This collection showcases journal articles, preprints, and other publications and presentations about the Coronavirus COVID-19 by faculty and researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA, USA.
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Publications from 2020
Call to Action: SARS-CoV-2 and Cerebrovascular Disorders (CASCADE), Shahram Abootalebi, M. Reza Azarpazhooh, Mario Di Napoli, and Brian Silver
Parents Chime In: Our Self-Care Strategies While Supporting Loved Ones with Mental Health Conditions During a Pandemic, Transitions ACR
Investigating the Impact of Asymptomatic Carriers on COVID-19 Transmission, Jacob B. Aguilar, Jeremy Samuel Faust, Lauren M. Westafer, and Juan B. Gutierrez
COVID-19 Pandemic and Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases: An Ecological Study on Data of 185 Countries, M. Reza Azarpazhooh, Brian Silver, and Mario Di Napoli
An Adaptive and Dynamic Biosensor Epidemic Model for COVID-19, Salvador V. Balkus, Joshua Rumbut, Honggang Wang, and Hua (Julia) Fang
Commentary: The molecular pandemonium of coronavirus disease 2019, Leora B. Balsam and William Hoffman
Resources for Supporting Children’s Emotional Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jessica Dym Bartlett, Jessica L. Griffin, and Dana Thomson
Management of primary skin cancer during a pandemic: Multidisciplinary recommendations, Brian C. Baumann, Kelly M. MacArthur, Jerry D. Brewer, William M. Mendenhall, Christopher A. Barker, Jeremy R. Etzkorn, Nathaniel Jellinek, Jeffrey F. Scott, Hiram A. Gay, John C. Baumann, Farrin A. Manian, Phillip M. Devlin, Jeff M. Michalski, Nancy Y. Lee, Wade L. Thorstad, Lynn D. Wilson, Carlos A. Perez, and Christopher J. Miller
Sarcoid-like reaction in a patient recovering from coronavirus disease 19 pneumonia, Sara Behbahani, Julia Baltz, Rebecca Droms, April C. Deng, Shinya U. Amano, Nikki A. Levin, Mary Callery O'Brien, and Karen Wiss
Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 - Preliminary Report, John H. Beigel, Robert W. Finberg, and ACTT-1 Study Group Members
Guidelines for TMS/tES Clinical Services and Research through the COVID-19 Pandemic, Marom Bikson, Gottfried Schlaug, and Hamed Ekhtiari
Reaching the Hard to Reach: Empowering Community Members to Think Differently and Embrace Teens with Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Challenges During the Time of COVID, Stephanie J. Briody Esq, Michelle D. Muffett-Lipinski M.Ed., and Susan M. Halpin M.Ed
PPE Portraits - a Way to Humanize Personal Protective Equipment, Cati Brown-Johnson, Stacie Vilendrer, Mary Beth Heffernan, Shira Winter, Thanh Khong, Jennifer Reidy, and Steven M. Asch
Practical lessons learned for assessing and treating bipolar disorder via telehealth modalities during the COVID-19 pandemic, Claire Burgess, Christopher Miller, Aleda Franz, Erica A. Abel, Laszlo Gyulai, David Osser, Eric G. Smith, Samantha Connolly, Lois Krawczyk, Mark Bauer, and Linda Godleski
Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19, Charles Calisher, Dennis Carroll, Rita Colwell, Ronald B. Corley, Peter Daszak, Christian Drosten, Luis Enjuanes, Jeremy Farrar, Hume Field, Josie Golding, Alexander Gorbalenya, Bart Haagmans, James M. Hughes, William B. Karesh, Gerald T. Keusch, Sai Kit Lam, Juan Lubroth, John S. Mackenzie, Lawrence C. Madoff, Jonna Mazet, Peter Palese, Stanley Perlman, Leo Poon, Bernard Roizman, Linda Saif, Kanta Subbarao, and Mike Turner
In Memoriam: A Memoir for Our Fallen "Heroes", Bipin Chaurasia and Sabareesh K. Natarajan
Health inequity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cry for ethical global leadership, David E. Chiriboga, Juan Garay, Paulo Buss, Rocio Saenz Madrigal, and Laetitia Charmaine Rispel
