Wed May 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Practice Pointer: Interpreting a covid-19 test result – The BMJ

Related: Interpreting Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2 – JAMA

2 – Waste in covid-19 research – The BMJ

Related Landmark Paper from the Author: Avoidable waste in the production and reporting of research evidence – The Lancet (free registration required)

3 – Development and Validation of a Clinical Risk Score to Predict the Occurrence of Critical Illness in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 – JAMA Internal Medicine

See also: Calculation Tool For Predicting Critical-ill COVID-19 At Admission

Related Preprint Study (just published): Development and validation of the COVID-19 severity index (CSI): a prognostic tool for early respiratory decompensation – medRxiv AND Calculation Tool: https://covidseverityindex.org/

4 – Virus Wars: Return of Lopinavir/Ritonavir (along with ribavirin and interferon) – PulmCrit

Original Article: Triple Therapy Antiviral Combination Seems Promising for COVID-19 in Open-label, Randomized, Phase 2 Trial (study and commentaries)

5 – New Zealand eliminates COVID-19 – The Lancet

See also:  How New Zealand ‘eliminated’ Covid-19 after weeks of lockdown – CNN AND New Zealand has ‘effectively eliminated’ coronavirus. Here’s what they did right. – National Geographic AND Why New Zealand’s Coronavirus Elimination Strategy Is Unlikely to Work in Most Other Places – TIME

6 – A close relative of SARS-CoV-2 found in bats offers more evidence it evolved naturally – Cell Press

Original Article: A novel bat coronavirus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 contains natural insertions at the S1/S2 cleavage site of the spike protein – Current Biology

7 – Gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, and pancreatic manifestations of COVID-19 – Journal of Clinical Virology

Related: AGA Institute Rapid Review of the GI and Liver Manifestations of COVID-19, Meta-Analysis of International Data, and Recommendations for the Consultative Management of Patients with COVID-19 – American Gastroenterology Association

8 – Telepsychiatry and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic—Current and Future Outcomes of the Rapid Virtualization of Psychiatric Care – JAMA Psychiatry

Related: Opportunities From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic for Transforming Psychiatric Care With Telehealth – JAMA Psychiatry

9 – A Pandemic Benefit: The Expansion of Telemedicine – The New York Times

Related: COVID-19: Rapidly Converting to “Virtual Practices” (several commentaries on the subject) AND A digital embrace to blunt the curve of COVID19 pandemic – npj Digital Medicine

10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates / 13 May 2020 Edition

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