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
Rapid initiation of nasal saline irrigation to reduce severity in high-risk COVID+ outpatients.
Ear, Nose and Throat Journal:2022: August 25 Full text
Palmitoylethanolamide reduces proinflammatory markers in unvaccinated adults recently diagnosed with COVID-19: a randomized controlled trial.
Journal of Nutrition: September 9 Full text
Diagnosis
Concordance of SARS-CoV-2 results in self-collected nasal swabs vs swabs collected by health care workers in children and adolescents.
JAMA:2022: August 26 Full text
Clinical Practice
Aerosol precautions and airway complications: a national prospective multicentre cohort study.
Anaesthesia:2022: September 7 Full text
Long COVID
Understanding myalgic encephalomyelitis: myalgic encephalomyelitis and Long Covid have overlapping presentation.
Science: 2022: September 8 Full text
Sociodemographic characteristics and comorbidities of patients with Long COVID and persistent olfactory dysfunction.
JAMA Network Open:2022: September 8 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
CT of post-acute lung complications of COVID-19.
Radiology:2022: August 10 Full text
Pathophysiology
Delayed cardiac repolarisation as a predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19.
Heart:2022:108(9):1539-46 Full text
Vaccines
COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among vaccinated and unvaccinated adults 18 years or Older in 13 US States, January 2021 to April 2022.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2022: September 8 Full text
Immunology
Recent infection with HCoV-OC43 may be associated with protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
iScience:2022: September 9 Full text
Anti-spike mucosal IgA protection against SARS-CoV-2 omicron infection.
New England Journal of Medicine:2022: September Full text
