The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is highly transmissible and current vaccines may have reduced effectiveness in preventing symptomatic infection. Using epidemiological and genomic analysis, we investigated an outbreak of the variant in an acute care
CONCLUSIONS: The pandemic had a profound impact on both the accessibility and practice of oral health care. This survey study found that most Dutch oral health care practitioners paid extra attention to hygiene and infection control. Also, a low
Through literature search in regular database and official websites of relevant countries, this paper combs and summarizes the main characteristics of disease prevention and control systems in five countries, the United States, Germany, South Korea
CONCLUSIONS: There are few high-quality reports on the implications of COVID-19 in dental practice. However, reports suggest that insufficient oral hygiene may be a risk factor for infection. Reports that ACE2 receptors are abundant in the oral
COVID-19 has brought a significant impact to the global health system, and also opportunities and challenges to epidemiological researches. Theoretical epidemiological models can simulate the process of epidemic in scenarios under different
CONCLUSION: The majority of adults experienced no change, or an improvement in internalizing symptoms during the pandemic, and a relatively small proportion of adults experienced a worsening of internalizing symptoms. Limited public mental health
CONCLUSIONS: Thanks to the effort of all laboratories a performant exhaustive national laboratory-based surveillance system to monitor the epidemiological situation of SARS-CoV-2 was set up in Belgium in 2020. On top of expanding the number of