Home team's advantage reduced without crowd support after the COVID-19 outbreak

Historically, fan attendance at sporting events has always been considered an advantage for the home team. The level of fan attendance at soccer matches was evaluated as a decisive effect to modify the performance of the home teams in the most important soccer leagues around the world. We exploit the effects of the absence of spectators driven by COVID-19 pandemic mitigation policies. We find that the advantage of the home field, measured by the proportion of wins and also by the numbers of goals and points scored, is remarkable in many leagues. We performed comparative hypothesis tests with eight of the world's top soccer leagues, confirming a decrease in the probability of a home win, greatly affecting the matches´ outcomes. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Soccer & Society is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Generalized stress and sleep hygiene explain the relationship between sexual/gender identity and sleep quality

IntroductionTypically, LGBTQ + people sleep more poorly than their cisgender heterosexual (cishet) counterparts. However, there is a lack of literature investigating the impact of different lifestyle/psychosocial factors, outside of minority stress, on the negative relationship between being a sexual/gender identity minority and sleep quality. The current study aims to help fill critical gaps in the literature by looking at the effects generalized stress, COVID-19-related stress, social support, and sleep hygiene have on this relationship.MethodsTwo hundred and seventy-three participants (74 LGBTQ+;199 cishet), recruited online, completed a series of questionnaires assessing sleep quality, sleep hygiene, generalized stress, minority stress, COVID-19-related stress, and social support.ResultsAnalyses showed that LGBTQ + participants reported worse sleep quality, higher levels of generalized stress and COVID-19 stress, and smaller social networks than their cishet peers. Generalized stress fully mediated the relationship between sexual/gender identity and sleep while sleep hygiene partially mediated the relationship between generalized stress and sleep quality. Social support and COVID-19-related stress did not moderate the relationship between generalized stress and sleep.ConclusionWorse sleep quality in LGBTQ + than cishet adults is explained by differences in generalized stress and sleep hygiene. Stress management and sleep hygiene interventions may help prevent the negative associations between being LGBTQ + and poor sleep quality.

Post-infectious serum neutralizing SARS-CoV- 2 anti-S protein specific IgG antibody response and decay over a 6-month 3-point sequential concentrations measurement after COVID-19 infection in health care workers

Background: Healthcare workers (HCW) were heavily exposed to iterative viral loads during SARS-CoV- 2/ COVID-19 pandemic. Post-infectious serum neutralizing anti-S/ SARS-CoV- 2 IgG antibody concentrations (anti-S sIgG), albeit a controversial biomarker of antiviral immune response efficacy is actually the only available in routine clinical practice. Method(s): Sequential serum anti-S sIgG measurement (chemiluminescence immunoassay;cut-off: >=1AU/mL) at 3 time-points: T0 = 50.3 +/- 15.3 days after symptom onset (dSo), 16.8 +/- 12.0 days after quarantine end (dQe);T1 = 143.1 +/- 43.9 dSo, 109.4 +/- 43.0 dQe;T2 = 241.3 +/- 75.5 dSo, 208.6 +/- 75.6 dQe;disease severity was classified as asymptomatic (IS1), mild/moderate (IS2) and severe/very severe (IS3) levels. We've enrolled 177 out of 193 positive SARS-CoV- 2/ RT-PCR HCW (8.3% initial dropout), 76.2% female/mean age = 39.6 +/- 11.7 years (y), 23.8% male/mean age = 41.1 +/- 13y, between March and May 2020, out of 4200 HCW of a university hospital. Out of these 177, 93.8% worked in COVID-19 high-risk areas, 72.5% were nurses or assistants, 7.8% had asymptomatic infection and 6.7% suffered serious illness demanding inpatient care. Result(s): At T0, 73.5% HCW (144+ve/166) yielded over-cutoff anti-S sIgG (sIgGoc), mean (sIgGm) = 12.5 +/- 9.1 AU/mL, IS1 = 7.3%, IS2 = 84.9% and IS3 = 7.8%;at T1, sIgGoc = 48.2% (80+ve /166), sIgGm = 2.7 +/- 4.9 AU/mL, IS1 = 7.8%, IS2 = 86.2%, IS3 = 6.0%;at T2, sIgGoc = 25.4% (31+ve /122;late drop out:44), sIgGm = 1.3 +/- 2.8 AU/ mL, IS1 = 8.9%, IS2 = 81.3%, IS3 = 9.8%. So, a progressive decrease in mean serum neutralizing anti-S/ SARS-CoV- 2 IgG antibody concentrations was evident during the first six months after disease, in consonance with available data. Under cutoff concentrations were evident 6 weeks after infection in 26.5% of HCW, in 51.8% after 4 months and 74.6% after 6 months, approximately and even in over-cutoff measurements, values approached the threshold of positivity. Conclusion(s): These results suggest that post-infectious natural immunity against SARS-CoV- 2 is tendentially weak and fast waning, reinforcing the need to repeatedly boost recovered HCW. This measure, together with the collective protection measures and the use of adequate personal protective equipment, will maximize the protection for HCW and patients altogether.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Moderna mRNA-1273 Vaccine for COVID-19

