Articles: pandemics.
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The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected all ethnic and minority groups although not equally. The goals of the present study are twofold: describe the diverse COVID-19-related care needs Hispanic patients presenting to a primary care facility and the symptom clusters and socioeconomic factors that may impact their wellbeing. ⋯ Hispanic patients have diverse reasons for seeking health care and for testing in a pandemic. COVID-19 is a syndromic disease as evidenced from the clustering of symptoms. Essential workers and uninsured health status may lead to more prolonged disease course.
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The lancet oncology · Jul 2022
Observational StudyImpact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis of cancer in Japan: an observational study of hospital-based cancer registries data.
There is an important concern that the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected cancer care worldwide. We used a national database to assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis of cancer in Japan. ⋯ This study was supported by the Health, Labour and Welfare Policy Research Grants, Research for Promotion of Cancer Control Programmes (reference 21EA2003), and the Cancer Research and Development Fund of the National Cancer Centre, Japan (reference 2020-A-20).