This collection showcases journal articles, preprints, and other publications and presentations about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and COVID-19 by faculty and researchers at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA, USA.
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Publications from 2021
COVID-19 Pediatric Dermatology, Holly Neale and Elena B. Hawryluk
The RADx Tech Test Verification Core and the ACME POCT in the Evaluation of COVID-19 Testing Devices: A Model for Progress and Change, Eric J. Nehl, Karl J. Simin, Nathaniel Hafer, and David D. McManus
SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Drug Use in Trauma Patients from Six Sites in the United States [preprint], Tran B. Ngo, Mark J. Neavyn, Jeffrey T. Lai, and Kavita M. Babu
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical research activities: Survey of study participants and health care workers participating in a hypertension trial in Vietnam, Hoa L. Nguyen, Oanh T. Tran, Duc A. Ha, Van H. Phan, Cuc T. Nguyen, Giang H. Nguyen, Thang T. Nguyen, German Chiriboga, Robert J. Goldberg, and Jeroan J. Allison
Vietnam’s Healthcare System Decentralization: how well does it respond to global health crises such as Covid-19 pandemic?, Huy Van Nguyen, Joseph Debattista, Minh Duc Pham, An Thi Minh Dao, Stuart Gilmour, Hoa L. Nguyen, Tien Van Nguyen, Phuong Mai Le, Phuong The Nguyen, Anh Thi Ngoc Tran, Kien Duy Vu, Son Thai Dinh, and Minh Van Hoang
Decline in subarachnoid haemorrhage volumes associated with the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thanh N. Nguyen, Ajit S. Puri, Anna L. Kuhn, and Raul G. Nogueira
Editors' Note and Special Communication: Research Priorities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Emerging From the COVID-19 Pandemic, Douglas K. Novins and Jean A. Frazier
COVID-19 Pandemic and Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes: No Significant Change in Glycemic Control During The Pandemic Lockdown of 2020, Benjamin U. Nwosu, Layana Al-Halbouni, Sadichchha Parajuli, Gabrielle Jasmin, Emily Zitek-Morrison, and Bruce A. Barton
A hybrid Shewhart chart for visualizing and learning from epidemic data, Gareth Parry, Lloyd P. Provost, Shannon M. Provost, Kevin Little, and Rocco J. Perla
Departing the coast of dystopia, Thoru Pederson
Remembering and admiring the CDC, Thoru Pederson
Effectiveness of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine among U.S. Health Care Personnel, Tamara Pilishvili and John P. Haran
Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Personnel - 33 U.S. Sites, January-March 2021, Tamara Pilishvili, John P. Haran, Vaccine Effectiveness Among Healthcare Personnel Study Team, and Gregory A. Volturo
Leading Through a Crisis: The Application of Servant Leadership During COVID-19, Mary E. Piorun, Regina Fisher Raboin, Jessica Kilham, Martha E. Meacham, and Vivian Okyere
POCT Dataset, POCT dataset researcher
Performance and Implementation Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen Test in a High-throughput Drive-through Community Testing Site in Massachusetts [preprint], Nira R. Pollock, Lawrence C. Madoff, and Sandra Smole
Performance and Implementation Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW Rapid Antigen Test in a High-throughput Drive-through Community Testing Site in Massachusetts, Nira R. Pollock, Lawrence C. Madoff, and Sandra C. Smole
Performance and Operational Evaluation of the Access Bio CareStart Rapid Antigen Test in a High-Throughput Drive-Through Community Testing Site in Massachusetts, Nira R. Pollock, Lawrence C. Madoff, and Sandra C. Smole
The safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in Chinese adults aged 18-59 years: A phase I randomized, double-blinded, controlled trial, Jing Pu, Shan Lu, Changgui Li, Yanchun Che, Longding Liu, and Qihan Li
Should Remdesivir Be Used for the Treatment of Patients With COVID-19? Rapid, Living Practice Points From the American College of Physicians (Version 2), Amir Qaseem, Jennifer Yost, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, George M. Abraham, Janet A. Jokela, Mary Ann Forciea, Matthew C. Miller, and Linda L. Humphrey
Update Alert: Should Remdesivir Be Used for the Treatment of Patients With COVID-19? Rapid, Living Practice Points From the American College of Physicians (Version 2), Amir Qaseem, Jennifer Yost, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, George M. Abraham, Janet A. Jokela, Matthew C. Miller, Mary Ann. Forciea, and Linda L. Humphrey
What Is the Antibody Response and Role in Conferring Natural Immunity After SARS-CoV-2 Infection? Rapid, Living Practice Points From the American College of Physicians (Version 1), Amir Qaseem, Jennifer Yost, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Mary Ann Forciea, George M. Abraham, Matthew C. Miller, Adam J. Obley, and Linda L. Humphrey
Coronavirus disease 2019 and clinical research in U.S. nursing homes, Charlene C. Quinn, Alyce S. Adams, Jay S. Magaziner, and Jerry H. Gurwitz
Single breath counting is an effective screening tool for forced vital capacity in ALS, Colin Quinn, Corey T. Mcmillan, Margaret A. Owegi, Kelly Almasy, Catherine Douthwright, Diane Mckenna-Yasek, Namita A. Goyal, James Berry, and Robert H. Brown Jr.
