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Performance Of A Sars-Cov-2 Rt-Pcr Assay With Non-Traditional Specimen Types, Subathra Marimuthu, Holly Aliesky, Heather Ness, Daniya Sheikh, Sathya Rashmit, Dawn Balcom, Leslie A. Wolf 2023 University of Louisville

Performance Of A Sars-Cov-2 Rt-Pcr Assay With Non-Traditional Specimen Types, Subathra Marimuthu, Holly Aliesky, Heather Ness, Daniya Sheikh, Sathya Rashmit, Dawn Balcom, Leslie A. Wolf

The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections

During the first two years of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, nasopharyngeal (NP) specimens were the gold standard for clinical diagnostic testing. As information about the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing the pandemic continued to be shared, it was clear that the virus could be detected in other specimen types during an active infection. The University of Louisville Infectious Diseases Laboratory accepted non-traditional specimen types, most without a paired, positive NP result, for research purposes only to support local epidemiology efforts. A real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay originally validated for NP specimens was used …


What? Now A Respiratory Syncytial Virus Epidemic, Aya Allam, Steven B Lippmann 2023 University of Louisville

What? Now A Respiratory Syncytial Virus Epidemic, Aya Allam, Steven B Lippmann

The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections

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Covid- 19 Reflection, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Covid- 19 Reflection, Anonymous

Community Reflections

I wrote about what was going through my head and what I want people to know about how it affected me.


My Covid Travel Experience, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

My Covid Travel Experience, Anonymous

Community Reflections

When I first heard that we were all getting two weeks off from school because of some weird virus, I was really excited. I didn’t know the severity of it until two weeks turned into three weeks, and three turned into six, and then we were out for the rest of the school year. I didn’t get Covid until the very end of it. I was in Europe on Vacation with my family and I was on a cruise.


Senior Night, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Senior Night, Anonymous

Community Reflections

This content refelcts on my experience because as the world seemed to be going back to normal, COVID-19 ruined my special night of senior year in 2021 that I looked forward to since being a freshman.


Covid-19'S Impact On My Final Two Years Of High School, Robert Bevilacqua 2023 University of Sacred Heart

Covid-19'S Impact On My Final Two Years Of High School, Robert Bevilacqua

Community Reflections

This document primarily concerns COVID-19's impact on my final two years of high school (NY) and its repercussions on my academic career.


Covid Stress, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Covid Stress, Anonymous

Community Reflections

My COVID-19 experience was definitely something that I will never forget. At the time with me working in the healthcare field, being a CNA. It brought much stress and especially chaos. After coming home from long shifts helping with elderly patients who were sickened by covid, it definitely was hard to see and it took a toll on me.


Covid- 19, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Covid- 19, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Many aspects of our daily lives were thrown into disarray because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even until January 2023, no one knew what true, long-term consequences it would have. It would introduce new customs that many of us had never experienced before, like wearing masks, keeping six feet apart, and not shaking each other's hands to introduce ourselves. We have not seen such an outbreak since the 1980s with HIV and AIDS in the U.S., where there was so much paranoia within our society that we were constantly sanitizing our hands and quarantining when someone was infected with COVID-19.


My Brutal Covid Experience, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

My Brutal Covid Experience, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Within weeks, Covid 19 was present in the United States. It affected everyone in the world. Nobody knew what to do at the start of this, and nobody completely knew what was going on.


Covid 19 And Other Pandemics, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Covid 19 And Other Pandemics, Anonymous

Community Reflections

The Coronavirus was a global pandemic that spread from China to the United States in March 2020. In March, it was announced to us that the United States had to go into lockdown for two weeks. Little did we know that this two-week lockdown was going to turn into almost a year. This news was found to be very surprising by everyone because it has been so many years since we had a pandemic that affected everyone.


Covid Birthday, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Covid Birthday, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Covid 19 was a shock to us all. No one knew what to expect. It was a new way of living for everyone.


Family Experience, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Family Experience, Anonymous

Community Reflections

It started with whispers in the hallway. Hearing rumors from peers that we would have two weeks off from school and then return to share stories from those glorious 14 days. In hindsight, it was naïve to think that Covid-19 would have such little impact on my life, but it eventually struck my family as it did thousands of others.


My Account Of Covid- 19, Ryan Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University, Puerto Rico

My Account Of Covid- 19, Ryan Anonymous

Community Reflections

It was March 13, 2020, when the first encounter happened. The Coronavirus was still new to many of us, so we really did not know the true severity that this virus had in store. One morning, during second period, the entire school was called down to the auditorium for an impromptu assembly. With the recent closings of neighboring schools, we were certain that we were the next to close; everyone was ecstatic.


Remembering Covid, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Remembering Covid, Anonymous

Community Reflections

This is a short reflection on my experience as a firefighter during the COVID-19 pandemic.


How I Want Future Generations To Remember Covid-19, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

How I Want Future Generations To Remember Covid-19, Anonymous

Community Reflections

For the future generations, I want them to know that COVID-19 wasn’t just “two weeks off from school”, I want them to know and realize that life was troublesome for many people and families still haven’t recovered years later.


My Covid Lesson, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

My Covid Lesson, Anonymous

Community Reflections

What was supposed to be a two-week break turned into months of quarantining and not seeing any of my close friends. Covid-19 was hard on many people. During this time, I found who I am on my own.


Covid Reflection, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Covid Reflection, Anonymous

Community Reflections

The Covid-19 pandemic was an unforgettable time in the lives of anybody who had the ability to form memories. It was an absolutely unprecedented event that scared the entire world into locking themselves inside for months at a time to avoid risk of a very dangerous condition that could affect anybody enough to hospitalize them. When many of us who lived through this era think about the pandemic, we can reflect on it as a time when the world stopped moving.


My Covid Reflection, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

My Covid Reflection, Anonymous

Community Reflections

March 2020 is a year that I will never forget. Covid-19 was becoming more known, but it did not affect my dance team trip. My team and I were in Orlando, Florida for NDA Dance Nationals. I felt so drained and feverish, a sickness I have never had before.


My Covid Experience, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

My Covid Experience, Anonymous

Community Reflections

Each person today has had such different covid experiences, in this paragraph I will be going into depth my own covid experience. My sophomore year of high school, I was homeschooled, taking classes at home for months due to several different circumstances.


Cloud Of Covid, Anonymous 2023 Sacred Heart University

Cloud Of Covid, Anonymous

Community Reflections

The COVID-19 pandemic was the most turbulent time of my life. Both my parents worked in New York City at the time, and nothing seemed certain. During the time of the world “stopping”, my grandmother was living with us to receive Pancreatic cancer treatment. This meant that any time anyone had any symptoms, our whole family was on high alert.


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