Latest COVID-19 Research & Evidence — 02/02/21

 

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Latest COVID-19 Research & Evidence — 02/02/21

 Research

Title: COVID-19 symptoms and SARS-CoV-2 antibody positivity in a large survey of first responders and healthcare personnel, May-July 2020.

Description: A SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey among first responder/healthcare personnel showed that loss of taste/smell was most predictive of seropositivity

Available from: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab080/6124470

 

Title: Machine and Deep Learning towards COVID-19 Diagnosis and Treatment: Survey, Challenges, and Future Directions.

Description: This survey offers a detailed overview of the existing state-of-the-art methodologies for ML and DL researchers and the wider health community with descriptions of how ML and DL and data can improve the status of COVID-19, and more studies in order to avoid the outbreak of COVID-19

Available from: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/3/1117

 

Title: Frailty is associated with in-hospital mortality in older hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands: the COVID-OLD study.

Description: The aim of the present study was to investigate the independent association between frailty and in-hospital mortality in older hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands.

Available from: https://academic.oup.com/ageing/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ageing/afab018/6123578

 Treatment

 Title: Derivation and validation of a clinical severity score for acutely ill adults with suspected COVID-19: The PRIEST observational cohort study.

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to derive and validate a triage tool, based on clinical assessment alone, for predicting adverse outcome in acutely ill adults with suspected COVID-19 infection.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245840

 Expert Opinions

 Title: The missing link in ethnicity and covid-19 research—time to separate the risk of infection from the risk of severe disease 

Available from: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/29/the-missing-link-in-ethnicity-and-covid-19-research-time-to-separate-the-risk-of-infection-from-the-risk-of-severe-disease/

Title: SARS-CoV-2 evolution and vaccines: cause for concern?

Description: In this comment the authors discuss what can be learnt from the variance and the effect of current trials

Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(21)00075-8/fulltext

 

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