We performed the 1st bibliometric analysis of the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine (for COVID-19). On May 28, 2021, the data was retrieved from the Scopus database. In total, two hundred and three (n=203) documents are published about Moderna, majorly comprising of reviews (n=84) and articles (n=66). In all documents (reviews and articles only), 1110 authors have significantly contributed. The documents per author were 0.135, while authors per document were 7.4. The collaborative Index (CI) was 8.34. By Lotka's Law, we provided information about the frequency of authors. For example, 1021 authors were involved in one (n=1) publication. The total number of publications, h-index, m-index, g-index, and total citations for all authors are provided. The highest documents are published by the National Institutes of Health NIH (n-8) & Moderna Therapeutics (n=8 and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID (n=7). Fifty-five (n=55) countries have significantly contributed to all publications. The highest documents are published by the United States (n=74), India (n=30), and the United Kingdom (n=16). By Biblioshiny, the co-authorship network is also presented. All documents are published in 118 different sources, majorly in Vaccines (n=6), Frontiers in Immunology (n=5), and New England Journal Of Medicine (n=4). We also provided the H-index, g-index, and m-index of all sources. The top ten (n-10) most cited documents are briefly discussed, while we provided a general overview of the publications by co-words analysis. On December 18, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Moderna COVID-19 (mRNA-1273) vaccine. © 2022 by the authors.

Post-pandemic changes in the consumption habits of the Portuguese

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on all dimensions of our individual lives and of our societal functioning. At first, changes were immediate and radical, and were expected to be temporary. However, in Portugal, as in many other European countries, the population faced two prolonged lockdown period, and restrictive measures of social distancing are still in place. Instead of wishing to "go back to normal," coping with the COVID-19 pandemic became the "new normal." The aim of this study is to identify consistent and permanent changes in consumer behaviour that were triggered or motivated by the pandemic, and that consumers maintained even now, as they are resuming their daily activity. On this research the authors looked beyond that atypical consumption period and mapped the consumption habits of the Portuguese at current times. This study presents findings from an online survey to a stratified sample of the Portuguese population, according to age and geographical distribution of the zone of residence. Our findings revealed two opposing trends in consumer behaviour: consumers report increases and decreases in their consumption associated to a more indoors and less mobile lifestyle, such as consuming more telecommunications and internet, and less fuel;while at the same time reporting changes that indicate a retake of pre-COVID-19 habits, such as going more to restaurants, and to sports and culture events, and spending less on products for the hygiene and maintenance of the home. Concerning their relationship with brands, our respondents have reinforced their connection to brands online, particularly on social media platforms. Customers currently appreciate more brands that afford hedonistic experiences, that are emphatic and close, that are transparent and genuine, and, above all, that communicate values that they identify with. © 2022 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

Effect of Protective Measures Adopted in the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hemodialysis Patients.

