COVID-19 symptoms at hospital admission vary with age and sex: results from the ISARIC prospective multinational observational study

Background: The ISARIC prospective multinational observational study is the largest cohort of hospitalized patients with COVID-19. We present relationships of age, sex, and nationality to presenting symptoms. Methods: International, prospective observational study of 60 109 hospitalized symptomatic patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 recruited from 43 countries between 30 January and 3 August 2020. Logistic regression was performed to evaluate relationships of age and sex to published COVID-19 case definitions and the most commonly reported symptoms. Results: ‘Typical’ symptoms of fever (69%), cough (68%) and shortness of breath (66%) were the most commonly reported. 92% of patients experienced at least one of these. Prevalence of typical symptoms was greatest in 30- to 60-year-olds (respectively 80, 79, 69%; at least one 95%). They were reported less frequently in children (≤ 18 years: 69, 48, 23; 85%), older adults (≥ 70 years: 61, 62, 65; 90%), and women (66, 66, 64; 90%; vs. men 71, 70, 67; 93%, each P < 0.001). The most common atypical presentations under 60 years of age were nausea and vomiting and abdominal pain, and over 60 years was confusion. Regression models showed significant differences in symptoms with sex, age and country. Interpretation: This international collaboration has allowed us to report reliable symptom data from the largest cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Adults over 60 and children admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are less likely to present with typical symptoms. Nausea and vomiting are common atypical presentations under 30 years. Confusion is a frequent atypical presentation of COVID-19 in adults over 60 years. Women are less likely to experience typical symptoms than men

Le prêt des collections au regard de la conservation préventive : prescriptions et suivi

The author presents how preventive conservation should be involved in loan policy in order to maximize conservation. She focuses on artwork condition assessment as well as slow and cumulative degradations, and more particularly for paintings. Risks due to incorrect climate conditions, physical forces such as shock and vibration and airborn pollution are reviewed, what could be done to prevent their effect and how could they be monitored

Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych

The French collections own some featherworks, four as long as we know. Two of them were the subject of an important campaign of study and restoration in 2002 : the 'Messe de Saint Grégoire" (Musée des Jacobins d'Auch) and a mexican triptych representing Christ on the cross (Musée national de la Renaissance d'Ecouen). The particularity of those artefacts implied the constitution of a multidisciplinary team. The collaboration of a support painting restorer and an ethnographic restorer, working together on the "feather mosaic", allowed to have a complementary vision on those artefacts. Our talk will present : a study of the techniques, and a comparative study of the two featherworks, a description of the degradation inherent in this type of objects, the restoration choices and the importance of preventive conservation. Many photographs will illustrate the presentation

Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych

The French collections own some featherworks, four as long as we know. Two of them were the subject of an important campaign of study and restoration in 2002 : the 'Messe de Saint Grégoire" (Musée des Jacobins d'Auch) and a mexican triptych representing Christ on the cross (Musée national de la Renaissance d'Ecouen). The particularity of those artefacts implied the constitution of a multidisciplinary team. The collaboration of a support painting restorer and an ethnographic restorer, working together on the "feather mosaic", allowed to have a complementary vision on those artefacts. Our talk will present : a study of the techniques, and a comparative study of the two featherworks, a description of the degradation inherent in this type of objects, the restoration choices and the importance of preventive conservation. Many photographs will illustrate the presentation

Islams de France, Islams d’Europe

Le regard que l’on porte habituellement sur la population musulmane de notre pays est en grande partie déterminé par les conditions historiques et les caractéristiques sociologiques de celle-ci. Or les origines de cette population, enfant non assumée de la colonisation et fille d’une immigration encore largement cantonnée aux banlieues, remontent au moins à la fin du 19e siècle. Le cycle de conférences publiques que propose l’IISMM entend restituer la diversité de ces islams de France et éclairer les enjeux et les non-dits des débats que suscite cette présence musulmane dans l’un des pays promoteurs de la laïcité

Familles, destins personnels et appartenances collectives en migration

Tous les textes, rassemblés dans le dossier « Familles, destins personnels et appartenances collectives en migration », traitent de phénomènes et processus sociologiques étudiés à partir d’études de cas de familles et de récits de vie. Les historiques de famille cherchent ainsi à reconstruire des histoires individuelles tout en les réinsérant dans leurs contextes micro et méso-sociaux. Multiplier les « histoires de cas » de familles partant de conditions similaires permet d’appréhender les dynamiques intergénérationnelles et de genre internes à ces groupes. Les réinsérer dans les contextes locaux de la société d’accueil (l’école, le quartier, les réseaux de sociabilités, la rue, les marchés du travail…) permet aussi de comprendre comment ces contextes fonctionnent à l’égard des migrants et de leurs enfants. La similarité méthodologique ouvre une perspective de comparaison internationale. Des traits communs se dégagent-ils entre les stratégies de migrants turcs en Allemagne, bengalis en Grande-Bretagne, jamaïcains en Grande-Bretagne mais aussi aux États-Unis et au Canada, chinois en France et enfin entre femmes maliennes et indiennes en France ?La suite du numéro rassemble des articles qui traitent de questions diverses : la logique des catégorisations du BIT entre 1925 et 1929 ; Le développement du halal en France ; La politique cubaine américaine ; Les conditions de logement des Africains à Almeria