Mon February 3 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Updated WHO advice for international traffic in relation to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV – World Health Organization (free)

See also: WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 02 FEBRUARY 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)

2 – Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 03 February 2020

– How Bad Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Get? Here Are 6 Key Factors – The New York Times (free)

– Why Travel Bans Don’t Work During An Outbreak Like Coronavirus – Forbes (free)

– 8 questions about the coronavirus outbreak, answered – Vox (free)

– Coronavirus—we need to contain the parallel epidemics of xenophobia and misinformation – The BMJ Opinion (free)

– Is reporting of the coronavirus producing viral panic? – The BMJ Opinion (free)

– Top WHO official says it’s not too late to stop the new coronavirus outbreak – STAT (free)

3 – Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 03 February 2020

Wellcome Trust Statement: Sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak (free)

– Nowcasting and forecasting the potential domestic and international spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak originating in Wuhan, China: a modelling study – The Lancet (free)

– First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

– Updated understanding of the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019‐nCoV) in Wuhan, China – Journal of Medical Virology (free PDF)

– Drug treatment options for the 2019-new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Bioscience Trends (free PDF)

– Novel Wuhan (2019-nCoV) Coronavirus – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (free PDF)

– The Novel Chinese Coronavirus (2019‐nCoV) Infections: challenges for fighting the storm – European Journal of Clinical Investigation (free PDF)

4 – Electrical versus pharmacological cardioversion for emergency department patients with acute atrial fibrillation (RAFF2): a partial factorial randomised trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Summary: Electrical vs Chemical Cardioversion in ED Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (RAFF2) – EMOttawa (free)

Related Study: Randomized Trial: Early vs. Delayed Cardioversion in Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation – New England Journal of Medicine (free study and commentaries)

5 – Mortality impact of achieving WHO cervical cancer elimination targets: a comparative modelling analysis in 78 low-income and lower-middle-income countries – The Lancet (free)

Related Study: Impact of HPV vaccination and cervical screening on cervical cancer elimination: a comparative modelling analysis in 78 low-income and lower-middle-income countries – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: New estimates of the number of cervical cancer cases and deaths that could be averted in low-income and lower-middle-income countries by scale-up of screening and vaccination activities – International Agency for Research on Cancer (free) AND Mass cervical cancer vaccine rollout could save 62 million lives in next 100 years – The Guardian (free)

6 – Clarifying the Language of Clinician Distress – JAMA (free for a limited period)

7 – Preprints can fill a void in times of rapidly changing science – STAT (free)

8 – A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk – Current Biology (free)

Commentaries: ‘Spring forward’ to daylight saving time brings surge in fatal car crashes – University of Colorado at Boulder (free) AND Daylight Saving Time Linked to More Deadly Car Crashes – Gizmodo (free)

9 – A systematic scoping review of clinical indications for induction of labour – PLOS One (free)

10 – Evidence of detrimental effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on offspring birthweight and neurodevelopment from a systematic review of quasi-experimental studies – International Journal of Epidemiology (free)

Commentary: New evidence supports advice not to drink alcohol in pregnancy – NHS Choices (free) AND Study backs up advice not to drink alcohol at all in pregnancy – OnMedica (free) AND Drinking alcohol during pregnancy: #Drymester the safest approach – University of Bristol (free)