Preface
I. Introductory chapters and setting the scene
1. COVID-19 and mortality in children
Milind Shinde, Anu Maheshwari and Harish Kumar Pemde
2. Congenital and perinatal COVID- 19: Diagnostic challenges, current management and outcomes
DESPOINA GKENTZI
3. COVID-19 Vaccine Strategies
Amin Gasmi, Yuliya Semenova, Sadaf Noor, Amine Nehaoua, Rafiaa Malek, Habib Malek, and Geir Bjørklund
4. Social and Community Responses to Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19: Community Engagement for Risk Preparedness
Gary Chung and Eng-Kiong Yeoh
II. International aspects
5. The COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: ecological background and epidemiological dynamics
M. Gatto and Stefano Miccoli
6. The COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria
Ademola Emmanuel Aiyenuro I, Chijioke Obiwe Onyeani, Yusuff Adebisi, Promise Okereke, Deborah Shomuyiwa, Nneka Uche, Nafisat Jimoh, Abdullahi Aborode, Samuel Ogunsola and Udochiamaka Chukwu
7. The COVID-19 pandemic in India
Maushmi Shailesh Kumar
8. COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
Małgorzata Gruchoła and Małgorzata Sławek-Czochra
9. Covid-19 in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)
Lorena Díaz de León-Martínez, Carlos Miguel López-Mendoza, Ana Jared Tenorio Salazar, Rogelio Flores Ramírez and Luz Eugenia Alcántara-Quintana
10. COVID-19 IN SUDAN: A MULTIPERSPECTIVE REVIEW
Khabab Mohamed Ahmed Sr.
11. Features of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in Cuba
E. Cruz-Rodriguez Sr.
12. Stress and anxiety due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Vidit Singh and Snigdha Awasthi
13. COVID-19 pandemic in Korea: A focus on Medical Management
K.-M. Ha and Young Kim
14. Stigma experienced by healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Egyptian Perspectives
Aya Mostafa and Nashwa Ismail
III. Reproduction, pregnancy and new-borns
15. Breast feeding and COVID-19
Bindi Borg and Karleen Gribble
16. Follicular fluid and the response to SARS-CoV-2
Fernanda Parborell Sr.
17. Fetal death due to maternal COVID-19
Munekage Yamaguchi
18. The COVID-19 pandemic and identification of SARS-CoV-2 in the prostate
Katherine Campbell, Nikhil Kulkarni, Braian Ledesma, Farah Rahman, Kyle Schuppe, MohamadHusni M. Zarli, Kajal Khodamoradi and Ranjith Ramasamy
19. COVID -19 in pregnant women: clinical course, treatment and maternal/fetal outcome of vaccination during pregnancy
Cinzia Auriti, Chiara Maddaloni and Domenico Umberto De Rose
20. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG antibodies and their vertical transfer
Jeremy Dewayne Ward
21. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in lactation
Amit Srivastava
22. Being pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact of the trimester of gestation and measures of maternal mental health
Anick Berard and Narimene Ait Belkacem
23. COVID-19 related maternal mortality and SARS-CoV-2 variants
Arzu Bilge Tekin and Bilge Dogan Taymur
24. COVID-19 associated complications in pregnant women and neonates
Taylor DeAnnuntis, Jahnea Williams, Paul Burcher, Tamara Snyder, Rahul Kashyap and Vikas Bansal
25. The neurological impact of SARS-COV-2 infection on the developing foetus
Christine Wade, Kartik Mody and Becky Micetic
26. Impact of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the placenta
Kendall Moore, Rebecca Jessel, Jia Chen and Corina Lesseur
IV. Children and adolescents
27. T-cells and their subsets in children with COVID-19
Ferah Budak, Abdurrahman Simsek and Muhammed Ali Kizmaz
28. Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome and SARS-CoV-2
Stanisław Surma, Joanna Lewek and Maciej Banach
29. How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on childhood nutritional status
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti
30. COVID-19 in children: nutritional care
P. Zamberlan, Beatriz Mazzoni, Ana Lúcia Lahoz, Maria Lucia Santos, Camila Nozella and Artur Delgado
31. Eating disorders in children during the COVID-19 pandemic
M.R. Marchili
32. Body composition in children with SARS cov 2 infection : short- and long-term consequences
