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Accepted for/Published in: JMIRx Med

Date Submitted: May 11, 2021
Date Accepted: Feb 8, 2022
Date Submitted to PubMed: Aug 4, 2023

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

Supporting Technologies for COVID-19 Prevention: Systemized Review

Zhao Z, Li R, Ma Y, Islam I, Rajper AMA, Song W, Ren H, Tse ZTH

Supporting Technologies for COVID-19 Prevention: Systemized Review

JMIRx Med 2022;3(2):e30344

DOI: 10.2196/30344

PMID: 35695850

PMCID: 9168838

Systemized Review of Supporting Technologies for COVID Prevention

  • Zhuo Zhao; 
  • Rui Li; 
  • Yangmyung Ma; 
  • Iman Islam; 
  • Abdul M. Azam Rajper; 
  • WenZhan Song; 
  • Hongliang Ren; 
  • Zion Tsz Ho Tse

ABSTRACT

During COVID-19, the clinical and healthcare demands have been on the rapid rise. Major challenges to addressing the pandemic include a lack of testing kits and shortages of ventilators to treat severe cases of COVID-19, insufficient accessibility to personal protective equipment for both hospitals and the public. New technologies have been developed by scientists, researchers, and companies in response to these demands. In this paper, 90 news articles and scientific reports on COVID-19-related innovations during 2020-2021 were screened and shortlisted to form a pool of candidates yielding a total of 20 publications for review which were then categorized into three sections: personal protective equipment, testing methods, and medical treatments. Each study was analyzed for its engineering characteristics and potential social impact on the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the guidelines for future disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment were summarized and discussed.


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Please cite as:

Zhao Z, Li R, Ma Y, Islam I, Rajper AMA, Song W, Ren H, Tse ZTH

Supporting Technologies for COVID-19 Prevention: Systemized Review

JMIRx Med 2022;3(2):e30344

DOI: 10.2196/30344

PMID: 35695850

PMCID: 9168838

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