Fri May 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Pulmonary Vascular Endothelialitis, Thrombosis, and Angiogenesis in Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentary: Lungs of deceased COVID-19 patients show distinctive features – Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Related: Postmortem Examination of Patients With COVID-19 – JAMA AND Pulmonary Arterial Thrombosis in COVID-19 With Fatal Outcome: Results From a Prospective, Single-Center, Clinicopathologic Case Series – Annals of Internal Medicine AND Pathological evidence of pulmonary thrombotic phenomena in severe COVID-19 – Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

2 – Choosing Wisely in the COVID-19 Era: Preventing Harm to Healthcare Workers – Journal of Hospital Medicine

3 – SARS2-CoV-2 and Stroke in a New York Healthcare System – Stroke

News Release: Stroke rates among COVID-19 patients are low, but cases are more severe; overall stroke hospital admissions are down globally – American Heart Association

Commentary: COVID-19 patients may have lower stroke rates than previously suggested – NYU Grossman School of Medicine

4 – Ten reasons why immunity passports are a bad idea – Nature

Related: Ethical and Legal Challenges of COVID-19 Immunity Certificates (articles and commentaries on the subject) AND Privileges and Immunity Certification During the COVID-19 Pandemic – JAMA AND The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-Based Licenses (“Immunity Passports”) – JAMA

5 – How coronavirus lockdowns stopped flu in its tracks – Nature

“Reported rates of influenza and other infections have fallen sharply, but some communicable diseases may see a rise.”

6 – 15 drugs being tested to treat COVID-19 and how they would work – Nature

7 – Which interventions work best in a pandemic? – Science

8 – Ethics of controlled human infection to address COVID-19 – Science

9 – Open access: how COVID-19 will change the way research findings are shared – Wellcome

Related: Plan S: Making Full and Immediate Open Access a Reality AND UC Terminates Subscriptions with World’s Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access (several resources on the subject) AND PLOS and the University of California announce open access publishing agreement – PLOS Blogs AND The war to free science – Vox (free) AND WHO Joins Coalition for Free Digital Access to Health Research

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 22 May 2020 Edition

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