ReviewRambam Maimonides medical journal2020
COVID-19 Compared to Other Pandemic Diseases.
Review in Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.
- Frequency of exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal attempts and death rates: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- The Impact of Leveraging an Emergency Department Observation Unit for Pandemic Response on Observation Outcomes: A Retrospective Observational Difference-In-Differences Study.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
- State of the Art: Observation Units in the Emergency Department, an Interim Practice Update and Policy Review.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
- Leveraging Observation Units for Disaster Response: Cases of Efficient Care Delivery in Disaster Incidents.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
- High Psychological Impact of Covid-19 on French Healthcare Workers: An Observational Cohort Study of PTSD, Depression and Burn-Out.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Observational
- Dual Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 3CL Protease and Human Cathepsin L Containing Glutamine Isosteres Are Anti-CoV-2 Agents.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Catalytic Mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 3-Chymotrypsin-Like Protease as Determined by Steady-State and Pre-Steady-State Kinetics.ACS catalysis · 2024Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients with Tuberculosis.Journal of clinical practice and research · 2024Article
- Assessment of anxiety in children during the COVID-19 pandemic.Annals of the Child Neurology Society · 2024Article
- Plants with antiviral properties used in Otorhinolaryngology.Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2024Review
- Disease and social factors associated with healthcare utilization for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infections in a longitudinal cohort of essential workers in Arizona.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Multi-Criteria Performance Analysis Based on Physics of Decision - Application to COVID-19 and Future Pandemics.IEEE transactions on services computing · 2023Article
- Large-scale emergency medical services scheduling during the outbreak of epidemics.Annals of operations research · 2023Article
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- Theranostic efficiency of biosurfactants against COVID-19 and similar viruses - A review.Journal of drug delivery science and technology · 2022Review
- Biodiversity in Times of COVID-19 and its Relationship with the Socio-Economic and Health Context: A Look from the Digital Media.Environmental management · 2022Article
- Nurses' experiences of accompanying patients dying during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative descriptive study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
- Associations between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Hospital Infrastructure Adaptation and Planning-A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Old zoonotic agents and novel variants of tick-borne microorganisms from Benguela (Angola), July 2017.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
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Abstract
In December 2019, the first cases of a new contagious disease were diagnosed in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China. Within a short period of time the outbreak developed exponentially into a pandemic that infected millions of people, with a global death toll of more than 500,000 during its first 6 months. Eventually, the novel disease was named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the new virus was identified as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Similar to all known pandemics throughout history, COVID-19 has been accompanied by a large degree of fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and economic disaster worldwide. Despite multiple publications and increasing knowledge regarding the biological secrets of SARS-CoV-2, as of the writing of this paper, there is neither an approved vaccine nor medication to prevent infection or cure for this highly infectious disease. Past pandemics were caused by a wide range of microbes, primarily viruses, but also bacteria. Characteristically, a significant proportion of them originated in different animal species (zoonoses). Since an understanding of the microbial cause of these diseases was unveiled relatively late in human history, past pandemics were often attributed to strange causes including punishment from God, demonic activity, or volatile unspecified substances. Although a high case fatality ratio was common to all pandemic diseases, some striking clinical characteristics of each disease allowed contemporaneous people to clinically diagnose the infection despite null microbiological information. In comparison to past pandemics, SARS-CoV-2 has tricky and complex mechanisms that have facilitated its rapid and catastrophic spread worldwide.
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