Elisabetta Di Profio, Elvira Verduci and Gianvincenzo Zuccotti
33. Risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and childhood obesity
Maira Alejandra Ortiz-Pinto, Honorato Ortiz-Marrón and Miguel Pedromingo-Kuss
34. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic during the lockdown and the post-COVID effects on the family system of children with disabilities
Bekir Fatih Meral
35. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ordinary vaccination programs for very young children: BCG, MMR, Poliomyelitis and beyond
Guilherme Silveira Procianoy and Rita C. Silveira
36. Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in children
Paul Licciardi, Zheng Quan Toh and Nadia Mazarakis
37. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: how physical fitness changes in children
Eliseo Iglesias-Soler, Jessica Rial-Vázquez, Maria Rúa-Alonso, Iván Nine and Iván Clavel
38. The COVID-19 pandemic and children: impact on physical activity
Olena Yelizarova, Svitlana Hozak, Tetiana Stankevych, Nadiya Polka, Alla Koblianska, Alla Parats and Olha Ivanovska
39. The COVID-19 pandemic and stress related to schooling
Xue Yang and Kylie K.Y. Chan
40. The COVID-19 pandemic and effects on adolescent suicidal ideation (self-directed harm)
Brianna J. Turner
41. The COVID-19 pandemic: Attending to hand hygiene measures in young people [a review of different studies]
Anna Espart, Luisa Guitard-Sein Echaluce, Maria Barcenilla-Guitard, Alba Guitard-Quer and Fernando Barcenilla
42. Child and Adolescent COVID-19 Vaccination: Trends, Hesitancy, and Strategies for Increasing Vaccination
Kimberly H. Nguyen
43. Social distancing behaviour in adolescents
Ming-Te Wang
44. Thrombotic complications in children and adolescents with SARS-CoV-2 infection
Clay Travis Cohen
45. Features of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in children: A focus on magnetic resonance imaging of the heart
Łukasz A. Małek
46. SARS-CoV-2 infection and the cytokine levels and pathway in children: an updated narrative
Tsvetelina Veselinova Velikova and Snezhina Lazova
V. Older Adults
47. Risk factors related to COVID-19 among older adults
Eva M. Satue-Gracia
48. Reducing loneliness and social isolation among elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic
Xiangfei Meng
49. Features and measures of depression in elderly and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: linking in pre-existing mental health
Omar Paccagnella
50. Experiences of Disabled Older Adults in Adult Day Care Centers during COVID-19 Pandemic
Takashi Naruse
51. Single-Cell Transcriptomics to Investigate Disease Severity in older adult COVID-19 Patients
Hassan Mohamed El-Said Azzazy
52. COVID-19 and Older Adult Food Practices: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective
Sarah Francis, Catherine Rudoloph and Savannah Schultz
53. Older subjects and immunogenicity of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
Dorota Religa and Piotr Seiffert
54. Non-invasive respiratory support in octogenarian patients with COVID-19
Federico Lionello, Gabriella Guarnieri, Giovanna Arcaro, Sara Lococo and Andrea Vianello
VI. Case studies with mini review
55. CASE STUDY: COVID-19 severity in diabetic patients with and without seizure
Budhadev Baral, Kartik Muduli, Shweta Jakhmola, Vaishali Saini, Pratik Kundu, Nikunj Kumar Root, Shubhransu Patro, Nirmal Kumar Mohakud and Hem Chandra Jha
56. CASE STUDY: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for COVID-19 and Their Social Impact in Japan
Kota KODAMA, Makoto Niwa and Shintaro Sengoku
57. CASE STUDY: Factors affecting vaccine uptake. Australian perspectives
Jessica Carter and Erika Borkoles
58. CASE STUDY: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on an older disabled person
Takashi Naruse
59. COVID -19 in the newborn: clinical course and effects of maternal vaccination in pregnancy
Cinzia Auriti, Chiara Maddaloni and Domenico Umberto De Rose
VII. Resources
60. Recommended Resources for the International and Life Course Aspects of COVID-19
Rajkumar Rajendram