Wed May 20 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Editorial: Lack of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in covid-19 – The BMJ

Original Research: Hydroxychloroquine in patients with mainly mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019: open label, randomised controlled trial – The BMJ

Related Meta-analysis (preprint): Hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis – medRxiv

2 – Covid Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren’t Infectious, Study Shows – Bloomberg

See also: People who recover from coronavirus and test positive again are NOT contagious: Korean CDC finds ‘re-positive’ patients did not infect any of their 790 contacts – Daily Mail

3 – Keep your nose out of it: why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs – The Conversation

Original Article: Saliva—Friend and Foe in the COVID-19 Outbreak – Diagnostics

Related Study: Saliva sample as a non-invasive specimen for the diagnosis of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): a cross-sectional study – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

4 – Reducing the Risk of Diagnostic Error in the COVID-19 Era – Journal of Hospital Medicine

5 – Epidemiology, clinical course, and outcomes of critically ill adults with COVID-19 in New York City: a prospective cohort study – The Lancet

Commentaries: Critically ill patients with COVID-19 in New York City – The Lancet AND Nearly 40% of critically ill COVID-19 patients in New York City died, study finds – UPI

6 – Personal Protective Equipment and Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine

7 – The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction – New England Journal of Medicine

Related Study: Reduced Rate of Hospital Admissions for ACS during Covid-19 Outbreak in Northern Italy – New England Journal of Medicine

8 – Serology for SARS-CoV-2: Apprehensions, opportunities, and the path forward – Science Immunology

9 – Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all? – Science

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 20 May 2020 Edition

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