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Study Commentary: Hydroxychloroquine Fails First Meaningful RCT
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:25h | UTCHydroxychloroquine fails first meaningful RCT – PulmCrit
Original Study: Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19: No Benefit in New Open-label, Randomized Trial
Related Commentary: Hydroxychloroquine in the management of critically ill patients with COVID-19: the need for an evidence base – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Pathological Evidence of Pulmonary Thrombotic Phenomena in Severe COVID-19
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:24h | UTC* We congratulate the authors for this significant contribution to the understanding of this disease.
Meta-Analysis: Hematologic, Biochemical and Immune Biomarker Abnormalities Associated with Severe Illness and Mortality in COVID-19
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:22h | UTC“non-survivors compared to survivors had more significant increases in WBC count, total bilirubin, creatine kinase, serum ferritin, and interleukin 6 (IL-6), and more significant decreases in lymphocyte count and platelet count.”
Predictive Mathematical Models of the COVID-19 Pandemic
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:14h | UTCRelated: The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus – Wired AND Mathematics of life and death: How disease models shape national shutdowns and other pandemic policies – Science AND How to model a pandemic – The Conversation AND Coronavirus exposes the problems and pitfalls of modelling – The Guardian AND Systematic review and critical appraisal of prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of COVID-19 infection – medRxiv AND Modelling the models – CEBM University of Oxford
CDC Guidance: Key Strategies to Prepare for COVID-19 in Long-term Care Facilities
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:18h | UTC
Estimating the Maximum Capacity of COVID-19 Cases Manageable per Day Given a Health Care System’s Constrained Resources
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:15h | UTC
These European Countries Are Slowly Lifting Coronavirus Lockdowns. Here’s What That Looks Like
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:12h | UTCRelated: When to re-open the economy – Medium AND Strategic preparedness and response plan for the new coronavirus – World Health Organization AND Study: Some Social Distance May Need to Continue Until 2022 AND Ending coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error – Science AND ‘Suppress and lift’: Hong Kong and Singapore say they have a coronavirus strategy that works – Science AND Opinions on Lifting Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdowns (opinions and report) AND Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing – Vox AND No country has beaten the coronavirus yet – Vox
Innovation and Transformation in the Response to Covid-19: Seven Areas Where Clinicians Need to Lead
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:11h | UTC
Caring for Patients with Cancer in the COVID-19 Era
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:07h | UTCCaring for patients with cancer in the COVID-19 era – Nature Medicine
Commentary: Caring for cancer patients in the COVID-19 era – Netherlands Cancer Institute
Related: NCCN Guidance: How to Keep our Oncology Patients and Healthcare Workers Safe AND ASCO Recommendations for the Oncology Community During the COVID19 Pandemic AND COVID-19 rapid guideline: delivery of systemic anticancer treatments – NICE AND COVID-19 rapid guideline: delivery of radiotherapy – NICE
Chest CT and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A Critical Review of the Literature to Date
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:08h | UTC
Management of the Hospitalized COVID-19 Patient with Acute Cardiomyopathy or Heart Failure
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:05h | UTC
Consensus Statement: Advice for Hepatology and Liver Transplant Providers During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:04h | UTC
Meta-Analysis: Aspirin and the Risk of Colorectal and Other Digestive Tract Cancers
17 Apr, 2020 | 01:54h | UTCNews Release: Aspirin linked to reduction in risk of several cancers of the digestive tract – European Society of Medical Oncology
Study: HDL-C is Associated with Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer in a J-shaped Dose-response Fashion
17 Apr, 2020 | 01:55h | UTC
German Recommendations for Critically Ill Patients with COVID 19
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:02h | UTC
Review: Antidepressants for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
17 Apr, 2020 | 01:52h | UTCAntidepressants for irritable bowel syndrome – Canadian Family Physician
Neurologic Features in Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:56h | UTCNeurologic Features in Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection – New England Journal of Medicine
Related Study: Neurologic Manifestations Common in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 (study and commentaries)
Pharyngitis: Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
17 Apr, 2020 | 01:53h | UTCPharyngitis: Approach to diagnosis and treatment – Canadian Family Physician
Podcast: Caring for Patients with Covid-19
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:57h | UTCAudio Interview: Caring for Patients with Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine
Thu April 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!
16 Apr, 2020 | 03:00h | UTC
Commentaries: Droplets and Aerosols in the Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – New England Journal of Medicine AND Simply speaking could transmit coronavirus, new study suggests – STAT
2 – Audio Interview: Caring for Patients with Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine
3 – Neurologic Features in Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection – New England Journal of Medicine
Related Study: Neurologic Manifestations Common in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 (study and commentaries)
4 – Death from Covid-19 of 23 Health Care Workers in China – New England Journal of Medicine
6 – Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19 – Nature Medicine
Commentaries: People might be most infectious with coronavirus before they show symptoms, study suggests – CNN AND Expert reaction to a study looking at the timing of SARS-CoV-2 transmission – Science Media Centre
7 – News Release: NIH study validates decontamination methods for re-use of N95 respirators – NIH News Releases
Original Study: [Preprint] Assessment of N95 respirator decontamination and re-use for SARS-CoV-2 – medRxiv
9 – Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Pathogens – JAMA
10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates / 16 April 2020 Edition
16 April 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)
Review: Hematological Findings and Complications of COVID‐19
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:40h | UTCHematological findings and complications of COVID‐19 – American Journal of Hematology
Video: Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:59h | UTCCommentaries: Droplets and Aerosols in the Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – New England Journal of Medicine AND Simply speaking could transmit coronavirus, new study suggests – STAT
Death from Covid-19 of 23 Health Care Workers in China
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:55h | UTCDeath from Covid-19 of 23 Health Care Workers in China – New England Journal of Medicine
NIH Study Validates Decontamination Methods for Re-use of N95 Respirators
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:50h | UTCNews Release: NIH study validates decontamination methods for re-use of N95 respirators – NIH News Releases
Original Study: [Preprint] Assessment of N95 respirator decontamination and re-use for SARS-CoV-2 – medRxiv
COVID-19: The Case for Health-care Worker Screening to Prevent Hospital Transmission
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:53h | UTCCOVID-19: the case for health-care worker screening to prevent hospital transmission – The Lancet
Related Commentary on Twitter
Every #healthcare worker must be tested for #COVID19 (should have been weeks ago, and needs to be serially assessed going forward). This isn't happening. The case is well laid out here today:
https://t.co/pS9MYfZdJw@TheLancet by @TheCrick's @CharlesSwanton and colleagues @UCL pic.twitter.com/d4VPmI5LwQ— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 15, 2020