Fri July 31 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Remdesivir for severe covid-19: a clinical practice guideline – The BMJ

2 – Age-Related Differences in Nasopharyngeal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Levels in Patients With Mild to Moderate Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – JAMA Pediatrics

Commentaries: Young kids could spread COVID-19 as much as older children and adults, study suggests – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago AND Study finds higher viral load in young children, raising questions about how likely they are to transmit the coronavirus – CNN AND Children May Carry Coronavirus at High Levels, Study Finds – The New York Times

3 – COVID-19 and Dexamethasone: A Potential Strategy to Avoid Steroid-Related Strongyloides Hyperinfection – JAMA

4 – SARS-CoV-2-reactive T cells in healthy donors and patients with COVID-19 – Nature

Commentaries: Could prior exposure to common cold viruses affect the severity of SARS-CoV-2 symptoms? – Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin AND Why some people who haven’t had Covid-19 might already have some immunity – CNN

5 – Single-shot Ad26 vaccine protects against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques – Nature

Commentaries: Vaccine Candidate Delivers Protection In A Single Shot (In Monkeys) – NPR AND Novel vaccine candidate robustly protects non-human primates against SARS-CoV-2 – News Medical

6 – Study: Travel to 3 countries may have seeded COVID-19 pandemic – CIDRAP

Original study: Observations of the global epidemiology of COVID-19 from the prepandemic period using web-based surveillance: a cross-sectional analysis – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

7 – COVID-19 pandemic is “one big wave” says WHO – News Medical

See also: ‘One big wave’ – why the Covid-19 second wave may not exist – The Guardian

8 – Things you should think about when you hear “vaccine by end of the year” – Health News Review

9 – ‘A huge experiment’: How the world made so much progress on a Covid-19 vaccine so fast – STAT

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 31 July 2020 Edition

31 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)