This collection highlights journal articles, preprints, and other publications and presentations about the Coronavirus COVID-19 by faculty and researchers at the George Washington University. The content in this collection includes research by individuals associated with the Milken Institute School of Public Health, the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the School of Nursing.
GWU researchers: Please contact us at hsrc@gwu.edu if you have a COVID-19-related journal article, preprint, or other work accepted for publication, or have a COVID-19 poster, presentation or dataset you would like to share publicly in Health Sciences Research Commons (HSRC).
Submissions from 2020
Third year Dermatology Resident Anxiety in the Era of COVID-19., Nagasai C Adusumilli, Misty Eleryan, Shelly Tanner, and Adam J. Friedman
Harnessing nitric oxide for preventing, limiting and treating the severe pulmonary consequences of COVID-19., Nagasai C. Adusumilli, David Zhang, Joel M Friedman, and Adam J. Friedman
From COVID19 to Cholera: Repeating Patterns in Iranian Pandemic History, Amir A. Afkhami
Historical Perspectives on STEM spoke Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: history of outbreak and disease in Iran, Amir A. Afkhami
Iran's Coronavirus Crisis: Implications for U.S. Policy, Amir A. Afkhami
Iran’s strategy for fighting covid-19 could backfire, Amir A. Afkhami
On the Front Lines: How Public Health Systems are Confronting the Covid19 Crisis in the Middle East, Amir A. Afkhami
Pandemics Ravaged Iran Long Before the Coronavirus: But Instead of Learning From the Past, Tehran Is Stuck There, Amir A. Afkhami
Why Iran Is Such a Coronavirus Threat, Amir A. Afkhami
COVID-19: Neurology residents' perspective., Mohanad AlGaeed, Manjot Grewal, Perry K. Richardson, and Christopher R. Leon Guerrero
Perspectives on Battling COVID-19 in Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean., Jon Kim Andrus, Tracy Evans-Gilbert, Jose Ignacio Santos, Maria G Guzman, Philip J Rosenthal, Cristiana Toscano, Maria Teresa Valenzuela, Marilda Siqueira, Carissa Etienne, and Joel G Breman
The association between biomarkers and clinical outcomes in novel coronavirus pneumonia in a US cohort, Shant Ayanian, Juan Reyes, Lei Lynn, and Karolyn Teufel
The lysosome: A potential juncture between SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and Niemann-Pick disease type C, with therapeutic implications., Rami A Ballout, Dmitri Sviridov, Michael I. Bukrinsky, and Alan T. Remaley
Reply to "Challenges to paediatric services during COVID-19 pandemic: A London, UK perspective"., Priya Bansal, Theresa A Bingemann, Matthew Greenhawt, Giselle Mosnaim, Anil Nanda, John Oppenheimer, Hemant Sharma, David Stukus, and Marcus Shaker
Clinician Wellness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Extraordinary Times and Unusual Challenges for the Allergist/Immunologist., Priya Bansal, Theresa A. Bingemann, Matthew Greenhawt, Giselle Mosnaim, Anil Nanda, John Oppenheimer, Hemant Sharma, David Stukus, and Marcus Shaker
For us, COVID-19 is personal., Janice Blanchard, Tenagne Haile-Mariam, Natasha Powell, Aisha Terry, Malika Fair, Marcee Wilder, Damali Nakitende, Jared Lucas, Griffin Davis, and Yolanda Haywood
Emerging trends in COVID-19 treatment: learning from inflammatory conditions associated with cellular therapies., Maria Cancio, Rachele Ciccocioppo, Patricia R M Rocco, Bruce L Levine, Vincenzo Bronte, Catherine M. Bollard, Daniel Weiss, Jaap Jan Boelens, and Patrick J Hanley
Ascorbate as Prophylaxis and Therapy for COVID-19-Update From Shanghai and U.S. Medical Institutions., Richard Z Cheng, Mikhail Kogan, and Devra Davis
Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography guidance for use of cardiac computed tomography amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Endorsed by the American College of Cardiology., Andrew D. Choi, Suhny Abbara, Kelley R Branch, Gudrun M Feuchtner, Brian Ghoshhajra, Koen Nieman, Gianluca Pontone, Todd C Villines, Michelle C Williams, and Ron Blankstein
Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography guidance for use of cardiac computed tomography amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Endorsed by the American College of Cardiology., Andrew D. Choi, Suhny Abbara, Kelley R. Branch, Gudrun M. Feuchtner, Brian Ghoshhajra, Koen Nieman, Gianluca Pontone, Todd C. Villines, Michelle C. Williams, and Ron Blankstein
Sheltering in Place in a Xenophobic Climate: COVID-19 and Children in Immigrant Families., Rushina Cholera, Olanrewaju O. Falusi, and Julie M Linton
Mental health among otolaryngology resident and attending physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic: National study., Alyssa M Civantos, Yasmeen Byrnes, Changgee Chang, Aman Prasad, Kevin Chorath, Seerat K Poonia, Carolyn M Jenks, Andrés M Bur, Punam Thakkar, Evan M Graboyes, Rahul Seth, Samuel Trosman, Anni Wong, Benjamin M Laitman, Brianna N Harris, Janki Shah, Vanessa Stubbs, Garret Choby, Qi Long, Christopher H Rassekh, Erica Thaler, and Karthik Rajasekaran
Mental health among otolaryngology resident and attending physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic: National study., Alyssa M Civantos, Yasmeen Byrnes, Changgee Chang, Aman Prasad, Kevin Chorath, Seerat K Poonia, Carolyn M Jenks, Andrés M Bur, Punam Thakkar, Evan M Graboyes, Rahul Seth, Samuel Trosman, Anni Wong, Benjamin M Laitman, Brianna N Harris, Janki Shah, Vanessa Stubbs, Garret Choby, Qi Long, Christopher H Rassekh, Erica Thaler, and Karthik Rajasekaran
COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Practices and Policies Affecting the Continuity of Behavioral Health Care Among Children With Diabetes., Lauren Clary, Christine Wang, Meghan E Byrne, and Maureen Monaghan
Reopening Schools Safely: The Case for Collaboration, Constructive Disruption of Pre-Coronavirus 2019 Expectations, and Creative Solutions., Dan M Cooper, Lisa Guay-Woodford, Bruce R Blazar, Scott Bowman, Carrie L Byington, Jeffrey Dome, Donald Forthal, Michael W Konstan, Nathan Kuppermann, Robert I Liem, Eduardo R Ochoa, Brad H Pollock, Olga Acosta Price, Bonnie W Ramsey, Lainie Friedman Ross, Ronald J Sokol, and Rosalind J Wright
Re-Opening Schools Safely: The Case for Collaboration, Constructive Disruption of Pre-COVID Expectations, and Creative Solutions., Dan M Cooper, Lisa Guay-Woodford, Bruce R Blazar, Scott Bowman, Carrie L Byington, Jeffrey Dome, Donald Forthal, Michael W Konstan, Nathan Kuppermann, Robert I Liem, Eduardo R Ochoa, Brad H Pollock, Olga Acosta Price, Bonnie W Ramsey, Lainie Friedman Ross, Ronald J Sokol, and Rosalind J Wright
COVID-19 control in low-income settings and displaced populations: what can realistically be done?, Maysoon Dahab, Kevin van Zandvoort, Stefan Flasche, Abdihamid Warsame, Ruwan Ratnayake, Caroline Favas, Paul B Spiegel, Ronald J. Waldman, and Francesco Checchi
Moral Injury: The Invisible Epidemic in COVID Health Care Workers., Wendy Dean, Breanne Jacobs, and Rita A. Manfredi
Severe Coronavirus Disease-2019 in Children and Young Adults in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Region., Roberta L DeBiasi, Xiaoyan Song, Meghan Delaney, Michael Bell, Karen Smith, Jay Pershad, Emily Ansusinha, Andrea Hahn, Rana Hamdy, Nada Harik, Benjamin Hanisch, Barbara Jantausch, Adeline Koay, Robin Steinhorn, Kurt Newman, and David Wessel
Severe COVID-19 in Children and Young Adults in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Region., Roberta L. DeBiasi, Xiaoyan Song, Meghan Delaney, Michael Bell, Karen Smith, Jay Pershad, Emily Ansusinha, Andrea Hahn, Rana Hamdy, Nada Harik, Benjamin Hanisch, Barbara Jantausch, Adeline Koay, Robin Steinhorn, Kurt Newman, and David Wessel