Introduction The use of masks and other preventive measures is nowadays an essential measure to prevent COVID-19 infections, particularly in hemodialysis patients. The aim of this study was to understand whether these protective measures adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced or somehow contained the number of respiratory infections in a population of hemodialysis patients. Methods This was a longitudinal retrospective single-center study of hemodialysis patients with at least six months of follow-up in a central hospital. A total of 103 patients were evaluated for the study. Two groups were defined: a control group that was followed in the year before the beginning of the pandemic and a group that followed in the year after its beginning. Results Patients in the pandemic group had a higher prevalence of previous major cardiovascular events (48.9% vs 8.6%) and heart failure (31.3% vs 12.1%) than those in the control group. Vaccination rates for influenza and pneumococcus as well as the monthly analytical results were similar in both groups. There were no significant differences in lower respiratory infections, hospitalizations caused by lower respiratory infections, and mortality between both groups. However, not accounting for aspiration pneumonias, the pandemic group had half the mortality due to respiratory infections (2.2% vs 5.2%). Conclusion Despite patients in the pandemic group having a similar prevalence of respiratory infections and hospitalizations motivated by lower respiratory infections, they presented about half the mortality of the control group. This suggests that although there was no decrease in the number of infections, protective measures may have contributed to a decreased mortality.

Modeling the Geospatial Evolution of COVID-19 using Spatio-temporal Convolutional Sequence-to-sequence Neural Networks

Europe was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and Portugal was severely affected, having suffered three waves in the first twelve months. Approximately between January 19th and February 5th 2021 Portugal was the country in the world with the largest incidence rate, with 14-day incidence rates per 100,000 inhabitants in excess of 1,000. Despite its importance, accurate prediction of the geospatial evolution of COVID-19 remains a challenge, since existing analytical methods fail to capture the complex dynamics that result from the contagion within a region and the spreading of the infection from infected neighboring regions. We use a previously developed methodology and official municipality level data from the Portuguese Directorate-General for Health (DGS), relative to the first twelve months of the pandemic, to compute an estimate of the incidence rate in each location of mainland Portugal. The resulting sequence of incidence rate maps was then used as a gold standard to test the effectiveness of different approaches in the prediction of the spatial-temporal evolution of the incidence rate. Four different methods were tested: a simple cell level autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model, a cell level vector autoregressive (VAR) model, a municipality-by-municipality compartmental SIRD model followed by direct block sequential simulation, and a new convolutional sequence-to-sequence neural network model based on the STConvS2S architecture. We conclude that the modified convolutional sequence-to-sequence neural network is the best performing method in this task, when compared with the ARMA, VAR, and SIRD models, as well as with the baseline ConvLSTM model.

Resposta Sorologica Apos Duas Doses Da Vacina Contra Sars-Cov-2 Em Pacientes Com Leucemia Mieloide Cronica

