Fri May 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – An outbreak of severe Kawasaki-like disease at the Italian epicentre of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic: an observational cohort study – The Lancet

Commentaries: Kawasaki-like disease: emerging complication during the COVID-19 pandemic – The Lancet AND Kawasaki-like COVID-19 complication found in Italian kids – CIDRAP AND What we know about the new Covid-19-linked illness in children – Vox AND Coronavirus: Children affected by rare Kawasaki-like disease – BBC

Related: Case Series: Hyperinflammatory Shock in Children During COVID-19 Pandemic

2 – Early Safety Indicators of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma in 5,000 Patients – medRxiv

Commentary: Convalescent plasma is safe to treat COVID-19: nationwide study – NBC News

3 – Convalescent plasma or hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID‐19: a rapid review – Cochrane Library

Summary: Plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 to treat individuals with COVID-19 – Cochrane Library

4 – COVID-19 review of national clinical practice guidelines for key questions relating to the care of pregnant women and their babies – Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth

5 – Masks help stop the spread of coronavirus – the science is simple and I’m one of 100 experts urging governors to require public mask-wearing – The Conversation

Related: Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review – Preprints AND Face Masks for the Public During the Covid-19 Crisis

6 – The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance in SARS-CoV-2 transmission – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at speech-generated droplets and COVID-19 transmission – Science Media Centre AND Loud Talking Can Spread More than 1,000 Coronavirus Particles in the Air for 14 Minutes: Study – The Science Times AND Simply talking in confined spaces may be enough to spread the coronavirus, researchers say – USA Today AND Loud talking could leave coronavirus in the air for up to 14 minutes – MIT Technology Review

7 – Preventing a Parallel Pandemic — A National Strategy to Protect Clinicians’ Well-Being – New England Journal of Medicine

Related: The Covid-19 Crisis too Few are Talking About: Health Care Workers’ Mental Health (commentaries on the subject)

8 – Audio Interview: Finding Reliable Information about Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine

9 – Surgery during the COVID‐19 pandemic: operating room suggestions from an international Delphi process – British Journal of Surgery

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 15 May 2020 Edition

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