Tue May 12 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Association of Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine or Azithromycin With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With COVID-19 in New York State – JAMA

Related: Large Observational Study Finds Hydroxychloroquine Provides no Benefit in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19

2 – Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units – JAMA Pediatrics

Commentaries: A study of 48 children in intensive care with the coronavirus found 18 needed ventilators. Most had underlying conditions – Business Insider AND Study Offers Details of U.S. Children Severely Sickened by Coronavirus – The New York Times

3 – Considerations for public health and social measures in the workplace in the context of COVID-19 – World Health Organization

4 – The cost of inaction: COVID-19-related service disruptions could cause hundreds of thousands of extra deaths from HIV – World Health Organization

Original Preprints: Potential effects of disruption to HIV programmes in sub-Saharan Africa caused by COVID-19: results from multiple mathematical models AND Estimation of the potential effects of disruption to HIV programs in sub-Saharan Africa caused by COVID-19: results from multiple models APPENDIX

5 – AIDS, TB And Malaria Set To Get Deadlier Due To Coronavirus – Forbes

Related: AIDS, TB And Malaria: Coronavirus Threatens The Endgame – Forbes AND The Potential Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic on HIV, TB and Malaria in Low- and Middle-Income Countries – Imperial College London AND The potential impact of health service disruptions on the burden of malaria: a modelling analysis for countries in sub-Saharan Africa – World Health Organization AND The Potential Impact Of The Covid-19 Response On Tuberculosis In High-Burden Countries: A Modelling Analysis

6 – Abdominal Imaging Findings in COVID-19: Preliminary Observations – Radiology

News Release: Imaging reveals bowel abnormalities in patients with COVID-19 – Radiological Society of North America

7 – Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19 – Nature Medicine

Commentaries: New AI diagnostic can predict COVID-19 without testing – King’s College London AND Expert reaction to study looking at possibility of using real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19 without testing – Science Media Centre AND Coronavirus: research reveals way to predict infection – without a test – The Conversation AND Loss of smell and taste may actually be one of the clearest signs of COVID-19 – Science News

8 – Ethics and governance for digital disease surveillance – Science

9 – Richard Lehman’s Covid-19 Reviews, 11 May 2020 – The BMJ Opinion

In this weekly round-up, Richard Lehman looks at a personal selection of articles of relevance to clinicians dealing with covid-19

10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates / 12 May 2020 Edition

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