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Scientific papers and resources on COVID-19

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Readers will find below recently published articles on COVID-19, including links to the full-texts.

The Pan American Health Organization has put together a set of technical guidelines, recommendations, scientific publications, and ongoing research protocols from the Americas and affected countries worldwide regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. These platforms of trusted information may be useful for decision and policy-making authorities, researchers, health professionals, and individuals.
 

Food insecurity and sociodemographic factors in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
Original research | English | Novoa-Sanzana et al. |
Strategies for expanding childhood vaccination in the Americas following the COVID-19 pandemic
Original research | English | Novoa-Sanzana et al. |
Risk factors associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes in Jamaica: a cross-sectional study of national surveillance data
Original research | English | Webster-Kerr et al. |
Need for open data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among pregnant people in the Caribbean: a call to action
Opinion and analysis | English | Pinkney et al. |
A COVID-19 vaccination program for high-risk children aged 12–17 years in Curacao
Original research | English | Janssen et al. |
Early impact of COVID-19 vaccination on older populations in four countries of the Americas, 2021
Original research | English | Jarquin et al. |
Risk management system to reduce COVID-19 infection in health personnel
Original research | Spanish | Trejo et al. |
COVID-19 mortality in metropolitan areas and other regions of Brazil, 2020 to 2021
Original research | Portuguese | Araújo et al. |
Factors associated with COVID-19 length of hospitalization and mortality during four epidemic waves, March 2020–November 2021, Suriname
Original research | English | Gokoel et al. |
Presence of SARS-CoV-2 in urban effluents in southeast Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2020 to March 2022
Original research | English | Cimmino et al. |
Bottom-up innovative responses to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: addressing deprioritized populations
Original research | English | Dintrans et al. |
COVID-19 in Latin America: inequalities and response capacity of health systems to health emergencies
Original research | Portuguese | dos Santos et al. |
Adverse sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health services in Chile
Original research | English | Toro-Devia et al. |
COVID-19 mortality in two waves of the pandemic in Cali, Colombia, before and during vaccination roll-out
Original research | English | Reina et al. |
Prevalence of persistent symptoms after having COVID- 19 in a cohort in Suriname
Original research | English | Krishnadath et al. |
A framework to assess potential health system resilience using fuzzy logic
Original research | English | Jatobá et al. |
Validation of COVID-19 vaccines administered abroad: experience and challenges of implementation in Chile
Current topic | Santos-López et al. |
Influenza A(H3N2) infection followed by separate COVID-19 infection
Brief communication | English | Schäffer Gregianini et al. |
Perspectives of health practitioners on the challenges to accessing sexual and reproductive health care services for Venezuelan migrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quito, Ecuador
Original research | English | Guijarro et al. |
Facilitators of and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination in Grenada: a qualitative study
Original research | English | Herry et al. |
Evidence synthesis for COVID-19 interventions: update reports from Argentina's National Commission for Health Technology Assessment
Special report | Spanish | Tortosa et al. |
Evidence map on post-acute COVID-19 sequelae and rehabilitation: Update as of July 2022
Review | Portuguese | Ostolin et al. |
Organization of healthcare systems to confront COVID-19: a scoping review
Review | Portuguese | Vasques et al. |
Adolescents’ and young people’s experiences of health participation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
Original research | Spanish | Brito-Placencia et al. |
Genomic surveillance and sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 across South America
Opinion and analysis | English | Ribeiro Dias et al. |
Public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in institutions for the protection of children and adolescents in two departments in Colombia
Original research | Spanish | Noreña Herrera et al. |
Trends in suicide rates in Brazil from 2011 to 2020: special focus on the COVID-19 pandemic
Original research | Portuguese | Soares et al. |
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity in El Salvador during 2020
Original research | English | Ayala Durán |
Risk factors for intensive care unit admission and death from COVID-19 in fully vaccinated patients hospitalized for severe COVID-19, Brazil, 2021–2022
Original research | English | Houvèssou et al. |
Long-term respiratory outcomes after COVID-19: a Brazilian cohort study
Original research | English | Visconti et al. |
Neuro-COVID is a serious complication of SARS-CoV-2 infections and can determine the long-term outcome of COVID-19
Letter | English | Finsterer |
