Summary: Many US states published crisis standards of care (CSC) guidelines for allocating scarce critical care resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.However, the performance of these guidelines in maximizing their population benefit has not been well tested.In 2,272 adults with COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation drawn from the Study of the
The highly mutated BA.2.86, with over 30 spike protein mutations in comparison to Omicron BA.2 and XBB.1.5 variants, has raised concerns about its potential to evade COVID-19 vaccination or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection-elicited immunity.In this study, we employ a live SARS-CoV-2 neutralization assay to compare the neutralization evasion ability of BA
Studies of metaphor have largely focused on its formal features and meaning in different types of spoken and written texts.This is to the exclusion of a contrastive analysis of metaphor variation in two types of discourse and its Outdoor Swivel Chair (set of 2) implications for the process of the scientfic discourse popularisation.An attempt is mad
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the northern hemisphere.Current serodiagnostics are insensitive in early infection.Sensitivity in these seroassays is compromised by the necessity to preserve specificity in the presence of cross-reactive epitopes in Borrelia burgdorferi target antigens.We evaluated the efficacy of using synth