Thu July 02 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ

2 – Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes, March-April 2020 – JAMA

Editorial: Mortality and Morbidity: The Measure of a Pandemic

Author Interview: Estimation of Excess Deaths From COVID-19 in the United States

Commentaries: About 30% of COVID deaths may not be classified as such – CIDRAP AND Study: 35 percent of excess deaths in pandemic’s early months tied to causes other than COVID-19 – Virginia Commonwealth University

3 – COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system: A review of current data, summary of best practices, outline of controversies, and illustrative case reports – American Heart Journal

4 – The prevalence of symptoms in 24,410 adults infected by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19): A systematic review and meta-analysis of 148 studies from 9 countries – PLOS One

5 – Accelerating Development of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines — The Role for Controlled Human Infection Models – New England Journal of Medicine

Related: Challenge Trials—Could Deliberate Coronavirus Exposure Hasten Vaccine Development? – JAMA AND Opinion: Ethical Guidelines for Deliberately Infecting Volunteers with COVID-19 to Speed Vaccine Development (commentaries on the subject) AND Feasibility, potential value and limitations of establishing a closely monitored challenge model of experimental COVID-19 infection and illness in healthy young adult volunteers – World Health Organization (draft document for public comments) AND Human Challenge Studies to Accelerate Coronavirus Vaccine Licensure – The Journal of Infectious Diseases AND Ethics of controlled human infection to address COVID-19 – Science AND Extraordinary diseases require extraordinary solutions – Vaccine

6 – Visualizing the effectiveness of face masks in obstructing respiratory jets – Physics of Fluids

Commentaries: New Paper Shows Why Face Masks Are Essential In Curbing Covid-19 – Forbes AND Face Mask Construction, Materials Matter for Containing Coughing, Sneezing Droplets – American Institute of Physics

7 – The Moral Imperative to Include Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials of Interventions for COVID-19 – Annals of Internal Medicine

Related: Excluding pregnancy from COVID-19 trials: Protection from harm or the harm of protection? – Canadian Medical Association Journal

8 – The ethics of COVID-19 treatment studies: too many are open, too few are double-masked – CEBM Oxford

9 – Evidence does not support vitamin D for reducing respiratory infections, reviews conclude – The BMJ

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 02 July 2020 Edition

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