The fundamental aim of this study is to determine the effects of prolonged usage of N95 respirators and surgical facemasks amid health care workers in our institution. Cross-sectional study. SRM medical college hospital, Kattankulathur. A self-constructed questionnaire containing 20 queries regarding the effects of prolonged use of face masks, after being analysed by the experts of our institution were handed over to 250 participants.. All participants wore either surgical masks or N95 respirators for a minimum of 4 h per day. People aged between 20 and 48 years were selected for this study. Study period was from 20/07/2020 to 26/07/2020. Completed questionnaires were sent for statistical analysis. A total of 250 healthcare workers participated in the study, out of which 179 were females. The acquired results were excessive sweating around the mouth accounting to 67.6%, difficulty in breathing on exertion 58.2%, acne 56.0% and itchy nose 52.0%. This study suggests that prolonged use of facemasks induces difficulty in breathing on exertion and excessive sweating around the mouth to the healthcare workers which results in poorer adherence and increased risk of susceptibility to infection.

This paper presents a predictive model to potentially identify high-risk COVID-19 infected patients based on easily analyzed circulatory blood markers. These findings can enable effective and efficient care programs for high-risk patients and periodic monitoring for the low-risk ones, thereby easing the hospital flow of patients and can further be utilized for hospital bed utilization assessment. The present machine learning-based SV-LAR model results in a high 87% f1 score, harmonic mean of 91% precision, and 83% recall to classify COVID-19, infected patients, as high-risk patients needing hospitalization.

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Advanced form of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis or Forestier's disease can induce dysphagia and significant airway symptoms such as hoarseness, snoring, dyspnoea on exertion and laryngeal stridor. We have discussed the diagnosis and management of an unusual case with respiratory distress due to left cricoarytenoid joint fixation and right vocal cord paresis in conjunction with skeletal pathology.

The unemployment of youth in India is on the rise. The employability of fresh graduates in India is

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