Fri June 05 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Lancet, New England Journal Retract Covid-19 Studies, Including one That Raised Safety Concerns About Malaria Drugs

STAT: Lancet, New England Journal retract Covid-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs

Science: Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions

NEJM: Retraction: Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19. N Engl J Med. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2007621.

The Lancet: Retraction: “Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis”

2 – Association of hypertension and antihypertensive treatment with COVID-19 mortality: a retrospective observational study – European Heart Journal

Editorial: Renin–angiotensin system inhibitors in the COVID-19 pandemic: consequences of antihypertensive drugs

Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at link between high blood pressure and risk of dying from COVID-19 – Science Media Centre AND Blood pressure drugs linked to lower COVID-19 mortality: study – Reuters

3 – COVID-19: 10 things I wished I’d known some months ago – Intensive Care Medicine

4 – Serodiagnostics for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome–Related Coronavirus-2: A Narrative Review – Annals of Internal Medicine

Related (just published): Serology assays to manage COVID-19 – Science

5 – Challenge Trials—Could Deliberate Coronavirus Exposure Hasten Vaccine Development? – JAMA

Related: Opinion: Ethical Guidelines for Deliberately Infecting Volunteers with COVID-19 to Speed Vaccine Development (other commentaries on the subject)

6 – Thinking of Risk in the Era of COVID-19 – JAMA

Related Article: Making Decisions in a COVID-19 World – JAMA

7 – COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up – The Lancet

8 – Famotidine use and quantitative symptom tracking for COVID-19 in non-hospitalised patients: a case series – Gut

Commentary: Widely available indigestion drug may curb COVID-19 symptoms in mild to moderate disease – British Medical Journal

9 – COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months – The Atlantic

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 05 June 2020 Edition

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