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Hourmazd Haghbayan
Researcher at Laval University
Publications - 23
Citations - 1587
Hourmazd Haghbayan is an academic researcher from Laval University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Meta-analysis & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 23 publications receiving 717 citations. Previous affiliations of Hourmazd Haghbayan include University of Toronto & University of Western Ontario.
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Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases.
TL;DR: The current position of social media platforms in propagating vaccine hesitancy is discussed and next steps in how social media may be used to improve health literacy and foster public trust in vaccination are explored.
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Interleukin-6 in Covid-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: Inhibition of IL‐6 may be a novel target for therapeutics for the management of dysregulated host responses in patients with Covid‐19 and high‐quality studies of intervention in this field are urgently required.
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Interleukin-6 in COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: In patients with COVID-19, IL- 6 levels are significantly elevated and associated with adverse clinical outcomes, and inhibition of IL-6 with tocilizumab appears to be efficacious and safe in preliminary investigation.
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Favipiravir, an antiviral for COVID-19?
TL;DR: An open-label non-randomized trial of 80 patients with COVID-19 in China identified a significant reduction in the time to SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance in patients treated with favipiravir compared with historical controls treated with lopinavir/ritonavir.
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Temporal trends in anti-vaccine discourse on Twitter.
TL;DR: Despite greater volumes of pro- Vaccine discourse in recent years, and the anti-vaccination content userbase being smaller, theAnti-vaccine community continues to grow in size.