Wed April 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Large-Vessel Stroke as a Presenting Feature of Covid-19 in the Young – New England Journal of Medicine

2 – Pandemic Science Out of Control – Issues in Science and Technology

3 – What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity – The Lancet

Related: What Covid-19 antibody tests say — and don’t say — about immunity – Vox AND The False Hope of Antibody Tests – The Atlantic AND What Antibody Studies Can Tell You — and More Importantly, What They Can’t – ProPublica AND What if immunity to covid-19 doesn’t last? – MIT Technology Review AND Beware of Antibody-based COVID-19 “Immunity Passports” – Scientific American AND Coronavirus immunity: Can you catch it twice? – BBC

4 – Atypical presentation of COVID-19 in young infants – The Lancet

“In the pandemic context, infants younger than 3 months with isolated fever should be tested for SARS-CoV-2. “

5 – Covid-19: concerns grow over inflammatory syndrome emerging in children – The BMJ

Related: UK says some children have died from syndrome linked to COVID-19 – Reuters

6 – Characterization of acute acro-ischemic lesions in non-hospitalized patients: a case series of 132 patients during the COVID-19 outbreak – Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

See also: Journal articles on coronavirus with relevance for skin diseases and dermatology – Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham AND From ‘COVID Toes’ to Hives, These Are the Skin Conditions Dermatologists Think Could Be Signs of Coronavirus – TIME

7 – Why don’t some coronavirus patients sense their alarmingly low oxygen levels? – Science

8 – Patients with cancer appear more vulnerable to SARS-COV-2: a multi-center study during the COVID-19 outbreak – Cancer Discovery

Commentaries: COVID-19 Increases Overall Risk of Death, Complications in Patients With Cancer, Study Shows – AJMC AND Patients with blood and lung cancers are three times more at risk of dying of coronavirus than people with other tumors, study finds – Daily Mail AND Coronavirus: Cancer patients nearly three times more likely to die of Covid-19, study says – Independent

9 – Lung pathology of COVID-19: is AFOP in play? – PulmCrit

10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates / 29 April 2020 Edition

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