AAIM Recommendations for the 2020-2021 Internal Medicine Residency Application Cycle in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, K. C. Chretien, J. M. Raj, R. A. Abraham, P. Aronowitz, D. J. Astiz, S. G. Chheda, E. L. Esquivel, Maria M. Garcia, N. Ismail, S. Lane, S. E. McLaughlin, A. Pereira, A. W. Shaheen, A. L. Spencer, K. M. Tartaglia, and L. L. Willett
Managing Central Venous Access during a Healthcare Crisis, Tristen T. Chun, Dejah R. Judelson, Andres Schanzer, and Karen Woo
Preventing Outbreaks through Interactive, Experiential Real-Life Simulations, Andres Colubri, Molly Kemball, Kian Sani, Chloe Boehm, Karen Mutch-Jones, Ben Fry, Todd Brown, and Pardis C. Sabeti
Bilateral Basal Ganglia Hemorrhage in a Patient with Confirmed COVID-19, Rrita Daci, Megan Kennelly, Annie Ferris, Muhammad U. Azeem, Mark D. Johnson, Farid Hamzei-Sichani, Adalia H. Jun-O'Connell, and Sabareesh K. Natarajan
Letter: Safety Considerations for Neurosurgical Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Rrita Daci, Sabareesh K. Natarajan, and Mark D. Johnson
Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates, Joana Damas, Elinor K. Karlsson, and Harris A. Lewin
Broad Host Range of SARS-CoV-2 Predicted by Comparative and Structural Analysis of ACE2 in Vertebrates [preprint], Joana Damas, Elinor K. Karlsson, and Harris A. Lewin
Ethical Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), Peter A. DePergola
Ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19 and racial outcome disparity in North America, Adam A. Dmytriw, Anna L. Kuhn, and Ajit S. Puri
Non-Adherence Tree Analysis (NATA) - an adherence improvement framework: a COVID-19 case study, Ernest Edifor, Regina Brown, Paul Smith, and Rick Kossik
Commentary: Rethinking surgical protocols in the COVID-19 era, Daniel Engelman and Rakesh C. Arora
Ramping up Delivery of Cardiac Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Guidance Statement from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons COVID-19 Task Force, Daniel Engelman, Sylvain Lother, Isaac George, Gorav Ailawadi, Pavan Atluri, Michael C. Grant, Jonathan W. Haft, Ansar Hassan, Jean-Francois Legare, Glenn Whitman, and Rakesh C. Arora
Adult Cardiac Surgery and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Aggressive Infection Mitigation Strategies Are Necessary in the Operating Room and Surgical Recovery, Daniel T. Engelman, Sylvain Lother, Isaac George, Duane J. Funk, Gorav Ailawadi, Pavan Atluri, Michael C. Grant, Jonathan W. Haft, Ansar Hassan, Jean-Francois Legare, Glenn Whitman, Rakesh C. Arora, and Society of Thoracic Surgery COVID-19 Taskforce
Attitudes Toward a Potential SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: A Survey of U.S. Adults, Kimberly A. Fisher, Sarah Bloomstone, Jeremy Walder, Sybil L. Crawford, Hassan Fouayzi, and Kathleen M. Mazor
Accelerated Graduation and the Deployment of New Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Terence R. Flotte, Anne C. Larkin, Melissa A. Fischer, Sonia N. Chimienti, Deborah M. DeMarco, Pang-Yen Fan, and Michael F. Collins
Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery recommendations for the care of emergent neurointerventional patients in the setting of covid-19, Justin F. Fraser and Ajit S. Puri
Reduction in ST-Segment Elevation Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Activations in the United States during COVID-19 Pandemic, Santiago Garcia, Mazen S. Albaghdadi, Perwaiz M. Meraj, Christian Schmidt, Ross Garberich, Farouc A. Jaffer, Simon Dixon, Jeffrey J. Rade, Mark Tannenbaum, Jenny Chambers, Paul P. Huang, and Timothy D. Henry
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on STEMI care: An expanded analysis from the United States, Santiago Garcia and Jeffrey J. Rade
