CONCLUSIONS: While the incidence of closed-globe injuries has decreased over the past 10 years in age groups less than 60 years, those age with more than 60 years have become more prone to serious ocular trauma. During the COVID-19 era, the incidence
Policy makers aim to respect public preferences when making trade-offs between policies, yet most estimates of the value of safety neglect individuals' preferences over how safety is distributed. Incorporating these preferences into policy first
CONCLUSIONS: Few evaluations rigorously evaluated the effect of health systems interventions on improving health services and outcomes. Results will inform upscaling successful intervention components, and strategies to mitigate the effect of COVID
CONCLUSIONS: Psychosocial concerns are highly prevalent amongst children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on identified needs of this cohort, additional community health supports are required, particularly for higher risk groups.
Many individuals who had COVID-19 develop detrimental persistent symptoms; a condition known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC). Despite the elevated risk of cardiovascular disease following COVID-19, limited studies have examined vascular
With the recent ongoing autumn/winter 2022 COVID-19 wave and the adjustment of public health control measures, there have been widespread SARS-CoV-2 infections in Chinese mainland. Here we have analyzed 369 viral genomes from recently diagnosed COVID
The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 exists in two major conformational states, namely the 'open' and 'closed' states which are also known as the 'up' and 'down' states, respectively. In its open state, the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the protein is