Col·lecció especial COVID-19
Enviaments recents
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Assessment of Human SARS CoV-2-Specific T-Cell Responses Elicited In Vitro by New Computationally Designed mRNA Immunogens (COVARNA)
(MDPI, 2024)
Article
Accés obertThe 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)
Comunicació de congrés
Accés obertWe 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)
Article
Accés obertMultisystem 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)
Article
Accés obertBackground: 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)
Article
Accés obertBackground: 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)
Article
Accés obertObjectives 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
Accés obertAt 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 ... -
Simulating real-life scenarios to better understand the spread of diseases under different contexts
(Springer, 2024-02-01)
Article
Accés obertCurrent statistical models to simulate pandemics miss the most relevant information about the close atomic interactions between individuals which is the key aspect of virus spread. Thus, they lack a proper visualization ... -
Immunisation efficacy of a stabilised SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein in two geriatric animal models
(Nature Research, 2024)
Article
Accés obertAge is associated with reduced efficacy of vaccines and linked to higher risk of severe COVID-19. Here we determined the impact of ageing on the efficacy of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine based on a stabilised Spike glycoprotein ... -
Was the COVID-19 epidemic synchronous in space? An analysis in the health regions of the Rio de Janeiro state, 2020-2022
(Associacao Brasileira de Pos - Graduacao em Saude Coletiva, 2024)
Article
Accés obertObjective: To analyze the spatio-temporal dynamics of COVID-19 in the Rio de Janeiro state within the nine health regions, between March 2020 and December 2022. Methods: The Poisson model with random effects was used ... -
Cognitive reserve, depressive symptoms, obesity, and change in employment status predict mental processing speed and executive function after COVID-19
(Springer, 2024-01-29)
Article
Accés obertThe risk factors for post-COVID-19 cognitive impairment have been poorly described. This study aimed to identify the sociodemographic, clinical, and lifestyle characteristics that characterize a group of post-COVID-19 ... -
Sleep quality in individuals with post-COVID-19 condition: relation with emotional, cognitive and functional variables
(Elsevier, 2024-02)
Article
Accés obertThe study aimed to assess sleep quality in PCC patients and its predictors by analysing its relationship with emotional, cognitive and functional variables, as well as possible differences based on COVID-19 severity. We ...