were living in a scandalously unequal world in which one per cent owned as m...

There is growing evidence that climatic factors could influence the evolution of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we build on this evidence base, focusing on the southern hemisphere summer and autumn period. The relationship between climatic factors and COVID-19 cas...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>Little is known about the long-term course of symptoms for mild coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) when accounting for symptoms due to other causes. We aimed to compare symptoms day b...

I wanted to take this moment to look through the lens of disaster psychiatry and see what lessons can be learned to inform us during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, how are disasters are defined in t...

General practice has not just remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic but responded with extraordinary agility and speed. This is not surprising as one of the key strengths of our speciality is its ability to adapt and innovate. We have a long track record of doing s...

Abstract Objective With the current SARS-CoV2 outbreak, countless tests need to be performed on potential symptomatic individuals, contacts and travellers. The gold standard is a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)–based system taking several hours to confirm ...

A novel Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) leading to pneumonia and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019 and has subse...

New evidence on the T-cell immuno-pathology in patient's with Corona Virus Disease 2019 (CoViD-19) was reported by Diao et al. in MedRxiv (doi: 10.1101/2020.02.18.20024364) [1]. It reports observations on 522 patients with confirmed CoViD-19 symptomatology, compared to ...

Simple Summary This commentary addresses the zoonotic and epidemiological aspects of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2) pandemic that is affecting the whole world with a contagion curve that continues to grow. This work aims to highlight the ro...

This scientific overview adapts the prospective data and content of a number of sources on the transmission of COVID-19 accumulated since 31 December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei. Primary endpoints of this review are to consider a critical approach to current state and trends i...

<jats:p>Este reporte, recientemente publicado, analiza el impacto disruptivo en los sistemas de Educación de 190 países durante la pandemia de COVD-19. Más de 1600 millones de alumnos en el mundo están alcanzados el mismo, en particular el 99% de los alumnos de países c...

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>We aimed to determine prognostic values of NEWS2 and laboratory parameters during the first week of COVID-19.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>All a...

<jats:p>COVID-19 affects different peoples in many unusual ways. An increasing number of atypical presentations of COVID-19 have already been reported worldwide. So, in this pandemic period, any unusual presentation of the patients, should keep in mind about the associa...

<jats:p>Climate change is an incredibly important issue that has horrific long-term impacts if necessary lifestyle and policy changes are not made now. Despite the presence of significant scientific evidence of climate change for years, many politicians are still unable...