This page lists feature articles on COVID-19 relevant to people working at St Vincent's Health Australia.
All articles listed are open access unless stated otherwise.
Therapy
Efficacy and safety of 5-day oral Ensitrelvir for patients with mild to moderate COVID-19: The SCORPIO-SR Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA Network Open:2024: February 9 Full text
Clinical Practice
The influence of facemasks on communication in healthcare settings: a systematic review.
Disability and Rehabilitation:2024: February 11 Full text
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on provision of interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery services in Australia: a review of Medicare claims data. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2024: February 7 Full text
Epidemiology
Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths.
PNAS:2024: February 1 Full text
Realized impact of COVID-19 related disruptions on the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2024: February 12 Full text
Prepandemic physical activity and risk of COVID-19 diagnosis and hospitalization in older adults.
JAMA Network Open:2024: February 13 Full text
Pathophysiology
Temporal association between COVID-19 infection and subsequent new-onset dementia in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Preprints with The Lancet:2024: February 6 Full text
Myocarditis mortality with and without COVID-19: insights from a national registry.
Clinical Research in Cardiology:2023: December 24 Full text
Long COVID
Clinical effectiveness of an online supervised group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme for adults with post-covid-19 condition (REGAIN study): multicentre randomised controlled trial.
BMJ:20245: February 7 Full text
Predictors of non-recovery from fatigue and cognitive deficits after COVID-19: a prospective, longitudinal, population-based study.
eClinical Medicine:2024: February 2 Full text
Psychometric properties and observational data for COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale (C19-YRSm) for post-COVID-19 syndrome.
QJM:2023: October 3 Full text
Infection Control
Implementing recommended COVID-19 public health measures in the era of living with COVID-19: Experiences of residential aged care facility managers in New South Wales, Australia. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: February 6 Full text
Vaccines
Effectiveness of bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents aged 5 to 17 years.
JAMA:2024: February 6 Full text
Immunology
From “Immunity Debt” to “Immunity Theft”—how COVID-19 might be tied to recent respiratory disease surges.
JAMA: 2024: January 10 Full text
Viral afterlife: SARS-CoV-2 as a reservoir of immunomimetic peptides that reassemble into proinflammatory supramolecular complexes.
PNAS:2024: February 2 Full text