Objetivos: Avaliar as taxas de seroconversao apos duas doses da vacina contra SARS-CoV-2 em pacientes com Leucemia Mieloide Cronica (LMC). Material e Metodos: Foram coletadas amostras para teste sorologico de triagem para avaliacao da presenca de anticorpos IgG (CMIA, SARS-CoV-2 IgM, IgG - Alinity System, Abbott Laboratories, Ireland) no periodo de 1-3 meses apos duas doses de vacina para COVID-19. Nas amostras positivas, foi realizada analise quantitativa de IgG (anti-S1 - SARS-CoV-2 IgG II Quant, Alinity System, Abbott Laboratories, Ireland) e os Titulos de Anticorpos Neutralizantes (TAN), que detectam o efeito citopatico do virus em cultura celular induzidos pelas vacinas (Vero CCL-81 cells). Resultados: Entre agosto e novembro de 2021, foram avaliados 102 pacientes com LMC com media de idade de 56,2 anos (33-85), sendo 58,8% do sexo masculino, 98,5% em Fase Cronica (FC), 80% apresentavam ao menos Resposta Molecular Maior (RMM). 87% dos pacientes estavam em uso de ITQ e 13% estavam em descontinuacao da medicacao. 66,7% receberam a vacina ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222)-Covishield (Oxford/AstraZeneca/Fiocruz), 29,41% CoronaVac (Sinovac/Butatan), 1,96% BNT162b2 (Pfeizer/BioNTech/Fosun Pharma) e 1,96% Ad26.COV2.S (Janssen-Cilag). 15% dos pacientes apresentaram COVID-19 antes da vacinacao. O teste sorologico de triagem (CMIA) foi positivo em 25% dos pacientes. COVID-19 previa foi associada a presenca de anticorpos IgG (p<=0,001). Os TAN foram maiores que 1:320 em 13/26 casos, dentre os quais 5 haviam apresentado COVID-19 antes de completar o esquema vacinal. Neste grupo, 76% receberam a vacina ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, 19% Coronavac e 1% BNT162b2. Dentre os casos com infeccao previa pelo SARS-CoV-2, 7 apresentaram confirmacao laboratorial e 2 tinham quadro clinico sugestivo. Oito casos ocorreram antes da vacinacao e um paciente apresentou quadro leve, apos ter recebido a primeira dose da vacina ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. Onze pacientes estavam em tratamento com Imatinibe, 6 com Dasatinibe e um com Nilotinibe (6 com RMM), 5 em terceira ou quarta linha (sem RMM) e 3 pacientes em descontinuacao de ITQ. A proporcao de pacientes com TAN >1:320 foi superior no grupo que recebia terceira ou quarta linha (p=0,022). Entretanto, neste grupo havia mais pacientes com infeccao previa por COVID-19. Nao houve diferenca estatistica entre as taxas de seroconversao (CMIA, IgM and IgG) entre pacientes que receberam Coronavac ou ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. Nao houve diferencas nas taxas de seroconversao entre pacientes que receberam ITQ e naqueles em descontinuacao (p=0,77). Discussao: Estudos observacionais demonstraram que pacientes com LMC-FC produzem anticorpos em niveis semelhantes a populacao geral, apos receberem as vacinas ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 ou BNT162b2. No estudo conduzido por Rotterdam et al., 100/101 pacientes apresentaram seroconversao apos duas doses. Outro estudo avaliou as taxas de conversao em pacientes que receberam Coronavac, demonstrando menores taxas de conversao se comparados a vacina BNT162b2. Nosso estudo demonstrou que a resposta sorologica apos duas doses de vacina contra SARS-CoV-2 foi menor do que a descrita previamente na literatura. Conclusoes: Nao foram demonstradas diferencas entre os tipos de vacina (Coronavac vs. ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) ou em relacao a fase da doenca na taxa de seroconversao. Duas doses de vacinas para COVID-19 foram insuficientes para imunizacao adequada em pacientes com LMC. Agradecimentos: Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), grant ndegree 401977/2020-0. Copyright © 2022

Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Necropolitics in Bolsonaro's Brazil

In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro's misgovernment of Brazil, as evidenced by his political actions, speeches and omissions from March 2020 to September 2021, and using concepts like biopolitics, neoliberalism and necropolitics, Duarte proposes three interrelated hypotheses to demonstrate Bolsonaro's sharp distrust of democracy. First, that Bolsonaro's rhetoric, actions and omissions during the first year and a half of the pandemic revealed a dangerous mixture of biopolitical, neoliberal and necropolitical governmentality strategies. Second, that the pandemic in Brazil intensified the damaging side-effects against democracy brought by neoliberalism and biopolitics, once the necropolitical vector assumed precedence. And third, that Bolsonaro's political agenda is either to revoke the Brazilian democracy by violent means or to implement a façade democracy by slowly distorting it from within, blurring the differences between democracy and authoritarianism. Conceptualizing democracy as power of the demos and not exclusively as a political regime organized around a definite set of political institutions, Duarte argues that Bolsonaro's misgovernment of Brazil is related to his antidemocratic viewpoints. Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy is an important book for researchers, students, and anyone concerned about the dangers that surround the democratic experience in the contemporary world. © 2023 André Duarte.

HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION AMONG PATIENTS DISCHARGED ALIVE POST-COVID-19 HOSPITALIZATION

SESSION TITLE: COVID-19 Infections: Issues During and After Hospitalization SESSION TYPE: Original Investigations PRESENTED ON: 10/17/2022 01:30 pm - 02:30 pm PURPOSE: To characterize the health care utilization (HCU) of patients after discharge from a hospitalization due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). METHODS: Retrospective analysis from a national cohort using the Optum Clinformatics Data Mart. Included all adults hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19 between April 2020 and March 2021, with prior 12 months of continuous enrollment. HCU of patients discharged to a home setting was evaluated in three periods (0-90 days;91-180 days;181-275 days post-discharge). HCU was defined as emergency department (ED) visits, inpatient (IP) admissions, rehabilitation/skilled nursing facility (SNF) admissions, outpatient (OP) and telemedicine visits and was expressed as the number of visits per 10,000 person-days to adjust for time from discharge. We also examined the distribution of office visits by provider specialty RESULTS: We identified 91,374 unique patients who were discharged alive after a hospitalization due to COVID-19. A greater percentage of patients was discharged to a home setting (n=63,674 or 65.6%: home 41.54%;home with home health services 14.65%: home with outpatient services 4.42%) than to a non-home setting (26.23%: i.e., SNF, hospice, rehabilitation facility, etc.). The patients discharged to a home setting were mostly white (58.8%), females (53.4%), whose mean age was 72.4 (SD± 12). The percentage of office visits to Primary care provider (57.8%;48.3%, 47.7%), Cardiology (7.7%;8.0%;7.4%) Pulmonary medicine (4.7%;3.9%;3.1%) varied in the 3 time periods evaluated. Additionally, the outpatient visits to endocrinology (1.3%, 1.6%, 1.7%), Neurology (1.1%, 1.5%, 1.5%), Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (0.7%, 1.0%, 1.2%), Psychiatry (0.7%, 0.9%, 1.1%) and other mental health professionals (0.4%, 0.5%, 0.5%) increased over time. CONCLUSIONS: In our nationally representative study, health care utilization remains high among patients discharged to a home setting after a hospitalization due to COVID-19. Additionally, the use of mental health services increased overtime among survivors. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Understanding post-discharge health care utilization of patients after an index hospitalization due to COVID-19 will help health systems prepare and allocate resources for the most likely to be used services. DISCLOSURES: No relevant relationships by Alexander Duarte No relevant relationships by Yong-Fang Kuo No relevant relationships by Shawn Nishi, value=Consulting fee Removed 04/03/2022 by Shawn Nishi No relevant relationships by Efstathia Polychronopoulou No relevant relationships by Daniel Puebla Neira No relevant relationships by Gulshan Sharma No relevant relationships by Mohammed Zaidan

INCIDENT CASES of COVID-19 and VACCINATION ADHERENCE in A MULTICENTRIC COHORT of INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS in BRAZIL

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused a worldwide health crisis. Patients with infammatory arthritis are at higher risk of hospitalization and death by COVID-19 due to comorbidities or immunosuppressive treatments. Vaccination is one the most important strategies to control the pandemic. Objectives: To evaluate the incident cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a multi-centric cohort of infammatory arthritis in Brazil. Methods: BiobadaBrasil is a multicentric registry-based cohort study of Brazilian patients with rheumatic diseases starting their frst bDMARD or tsDMARD (1). The present analysis is a retrospective evaluation of adult patients with infam-matory arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis-RA, spondylarthritis-SpA and psoriatic arthritis-PsA) that were alive since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemics in Brazil in February 2020. We evaluated the incidence and severity of COVID-19 infection and the adherence to anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines schedules, up to January 2022. Results: A total of 300 patients were interviewed and 69 (23.0%) reported con-frmed anti-SARS-CoV infection and 5 (1.7%) had a second infection. Among known infected patients, 18.8% need hospitalization and oxygen support, 7.2% were admitted at ICU, and 5.8% died. After COVID-19 infection, 31.8% reported worsening of disease activity but only 6.1% had modifcation in medication due to disease activity. Distribution of cases followed the pattern of waves observed in Brazil (Figure 1). Regarding vaccination, 285 (95%) reported to have received at least one dose of any anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: 43% received the frst with the adenovirus ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AstraZeneca) adenovirus vaccine, 32% received the Sinovac-CoronaVac inactivated vaccine, 22% received the BNT162b2 (Pfzer-BioNtech) mRNA vaccine and 3% received the BNT162b2 (Pfzer-BioNtech) adenovirus vaccine. Almost all (98.1%) of these patients had already received the second dose of vaccine and after the frst and second vaccine doses, 6% and 4% of patients, respectively, reported worsening of articular disease activity, while, after the third dose, no patient reported disease activity worsening. Conclusion: During the pandemics, patients with infammatory arthritis had a pattern of distribution of cases very similar to general population. Adherence to vaccination is high and well tolerated.