Patients With SMI in the Age of COVID-19: What Psychiatrists Need to Know, Jeffrey L. Geller and Margarita Abi Zeid Daou
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department CT for suspected diverticulitis: A natural experiment to explain patients’ and clinicians’ assessment of risk and willingness to undergo CT scanning?, Averi L. Gibson, Byron Y. Chen, Max P. Rosen, S. Nicolas Paez, and Hao S. Lo
We’re Here for You!, Sally A. Gore and Lamar Soutter Library
Palliative Care During Public Health Emergencies: Examples from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kristina Gracey, Stephen A. Martin, and Jennifer Reidy
Searching for COVID-19 treatments: First, do no harm, Roy Guharoy and Edward Krenzelok
COVID-19, Postacute Care Preparedness, and Nursing Homes, Jerry H. Gurwitz
Nursing Homes, the Pandemic, and Caring Enough, Jerry H. Gurwitz and Alice F. Bonner
Adult cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Tiered Patient Triage Guidance Statement, Jonathan W. Haft, Pavan Atluri, Gorav Alawadi, Daniel Engelman, Michael C. Grant, Ansar Hassan, Jean-Francois Legare, Glenn Whitman, and Rakesh C. Arora
Strategies and Resources for Maintaining Sobriety During COVID-19, Susan Halpin M.Ed.; Scott Pelletier M-CTTS, LADC11, CMA; John Monfredo MA, MSW, LCSW; Amy Nichols CARC, CPS; Michael Earielo; Joseph Tobin; Patricia Aussem; and Athena Haddon LADAC/CADAC
The impact of COVID-19 on individuals living with serious mental illness, Kareem Hamada and Xiaoduo Fan
COVID-19 and Severe Acute Respiratory Infection, Steven C. Hatch
COVID-19, Ebola, Spacesuits, and Infection Control: What PPE Does for HCWs, Steven C. Hatch
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Review of Taxonomy, Genetics, Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Control, Yosra A. Helmy, Mohamed Fawzy, Ahmed Elaswad, Ahmed Sobieh, Scott P. Kenney, and Awad A. Shehata
Immediate and long-term consequences of COVID-19 infections for the development of neurological disease, Michael T. Heneka, Douglas T. Golenbock, Eicke Latz, Dave Morgan, and Robert H. Brown Jr.
Risk of COVID-19 in Dermatologic Patients on Long-term Immunomodulatory Therapy, Zachary E. Holcomb, Monica Rosales Santillan, Peyton C. Morss-Walton, Prerna Salian, Min Ji Her, Nicole M. Giannotti, Alexa B. Kimball, and Martina L. Porter
Evolving Role of Radiology in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review, Sarwat Hussain
Telemedicine and the battle for health equity: Translating temporary regulatory orders into sustained policy change, Bina Kassamali, Nazgol-Sadat Haddadi, Medhi Rashighi, Margaret Cavanaugh-Hussey, and Avery LaChance
Addressing Challenges in Obtaining Emergency Medicine Away Rotations and Standardized Letters of Evaluation Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, Linda Katirji, Liza Smith, Alexis Pelletier-Bui, Emily Hillman, Xiao Chi Zhang, Michael Pasirstein, Mark Olaf, Jazmyn Shaw, Douglas Franzen, and Ronnie Ren
Effect of Powered Air-Purifying Respirators on Speech Recognition Among Health Care Workers, Judith S. Kempfle, Ashwin Panda, Mary Hottin, Kevin Vinik, Elliott D. Kozin, Christopher J. Ito, and Aaron K. Remenschneider
RNA Therapeutics: Informational drugs as a pandemic response tool, Anastasia Khvorova
Unconditional care in academic emergency departments, Jeffrey A. Kline and Steven Bird
Potential Role of Platelets in COVID‐19: Implications for Thrombosis, Milka Koupenova
Platelets and Immunity: Going Viral, Milka Koupenova-Zamor and Jane E. Freedman
