Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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The impact of disability on employment and financial security following the outbreak of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
Published 2021BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have a greater impact on people with disabilities than non-disabled people. Our aim was to compare the short-term impact of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and ...Article -
How should we conduct pandemic vaccination?
Published 2021Vaccination plays an important role in pandemic planning and response. The possibility of developing an effective vaccine for a novel pandemic virus is not assured. However, as we have seen with SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development, ...Article -
Delays to Low-risk Thyroid Cancer Treatment During COVID-19—Refocusing From What Has Been Lost to What May Be Learned and Gained
Published 2021This Viewpoint examines the potential benefits that delaying low-risk thyroid surgical procedures may provide for patients as the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic continues to alter treatment timelines.Article -
Obesity as a risk factor for COVID-19 mortality in women and men in the UK biobank: Comparisons with influenza/pneumonia and coronary heart disease
Published 2021Obesity is associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes, yet, it is unclear whether the risk of COVID-19 mortality associated with obesity is similar between the sexes. We used data from the UK Biobank to assess the risk of ...Article -
Potential and demonstrated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexually transmissible infections.
Published 2021PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review considers the potential and demonstrated impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on the sexually transmissible infection (STI)/HIV transmission. RECENT FINDINGS: COVID-19 increases the vulnerability of those ...Article