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Mask-Wearing Increased After a Government Recommendation: A Natural Experiment in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic
On April 3 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that all Americans wear face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The announcement came during the fielding of a large, nationally-representative survey (N =…
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The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review
Coronaviruses, members of Coronaviridae family, cause extensive epidemics of vast diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) in animals and humans. Super spread events (SSEs) potentiate early outbreak…
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Population age structure only partially explains the large number of COVID-19 deaths at the oldest ages
Background: To date, any attention paid to the age shape of COVID-19 deaths has been mostly in relation to understanding the differences in case fatality rates between countries. Objective: We explore differences in the age distribution of deaths…
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Repression of transcription by the glucocorticoid receptor: A parsimonious model for the genomics era.
Glucocorticoids are potent anti-inflammatory drugs that are used to treat an extraordinary range of human disease, including COVID-19, underscoring the ongoing importance of understanding their molecular mechanisms. Early studies of GR signaling led…
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The Conserved Coronavirus Macrodomain Promotes Virulence and Suppresses the Innate Immune Response during Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection
ADP-ribosylation is a common posttranslational modification that may have antiviral properties and impact innate immunity. To regulate this activity, macrodomain proteins enzymatically remove covalently attached ADP-ribose from protein targets. All…
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Emerging Infectious Diseases: a 10-Year Perspective from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Although optimists once imagined that serious infectious disease threats would by now be conquered, newly emerging (e.g., severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS]), reemerging (e.g., West Nile virus), and even deliberately disseminated infectious…
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Hypothetic immunopathological impacts of SARS-CoV-2 and HIV co-infection on COVID-19 severity
To the Editor, The world is currently battling with and trying to survive yet another pandemic that threatens human health security. Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of coronavirus disease 19…
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Efecto de la composición racial sobre la calidad espermática de verracos
La evaluación de la calidad seminal constituye una herramienta para mejorar los índices reproductivos en las granjas porcinas. La movilidad del espermatozoide es un parámetro que se utiliza en la evaluación de la calidad espermática, porque se…
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Pearls of experience for safe and efficient hospital practices in otorhinolaryngology—head and neck surgery in Hong Kong during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
Abstract The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic originated in Wuhan, China and spread rapidly worldwide, leading the World Health Organization to declare an official global COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. In Hong Kong, clinicians and…
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Characterization of Home Working Population during COVID-19 Emergency: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Evidence about the characterization of home workers in terms of both work-related outcomes and health issues is lacking. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine the impact of home working on perceived job productivity and…
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