Newer Horizon of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Based Therapy in the Management of SARS-CoV-2-Associated Mucormycosis: A Safe Hope for Future Medicine, Alok Raghav, Syed Ghazanfar Ali, Goo-Bo Jeong, Kirti Amresh Gautam, Shahid Banday, Qazi Noorul Mateen, Prashant Tripathi, Richa Giri, Saurabh Agarwal, Manish Singh, and Haris M. Khan
Challenges in defining Long COVID: Striking differences across literature, Electronic Health Records, and patient-reported information [preprint], Halie M. Rando, Feifan Liu, and Melissa A. Haendel
Use of Palliative Care Music Therapy in a Hospital Setting during COVID-19, Jennifer Reidy and Mary-Carla MacDonald
Assessing Goals-of-Care Documentation during the COVID-19 Patient Surge in an Academic Safety-Net Medical Center, Jennifer Reidy, Judith A. Savageau, Kate Sullivan, and Vandana Nagpal
Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director Experience Adapting Emergency Remote Learning During the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic, Ronnie Ren, Kendra Parekh, Doug Franzen, Molly Estes, Melanie Camejo, Mark Olaf, and Xiao Chi Zhang
International Survey of Operative Practices for Otologists and Neurotologists During the COVID-19 Crisis, Sarah E. Ridge, Aaron K. Remenschneider, and Daniel J. Lee
The Silent Epidemic, James M. Rippe
COVID-19 and Obesity: A Pandemic Wrapped in an Epidemic, James M. Rippe and John P. Foreyt
The Clinical Review Committee: Impact of the Development of In Vitro Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Within RADx Tech, Matthew L. Robinson, Laura L. Gibson, and David D. McManus
Making older women visible, Paula A. Rochon, Nathan M. Stall, and Jerry H. Gurwitz
Treatment recommendations for patients with vitiligo during COVID-19, Michelle Rodrigues, Amit G. Pandya, Iltefat Hamzavi, Khaled Ezzedine, Marcel W. Bekkenk, and John E. Harris
Symptoms of Anxiety, Burnout, and PTSD and the Mitigation Effect of Serologic Testing in Emergency Department Personnel During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Robert M. Rodriguez, Juan Carlos C. Montoy, Karin F. Hoth, David A. Talan, Karisa K. Harland, Patrick Ten Eyck, William Mower, Anusha Krishnadasan, Scott Santibanez, Nicholas Mohr, Project COVERED Emergency Department Network, John P. Haran, and Gregory A. Volturo
Analysis of Emerging Variants in Structured Regions of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome, Sean P. Ryder, Brittany R. Morgan, Peren Coskun, Katianna Antkowiak, and Francesca Massi
Challenges of Cellular Therapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kamal Kant Sahu, Sikander Ailawadhi, Natalie Malvik, and Jan Cerny
A Splenic Infarction Related to Parainfluenza Infection in a Patient with AML: Lessons for COVID-19, Kamal Kant Sahu, Bennett E. Vogt, Lindsey Shanahan, and Jan Cerny
Training in Neurology: How Lessons Learned on Teaching, Well-being and Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic Can Shape the Future of Neurology Education, Stefano Sandrone, Dara V. F. Albert, S. Richard Dunham, Jessica Kraker, Ika Noviawaty, Michael Palm, and Hani Kushlaf
Outcomes of COVID-19 in Patients With Cancer: Report From the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), Noha Sharafeldin, Benjamin Bates, Qianqian Song, Vithal Madhira, Yao Yan, Sharlene Dong, Eileen Lee, Nathaniel Kuhrt, Yu Raymond Shao, Feifan Liu, Timothy Bergquist, Justin Guinney, Jing Su, and Umit Topaloglu
Season 2, Episode 3: People and Places, Hugh Silk, Jesse Sardell, Mina Botros, and Qiuwei Yang
A COVID clash: How to proceed when IACUCs and IBCs disagree, Jerald Silverman
Lessons from a local effort to screen for SARS-CoV-2, Noah J. Silverstein and Jeremy Luban
