• Incidence and Outcomes of COVID-19 in People With CKD: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 

      Chung, Edmund Ym; Palmer, Suetonia C; Natale, Patrizia; Krishnan, Anoushka; Cooper, Tess E; Saglimbene, Valeria M; Ruospo, Marinella; Au, Eric; Jayanti, Sumedh; Liang, Amy; Deng, Danny Jia Jie; Chui, Juanita; Higgins, Gail Y; Tong, Allison; Wong, Germaine; Teixeira-Pinto, Armando; Hodson, Elisabeth M; Craig, Jonathan C; Strippoli, Giovanni Fm
      Published 2021
      RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disproportionately affects people with chronic diseases such as chronic kidney disease (CKD). We assessed the incidence and outcomes of COVID-19 in people with ...
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    • Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions 

      Eden, John-Sebastian; Sikazwe, Chisha; Xie, Ruopeng; Deng, Yi-Mo; Sullivan, Sheena G.; Michie, Alice; Levy, Avram; Cutmore, Elena; Blyth, Christopher C; Britton, Philip N; Crawford, Nigel; Dong, Xiaomin; Dwyer, Dominic E.; Edwards, Kimberly M.; Horsburgh, Bethany A.; Foley, David; Kennedy, Karina; Minney-Smith, Cara; Speers, David; Tulloch, Rachel L.; Holmes, Edward C.; Dhanasekaran, Vijaykrishna; Smith, David W.; Kok, Jen; Barr, Ian G.
      Published 2021
      Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection (ARI) with the most severe disease in the young and elderly1,2. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and travel restrictions ...
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    • Combining a convolutional neural network with autoencoders to predict the survival chance of COVID-19 patients 

      Khozeimeh, Fahime; Sharifrazi, Danial; Izadi, Navid Hoseini; Joloudari, Javad Hassannataj; Shoeibi, Afshin; Alizadehsani, Roohallah; Gorriz, Juan M.; Hussain, Sadiq; Sani, Zahra Alizadeh; Moosaei, Hossein; Khosravi, Abbas; Nahavandi, Saeid; Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful
      Published 2021
      COVID-19 has caused many deaths worldwide. The automation of the diagnosis of this virus is highly desired. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding classification performance on image datasets. To date, ...
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    • Vaccines for COVID-19: where do we stand in 2021? 

      Sharma, Ketaki; Koirala, Archana; Nicolopoulos, Katrina; Chiu, Clayton; Wood, Nicholas; Britton, Philip N
      Published 2021
      As of July 2021, over 3 billion doses of a COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally, and there are now 19 COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in at least one country. Several of these have been shown to be highly ...
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    • International Survey of Operative Practices for Otologists and Neurotologists During the COVID-19 Crisis. 

      Ridge, Sarah E; Chari, Divya A; Kozin, Elliott D; Remenschneider, Aaron K; Adunka, Oliver F; Aristegui, Miguel; Chang, Wai Tsz; Cheng, Yen-Fu; Chung, Jong Woo; Cohen, Michael S; Crowson, Matthew G; Golub, Justin S; Handzel, Ophir; Isaacson, Brandon; Iyer, Arunachalam; Kakehata, Seiji; Marchioni, Daniele; Nogueira, Jo�o Fl�vio; Patel, Nirmal; Quesnel, Alicia M; Rivas, Alejandro; Saeed, Shakeel R; Salzman, Richard; Santos, Felipe; Saxby, Alexander J; Tarabichi, Muaaz; Verhaert, Nicolas; Vincent, Robert; Wanna, George; Wolpert, Stephan; Lee, Daniel J
      Published 2021
      OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on operative practices of otology and neurotology providers internationally. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. METHODS: A 78-question survey was distributed ...
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