Funding Information: This work was conducted as part of the project, \u2018Vaccine Effectiveness, Burden and Impact Studies (VEBIS) of COVID-19 and Influenza\u2019, funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control through service contracts with Epiconcept (ECD.12616, ECD.13017, ECD.13350, ECD.14646, and ECD.15029 - implementing framework contract ECDC/2021/016). The support of Epiconcept to the ...
Funding Information: The present publication was funded by Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia, IP national support through CHRC (UIDP/04923/2020). Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Ricoca Peixoto, Vieira, Aguiar, Sentis, Carvalho, Rhys Thomas, Abrantes and Nunes.; Introduction: In Portugal, COVID-19 laboratory notifications, clinical notifications (CNs), and epidemiological investigation questionnaires (EI) were...
Copyright © 2023 Ricoca Peixoto, Vieira, Aguiar, Carvalho, Thomas, Sousa, Nunes and Abrantes.; AIM: Identify factors associated with COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death among hospitalized cases in Portugal, and variations from the first to the second wave in Portugal, March-December 2020. INTRODUCTION: Determinants of ICU admission and death for COVID-19 need further understanding and may cha...
Funding Information: J.E. was supported by grant 765492 from H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017. J.M. was supported by “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia” (PD/BD/105866/2014). S.B. was supported by the EMBO Installation Grant 3921. This work was supported by the Champalimaud Foundation and grant LCF/PR/HR19/52160014 from “La Caixa” Foundation. M.O.’s research is partially supported by National Funds through FCT, Fundação...
Publisher Copyright: © 2021 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.; Background: Determinants of hospitalisation, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death are still unclear for COVID-19. Few studies have adjusted for confounding for different clinical outcomes including all reported cases within a country. Aim: We used routine surveillance data from Portugal to ident...
Introduction: Portugal took early action to control the COVID-19 epidemic, initiating lockdown measures on March 16th when it recorded only 62 cases of COVID-19 per million inhabitants and reported no deaths. The Portuguese public complied quickly, reducing their overall mobility by 80%. The aim of this study was to estimate the initial impact of the lockdown in Portugal in terms of the reduction of the burden ...
This work is funded by FCT/MEC through national funds and when applicable co-funded by FEDER-PT2020 partnership agreement under the project UID/EEA/50008/2019, PEst-OE UID/EEA/00066/2019, and foRESTER PCIF/SSI/0102/2017.; This paper describes an energy harvesting system composed of an organic photovoltaic cell (OPV) connected to a DC-DC converter, designed in a 130 nm Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CM...
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