Innate lymphoid cells and disease tolerance in SARS-CoV-2 infection [preprint], Noah J. Silverstein, Yetao Wang, Zachary Manickas-Hill, Claudia C. Carbone, Ann Dauphin, MGH COVID-19 Collection & Processing Team, Jonathan Z. Li, Bruce D. Walker, Xu G. Yu, and Jeremy Luban
Longitudinal assessment of diagnostic test performance over the course of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, Rebecca L. Smith, Laura L. Gibson, Alyssa N. Owens, John P. Broach, Bruce A. Barton, Peter Lazar, David D. McManus, and Christopher B. Brooke
Longitudinal assessment of diagnostic test performance over the course of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection [preprint], Rebecca L. Smith, Laura L. Gibson, Alyssa N. Owens, John P. Broach, Bruce A. Barton, Peter Lazar, David D. McManus, and Christopher B. Brooke
National Trends In ED Visits, Hospital Admissions, And Mortality For Medicare Patients During The COVID-19 Pandemic, Peter B. Smulowitz, A. James O'Malley, Hazar Khidir, Lawrence Zaborski, J. Michael McWilliams, and Bruce E. Landon
Adapting Helping Babies Breathe into a Virtual Curriculum: Methods, Results, and Lessons Learned, Celia Sobelman, Kristen Richard, Patricia A. McQuilkin, and Nisha Fahey
COVID-19 Tracheostomy: Experience in a University Hospital With Intermediate Follow-up, Rahul N. Sood, Benjamin A. Palleiko, Daniel Alape, Mark W. Maxfield, Jonathan Holdorf, and Karl Uy
The Case for Altruism in Institutional Diagnostic Testing [preprint], Ivan Specht, Kian Sani, Yolanda Botti-Lodovico, Michael Hughes, Kristin Heumann, Amy Bronson, John Marshall, Emily Baron, Eric Parrie, Olivia Glennon, Ben Fry, Andres Colubri, and Pardis C. Sabeti
Changes in psychosocial functioning among urban, school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic, Andrea E. Spencer, J. Michael Murphy, and Arvin Garg
Update to the study protocol for an implementation-effectiveness trial comparing two education strategies for improving the uptake of noninvasive ventilation in patients with severe COPD exacerbation, Mihaela S. Stefan, Penelope S. Pekow, Christopher M. Shea, Ashley M. Hughes, Nicholas S. Hill, Jay S. Steingrub, Mary Jo S. Farmer, Dean R. Hess, Karen L. Riska, Taylar A. Clark, and Peter K. Lindenauer
Leveraging the Massachusetts perinatal quality collaborative to address the COVID-19 pandemic among diverse populations, Katherine Sullivan, Ruben Vaidya, and Rachana Singh
Global Impact of COVID-19 on Stroke Care, SVIN COVID-19 global registry, Raul Nogueira, Ajit S. Puri, Anna L. Kuhn, and Thanh Nguyen
Developing a sampling method and preliminary taxonomy for classifying COVID-19 public health guidance for healthcare organizations and the general public, Peter Taber, Catherine J. Staes, Saifon Phengphoo, Elisa Rocha, Adria Lam, Guilherme Del Fiol, Saverio M. Maviglia, and Roberto A. Rocha
Apheresis physician well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of a survey, Yvette C. Tanhehco, Yanhua Li, Nicole D. Zantek, Joanne Becker, Mohamed Alsammak, Kael Mikesell, Ding Wen Wu, Tisha Foster, Vishesh Chhibber, Marisa Saint Martin, and Gay Wehrli
"What I thought was so important isn't really that important": international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Irina Todorova and Zlatina Kostova
Stories of Life during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: A Qualitative Study, Silvia Caterina Tomaino Maria, Sabrina Cipolletta, Zlatina Kostova, and Irina Todorova
SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection in a Liver Transplant Recipient, Christopher H. Tomkins-Tinch, Jennifer S. Daly, Nicole M. Theodoropoulos, Michael P. Madaio, Neng Yu, Vijay K. Vanguri, Babak Movahedi, Adel Bozorgzadeh, Karl J. Simin, Jeremy Luban, Bronwyn L. MacInnis, Pardis C. Sabeti, and Stuart M. Levitz
