Before the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began, antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
was among the top priorities for global public health. Already a complex challenge, AMR …

Background Insight into COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) patient characteristics, rates and
risks of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and associated outcomes as well as any …

Having adopted a dynamic zero-COVID strategy to respond to SARS-CoV-2 variants with
higher transmissibility since August 2021, China is now considering whether, and for how …

Background After the 2002/2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak, 30% of
survivors exhibited persisting structural pulmonary abnormalities. The long-term pulmonary …

Although most cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have occurred in low-
resource countries, little is known about the epidemiology of the disease in such contexts …

Purpose. Our aim is to correlate the clinical condition of patients with COVID‐19 infection
with the 25‐point CT severity score by Chang et al.(devised for assessment of ARDS in …

Cellular and humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is critical to control primary infection and
correlates with severity of disease. The role of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity, its …

There are different patterns in the COVID-19 outbreak in the general population and
amongst nursing home patients. We investigate the time from symptom onset to diagnosis …

Background Predicting hospital length of stay (LoS) for patients with COVID-19 infection is
essential to ensure that adequate bed capacity can be provided without unnecessarily …

The pleiotropic cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of
COVID-19, but uncertainty remains about the potential benefits and harms of targeting IL-6 …