Correlating COVID-19 severity with biomarker profiles and patient prognosis.

COVID-19's long-lasting and complex impacts have become a global concern, with diverse clinical outcomes. This study evaluated 226 participants to understand the clinical spectrum of COVID-19/Long COVID (LC), exploring how disease severity correlates with sociodemographic factors and biomarkers. Determinants related to COVID-19 severity included age (P < 0.

Teaching telephone-answering skills to mentally retarded adults.

Four telephone-answering problems were identified. Following baseline observations, 6 mentally retarded students were exposed to a treatment package consisting of verbal and visual prompts, reinforcement, and rehearsal opportunities within the context of a Multiple-Baseline, Across-Problems X Subjects design. All students learned to criterion the problems to which they were exposed; however, large individual differences in performance were observed during all phases of the study.