Reply to the letter: Neuro-COVID is a serious complication of SARS-CoV-2 infections and can determine the long-term outcome of COVID-19
Letter | Spanish | Matar-Khalil |
Critique of the feasibility study on the use of artificial intelligence for the screening of patients with COVID-19 in Paraguay
Letter | Spanish | Quispe-Rupire |
Response to the letter to the editor: Critique of the feasibility study on the use of artificial intelligence for screening of artificial intelligence for screening patients with COVID-19 in Paraguay
Letter | Spanish | Galván et al. |
Suitability of two WHO research and development initiatives for COVID-19 to promote equitable innovation: the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator and COVID-19 Technology Access Pool
Original research | English | Silva and Rapini |
Central nervous system adverse events potentially associated with drugs used for COVID-19: scoping review
Review | Portuguese | Mello et al. |
Hospital readmissions and emergency department re-presentation of COVID-19 patients: a systematic review
Review | English | Peiris et al. |
Public Resistance to Vaccination During Epidemics: The Example of COVID-19
Special report | Spanish | Hernández-Rincón et al. |
Fast track patent program for COVID-19 in Brazil
Brief communication | Portuguese | Pessôa et al. |
Adverse reactions to drugs used for COVID-19 in five Latin American countries
Original research | Spanish | Orjuela-Rodríguez et al. |
Social determinants associated with self-reporting of symptoms and access to COVID-19 testing and diagnosis in the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Original research | Spanish | Arias-Uriona et al. |
Children and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a Caribbean perspective
Brief communication | English | Evans-Gilbert et al. |
A structural method to assess the course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in school environments
Brief communication | Portuguese | Higgins et al. |
Regulatory reliance pathways during health emergencies: enabling timely authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America
Original research | English | Van der Zee et al. |
Surveillance of adverse events associated with 145 000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a Brazilian municipality
Brief communication | English | Martins-Filho et al. |
Profile of Brazilian inpatients with COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection and risk factors for unfavorable outcome
Original research | English | De Jesus et al. |
Emergency Preparedness: A Shared Effort
Editorial | English | Etienne and Benjamin |
Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Editorial | English | Gamba et al. |
COVID-19 in Colombia and Venezuela: two sides of the coin
Editorial | English | Rodríguez-Morales and Figuera |
How We Faced the Challenge of COVID-19 in Antioquia, Colombia
Editorial | English | Gaviria Correa |
Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America: Vulnerability Leading to More Vulnerability
Editorial | English | Halpern et al. |
The Fight Against COVID-19: A Perspective From Latin America and the Caribbean
Editorial | English | Ruiz-Gómez and Fernández-Niño |
Contributions of the new framework for essential public health functions to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic
Opinion and analysis | English | Báscolo et al. |
Mental health of Guatemalan health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: baseline findings from the HEROES cohort study
Original research | English | Paniagua-Ávila et al. |
Cancer care access in Chile’s vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Original research | English | Cuadrado et al. |
Digital transformation for more equitable and sustainable public health in the age of digital interdependence
Opinion and analysis | English | Garcia Saiso et al. |
Health insurance scheme: main contributor to inequalities in COVID-19 mortality in Colombia
Brief communication | English | Garzón-Orjuela et al. |
La aprobación de CoronaVac en Brasil y Chile: algunas lecciones sobre los retos regulatorios de vacunas
Special report | Spanish | Sojo |
Neurocovid-19: effects of COVID-19 on the brain
Current topic | Spanish | Matar-Khalil et al. |
COVID-19 in Brazil: trends, challenges, and perspectives after 18 months of the pandemic
Original research | Portuguese | Siqueira et al. |
Prioritizing noncommunicable diseases in the Americas region in the era of COVID-19
Special report | English | Luciani et al. |
Excess mortality in 2020 in the working-age population of nine Latin American countries
Original research | Spanish | Benavides et al. |
Multidimensional analysis of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries of the Americas
Special report | Spanish | Medina Hernández et al. |
Implementación del plan de acción de recursos humanos en salud y la respuesta a la pandemia por la COVID-19
Opinion and analysis | Spanish | Cho and Levin |
Impact of COVID-19 on mortality in Peru using triangulation of multiple data sources
Brief communication | Spanish | Valdez Huarcaya et al. |
Deliberative dialogue with Ibero-American universities on interventions in student mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
Original research | Spanish | Zapata-Ospina et al. |
Potential of LARC to recover loss in satisfied demand for modern contraception after the COVID-19 pandemic: a case scenario analysis of Brazil and Mexico
Original research | English | Gómez Ponce de Leon et al. |
