Impact of COVID-19 on Physiology Research: Global Lessons Learned and Future Recommendations
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The Coronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused massive changes in not only the medical field but every aspect of the world. As the whole world moved from in-person to remote, students found themselves in a predicament where they were forced to take school online, from home. This would mean that all projects, research, tests, and meetings were conducted over Zoom or other online meeting platforms. Labs were shut down or only a limited number of people were allowed to enter to conduct the necessary research. In this paper, the field of physiological research throughout the world will be discussed, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the research process of all anatomical fields and experiments themselves. An extensive literature review of many published reports has been conducted for the study. The purpose of this is to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on the vast area of physiological studies and research. Experiments that were being conducted were halted, which could change the entirety of the results. A major issue found is that volunteers were at a minimum, specifically in the ages greater than 65 years, were scarce as they refused to volunteer due to COVID-19 risk or various other reasons. As the volunteers began to drop, experiments conducted by students were forced to change to an online-only format. Medical students were forced to conduct physiological research from home as they spoke with volunteers over the phone. This not only changes the results coming in but also the learning progression for the students. This comprehensive literature review analysis summarizes how, among multifarious short- and/or long-term consequences of the pandemic in practically every sphere, the area of physiological research was drastically impacted.
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