Irish journal of medical science
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Little body of research has focused on the epidemic transmissibility and language interface. ⋯ The findings of this study can offer a tentative picture of how speaking specific sounds can be associated with COVID-19 transmissibility.
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Identifying the non-survived patients' characteristics compared to survived subjects and introducing the critical risk factors of COVID-19 mortality would help enhance patients' prognosis and treatment. ⋯ The present findings demonstrated that obesity, higher levels of CRP, blood sugar, D-dimer, and lipid markers were likely to be predictive factors of COVID-19-related mortality odds.
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Crowdfunding is the internet practice of funding a project or person by requesting online monetary donations from people. We set out to analyse the current non-US GoFundMe cancer pages in order to get deeper understanding of this unregulated activity. ⋯ Our GoFundMe analysis has identified that crowdfunding platforms are predominantly used for requesting financial support, but worryingly, a large proportion are requesting immunotherapy for unlicensed indications and alternative therapies with no evidence. Future efforts to improve patient education, and possibly online donation page regulation, are required to better manage this route of cancer funding.