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
Medications for early treatment of COVID-19 in Australia. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2022: October 23 Full text
Endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19: an overview of evidence, biomarkers, mechanisms and potential therapies.
Acta Pharmalogica Sinica:2022: October 17 Full text
The first Australian experience with ward-based continuous positive airway pressure for COVID-19 respiratory failure: a retrospective cohort study. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: August 24 Full text
Clinical Practice
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in real time: coordinating a local hospital response using whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2022: October 21 Full text
Assessing healthcare outcomes among patients with dementia requiring hospitalization for COVID-19: An observational study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2022: October 21 Full text
Treatment limitations and clinical outcomes in critically ill frail patients with and without COVID-19 pneumonitis.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2022: September 24 Full text
Intensive care unit resources and patient-centred outcomes in severe COVID-19: a prospective single-centre economic evaluation.
Anaesthesia:2022: August 29 Full text
Interplay of immunosuppression and immunotherapy among patients with cancer and COVID-19.
JAMA Oncology:2022: November 3 Full text
Infection Control
The adequacy of user seal checking for N95 respirators compared to formal fit testing: a multicentred observational study. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2022: October 14 Full text
Pathophysiology
Protective down-regulated states in the human brain: A possible lesson from COVID-19.
PNAS:2022: November 7 Full text
Long Covid
Complexity and challenges of the clinical diagnosis and management of Long COVID.
JAMA Network Open: 2022: November 3 Full text
Assessment of respiratory function and exercise tolerance at 4–6 months after COVID-19 infection in patients with pneumonia of different severity.
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: September 16 Full text
Associations of depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress, and loneliness prior to infection with risk of post–COVID-19 conditions.
JAMA Psychiatry:2022: September 7 Full text
Vaccines
mRNA bivalent booster enhances neutralization against BA.2.75.2 and BQ.1.1.
bioRxiv:2022: November 1 Full text
Unadjuvanted intranasal spike vaccine elicits protective mucosal immunity against sarbecoviruses.
Science:2022: October 27 Full text
Low neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75.2, BQ.1.1, and XBB.1 by 4 doses of parental mRNA vaccine or a BA.5-bivalent booster.
bioRxiv:2022: November 2 Full text
Comparative risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome or thromboembolic events associated with different covid-19 vaccines: international network cohort study from five European countries and the US.
BMJ:2022: October 26 Full text
Immunology
Heterologous SARS-CoV-2 IgA neutralising antibody responses in convalescent plasma.
Clinical and Translational Immunology:2022: October 23 Full text
Psychosocial Issues
Worsening general health and psychosocial wellbeing of Australian hospital allied health practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic. AUS
Australian Health Review:2022: September 30 Full text
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on critical care health care professionals work practices and wellbeing: A qualitative study. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2022: October 11 Full text
