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First-Year Student Transition at the University of the Free State during Covid‑19: Challenges and Insights

Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2020
First-year seminars and university induction programmes are embedded with academic and social skills required by students to  transition into their first year of study. The first-year seminar at the University of the Free State is a credit-bearing module called UFS101, and is a prerequisite for degree completion.
Herkulaas M.v.E. Combrink, Lauren L. Oosthuizen   +1 more
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Stress Cardiomyopathy in COVID-19 Disease

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020
Patients affected by COVID-19 pneumonia may develop stress cardiomyopathy, also known as Takotsubo syndrome (TTS), at different stages during the disease and with different degrees of left ventricular dysfunction.
Maria Cristina Pasqualetto, Eleonora Secco, Manuele Nizzetto, Moreno Scevola, Lorella Altafini, Alberto Cester, Fausto Rigo   +6 more
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Performance of existing and novel surveillance case definitions for COVID-19 in household contacts of PCR-confirmed COVID-19

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Optimized symptom-based COVID-19 case definitions that guide public health surveillance and individual patient management in the community may assist pandemic control. Methods We assessed diagnostic performance of existing cases definitions (e.
Hannah E. Reses, Mark Fajans, Scott H. Lee, Charles M. Heilig, Victoria T. Chu, Natalie J. Thornburg, Kim Christensen, Sanjib Bhattacharyya, Alicia Fry, Aron J. Hall, Jacqueline E. Tate, Hannah L. Kirking, Scott A. Nabity, The U.S. COVID-19 Household Investigation Team   +13 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Sarilumab in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial [PDF]

, 2022
Background: Open-label platform trials and a prospective meta-analysis suggest efficacy of anti–IL-6R therapies in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 receiving corticosteroids.
DiCioccio, A. Thomas, Saggar, Suraj, Herman, Gary A., Sivapalasingam, Sumathi, Aberg, Judith A., Kampman, Wendy, Ferreira, Manuel A., Kosmicki, Jack A., O'Brien, Meagan P., Boyapati, Anita, Criner, Gerard, Hosain, Romana, Labriola-Tompkins, Emily, Musser, Bret J., Akinlade, Bolanle, Brown, Samuel M., Bhore, Rafia, Ng Gong, Michelle, Horowitz, Julie E., Hajizadeh, Negin, Sobieszczyk, Magdalena E., Park, William, Gulabani, Daya, Yancopoulos, George D., Mahmood, Adnan, Lederer, David J., Sperber, Steven J., Weinrich, David M., Stein, David K., Baras, Aris, Giannelou, Angeliki, Menon, Vidya, Somersan-Karakaya, Selin, Purcell, Lisa A., Nivens, Michael C., Parrino, Janie, Kowal, Bari, Waldron, Alpana, Braunstein, Ned, Criner|, Ramesh, Divya   +40 more
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Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden’s population
Nele Brusselaers, David Steadson, Kelly Bjorklund, Sofia Breland, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Andrew Ewing, Sigurd Bergmann, Gunnar Steineck   +7 more
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Prevalence of risk behaviors and correlates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity among in-school contacts of confirmed cases in a Georgia school district in the pre-vaccine era, December 2020–January 2021

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background There is a continuing risk for COVID-19 transmission in school settings while transmission is ongoing in the community, particularly among unvaccinated populations. To ensure that schools continue to operate safely and to inform implementation
Marisa Hast, Megan Swanson, Colleen Scott, Emeka Oraka, Catherine Espinosa, Eleanor Burnett, Esther A. Kukielka, Marion E. Rice, Lemlem Mehari, Jazmyn McCloud, Danielle Miller, Rachel Franklin, Jacqueline E. Tate, Hannah L. Kirking, Elana Morris   +14 more
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COVID-19 case management strategies: what are the options for Africa?

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2021
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has put a strain on health systems globally. Although Africa is the least affected region to date, it has the weakest health systems and an exponential rise in cases as has been observed in other ...
Joy Luba Lomole Waya, David Ameh, Joseph Lou K. Mogga, Joseph F. Wamala, Olushayo Oluseun Olu   +4 more
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Exploring Diversity of COVID‑19 Based on Substitution Distance.

Infection and drug resistance, 2020
The number of COVID-19 infections worldwide has reached 10 million. COVID‑19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is more contagious than SARS-CoV-1. There is a dispute about the origin of COVID-19. Study results showed that all SARS-CoV-2 sequences around the world share a common ancestor towards the end of 2019.Virus sequences from COVID-19 samples at the early time
Chen,Yi-Hau, Wang,Hsiuying
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Nigeria: The impact of COVID-19 and food system responses

, 2021
As Nigeria continues to face the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, CGIAR and partners have expanded access to quality seeds and improved crop varieties, strengthened capacity of women and youth, and informed national responses and policies with evidence ...
COVID-19 Hub
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Moving from rhetoric to action: how Africa can use scientific evidence to halt the COVID-19 pandemic

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
The ongoing pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 has spread rapidly to all countries of the world. Africa is particularly predisposed to an escalation of the pandemic and its negative impact given its weak economy and health systems.
Olushayo Oluseun Olu, Joy Luba Lomole Waya, Sylvester Maleghemi, John Rumunu, David Ameh, Joseph Francis Wamala   +5 more
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