COVID-19: COVID-19 Epidemiological and Clinical Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on both the population and healthcare systems across the world since 2020. As we are in the second year of the pandemic, it is time to assess the epidemiological burden and characteristics of COVID-19 spread and lethality among the general population and specific subgroups in different nations. At the same time, it is time to evaluate the efficacy of treatments that have been used for more than a year, as well as resume the follow-up of patients who were diagnosed or hospitalized due to COVID-19. 

This Special Issue on “COVID-19: Epidemiological and Clinical Challenges” is aimed at stimulating clinicians and researchers working in the field of infectious diseases, virology, epidemiology, preventive medicine and public health, internal medicine, pulmonology, radiology, neurology, cardiology, etc. to share their research or experiences with the scientific community, from the perspective of common advances of knowledge that will lead us out of this health emergency.  

Articles addressing epidemiological issues, treatment protocols, follow-up of small numbers or large cohorts of patients, as well as epidemiological or clinical surveys are solicited: systematic reviews, meta-analyses, original research articles, short articles, and commentaries are welcome and expected to add relevant information to the current knowledge. 

Dr. Prisco Piscitelli
Prof. Dr. Ivan Gentile
Dr. Alessandro Miani
Dr. Loreto Gesualdo
Guest Editors

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