CONCLUSIONS: TM and HN are feasible ways to reach parents/guardians of kindergarten through 12th-grade students to provide COVID-19 screening messages. Strategies to improve engagement may strengthen the impact of the intervention.
CONCLUSIONS: The proportion of students achieving grade-level proficiency in 2020 to 2021 fell below prepandemic levels at each evaluated time point in the academic year. Increased time spent in-person by a school district was associated with an
CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a lasting impact on deaths due to respiratory diseases and certain specific causes of death in 2021, and it has disproportionately affected certain regions.
BACKGROUND: Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) is a rare complication of adenoviral vector-based vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The syndrome is caused by antibodies against platelet factor 4 (PF4, CXCL4) that lead to
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant harbours many mutations in its spike protein compared to the original SARS-CoV-2 strain, which may alter its ability to enter cells, cell tropism, and response to interventions blocking virus entry. To elucidate these
As healthcare data becomes increasingly available from various sources, including clinical institutions, patients, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical industries, machine learning (ML) services are becoming more significant in healthcare-facing
CONCLUSION: The positive effects of the social comparison processes are stronger than the negative effects of the adverse socio-economic context. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, workers may have compared their work situation with the condition of
According to data from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as of June 2020, a significant number of African Americans had been infected with the coronavirus disease, experiencing disproportionately higher death rates compared to other