Obesity and its Implications for COVID-19 Mortality., William Dietz and Carlos Santos-Burgoa
Policy Solutions for Reversing the Color-blind Public Health Response to COVID-19 in the US., Marisa K. Dowling and Robin L Kelly
Policy Solutions for Reversing the Color-blind Public Health Response to COVID-19 in the US., Marisa K. Dowling and Robin L Kelly
Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19., Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, and James P. Phillips
Novel Approach for Low-Dose Pulmonary Delivery of Hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19., Safa C. Fassihi, Neel R Nabar, and Reza Fassihi
African-American COVID-19 Mortality: A Sentinel Event., Keith C Ferdinand and Samar A. Nasser
The Urgency of Spiritual Care: COVID-19 and the Critical Need for Whole-Person Palliation., Betty R Ferrell, George Handzo, Tina Picchi, Christina Puchalski, and William E Rosa
Letter: Preliminary National Survey Results Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical Students Pursuing Careers in Neurosurgery., Roxanna M Garcia, Rebecca A Reynolds, Hannah K Weiss, Lola B Chambless, Sandi Lam, Nader S Dahdaleh, and Gail Rosseau
Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Manifestations of COVID-19: Evolving Recognition and Need for Increased Understanding in Vulnerable Populations., Victoria Garland, Anita B. Kumar, and Marie L. Borum
Advanced head and neck surgery training during the COVID-19 pandemic., Babak Givi, Michael G Moore, Arnaud F Bewley, Charles S Coffey, Marc A Cohen, Amy C Hessel, Scharukh Jalisi, Steven Kang, Jason G Newman, Liana Puscas, Maisie Shindo, Andrew Shuman, Punam Thakkar, Donald T Weed, and Ara Chalian
COVID-19 Amidst Carceral Contexts: The Overtone Window of Political Pos, Cynthia Golembeski, Ans Irfan, Brie Williams, and Homer Venters
Reply -- The COVID-19 Pandemic, From Worrying About Missed or Delayed Diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease to the Flood of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), Ashraf S. Harahsheh, Nagib Dahdah, Jane W. Newburger, Michael A. Portman, Robert Tulloh, Brian W. McCrindle, Rolando Cimaz, and Jane C. Burns
Missed or delayed diagnosis of Kawasaki disease during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic., Ashraf S S. Harahsheh, Nagib Dahdah, Jane W Newburger, Michael A Portman, Maryam Piram, Robert Tulloh, Brian W McCrindle, Sarah D de Ferranti, Rolando Cimaz, Dongngan T Truong, and Jane C Burns
Will COVID-19 become the next neglected tropical disease?, Peter J. Hotez, Maria E. Bottazzi, Sunit K. Singh, Paul J. Brindley, and Shaden Kamhawi
Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19., Adnan A. Hyder
Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19., Adnan A. Hyder
Genome-wide analysis of SARS-CoV-2 virus strains circulating worldwide implicates heterogeneity., M Rafiul Islam, M Nazmul Hoque, M Shaminur Rahman, A S M Rubayet Ul Alam, Masuda Akther, J Akter Puspo, Salma Akter, Munawar Sultana, Keith A. Crandall, and M Anwar Hossain
Moral Distress During COVID19: Residents in Training are at High Risk, Breanne Jacobs and Rita A. Manfredi
The impact of COVID-19 on neurosurgeons and the strategy for triaging non-emergent operations: a global neurosurgery study., Walter C. Jean, Natasha T Ironside, Kenneth D. Sack, Daniel R Felbaum, and Hasan R Syed
Atopy is predictive of a decreased need for hospitalization for coronavirus disease 2019., Anjeni Keswani, Klodian Dhana, Jamie A. Rosenthal, Donyea Moore, and Mahboobeh Mahdavinia
Atopy is predictive of a decreased need for hospitalization for COVID-19., Anjeni Keswani, Klodian Dhana, Jamie A. Rosenthal, Donyea Moore, and Mahboobeh Mahdavinia