The Journey of Engineering into Social Justice and Peacebuilding: A Review of the XV Conference of the International Network of Engineering, Social Justice and Peace

Since 2005, and thanks to the fostering of an interdisciplinary team of experts, academics, researchers, activists, engineers or related to it, the International Conference on Engineering, Social Justice and Peace arises, in the search for alternative approaches to make, live and educate in engineering. During this evolution of calendars and geography, fourteen meetings of the Engineering, Social Justice and Peace network had taken place, and number 15 was destined to be exceptional. Unintentionally, the fifteenth meeting had very different circumstances from the previous ones, not due to the ability to convene, or the growing interest in working on engineering committed to nature, society and human beings, but due to a historical situation that has made us rethink what until some time ago we took for granted. This event has been brewing since 2019, under the premise of being held in 2020. With several initiatives of the event, there was a work team, the approval of several presentations, workshops and activities, a tentative schedule, and the approach of the recognition "Technologies for Social Justice." However, nature gave us a warning cry to human beings and the coronavirus appeared on the scene, causing many transformations worldwide. Therefore, the event was postponed until 2021, and adjusted to the virtuality that has accompanied us since the health emergency arose due to the pandemic. In this context, adjustments were made to the composition of the team and the responsibilities assumed by its members. Still, despite the difficulties that this new scenario poses, the commitment to social transformation marked the way forward for the conference. After several meetings and tasks, between June 10 and 12, 2021, the XV International Conference on Engineering, Social Justice and Peace sees the light, with the promises of transforming our society from a diversity of ways of doing and living. This paper seeks to systematize the experience of the organizing team of the conference, so that the successes and errors that they had during the process are transformed into useful learning for the transformation of engineering towards one that is committed to communities.

Tomographic scale for the assessment of COVID-19 severity at the National Respiratory Diseases Institute

Introduction: The pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has caused high rates of morbidity and mortality. The use of adequate diagnostic methods to identify the evolution of this disease is necessary;computerized tomography (CT) is of the main tools by image, with sensitivity of 96-99%. Different studies have created scales to evaluate the extent and severity of lung disease from COVID-19, with a variability in the results. Objective: To evaluate the use of a tomographic scale (TS) to determine the severity of lung affectation in COVID-19. Material and methods: Analytical cross-sectional study including patients with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 and initial CT. ATS was used to evaluate the lung affectation, to identify pulmonary pattern and to establish the state of the disease. Statistical analysis consisted in descriptive and analytical statistics (ROC curve). Results: 151 patients, mean age 50 years. The predominant pulmonary pattern was «crazy paving» (46%), identified in the phase of progression. The area under the ROC curve was 0.831 (95% CI: 0.764-0.898), with a cut-off value of 16.5 to discriminate the severe from non-severe affectation, with sensitivity 84% and specificity 74%. Conclusion: The use of TS in initial CT showed an acceptable sensitivity to identify the severity of the disease.

Integrating Slido into an Online Class: A Guide

This article discusses how Slido, a website for creating polls, can be integrated into an online learning environment. The following topics will be discussed: General difficulties with online classes, increased usage of Zoom for educational purposes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, drawbacks to Zoom’s polling feature, Slido’s six polling features, teacher controls, and student participation features compared to Zoom’s polling feature and its method of student participation in hybrid teaching contexts. Finally, Zoom's and Slido’s free and paid features will be compared and analyzed. © 2022 Asociacion Mexicana de Maestros de Ingles MEXTESOL A.C. All rights reserved.