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Eric Coomes

University of Toronto
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Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases

N Puri, EA Coomes, H Haghbayan… - Human vaccines & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-preventable
illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as a major …

Interleukin‐6 in COVID‐19: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

EA Coomes, H Haghbayan - Reviews in medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coomes conceived the study hypothesis. Eric A. Coomes and Hourmazd Haghbayan
designed the study and undertook the literature search, study selection and data abstraction. …

A practical approach to the management of cancer patients during the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic: an international collaborative group

…, W Alhazzani, A Alhuraiji, EA Coomes… - The …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The main management strategies for treating cancer patients during the COVID‐19
epidemic include clear communication and education about hand hygiene, infection control …

Sensitivity of nasopharyngeal swabs and saliva for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

AJ Jamal, M Mozafarihashjin, E Coomes… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We enrolled 91 consecutive inpatients with COVID-19 at 6 hospitals in Toronto, Canada,
and tested 1 nasopharyngeal swab/saliva sample pair from each patient using real-time RT-…

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral particles using direct, reagent-free electrochemical sensing

…, H Wang, T Been, L Yip, E Coomes… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of new methods for direct viral detection using streamlined and ideally
reagent-free assays is a timely and important, but challenging, problem. The challenge of …

Favipiravir, an antiviral for COVID-19?

EA Coomes, H Haghbayan - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sir, A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, which
is spreading far more rapidly than its predecessors, having already infected millions of …

Temporal trends in anti-vaccine discourse on Twitter

K Gunaratne, EA Coomes, H Haghbayan - Vaccine, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite vaccination’s role in preventing communicable diseases, misinformation threatens
uptake. Social media may disseminate such anti-vaccination messages. We characterized …

Screening for COVID-19 in asymptomatic patients with cancer in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates

HO Al-Shamsi, EA Coomes, S Alrawi - JAMA oncology, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Methods| Between March 13 to April 4, 2020, 85 asymptomatic patients with cancer were
consecutively enrolled for microbiologic screening. All patients were assessed for COVID-19 …

Distal transradial access for cardiac catheterization: a systematic scoping review

EA Coomes, H Haghbayan… - Catheterization and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Systematically review the literature for cardiac catheterization and coronary
angiography via distal transradial access (dTRA) and its outcomes. Background dTRA, via …

Surface and air contamination with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients in Toronto, Canada, March …

…, S Barati, NG Bell, E Bryce, E Coomes… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background We determined the burden of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) in air and on surfaces in rooms of patients hospitalized with coronavirus …