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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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OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients

Nature, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly affected mortality worldwide1. There is unprecedented urgency to understand who is most at risk of severe outcomes, and this requires new approaches for the timely analysis of large datasets.
E. Williamson, A. Walker, K. Bhaskaran, S. Bacon, C. Bates, C. Morton, H. Curtis, A. Mehrkar, D. Evans, P. Inglesby, J. Cockburn, H. Mcdonald, B. Mackenna, L. Tomlinson, I. Douglas, C. Rentsch, R. Mathur, A. Wong, R. Grieve, D. Harrison, H. Forbes, A. Schultze, R. Croker, J. Parry, F. Hester, S. Harper, R. Perera, S. Evans, L. Smeeth, B. Goldacre   +29 more
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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help ...
J. V. Bavel, Katherine Baicker, Paulo S Boggio, V. Capraro, A. Cichocka, A. Cichocka, M. Cikara, M. Crockett, A. Crum, K. M. Douglas, James N. Druckman, J. Drury, Oeindrila Dube, N. Ellemers, E. Finkel, J. Fowler, M. Gelfand, Shihui Han, S. Haslam, J. Jetten, S. Kitayama, D. Mobbs, L. Napper, D. Packer, Gordon Pennycook, Ellen Peters, R. Petty, David G. Rand, S. Reicher, S. Schnall, A. Shariff, L. Skitka, S. Smith, C. Sunstein, Nassim Tabri, Joshua A. Tucker, S. Linden, P. Lange, Kim A. Weeden, Michael J. A. Wohl, Jamil Zaki, S. Zion, Robb Willer   +42 more
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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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The origin, transmission and clinical therapies on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak – an update on the status

Military Medical Research, 2020
An acute respiratory disease, caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, previously known as 2019-nCoV), the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread throughout China and received worldwide attention.
Yanrong Guo, Qing Cao, Z. Hong, Yuan-Yang Tan, Shou-Deng Chen, Hongjun Jin, K. Tan, D. Wang, Yan Yan   +8 more
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Critical appraisal in rapid systematic reviews of COVID-19 studies: implementation of the Quality Criteria Checklist (QCC)

Systematic Reviews, 2023
In this letter, we briefly describe how we selected and implemented the quality criteria checklist (QCC) as a critical appraisal tool in rapid systematic reviews conducted to inform public health advice, guidance and policy during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Daphne Duval, Nicola Pearce-Smith, Jennifer C. Palmer, Jason Kwasi Sarfo-Annin, Paul Rudd, Rachel Clark   +5 more
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Dysregulation of immune response in patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background In December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan and rapidly spread throughout China. Methods Demographic and clinical data of all confirmed cases with COVID-19 on admission at Tongji Hospital from January 10 to February ...
C. Qin, Luo-Qi Zhou, Zi-Wei Hu, Shuoqi Zhang, Sheng Yang, Yu Tao, Cuihong Xie, K. Ma, Ke Shang, Wei Wang, Daishi Tian   +10 more
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The COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Research Center: a cornerstone for strengthening safety evidence for COVID-19 vaccination in the Republic of Korea [PDF]

Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives
The COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Research Committee (CoVaSC) was established in November 2021 to address the growing need for independent, in-depth scientific evidence on adverse events (AEs) following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination.
Na-Young Jeong, Hyesook Park, Sanghoon Oh, Seung Eun Jung, Dong-Hyun Kim, Hyoung-Shik Shin, Hee Chul Han, Jong-Koo Lee, Jun Hee Woo, Jaehun Jung, Joongyub Lee, Ju-Young Shin, Sun-Young Jung, Byung-Joo Park, Nam-Kyong Choi   +14 more
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Evaluation of self-administered antigen testing in a college setting

Virology Journal, 2022
Background The objective of our investigation was to better understand barriers to implementation of self-administered antigen screening testing for SARS-CoV-2 at institutions of higher education (IHE).
Sarah C. Tinker, Jessica L. Prince-Guerra, Kelly Vermandere, Jenna Gettings, Cherie Drenzik, Gary Voccio, Tonia Parrott, Jan Drobeniuc, Tonya Hayden, Stephen Briggs, Debbie Heida, Natalie Thornburg, Lisa C. Barrios, John C. Neatherlin, Sabrina Madni, Catherine N. Rasberry, Kenneth D. Swanson, Azaibi Tamin, Jennifer L. Harcourt, Sandra Lester, Lydia Atherton, Margaret A. Honein   +21 more
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COVID-19 Disease and Vaccination: Knowledge, Fears, Perceptions and Feelings of Regret for Not Having Been Vaccinated among Hospitalized Greek Patients Suffering SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Infectious Disease Reports, 2022
Background: The development of vaccines against COVID-19 has greatly altered the natural course of this infection, reducing the disease’s severity and patients’ hospitalization. However, hesitancy against vaccination remains an obstacle in the attempt to
Petros Ioannou, Sotiris Tzalis, Eirini Pasparaki, Despoina Spentzouri, Myrto Konidaki, Ioanna Papakitsou, Nikolaos Spernovasilis, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, George Samonis, Diamantis P. Kofteridis   +9 more
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