This paper focuses on how political communicators change their language when attempting to reassure their audiences. By their function, politicians necessarily threaten their audiences’ ‘negative face’ - the need to have one’s rights and liberties not restricted/removed...

People's perceived susceptibility to illnesses plays a key role in determining whether or not to take protective measures. However, self-enhancing biases hinder accurate susceptibility perceptions, leaving some individuals to feel invulnerable in the face of acute healt...

<p>Participatory Design (PD) – whose inclusive benefits are broadly recognised in design – can be very challenging, especially when involving children. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to further barriers to PD with such groups. One key barrier is the advent ...

<p>Background: COVID-19, caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has great health implications in older patients, including high mortality. In general, older patients often have atypical symptom presentations during acute illness due ...

<p>Unchecked inflammation can result in severe diseases with high mortality, such as macrophage activation syndrome (MAS). MAS and associated cytokine storms have been observed in COVID-19 patients exhibiting systemic hyper-inflammation. Interleukin-18 (IL-18), a proinf...

<p>We report the case of a 25-year-old pregnant woman, parity one, at 34 + 2 weeks of gestation, with a body mass index of 41 kg/m2 but no other comorbidities. There was a family history of COVID-19 among her one-year-old son, husband, brother, father and mother. She wa...

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