Chronic care for patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome after discharge from an intensive care unit
Original research | Spanish | Rojas Cárdenas et al. |
Health equity and vulnerability in the access to COVID-19 vaccines
Original research | Portuguese | Castro-Nunes e Ribeiro |
Data collection and inclusion of the population with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean
Original research | Spanish | Pinilla-Roncancio y Rodríguez Caicedo |
Quality of life of health personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploratory review
Review | Spanish | Wauters et al. |
Chronic degenerative conditions as risk factors for lethal COVID-19
Original research | Spanish | Ángeles Correa et al. |
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and its relationship with illness and death from COVID-19 in Argentina
Original research | Spanish | Scruzzi et al. |
Geospatial models for SARS-CoV-2 outbreak control in Cartagena and Barranquilla, Colombia, 2020
Original research | Spanish | Zapata Bedoya et al. |
Scientific publication speed and retractions of COVID-19 pandemic original articles
Original research | English | Schonhaut et al. |
Management and impact of interventions to reduce COVID-19 cases in Costa Rica
Original research | Spanish | Rojas et al. |
Feasibility of using artificial intelligence for screening COVID-19 patients in Paraguay
Original research | Spanish | Galván et al. |
Estimating national excess mortality from subnational data: application to Argentina
Brief communication | English | Karlinsky |
Combination of COVID-19 vaccines and their efficacy: a theoretical proposal
Brief communication | Spanish | Brenes Gómez |
COVID-19 emergency operations center: experience of the Rio de Janeiro municipality, Brazil
Brief communication | Portuguese | Oliveira e Cruz et al. |
Analysis of budgetary impact of COVID-19 vaccination in Latin America
Original research | Spanish | Taborda et al. |
COVID-19 morbidity and mortality associated with chronic disorders, healthcare services, and inequity: evidence for a syndemic
Original research | Portuguese | Barbosa et al. |
COVID-19 and inequities in the Americas: lessons learned and implications for essential health services
Opinion and analysis | English | Hennis et al. |
Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile, Colombia, and Peru from a children’s rights perspective
Original research | Spanish | González et al. |
Risk of publication bias in therapeutic interventions for COVID-19
Special report | Spanish | Hasdeu et al. |
Global control of COVID-19: good vaccines may not suffice
Opinion and analysis | English | Eslava-Schmalbach et al. |
Social distancing as protection factor against COVID-19 in a non-metropolitan area in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Original research | Portuguese | Schneider et al. |
Communication products for COVID-19 prevention promoted by governments in Latin America and the Caribbean
Original research | Spanish | Moyano and Lay |
Summary of evidence and recommendations: guidelines for care of critically ill adult patients with COVID-19 in the Americas
Special report | Spanish | Organización Panamericana de la Salud |
Disruption of health services for pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents, and women during the COVID-19 pandemic: ISLAC 2020 Project
Original research | Spanish | Villalobos Dintrans et al. |
SARS-CoV-2 variants in severely symptomatic and deceased persons who had been vaccinated against COVID-19 in São Paulo, Brazil
Brief communication | English | Campos et al. |
SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in untreated wastewater: detection of viral RNA in a low-resource community in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Original research | English | Iglesias et al. |
Weight gain and physical inactivity during the COVID-19 pandemic
Letter | English | Bruno Gutierrez and Orihuela Quispe |
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and acceptance in Mexico: a web-based nationwide survey
Original research | English | Ramonfaur et al. |
Implementation of telemedicine in the Americas: Barriers and facilitators
Opinion and analysis | Spanish | Garcia Saiso et al. |
Virtual and in-person accompaniment of hospitalized patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
Original research | Spanish | Erazo-Muñozet al. |
COVID-19 related mortality in older adults: analysis of the first wave in Colombia and Mexico
Original research | English | Pérez-Zepeda et al. |
Statistical literacy and risk communication for COVID-19 vaccination: a scoping review
Review | Spanish | Palmeiro-Silva et al. |
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: Why we need to invest in advanced practice nurses
Letter | English | Cassiani et al. |
Dealing with perceptions related to thrombosis and COVID-19 vaccines
Letter | English | Ramírez et al. |
The COVID-19 Infodemic*
Editorial | English | García-Saisó et al. |
Equity and the Cuban National Health System's response to COVID-19*
Special report | English | Mas Bermejo et al. |
Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG in asymptomatic and pauci-symptomatic people over a 5 month survey in Argentina
Original research | English | Rodeles et al. |
Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in response to the pandemic from COVID-19 in Brazil
Letter | Portuguese | Sallas et al. |
Alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean
Original research | English | Garcia-Cerde et al. |
Critical care medicine in the French Territories in the Americas: Current situation and prospects
Opinion and analysis | English | Kallel et al. |
COVID-19 deaths: Distribution by age and universal medical coverage in 22 countries
Original research | Spanish | Fantin et al. |
Space-time spread of COVID-19 deaths in Argentina
Original research | Spanish | Leveau |
Diagnostic properties of case definitions of suspected COVID-19 in Chile, 2020
Original research | Spanish | Aubert et al. |
Multimorbidity patterns among COVID-19 deaths: proposal for the construction of etiological models
Original research | English | Fernández-Niño et al. |
The landscape of COVID-19 clinical trials in Latin America and the Caribbean: assessment and challenges
Current topic | English | Carracedo et al. |
Large scale use of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-based detection tests: a three-month experience in Guatemala, June-August 2020
Brief communication | English | Gobern et al. |
Transitions between diagnostic states in people with COVID-19 in Colombia
Original research | Spanish | Manrique Ruiz et al. |
Impact of COVID-19 on the provision of essential health services in Paraguay
Original research | Spanish | Tullo et al. |
Evaluation of nine serological rapid tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2
Original research | English | Mercado et al. |
The effect of early-stage public health policies in the transmission of COVID-19 for South American countries
Original research | English | Valcarcel et al. |
Ambient air pollutants and their effect on COVID-19 mortality in the United States of America
Original research | English | Liu & Li |
Emerging mental health challenges, strategies, and opportunities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from South American decision-makers
Current topic | English | Antiporta & Bruni |
Prevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 according to socioeconomic and ethnic status in a nationwide Brazilian survey
Original research | English | Horta et al. |
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG antibodies in an asymptomatic population in Sergipe, Brazil
Original research | English | Borgest et al. |
Adequate, reliable and timely information in times of the COVID-19 pandemic
Current topic | Portuguese | Coutinho e Padilla |
Social inequalities in the progression of COVID-19 in the Mexican population
Original research | Spanish | Ortiz-Hernández et al. |
Response capacity to the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean
Original research | Spanish | Laura Débora Acosta |
Recommendations for reopening elective surgery services during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Brief communication | Spanish | Mendivelso et al. |
Epidemic trends, public health response and health system capacity: the Chilean experience in four months of the COVID-19 pandemic
Original research | English | Canals et al. |
SARS-CoV-2 outbreak on the Caribbean islands of the Dutch Kingdom: a unique challenge
Current topic | English | Maria et al. |
Use of point-of-care technologies for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
Special report | Spanish | Montenegro-López |
A COVID-19 opportunity: Applying a systems approach to food security and noncommunicable diseases
Letter | English | Murphy et al. |
Perinatal COVID-19 in Latin America
Current topic | Spanish | Sola et al. |
Basic clinical characteristics in the first 100 fatal cases of COVID-19 in Colombia
Brief communication | Spanish | Marín-Sánchez |
U.S. county level analysis to determine If social distancing slowed the spread of COVID-19
Original research | English | Banerjee and Nayak |
COVID-19 pandemic in Panama: lessons of the unique risks and research opportunities for Latin America
Current topic | English | Loaiza et al. |
Coping with being cooped up: Social distancing during COVID-19 among 60+ in the United States
Original research | English | Emerson |
Ferritin levels and COVID-19
Letter | English | Vargas-Vargas et al. |
Ensuring health equity during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of public health infrastructure
Opinion and analysis | English | Georges C. Benjamin |
Recommendations for communicating bad news by phone during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Brief communication | Spanish | Belli |
COVID-19 in Latin America and its repercussions on dentistry
Letter | Portuguese | Carrer et al. |
The state of nursing in the world and the Region of the Americas at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic
Letter | Spanish | Cassiani et al. |
To breastfeed or not to breastfeed? Lack of evidence on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in breastmilk of pregnant women with COVID-19
Current topic | English | Martins-Filho et al. |
COVID-19 and newborn health: systematic review
Review | English | Duran et al. |
Comparing South Korea and Italy’s healthcare systems and initiatives to combat COVID-19
Current topic | English | Palaniappan et al. |
Recommendations for a safety dental care management during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Brief communication | English | Martins-Filho et al. |
No evidence supports the use of ether and chloroform inhalation for treating COVID-19
Letter | English | Martins-Filho and Santos |
Clinical trials of drug repositioning for COVID-19 treatment
Brief communication | English | Rosa and Santos |