Ebola, Zika, Corona…What Is Next for Our World?, Jagdish Khubchandani, Timothy R Jordan, and Y Tony Yang
Acute respiratory viral adverse events during use of antirheumatic disease therapies: a scoping review, Adam Kilian, Yu Pei Chock, Irvin J. Huang, Elizabeth R. Graef, Laura A. Upton, Aneka Khilnani, Sonia D. Silinsky Krupnikova, Ibrahim Almaghlouth, Laura C. Cappelli, Ruth Fernandez-Ruiz, Brittany A. Frankel, Jourdan Frankovich, Carly Harrison, Bharat Kumar, Kanika Monga, Jorge A. Rosario Vega, Namrata Singh, Jeffrey A. Sparks, Elaine Sullo, Kristen J. Young, Ali Duarte-Garcia, Michael Putman, Sindhu Johnson, Rebecca Grainger, Zachary S. Wallace, Jean W. Liew, and Aruni Jayatilleke
Financial crisis at PAHO in the time of COVID-19: a call for action., Arlene King, Jon Kim Andrus, and J Peter Figueroa
Widening Social and Health Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Leighton Ku and Erin Brantley,
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Is There a Linkage to Kawasaki Disease?, Yue-Hin Loke, Charles I. Berul, and Ashraf S. Harahsheh
Assessment of YouTube as an Educational Tool in Teaching Key Indicator Cases in Otolaryngology During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Neck Dissection., Neil N Luu, Christina M Yver, Jennifer E Douglas, Kendall K Tasche, Punam G. Thakkar, and Karthik Rajasekaran
Risk of COVID-19 in Patients With Cancer., Michael L Maitland, David Heyer, and Mardi Gomberg-Maitland
Reliability and Validity of Two Surgical Prioritization Systems for Reinstating Non-Emergent Benign Gynecologic Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic., Cherie Q. Marfori, Jordan S. Klebanoff, Catherine Z. Wu, Whitney A. Barnes, Charelle M. Carter-Brooks, and Richard L. Amdur
Pharmacotherapy in COVID-19; A narrative review for emergency providers., Nikita Mehta, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Nour Alkindi, and Ali Pourmand
Pharmacotherapy in COVID-19; A narrative review for emergency providers., Nikita Mehta, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Nour Alkindi, and Ali Pourmand
Personal Experiences With COVID-19 and Diabetes Technology: All for Technology Yet Not Technology for All., Maureen Monaghan and Brynn Marks
Oropharyngeal hemorrhage in patients with COVID-19: A multi-institutional case series, Collin F. Mulcahy, Melissa Ghulam-Smith, Ishwarya S. Mamidi, Punam G. Thakkar, Heather Edwards, Neelima Tummala, and Lauren F. Tracy
COVID-19 and the International Academy of Sex Research: We Will Be Back., Brian Mustanski, Eric Vilain, Shari L. Dworkin, Kelly D. Suschinsky, and Kenneth J. Zucker
Combination dose-escalated hydroxyurea and transfusion: an approach to conserve blood during the COVID-19 pandemic., Robert Sheppard Nickel, Stefanie Margulies, Brittany Frazer, Naomi LC Luban, and Jennifer Webb
Application of termination of resuscitation rules during the COVID-19 pandemic by emergency medical service., Francis O'Connell, Peter Sweetser, Theodore Quan, and Ali Pourmand
It is currently unknown whether SARS-CoV-2 is viable in semen or whether COVID-19 damages sperm., Melissa J. Perry, Suzanne Arrington, Laura M Neumann, Douglas Carrell, and Christopher N. Mores
Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19. Reply., Govind Persad, James Phillips, and Ezekiel J Emanuel
Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19. Reply., Govind Persad, James Phillips, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics., Eskild Petersen, Marion Koopmans, Unyeong Go, Davidson H Hamer, Nicola Petrosillo, Francesco Castelli, Merete Storgaard, Sulien Al Khalili, and Lone Simonsen
Report from the COVID-19 Virtual Summit,, James P. Phillips, Luca Ragazzoni, W Greg Burel, Frederick M Burkle, and Mark Keim
Otolaryngology-related Google Search trends during the COVID-19 pandemic., Matthew M Pier, Luke J Pasick, Daniel A. Benito, Ghiath Alnouri, and Robert T Sataloff