The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: Public health responses, opportunities and challenges, Huy Van Nguyen, Hoa L. Nguyen, An Thi Minh Dao, Tien Van Nguyen, Phuong The Nguyen, Phuong Mai Le, Kien Duy Vu, Anh Thi Ngoc Tran, Phuong Kim Dao, Cham Thi Nguyen, and Joseph Debattista
Aging and COVID-19 in Minority Populations: a Perfect Storm, Tubanji Walubita, Ariel Beccia, Esther Boama-Nyarko, Melissa Goulding, Carly Herbert, Jessica Kloppenburg, Guadalupe Mabry, Grace A. Masters, Asli McCullers, and Sarah N. Forrester
The Intestinal and Oral Microbiomes Are Robust Predictors of COVID-19 Severity the Main Predictor of COVID-19-related Fatality [preprint], Doyle V. Ward, Shakti Bhattarai, Mayra Rojas-Correa, Ayan Purkayastha, Devon Holler, Ming Da Qu, William G. Mitchell, Jason D. Yang, Samuel Fountain, Abigail Zeamer, Catherine Forconi, Gavin Fujimori, Boaz Odwar, Caitlin Cawley, Beth A. McCormick, Ann M. Moormann, Mireya Wessolossky, Vanni Bucci, and Ana Maldonado-Contreras
Effects of COVID-19 on Health Care Workers, Mary Whalen and Penny C. Smith
Traumatic Injury Under COVID-19 Stay-at-home Advisory: Experience of a New England Trauma Center, Chloe H. Williams, Erin M. Scott, Jon D. Dorfman, and Bruce J. Simon
Lung Physiological Variations in COVID-19 Patients and Inhalation Therapy Development for Remodeled Lungs, Jinxiang Xi, Brendan Walfield, Xiuhua April Si, and Alexander A. Bankier
How workplace violence correlates turnover intention among Chinese healthcare workers in COVID-19 context: The mediating role of perceived social support and mental health, Yinmei Yang, Peigang Wang, Mohammedhamid Osman Kelifa, Bo Wang, Mingxiu Liu, Lili Lu, and Wei Wang
Long-term side effects and lingering symptoms post COVID-19 recovery, Mohammad Zarei, Deepanwita Bose, Masoud Nouri-Vaskeh, Vida Tajiknia, Ramin Zand, and Mehdi Ghasemi
Viral proteases: Structure, mechanism and inhibition, Jacqueto Zephyr, Nese Kurt Yilmaz, and Celia A. Schiffer
Comment on: COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: Calming the Perfect Storm, Robert A. Zorowitz, Christian Bergman, Daniel Haimowitz, Jessica L. Kalender-Rich, David F. Polakoff, Karl Steinberg, and James L. Wright
Publications from 2020
Impact of global and national crises on people with severe mental illness, Margarita Abi Zeid Daou, Uriel Halbreich, and Jeffrey L. Geller
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 [preprint], 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
A Physician's Guide for Workers' Return to Work during COVID-19 Pandemic, Marcos C. Baptista, Wayne N. Burton, Brent Pawlecki, and Glenn Pransky
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, Michelle D. Muffett-Lipinski, and Susan M. Halpin
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
Effective Mentoring of Novice Nurses during a Healthcare Crisis, Venise Bryan and Joan Vitello-Cicciu
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
Burden of disease from COVID-19 and its acute and chronic complications: reflections on measurement (DALYs) and prospects for the Brazilian Unified National Health System, Monica Rodrigues. Campos, Joyce Mendes de Andrade Schramm, Isabel Cristina Martins Emmerick, Jessica Muzy Rodrigues, Fernando Genovez de Avelar, and Thiago Goes Pimentel
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
RE: How the Coronavirus Disease-2019 May Improve Care: Rethinking Cervical Cancer Prevention, Cheryl R. Clark, Jennifer S. Haas, Stephenie C. Lemon, Karen M. Freund, Karen Burns. White, Caylin Marotta, Amy J. Wint, Amy M. LeClair, Christine Lloyd-Travaglini, Victoria Xiao, Nicole Casanova, and Tracy A. Battaglia
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
Pharyngeal Antisepsis to Reduce COVID-19 Pneumonia, Bruce L. Davidson, Victor F. Tapson, Richard S. Irwin, Cynthia L. French, C. Gregory Elliott, and Marcel Levi