COVID-19: An opportunity to deindustrialize writing education

This chapter illustrates the industrial nature of current writing education, especially at college and university levels. The author argues that the industrial compartmentalization of writing education into different levels, distinct genres, rubricated formats, and monodisciplinary practices has severed learning writing from its organic contexts. It discusses how having to move classes online as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic can help us critically reflect on our ideological attachment to the factory model of education and question the Fordian conveyor-belt model for teaching writing. The author proposes that by using online possibilities, we can nurture organic writing practices that defy the factory model organization of writing courses. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. All rights reserved.

COVID-19 and acute kidney injury;a case report

Although there is no definitive evidence that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects the kidneys adversely, amongst those who develop severe COVID-19 infection and require hospitalization, acute kidney injury (AKI) was reported. Here, we report the clinical outcome associated with AKI in a 32-year-old man with confirmed COVID-19 infection with no prior history of renal malfunction. The AKI was identified during intensive care unit (ICU) course with the median creatinine and blood urea nitrogen values of 3.1 mg/dL (normal value: 0.6-1.2 mg/dL) and 145 mg/dL (normal value:15-45 mg/dL), respectively. Renal function of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection needs to be monitored regularly to intervene as early as possible and to prevent the development of AKI and further kidney complications.