Thu April 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering – New England Journal of Medicine

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

5 – COVID-19: the case for health-care worker screening to prevent hospital transmission – The Lancet

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

8 – Evidence Based Management Guideline for the COVID-19 Pandemic – Review article – International Journal of Surgery

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)