Background: People resistant to vaccination against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been counted in almost all countries worldwide. This anti-scientific subjectivity attitude could be explained by assuming as background the
CONCLUSIONS: Financial and belief barriers identified in Zimbabwe showcase the importance of targeting cost and health literacy to reduce apprehensions. In Botswana, administrative challenges could be addressed with patient navigation. Improving our
CONCLUSION: Investigating the immune-inflammatory markers can assist physicians in providing prompt treatment and ICU admission in terms of COVID-19 severity. As a result, which may reduce the overall mortality of COVID-19 patients.
CONCLUSIONS: The older women in this study have identified the negative impact having a diagnosis and being home-quarantine means to them and their family. Yet, they were also able to take some positives from this. Importantly, the older women report
CONCLUSIONS: Patients who developed functional tics during the pandemic represent a phenotypic variant of the wider group of patients with functional movement disorders, associated with younger age at onset and influenced by pandemic-related factors
CONCLUSION: This study describes the profile of the HCWs who were infected during the first wave of the pandemic in Montréal. Recommendations include collecting comprehensive sociodemographic data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and ensuring equitable
Among the most important sources of β-glucans are edible and medicinal mushrooms. These molecules are components of the cellular wall of basidiomycete fungi (mushrooms) and can be extracted even from the basidiocarp as the mycelium and its
Growing evidence has shown that altered gut microbiota is associated with the pathogenesis of COVID-19, but their causal effects are still unclear. We conducted a bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) study to assess the causal effects of gut