American Neurotology Society, American Otological Society, and American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Foundation Guide to Enhance Otologic and Neurotologic Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elliott D. Kozin, Aaron K. Remenschneider, Nikolas H. Blevins, Taha A. Jan, Alicia M. Quesnel, Divya A. Chari, Bradley W. Kesser, Kevin H. Franck, Daniele Marchioni, Frederick G. Barker II, Bob Carter, Robert K. Jackler, D. Bradley Welling, and Daniel J. Lee
Anticoagulation use and Hemorrhagic Stroke in SARS-CoV-2 Patients Treated at a New York Healthcare System, Alexandra Kvernland and Nils Henninger
Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tips and Strategies to Maintain Productivity & Connectedness, Ian A. Lane, Michelle G. Mullen, and Amanda Costa
Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in the Boston area highlights the role of recurrent importation and superspreading events, Jacob Lemieux, Katherine J. Siddle, Jeremy Luban, Glen R. Gallagher, Lawrence C. Madoff, Sandra Smole, Virginia M. Pierce, Eric Rosenberg, Pardis C. Sabeti, Daniel J. Park, and Bronwyn L. MacInnis
Considerations for Management of Longitudinal Melanonychia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Perspective, Shari R. Lipner, Matilde Iorizzo, Nathaniel Jellinek, Bianca Maria Piraccini, and Richard K. Scher
Coronavirus Economic Stimulus Payments: Who Gets It, How, & Impact on Other Benefits, Deirdre G. Logan
Maintaining Your Emotional Wellness During COVID-19, Deirdre G. Logan
How Young Adults Can Manage Loss of Income During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Deirdre G. Logan and TransitionsACR@umassmed.edu
SARS-CoV-2, Jeremy Luban
The DHODH Inhibitor PTC299 Arrests SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Suppresses Induction of Inflammatory Cytokines, Jeremy Luban, Caterina Strambio De Castilla, Yetao Wang, Allan Jacobson, and Stuart Peltz
Risk of Transmission of infection to Healthcare Workers delivering Supportive Care for Coronavirus Pneumonia; A Rapid GRADE Review, T.K. Luqman-Arafath, Sandeep Jubbal, Elakkat D. Gireesh, Jyothi Margapuri, Hanumantha Rao Jogu, Hitesh Patni, Tyler Thompson, Suma Menon, Arsh Patel, Amirahwaty Abdulla, and Sudheer Penupolu
Timely development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, Shan Lu
COVID-19 in teriflunomide-treated patients with multiple sclerosis, Amir Hadi Maghzi, Maria K. Houtchens, Paolo Preziosa, Carolina Ionete, Biljana D. Beretich, James M. Stankiewicz, Shahamat Tauhid, Ann Cabot, Idanis M. Berrios Morales, Tamara H. W. Schwartz, Jacob A. Sloane, Mark S. Freedman, Massimo Filippi, Howard L. Weiner, and Rohit Bakshi
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-Specific IgG Antibodies Among Adults Living in Connecticut Between March 1 and June 1, 2020: Post-Infection Prevalence (PIP) Study, Shiwani Mahajan, Lokinendi V. Rao, and Harlan M. Krumholz
Performance of Abbott Architect, Ortho Vitros, and Euroimmun Assays in Detecting Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Shiwani Mahajan, Carrie A. Redlich, Adam V. Wisnewski, Louis E. Fazen, Lokinendi V. Rao, Karthik Kuppusamy, Albert I. Ko, and Harlan M. Krumholz
COVID-19 in the Pediatric Population, Patricia A. McQuilkin
Welcome to the PEER COVID-19 Seminar, Patricia A. McQuilkin
ABCs of COVID-19 Coloring Page, Angela Messmer-Blust
Coronavirus Infographic, Angela Messmer-Blust
Letter to editor regarding "Acute Stroke Management During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: From Trough of Disillusionment to Slope of Enlightenment", Ajay Kumar Mishra, Anu Anna George, and Jennifer Sargent
Mechanisms of neurological injury in COVID-19, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Amos Lal, Kamal Kant. Sahu, Anu Anna George, and Jennifer B. Sargent
