COVID-19: An Update

Edited by James D. Chalmers, Catia Cilloniz and Bin Cao
In May 2023, WHO declared that COVID-19 was no longer a public health emergency of international concern. In 2024, COVID-19 certainly has not gone away, but we can now take a more reflective look at the pandemic. This issue of the Monograph does just that, bringing together a truly international group of experts, as befits a global illness, to consider areas such as: long-term sequelae in airway disease, interstitial lung disease, and in the immunocompromised; therapeutics in the community, in hospital and in the intensive care unit; and the pathophysiolgy and management of long COVID. The Guest Editors also consider the impact of COVID-19 on clinical research and scientific publishing, as well as looking to the future, considering what can be learnt from the pandemic.

Contents list

1. The patient perspective of the pandemic

COVID-19: epidemiology, clinical features and therapy
2. Timeline of the pandemic: epidemiology, global spread, variants and waves
3. COVID-19 in adults: spectrum of illness and clinical presentation
4. Cellular response in the pathogenesis of COVID-19
5. Antiviral therapy for COVID-19
6. Vaccination against COVID-19 in a post-pandemic era
7. Therapeutics in hospitalised adult patients with COVID-19
8. Management of severe COVID-19 in the ICU
9. Viral sepsis and SARS-CoV-2
10. Secondary infection after COVID-19

COVID-19 in special populations
11. COVID-19 in the immunocompromised host
12. COVID-19 in patients with airways disease: COPD, asthma and bronchiectasis
13. COVID-19 in patients with interstitial lung disease

Post-COVID syndrome
14. Long COVID: epidemiology and clinical impact
15. Long COVID: pathological mechanisms
16. Long COVID: current management and future prospects

The legacy of the pandemic
17. COVID-19 platform trials: insight and lessons in clinical trial design
18. Publishing the pandemic: the impact of COVID-19 on science and scientific publishing
19. Future perspectives: preventing the next pandemic

Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-181-8
eISBN: 978-1-84984-182-5
EPUB ISBN: 978-1-84984-183-2