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A new study looks at changes in the glycemic control in patients with diabetes during the lockdowns implemented to deal with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The results of this study show that while there was a significant improvement for people with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), the glycemic control waned in patients with

When a virus infects an individual, a complex human immune response is initiated to limit the effects of the viral invasion. One of the several different immune responses that can arise following a viral infection includes the generation of the pleiotropic cytokine interferon (IFN), which acts as a link between the innate and adaptive immune

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is the virus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), originally emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and continues to spread worldwide. The transmission and deadly effects of COVID-19 have been significantly more considerable in densely populated regions such as Hong Kong and India. Urban