Letter to the Editor Regarding "Neurological Impact of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Practical Considerations for the Neuroscience Community", Ajay Kumar Mishra, Amos Lal, Kamal Kant Sahu, Anu Anna George, and Jennifer B. Sargent
Cerebrovascular events in COVID-19 patients, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Kamal Kant Sahu, Anu Anna George, Jennifer B. Sargent, and Amos Lal
Patterns of heart Injury in COVID-19 and relation to outcome, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Kamal Kant Sahu, Amos Lal, and Jennifer B. Sargent
Cardiac drugs and outcome in COVID-19, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Kamal Kant Sahu, and Jennifer B. Sargent
Gaucher disease and SARS-CoV-2 infection: Emerging management challenges, Pramod Mistry, Edward I. Ginns, and Ellen Sidransky
Neurocritical Care Resource Utilization in Pandemics: A Statement by the Neurocritical Care Society, Asma M. Moheet and Wiley R. Hall
IgA MAb blocks SARS-CoV-2 Spike-ACE2 interaction providing mucosal immunity, Ejemel Monir, Qi Li, Shurong Hou, Zachary Schiller, Aaron Wallace, Alla Amcheslavsky, Nese Kurt Yilmaz, Jacqueline R. Toomey, Ryan Schneider, Lisa Cavacini, Mark S. Klempner, Celia A. Schiffer, and Yan Wang
A cross-reactive human IgA monoclonal antibody blocks SARS-CoV-2 spike-ACE2 interaction, Ejemel Monir, Qi Li, Shurong Hou, Zachary Schiller, Aaron Wallace, Alla Amcheslavsky, Nese Kurt Yilmaz, Jacqueline R. Toomey, Ryan Schneider, Anudeep S. Ramchetty, Chandrashekar Ganesa, Lisa Cavacini, Mark S. Klempner, Celia A. Schiffer, and Yan Wang
Epidemic to Endemic or Pandemic Infectious Diseases: Commonalities and Distinctions between Malaria, Ebola and COVID19, Ann M. Moormann
Finishing College Classes During COVID-19, Michelle G. Mullen and Deirdre G. Logan
Should I Attend College in the Fall? Questions for Students with Mental Health Conditions to Consider, Michelle G. Mullen and Jean Wnuk
Effects of tobacco cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and waterpipe smoking on endothelial function and clinical outcomes, Thomas Munzel, Omar Hahad, Marin Kuntic, John F. Keaney Jr., John E. Deanfield, and Andreas Daiber
Multidisciplinary Care of Epidermolysis Bullosa during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Consensus: Recommendations by an International Panel of Experts, Dedee F. Murrell and Karen Wiss
An adaptive model of health system organization and responses helped Vietnam to successfully halt the Covid-19 pandemic: What lessons can be learned from a resource-constrained country, Huy Nguyen, Minh Van Hoang, An Thi Minh Dao, Hoa L. Nguyen, Tien Van Nguyen, Phuong The Nguyen, Long Quynh Khuong, Phuong Mai Le, and Stuart Gilmour
Global Learnings Evidence Brief: Protecting Health Care Workers in South Korea During the COVID-19 Pandemic, SeungJu Jackie Oh, Julia Ah-Reum An, and Ruby Kwak
Perioperative Considerations During Emergency General Surgery in the Era of COVID-19: A U.S. Experience, Georgios Orthopoulos, Gladys L. Fernandez, Jessica L. Dahle, Elizabeth Casey, and Nicolas Jabbour
Coronavirus conversations, in a time of logarithm, Thoru Pederson
Publishing coronavirology: Peering into peer(less?) review, Thoru Pederson
The 50th anniversary of reverse transcriptase-and its ironic legacy in the time of coronavirus, Thoru Pederson
Addressing decontaminated respirators: Some methods appear to damage mask integrity and protective function, Richard E. Peltier, Jiayuan Wang, Brian L. Hollenbeck, Jennifer Lanza, Ryan M. Furtado, Jay Cyr, Richard T. Ellison III, and Kimiyoshi J. Kobayashi
Understanding variation in covid-19 reported deaths with a novel Shewhart chart application, Rocco J. Perla, Shannon M. Provost, Gareth J. Parry, Kevin Little, and Lloyd P. Provost