Mon May 25 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Preliminary Report – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentaries: Preliminary report on NIAID trial of remdesivir – PulmCrit AND Peer-reviewed data shows remdesivir for COVID-19 improves time to recovery – National Institutes of Health AND Covid-19 study details benefits of treatment with remdesivir, and also its limitations – STAT

2 – Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis – The Lancet

Commentaries: Chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: why might they be hazardous? – The Lancet AND What a big new study on malaria drugs as Covid-19 treatments tells us — and what it doesn’t – STAT AND Hydroxychloroquine May Cause More Harm Than Benefit To COVID-19 Patients, Says New Lancet Study – Health Policy Watch

3 – Why countries should stop using anti-malarial drugs for COVID-19 – The Conversation

4 – Safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a recombinant adenovirus type-5 vectored COVID-19 vaccine: a dose-escalation, open-label, non-randomised, first-in-human trial – The Lancet

Commentaries: First human trial of COVID-19 vaccine finds it is safe and induces rapid immune response – The Lancet AND Early Study Of Covid-19 Vaccine Developed In China Sees Mixed Results – Forbes AND Coronavirus Vaccine Shows Promising Early Results in China – The New York Times AND A Chinese biotech just published the first human data for its coronavirus vaccine candidate, supporting further trials – Business Insider AND Experts skeptical after researchers report positive vaccine results – CNN AND Two COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates Induce Immune Response In Healthy Volunteers – Health Policy Watch

5 – The world needs Covid-19 vaccines. It may also be overestimating their power – STAT

6 – SARS-CoV2 vaccines: Slow is fast – Science

7 – Susceptibility to and transmission of COVID-19 amongst children and adolescents compared with adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis – medRxiv

Commentaries: Children appear half as likely to catch COVID-19 as adults – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine AND Expert reaction to systematic review preprint looking at susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents compared with adults – Science Media Centre

8 – Coronavirus Disease 2019 Test Results After Clinical Recovery and Hospital Discharge Among Patients in China – JAMA Network Open

Commentaries: Expert reaction to study on PCR testing results from 60 people after clinical recovery from COVID-19 – Science Media Centre AND 16% of recovered patients test positive for COVID-19 weeks after discharge: study – UPI

9 – SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater anticipated COVID-19 occurrence in a low prevalence area – Water Research

Related: New Research Examines Wastewater to Detect Community Spread of Covid-19

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 25 May 2020 Edition

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