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Abstract

The Coronavirus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused massive changes in the medical field across the globe. As the whole world moved from in-person to remote activities, students found themselves in a predicament where they were compelled towards schooling and work online from home. This would mean that all projects, research, tests, and meetings were conducted over Zoom or other online meeting platforms. Laboratories were shut down or only a limited number of people were allowed to enter to conduct the necessary research. This paper discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic affected research process and experiments within various aspects of the critical health science field of physiology. An extensive literature review of many published reports has been conducted for the study. Experiments that were being conducted were halted, which could change the entirety of the results. A major issue was 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 had to perform physiology research studies from home as they spoke with volunteers over the phone, which could not only make the results unclear but also hinder the learning progression for the students. This comprehensive analysis encapsulates how, among multifarious short- and/or long-term consequences of the pandemic in practically every sphere, research in the clinically important discipline of physiology was drastically impacted worldwide, and proposes relevant recommendations to help it prepare for future pandemics.

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