COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), an enveloped positive stranded RNA virus and the third member of the family Coronaviridae which has emerged as a zoonotic infection. The predecessor of this new pathogen caused the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and the Middle
Knowing when to get tested for the novel coronavirus before seeing friends and family can be confusing, especially as the nation lacks a cohesive approach. Likely compounding any confusion is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent change to its testing guidance, which led to widespread criticism and further uncertainty around COVID- testing in general. But
Workers remove debris from a hospital that was heavily damaged in last month s explosion in Beirut. Lebanon s interim health minister, Hamad Hasan, told local media last month that the health system was on the brink of being overwhelmed because of the needs of blast victims and COVID- patients. Felipe DanaAP hide
In a bid to slow the rate of spread of the virus, the Federal Government of Nigeria, on several occasions, imposed targeted lockdown measures in areas with rapid increase of Covid-19 cases. The states in which the federal government imposed the targeted lockdown included Lagos, Ogun, and the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja.
Emotional well-being is a state of positive mental health where the individual is able to handle his emotions and all life activities. He understands his emotions, learns, and copes with all the negative situations, achieves, and finds a positive emotional state which finally leads to success. Covid-19 is a disease caused by newly
The outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a grave global public health emergency. Nowadays, social media has become the main channel through which the public can obtain information and express their opinions and feelings. This study explored public opinion in the early stages of COVID-19 in China by analyzing Sina-Weibo (a
We read with interest the institutional protocol for anesthetic management of a patient undergoing neurosurgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. We concur with this protocol, which is similar to our hospital’s protocol, except for a few modifications appropriate for our institute. Perhaps this relates to conducting multiple neurosurgical emergency surgeries daily. When community transmission
At the beginning of a COVID-19 infection, there is a period of time known as the exposed or latency period, before an infected person is capable of transmitting the infection to another person. We develop two differential equations models to account for this period. The first is a model that incorporates infected persons
Abstract Background Both bovine coronavirus (BCV) and bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) infections are currently wide-spread in the Swedish dairy cattle population. Surveys of antibody levels in bulk tank milk have shown very high nationwide prevalences of both BCV and BRSV, with large variations between regions. In the Swedish beef cattle population however,
Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a novel corinavirus (later named SARS-CoV-2 virus), was fistly reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China towards the end of 2019. Large-scale spread within China and internationally led the World Health Organization to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30th January 2020. The clinical