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The role of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing post-COVID-19 thromboembolic and cardiovascular complications
(2024-03-12)
Article
Open AccessObjective To study the association between COVID-19 vaccination and the risk of post-COVID-19 cardiac and thromboembolic complications. Methods We conducted a staggered cohort study based on national vaccination campaigns ... -
SARS-CoV-2 transmission in teenagers and young adults in Fútbol Club Barcelona’s Multidisciplinary Sports Training Academy
(Springer, 2023-03)
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Open AccessMost studies, aimed at determining the incidence and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in children and teenagers, have been developed in school settings. Our study conducted surveillance and inferred attack rates focusing on the ... -
Policies on children and schools during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Western Europe
(Frontiers Media SA, 2023-01-01)
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Open AccessDuring the pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), mitigation policies for children have been a topic of considerable uncertainty and debate. Although some children have co-morbidities ... -
Unraveling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hospital burden of respiratory syncytial virus
(2023-07-26)
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¿Un país de provincias o de ciudades no metropolitanas? La COVID-19 como caso de estudio para entender las dinámicas de las ciudades en el Perú
(Centre de Politica de Sol i Valoracions, CPSV / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC, 2024-02-29)
Article
Open AccessTot i que la literatura no defineix una única manera d’identificar i delimitar ciutats, una de les metodologies més acceptades és combinar criteris morfològics amb funcionals, deixant de banda els límits administratius. ... -
Assessment of Human SARS CoV-2-Specific T-Cell Responses Elicited In Vitro by New Computationally Designed mRNA Immunogens (COVARNA)
(MDPI, 2024)
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Open AccessThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes and advances in the field of vaccination, including the implementation and widespread use of encapsidated mRNA vaccines in general healthcare practice. Here, we present ... -
Extending Off-the-shelf NER Systems to Personal Information Detection in Dialogues with a Virtual Agent: Findings from a Real-Life Use Case
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024)
Conference lecture
Open AccessWe present the findings and results of our pseudonymisation system, which has been developed for a real-life use-case involving users and an informative chatbot in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Message exchanges ... -
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and SARS-CoV-2 variants: a two-year ambispective multicentric cohort study in Catalonia, Spain
(Springer, 2023-02-18)
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Open AccessMultisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare but severe disease temporarily related to SARS-CoV-2. We aimed to describe the epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory findings of all MIS-C cases diagnosed ... -
The impact of COVID-19 certification mandates on the number of cases of and hospitalizations with COVID-19 in the UK: A difference-in-differences analysis
(Frontiers Media SA, 2023-02-24)
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Open AccessBackground: Mandatory COVID-19 certification, showing proof of vaccination, negative test, or recent infection to access to public venues, was introduced at different times in the four countries of the UK. We aim to study ... -
Predictive performance of multi-model ensemble forecasts of COVID-19 across European nations
(2023-04-21)
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Open AccessBackground: Short-term forecasts of infectious disease burden can contribute to situational awareness and aid capacity planning. Based on best practice in other fields and recent insights in infectious disease epidemiology, ... -
Association between ethnic background and COVID-19 morbidity, mortality and vaccination in England: a multistate cohort analysis using the UK Biobank
(2023-09)
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Open AccessObjectives Despite growing evidence suggesting increased COVID-19 mortality among people from ethnic minorities, little is known about milder forms of SARS- CoV- 2 infection. We sought to explore the association between ... -
Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter
(Springer, 2024-12-01)
Article
Open AccessAt the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, fears grew that making vaccination a political (instead of public health) issue may impact the efficacy of this life-saving intervention, spurring the spread of vaccine-hesitant ...