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Greater executive dysfunction in patients post-COVID-19 compared to those not infected
Brain Behav Immun. 2023 Aug 14:S0889-1591(23)00237-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2023.08.014. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: A number of patients post-coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) report cognitive impairment (CI), even months after acute infection. We aimed to assess if COVID-19 is associated with increased incidence of CI in comparison to controls.METHODS: We analyzed data from the Mount Sinai Health System Post-COVID-19 Registry in New York City, a prospective cohort of patients post-COVID-19 ≥18 years of age and non-infected controls. CI was defined by scores ≥1.0 standard deviation below population norms, a...
Source: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - August 16, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Jacqueline H Becker Jenny J Lin Akosua Twumasi Ruchir Goswami Fernando Carnavali Kimberly Stone Monica Rivera-Mindt Minal S Kale Georges Naasan Joanne R Festa Juan P Wisnivesky Source Type: research

Long-running ProMED email service for alerting world to disease outbreaks is in trouble
The first news about the COVID-19 pandemic came not from a government or a scientific publication, but in an email from a disease-alert system called ProMED . This fateful missive in December 2019 about a few cases of a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China, is just one example of how physicians and public health experts around the world have used the 30-year-old, free service to share real-time information about local disease outbreaks with tens of thousands of subscribers. But ProMED is now on life support. Much of its work came to a screeching halt yesterday when 21 of its 38 paid editors and moderators went o...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 4, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Diverse and vulnerable: experiences of private allied health practices managing through the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Implications for the financial viability of Australian primary care
Aust Health Rev. 2023 Jul 4. doi: 10.1071/AH22268. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBackgroundThe majority of allied health services are delivered by small, private practices in the primary care setting with limited government funding. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdowns these practices were subject to the same health orders as any other private business with only 'essential services' permitted to remain open.Research aimWe set out to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated public health measures, on the financial viability of private allied health practices.MethodsThirteen semi-str...
Source: Australian Health Review - July 3, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: M John Petrozzi Michael Wright Rebekah Hoffman Brendan Goodger Sarah Wise Source Type: research

A rapid increase in coverage of COVID-19 vaccination, Central African Republic
Bull World Health Organ. 2023 Jun 1;101(6):431-436. doi: 10.2471/BLT.22.289155. Epub 2023 Mar 31.ABSTRACTPROBLEM: In 2021, Central African Republic was facing multiple challenges in vaccinating its population against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including inadequate infrastructure and funding, a shortage of health workers and vaccine hesitancy among the population.APPROACH: To increase COVID-19 vaccination coverage, the health ministry used three main approaches: (i) task shifting to train and equip existing community health workers (CHWs) to deliver COVID-19 vaccination; (ii) evidence gathering to understand peopl...
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - June 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Adidja Amani Phionah Atuhebwe Franck Fortune Mboussou Nsenga Ngoy Nicaise Eloi M'boufoungou Fred Osei-Sarpong Celestin Traore Richard Mihigo Ted Chaiban Source Type: research