Thu April 23 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area – JAMA

Commentary: Almost Every Hospitalized Coronavirus Patient Has Another Underlying Health Issue, According to a Study of New York Patients – TIME

2 – Alterations in Smell or Taste in Mildly Symptomatic Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection – JAMA

Related: Study Validates Loss of Smell and Taste as Symptoms of Covid-19

3 – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review – JAMA Pediatrics

Commentaries: Most kids with coronavirus usually recover within two weeks, JAMA study finds – CNBC AND Young people at lower risk for COVID-19, can still transmit the virus – UPI AND Expert reaction to systematic review of COVID-19 in children – Science Media Centre

4 – COVID-19 in Children in the United States: Intensive Care Admissions, Estimated Total Infected, and Projected Numbers of Severe Pediatric Cases in 2020 – Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Commentaries: The coronavirus has probably infected far more children in the US than thought, a study says – Business Insider AND COVID-19 possibly striking more children than expected – University of South Florida

5 – Saliva is more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swabs – medRxiv

6 – Remdesivir in covid-19 – The BMJ

Related: What’s Happening With Remdesivir? – Science Translational Medicine AND Slow down your giddyup on Gilead news – Health News Review

7 – A Call for Rational Intensive Care in the Era of COVID-19 – American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

8 – Estimated population wide benefits and risks in China of lowering sodium through potassium enriched salt substitution: modelling study – The BMJ

Commentaries: Salt substitution could prevent almost half a million deaths from CVD in China – George Institute for Global Health AND Embracing salt substitutes could help China prevent 450K CVD deaths per year – Cardiovascular Business

9 – Low-cost, easy-to-build non-invasive pressure support ventilator for under-resourced regions: open source hardware description, performance and feasibility testing – European Respiratory Journal

Commentary: Low-cost, easy-to-build ventilator performs similarly to high-quality commercial device – European Lung Foundation

10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates / 23 April 2020 Edition

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