Antirheumatic Disease Therapies for the Treatment of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis., Michael Putman, Yu Pei Eugenia Chock, Herman Tam, Alfred H J Kim, Sebastian E Sattui, Francis Berenbaum, Maria I Danila, Peter Korsten, Catalina Sanchez-Alvarez, Jeffrey A Sparks, Laura C Coates, Candace Palmerlee, Andrea Peirce, Arundathi Jayatilleke, Sindhu R Johnson, Adam Kilian, Jean Liew, Larry J Prokop, M Hassan Murad, Rebecca Grainger, Zachary S Wallace, and Alí Duarte-García
Distanced Donors: How to Donate Blood During the COVID 19 Pandemic, Vinay Rao
Simulations of Deliveries of SARS-CoV-2 Positive Pregnant Women and Their Newborn Babies: Plan to Implement a Complex and Ever-Changing Protocol., Shantanu Rastogi
Non-evidenced based treatment: An unintended cause of morbidity and mortality related to COVID-19., Hamidreza Reihani, Mateen Ghassemi, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Bandar Aljohani, and Ali Pourmand
Risk for COVID-19 infection and death among Latinos in the United States: Examining heterogeneity in transmission dynamics., Carlos E. Rodriguez-Diaz, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Leandro Mena, Eric Hall, Brian Honermann, Jeffrey S Crowley, Stefan Baral, Guillermo J Prado, Melissa Marzan-Rodriguez, Chris Beyrer, Patrick S Sullivan, and Gregorio A Millett
Rapid isolation of potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies and protection in a small animal model., Thomas F Rogers, Fangzhu Zhao, Deli Huang, Nathan Beutler, Alison Burns, Wan-Ting He, Oliver Limbo, Chloe Smith, Ge Song, Jordan Woehl, Linlin Yang, Robert K Abbott, Sean Callaghan, Elijah Garcia, Jonathan Hurtado, Mara Parren, Linghang Peng, James Ricketts, Michael J. Ricciardi, Stephen A Rawlings, Davey M Smith, David Nemazee, John R Teijaro, James E Voss, Raiees Andrabi, Bryan Briney, Elise Landais, Devin Sok, Joseph G Jardine, and Dennis R Burton
Care of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic., John J Ryan, Lana Melendres-Groves, Roham T Zamanian, Ronald J Oudiz, Murali Chakinala, Erika B Rosenzweig, and Mardi Gomberg-Maitland
Impact of COVID-19 on Global Diet and Physical Activity Patterns, Jennifer Sacheck
COVID-19 en el mes de mayo; la tercera causa de muerte en el país, y es prevenible, Carlos Santos-Burgoa
Prevention of work-related covid-19 infection in low-income and middle-income countries: need for a global response, Carlos Santos-Burgoa
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Some May Overlook Evidence, but We Cannot Ignore History, Carlos Santos-Burgoa and Elizabeth Andrade
Planning for a COVID-19 Vaccination Program., Sarah Schaffer DeRoo, Natalie J Pudalov, and Linda Y. Fu
Pediatric Otolaryngology in the COVID-19 Era, Steven E. Sobol, Diego Preciado, and Scott M. Rickert
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A National and Global Social Contracts Stress Test, Eliot Sorel
COVID-19: Substance Use Disorder, Privacy, and the CARES Act, Nicolas Terry, Melissa Goldstein, and Kirk Nahra
The reproductive number R0 of COVID-19 in Peru: An opportunity for effective changes., J Smith Torres-Roman, Ilia Cabos Kobiak, Bryan Valcarcel, Cristian Diaz-Velez, and Carlo La Vecchia
Redesigning emergency department operations amidst a viral pandemic., Tess Whiteside, Erin Kane, Bandar Aljohani, Marya Alsamman, and Ali Pourmand
Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ramping up Safely to a New Normal, William A. Zoghbi, Marcelo F. DiCarli, Ron Blankstein, Andrew D. Choi, Vasken Dilsizian, Frank A. Flachskampf, Jeffery B. Geske, Paul A. Grayburn, Farouc A. Jaffer, Raymond Y. Kwong, Jonathan A. Leipsic, Thomas H. Marwick, Eike Nagel, Koen Neiman, Subha V. Raman, Michael Salerno, Partho P. Sengupta, Leslee J. Shaw, and Y S. Chandrashekhar