COVID-19 Research: Recent submissions
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An evidence base for school health policy during the covid-19 pandemic
( Paris Scholar Publishing , 2021 , Article)Objective: Children represent a small fraction of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with a low case fatality rate (CFR). In this paper, we lay out an evidence-based policy for reopening schools. Methods: We gathered age-specific ... -
Pharmacotherapy in COVID-19 patients: a review of ACE2-raising drugs and their clinical safety
( Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2020 , Article Review)The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by the severe acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2 that uses ACE2 as its receptor. Drugs that raise serum/tissue ACE2 levels include ACE inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin-II receptor ... -
Machine learning techniques for predicting depression and anxiety in pregnant and postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional regional study
( F1000Research , 2022 , Article)Background : Maternal depression and anxiety are significant public health concerns that play an important role in the health and well-being of mothers and children. The COVID-19 pandemic, the consequential lockdowns and ... -
Can AI Help in Screening Viral and COVID-19 Pneumonia?
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease, which has already caused thousands of causalities and infected several millions of people worldwide. Any technological tool enabling rapid screening of the COVID-19 ... -
All those exanthematous fevers are not Covid-19
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)Fever with a rash is a common case scenario that clinicians encounter in their practice. The ubiquity of the presentation is proportional to the magnitude of the physician's dilemma due to its numerous causes. The diagnosis ... -
What COVID-19 has taught the world
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)Background: A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has captured global recognition in a short period of time by dramatically impacting people's everyday lives and emerged as a public health emergency. Undoubtedly, it shows that ... -
Behavioral determinants potentially influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pharmacy professionals in Qatar: a nationwide survey using the Theoretical Domains Framework
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2022 , Article)Background: There is a paucity of robust, theory-based research investigating vaccination behavior. 1 Using Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), the study aimed to explore the key behavioral determinants influencing vaccine ... -
Machine learning screening of COVID-19 patients based on X-ray images for unbalanced classes
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)Background: COVID-19 is a pandemic that had already infected more than forty-six million people and caused more than a million deaths by 1st of November 2020. The virus pandemic appears to have had a catastrophic effect ... -
Utilization of Technology in Continuing Professional Development and Training for Healthcare Providers: Current Trends and the Future Post-COVID-19 Era
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2022 , Article)Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a global emergency in all social realms, including but not restricted to the economy, health, and education. The health sector requires all healthcare ... -
Mental wellbeing of healthcare workers working in quarantine centers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2020 , Article)Background: Healthcare workers managing Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) patients are at increased risk of poor mental wellbeing. The available literature on the psychological impact in the Arabian Gulf region is limited, and a ... -
مدى عدالة حق الاستئثار في الدواء في ظل جائحة (كوفيد-19) المستجد في ضوء الاتفاقيات الدولية والقانون القطري
( Qatar University Press , 2022 , Article)أسدى التقدم العلمي والتقني خدمة جليلة للإنسانية جمعاء، وأسهم في تعاون الدول، وفي تداخل المجتمعات البشرية بصورة لم يسبق لها مثيل، حتى أصبح العالم الكبير مجرد «قرية» صغيرة، تنتشر فيها الأحداث بسرعة فائقة، ذلك أن تَعرُّض بعض ... -
A secure cloud system for maintaining COVID-19 patient's data using image steganography
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)The COVID-19 pandemic has been life-threatening for many people and as such, a contactless medical system is necessary to prevent the spread of the virus. Smart healthcare systems collect data from patients at one end and ... -
Antiviral activity of glucose-derived reactive metabolite, methylglyoxal against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2022 , Article)Background: The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in a global health emergency. With incomplete vaccination and incomplete protection of the vaccinated population, there remains an urgent ... -
Mania and hypomania associated with COVID-19: a series of 15 cases seen by the consultation-liaison psychiatry service in Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)Background: A range of neuropsychiatric diagnoses have been reported in association with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, only sporadic cases of mania or hypomania have been reported in patients with COVID-19. ... -
Darunavir-Cobicistat versus Lopinavir-Ritonavir for COVID-19 Pneumonia: Qatar's Experience
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2022 , Article)Background: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first discovered in China and resulted in a pandemic crisis. 1,2 Many agents were investigated with inconclusive outcomes. 3 This study was conducted to compare the ... -
Development of an in-house COVID-19 serology ELISA Test
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)Background: COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented demand for reagents and diagnostic tools to confirm COVID-19 cases. Thus, the development of a robust in-house diagnostic test is considered of high importance. Within ... -
Qatar Biobank: COVID-19 biorepository project
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)Background: The rapid spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its resulting disease (COVID-19) is one of the greatest global public health crisis of the recent decades 1 . The COVID-19 ... -
Reducing the number of rebooking of urgent in-person visits in general paediatric ambulatory clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2022 , Article)Background: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all out-patients clinics shifted to telehealth visits 1 . However some patients still needed to be seen as face to face visit 2 , mostly through the new urgent referrals which were ... -
Modeling the SARS-CoV-2 parallel transmission dynamics: Asymptomatic and symptomatic pathways
( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)Asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus disease and the infected individual prediction has become very important in the COVID-19 outbreak study. The asymptomatic and symptomatic transmission studies are still ongoing ... -
The Extent of the Civil Liability of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for the Infection and the Spread of Covid-19
( Allied Business Academies , 2022 , Article)With the on-going situation of the global pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19) and the implementation of social-distancing measures by the higher authorities in countries around the world, the use of artificial intelligence ...
