Thu June 18 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentary: Study ties blood type to COVID-19 risk; O may help, A hurt – Associated Press

2 – Community Use Of Face Masks And COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural Experiment Of State Mandates In The US – Health Affairs

Commentary: Face mask requirements may have prevented 450,000 coronavirus cases – BGR

3 – Diabetes and COVID-19: Risks, Management, and Learnings from Other National Disasters – Diabetes Care

4 – Prone Positioning in Awake, Nonintubated Patients With COVID-19 Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure – JAMA Internal Medicine

Invited Commentary: Prone Positioning in Awake, Nonintubated Patients With COVID-19: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention – JAMA Internal Medicine

Related Guidance: Prone position ventilation in non-intubated, spontaneously ventilating patients: New guidance from the Intensive Care Society (UK) and existing evidence – Journal of the Intensive Care Society

5 – Audio Interview: A Look at SARS-CoV-2 Transmission – New England Journal of Medicine

6 – Household secondary attack rate of COVID-19 and associated determinants in Guangzhou, China: a retrospective cohort study – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Invited Commentary: Household studies provide key insights on the transmission of, and susceptibility to, SARS-CoV-2 – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

7 – Guidance on diagnosis, prevention and treatment of thromboembolic complications in COVID-19: a position paper of the Brazilian Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis and the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Committee of the Brazilian Association of Hematology, Hemotherapy and Cellular Therapy – Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy

8 – World Health Organization to Include Dexamethasone In Updated COVID-19 Care Guidelines; Drops Hydroxychloroquine From Massive Solidarity Trial – Health Policy Watch

See also: WHO drops hydroxychloroquine from Covid-19 clinical trial – STAT AND WHO halts malaria drug study, eyes steroid for COVID-19 – CIDRAP AND Steroid should be kept for serious coronavirus cases, WHO says – Reuters

9 – Update Alert: Should Clinicians Use Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine Alone or in Combination With Azithromycin for the Prophylaxis or Treatment of COVID-19? Living Practice Points From the American College of Physicians – Annals of Internal Medicine

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 18 June 2020 Edition

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