Mon August 10 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Children Can Get Severe COVID-19, CDC Says — Especially Black And Hispanic Children – NPR

Original Study: Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Children Aged <18 Years Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1–July 25, 2020 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

2 – SARS-CoV-2 viral load predicts COVID-19 mortality – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

3 – International variation in the management of severe COVID-19 patients – Critical Care

4 – Researchers created a test to determine which masks are the least effective – CNN

Original study: Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech – Science Advances

5 – Case Rates, Treatment Approaches, and Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic – JAMA Cardiology

Commentaries: Heart attack victims may be dying because of coronavirus fears, study finds – CNN AND Hospitalizations for heart attacks drop sharply during covid pandemic – MedicalResearch.com

6 – Cardiac Involvement in Patients Recovered From COVID-2019 Identified Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging – JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Related study: Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – JAMA Cardiology

7 – Saliva as a Noninvasive Specimen for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

8 – Successful Elimination of Covid-19 Transmission in New Zealand – New England Journal of Medicine

Related: 100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world – The Conversation

9 – The Coronavirus Is New, but Your Immune System Might Still Recognize It – The New York Times

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 10 August 2020 Edition

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