BACKGROUND: Pandemic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
is associated with high intensive care unit (ICU) mortality. We aimed to describe the clinical …

Background Healthcare workers have historically experienced symptoms of post-traumatic
stress disorder, depression and anxiety with previous infectious outbreaks. It is unknown if …

The host response to COVID-19 pathophysiology over the first few days of infection remains
largely unclear, especially the mechanisms in the blood compartment. We report on a …

Adenovirus (Ad) vectors can produce inflammatory responses at high doses. Intravenous
administration of an Ad vector expressing green fluorescent protein (AdGFP) to naive mice …

Figure 1: Lung ultrasound of a 64-year-old female health care worker with no travel history,
on day 10 after symptom onset. The lung point-of-care utrasound shows pleural thickening (…

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) or angiotensin-converting
enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are associated with improved outcomes in hospitalized …

… Dr Gregory Haljan had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for
the integrity of the data and Dr Gregory Haljan and Dr David Zygun take responsibility for the …

Many COVID-19 survivors have post-COVID-19 conditions, and females are at a higher risk.
We sought to determine (1) how protein levels change from acute to post-COVID-19 …

Background: Omicron is the current predominant variant of concern of SARS-CoV-2. We
hypothesized that vaccination alters outcomes of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during …

Introduction Cardiomyocytes exposed to inflammatory processes express intracellular
adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1). We investigated whether fibrinogen and fibrinogen degradation …