People's Willingness to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 Despite Their Safety Concerns: Twitter Poll Analysis

World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global health emergency on January 30, 2020. By December 2020, the safety and efficacy of the first vacc...

Glucocorticoid use in patients with adrenal insufficiency following administration of the COVID-19 vaccine: a pituitary society statement

Pain at the injection site, fatigue, headache, myalgias, arthralgias, chills, and fever can be early indicators of an increased need for glucocorticoi...

Evaluation of three rapid lateral flow antigen detection tests for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Study evaluated Sofia, Standard Q and Panbio™ rapid antigen detection tests. All three tests reached more than 90% sensitivity for samples with a high...

Think of the Children: Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Test in Pediatric Population

SARS-CoV-2 is the reference laboratory method to diagnose the disease. The sensitivity of Panbio COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device is lower in children th...

Highlighted Prospects of an IgM/IgG Antibodies Test in Identifying Individuals With Asymptomatic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection

Covert severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections could be seeding new outbreaks. To explore the roles of immunoglobulin...

Association of Age With SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Response

Children infected with SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to have mild symptoms and are at a lower risk of developing the severe respiratory disease compared...

The importance of anosmia, ageusia and age in community presentation of symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in Louisiana, USA; a cross-sectional prevalence study

Study focused on the nature and frequency of symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. A sample of 4778 adults from New Orleans and Baton Rou...

Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 indirect and direct RT-qPCR detection methods

The best direct methods detected 10 fold fewer viruses than indirect methods. With extracted RNA, the BGI RT-qPCR detection system exhibited superior...

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