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Use of Updated COVID-19 Vaccines 2023-2024 Formula for Persons Aged ≥6 Months: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - United States, September 2023

Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 4:00 AM

COVID-19 vaccines protect against severe COVID-19-associated outcomes, including hospitalization and death. As SARS-CoV-2 has evolved, and waning vaccine effectiveness has been noted, vaccine formulations and policies have been updated to provide

Use of vitamin D drops leading to kidney failure in a 54-year-old man

Monday, April 08, 2019 - 12:00 AM

Bourne L. AugusteApr 8, 2019; 191:E390-E394PRACTICE

Use of Wastewater Metrics to Track COVID-19 in the US

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this study, nationwide, county wastewater levels relative to the county maximum were associated with high COVID-19 case and hospitalization rates in the first quarter of 2022, but there was increasing dissociation

Use of whole genome sequencing to identify low-frequency mutations in SARS-CoV-2 patients treated with remdesivir

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: Minimal intra-host variability and stochastic low-frequency variants detected in moderately ill patients suggests little selective pressure in patients receiving short courses of RDV. The barrier to RDV resistance is high in patients

Use of YouTube by academic medical centres during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study in Taiwan

Thursday, April 06, 2023 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: This nationwide observational study, performed in Taiwan, demonstrates well the trend and effectiveness of academic medical centres in promoting sound healthcare advice regarding COVID-19 through YouTube due to the channel's easy

Use PROSEVA study criteria not COVID-19 phenotype to guide proning treatment decisions

Monday, November 06, 2023 - 4:00 AM

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Use telehealth as needed: telehealth substitutes in-person primary care and associates with the changes in unplanned events and follow-up visits

Wednesday, May 03, 2023 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: Patients and providers treated telehealth and in-person visits as substitutes and used either depending on medical needs and availability. Telehealth did not lead to sooner or more follow-up visits than in-person services.

Use, failure, and non-compliance of respiratory personal protective equipment and risk of upper respiratory tract infections-A longitudinal repeated measurement study during the COVID-19 pandemic among healthcare workers in Denmark

Monday, February 19, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: Failures of RPE and non-compliance with RPE guidelines may increase the risk of URTI, compared to those who reported use of RPE as recommended. The implications of these findings are that the use of RPE to prevent URTI could be considered

Used paper tissues for pathogen identification in acute respiratory infection

Friday, September 29, 2023 - 4:00 AM

During the Belgian winter and spring season 2022-2023, we investigated the potential of used paper tissue (UPT) as a noninvasive sampling method for the diagnosis of acute respiratory infections. Screening for respiratory pathogens was done using an

Usefulness of a pluralistic approach in sentinel surveillance: seasonal influenza activity based on case counts per sentinel site in the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases Program and test counts, case counts, and test positiv...

Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 4:00 AM

In Japan, based on the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases (NESID) Program, influenza cases from ~5,000 sentinel sites are monitored weekly as part of influenza surveillance (as number of influenza cases/sentinel site). One