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COVID-19 has been the center of global attention and concern for the last months. Patients undergoing dialysis and especially those treated at the hospital are likely to be infected, due to their mandatory presence at the hospital several times a week and due to their intrinsic fragility in regard of chronic kidney disease, often an older age, and the presence of many associated comorbidities. Thereby, patients with chonic kidney disease treated by haemodialysis have higher odds of a more severe COVID-19 infection with a high mortality rate. Prevention is thus a high priority for these patients.The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact in the world of Oncology. Surprised by the rapidity of the extension of the pandemic, the oncological department had to be reorganised in a very short time period in a hospital which had the primary objective to treat infected patients. The author describes how with the help of an international network and local research projects all efforts have been done to offer the best patient's care in a secure environment.The COVID-19 pandemic has forced general practice to react and adapt its modus operandi in various ways. We describe most important practical adaptations according to the chronology imposed by the different phases of this unprecedented crisis, during the first three quarters of 2020. The Belgian health system and all its components have been put under tension. General medicine has been able to build on its strengths but has also suffered from certain weaknesses. Initial lessons must be learnt in order to better respond to the challenges of tomorrow.In December 2019, in Wuhan, a new human infectious pathology was born, COVID-19, consisting above all in pneumoniae, induced by the coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 because of the respiratory distress it caused (SARS for severe acute respiratory syndrome, and CoV for Coronavirus). A real health and planetary crisis has appeared, much more substantial than that linked to SARS-CoV-1 in 2002-2004 and to MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus) in 2012. In addition to respiratory damage that can be dramatic, this pathology is complicated by the frequency of cardiovascular, renal and coagulation diseases. Health care systems have had to adapt urgently, in the absence of hindsight from the pathology, and without effective therapeutic weapons. Through this review of the literature, we detail our local practices for the overall management of patients hospitalized in Intensive care.In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread among the Belgian territory. Our university hospital was confronted to the very need of specific reorganizations guided by the implementation of the Hospital Emergency Plan.This article aims to describe the experience of the University Hospital of Liège (CHU Liège) during the COVID-19 outbreak and demonstrates the efficiency of advanced triage centers to regulate hospital admissions from the emergency department (ED).

since the beginning of March 2020, the CHU of Liège has implemented specific advanced triage centers to manage patients with SARS-CoV-2 suspected symptoms. The first center was organized inside the hospital but the need of outside structures led to the creation of two centers by the end of March. From March 2 to May 3, data from the different visits at the COVID-19 centers were collected (numbers of admissions, rationale for coming, work up and outcome).

during the study period, 3,094 patients were admitted to the specific COVID-19 centers of the CHU Liège. This represents 3,431 visits among which 337 were classified as readmission visits. The sensitivity and specificity of the triage centers to determine the need for hospitalization were, respectively, estimated at 87,9 % and 93,4 %.

our experience tends to demonstrate the role of specific COVID-19 triage centers located very close to the EDs aimed at managing COVID-19 suspected patients in order to actually determine their need for subsequent hospitalization.

our experience tends to demonstrate the role of specific COVID-19 triage centers located very close to the EDs aimed at managing COVID-19 suspected patients in order to actually determine their need for subsequent hospitalization.The health crisis linked to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has forced society and hospitals in particular to adapt and reform. Teamwork between hospitals, even beyond the networks, helped them to deal with the crisis. The medical and nursing staff had to learn to work differently and differentiate urgent from non-urgent care. But the patient also had to change his/her behaviour. this website Access to hospitals has been divided between a separate COVID and non-COVID route in order to avoid contamination. Telemedicine has become a daily way of communicating between doctors and patients. Telephone consultations have been set up with reimbursement by social security. However, these actions and innovations should not end with the crisis but, on the contrary, be a lever to rethink the role of hospitals, and our health care system more generally.The ability to sequence DNA retrieved from ancient and historical material plays a crucial role in reinforcing evolutionary and anthropological inference. While the focus of the field is largely on analyzing DNA from ancient hominids and other animals, we have also learned from plant ancient DNA (aDNA), in particular, about human farming practices, crop domestication, environment management, species invasion, and adaptation to various environmental conditions. In the following protocols, we outline best practices for plant aDNA isolation, preparation for sequencing, bioinformatic processing, and authentication. We describe the process all the way from processing of archaeological or historical plant material to characterizing and authenticating sequencing reads. In alternative protocols, we include modifications to this process that are tailored to strongly degraded DNA. Throughout, we stress the importance of precautionary measures to successfully analyze aDNA. Finally, we discuss the evolution of the archaeogenomics field and the development of new methods, which both shaped this protocol. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1 Isolation of aDNA Alternate Protocol 1 Isolation of ultra-short DNA (Dabney modification) Support Protocol 1 Preparation of PTB-based mix Support Protocol 2 Preparation of binding buffer Basic Protocol 2 Preparation of genomic libraries Alternate Protocol 2 Preparation of genomic libraries with uracil removal Basic Protocol 3 Bioinformatic processing and authentication of aDNA.