General Interest
The Development of COVID-19 Vaccines: Safeguards Needed
7 Jul, 2020 | 08:58h | UTCThe Development of COVID-19 Vaccines: Safeguards Needed – JAMA
How to Safely Reopen Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Experiences from Taiwan
6 Jul, 2020 | 08:48h | UTCEditorial: Reopening Colleges and Universities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
239 Experts With 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne
6 Jul, 2020 | 08:57h | UTC239 Experts With 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne – The New York Times
“… in an open letter to the W.H.O., 239 scientists in 32 countries have outlined the evidence showing that smaller particles can infect people, and are calling for the agency to revise its recommendations. The researchers plan to publish their letter in a scientific journal next week.”
Six Months of Coronavirus: The Mysteries Scientists are Still Racing to Solve
6 Jul, 2020 | 08:41h | UTCSix months of coronavirus: the mysteries scientists are still racing to solve – Nature
COVID-19: This Model Shows Why Masks and Social Distancing are so Important
6 Jul, 2020 | 08:50h | UTCCOVID-19: This model shows why masks and social distancing are so important – World Economic Forum
Related: Widespread Use Of Face Masks Could Save Tens Of Thousands Of Lives, Models Project – NPR
Six Months of Pandemic Photography
6 Jul, 2020 | 08:45h | UTCSix months of pandemic photography – Science
Six Months of Coronavirus: The Mysteries Scientists are Still Racing to Solve
6 Jul, 2020 | 09:09h | UTCSix months of coronavirus: the mysteries scientists are still racing to solve – Nature
A Guide to R — The Pandemic’s Misunderstood Metric
6 Jul, 2020 | 08:39h | UTCA guide to R — the pandemic’s misunderstood metric – Nature
Related: COVID-19: what is the R number? – World Economic Forum AND Covid-19: What is the R number? – The BMJ AND “When will it be over?”: An introduction to viral reproduction numbers, R0 and Re – CEBM Oxford AND Coronavirus: is the R number still useful? – The Conversation
Covid-19: Viral Loads in Upper Respiratory Specimens Peak by 2-3 Days from Symptom Onset and Decrease Rapidly Thereafter
3 Jul, 2020 | 08:40h | UTC
Related Commentary on Twitter
Distribution of Transmission Potential during Non-Severe COVID-19 Illness https://t.co/w5lfg50ZXj. Elegant study from @ClevelandClinic suggesting in non-severe COVID-19, viral loads in upper resp specimens peak by 2-3 days from symptom onset and decrease rapidly thereafter.
— Carlos del Rio (@CarlosdelRio7) July 2, 2020
CDC Survey: Most Patients with Covid-19 Don’t Know Who Infected Them
3 Jul, 2020 | 08:35h | UTCCommentaries: Most COVID-19 patients don’t know who infected them, CDC survey finds – USA Today AND Despite Lockdowns Many Americans Likely Contracted Coronavirus From Strangers – Medical Daily AND Many Americans with COVID-19 don’t know how they got infected, survey suggests – Live Sciences
Accelerating Development of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines — The Role for Controlled Human Infection Models
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:49h | UTCRelated: Challenge Trials—Could Deliberate Coronavirus Exposure Hasten Vaccine Development? – JAMA AND Opinion: Ethical Guidelines for Deliberately Infecting Volunteers with COVID-19 to Speed Vaccine Development (commentaries on the subject) AND Feasibility, potential value and limitations of establishing a closely monitored challenge model of experimental COVID-19 infection and illness in healthy young adult volunteers – World Health Organization (draft document for public comments) AND Human Challenge Studies to Accelerate Coronavirus Vaccine Licensure – The Journal of Infectious Diseases AND Ethics of controlled human infection to address COVID-19 – Science AND Extraordinary diseases require extraordinary solutions – Vaccine
Visualizing the Effectiveness of Face Masks in Obstructing Respiratory Jets
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:47h | UTCVisualizing the effectiveness of face masks in obstructing respiratory jets – Physics of Fluids
Commentaries: New Paper Shows Why Face Masks Are Essential In Curbing Covid-19 – Forbes AND Face Mask Construction, Materials Matter for Containing Coughing, Sneezing Droplets – American Institute of Physics
Opinion: The Moral Imperative to Include Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials of Interventions for COVID-19
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:46h | UTC
Evidence Does Not Support Vitamin D for Reducing Respiratory Infections, Reviews Conclude
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:42h | UTCEvidence does not support vitamin D for reducing respiratory infections, reviews conclude – The BMJ
Editorial: Will COVID-19 be Evidence-based Medicine’s Nemesis?
1 Jul, 2020 | 07:58h | UTCWill COVID-19 be evidence-based medicine’s nemesis? – PLOS Medicine
“In the current fast-moving pandemic, where the cost of inaction is counted in the grim mortality figures announced daily, implementing new policy interventions in the absence of randomized trial evidence has become both a scientific and moral imperative.”
Related Commentary on Twitter
https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1278069554640543747
The Line is Forming for a COVID-19 Vaccine. Who Should be at the Front?
1 Jul, 2020 | 07:49h | UTCThe line is forming for a COVID-19 vaccine. Who should be at the front? – Science
Whole-town Study Reveals More than 40% of COVID-19 Infections Had no Symptoms
1 Jul, 2020 | 07:56h | UTCOriginal Study: Suppression of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in the Italian municipality of Vo’ – Nature
Swine Flu Strain with Human Pandemic Potential Increasingly Found in Pigs in China
1 Jul, 2020 | 07:40h | UTCSwine flu strain with human pandemic potential increasingly found in pigs in China – Science
See also: ‘Pandemic potential’: New flu virus is found in Chinese pigs – World Economic Forum AND New Swine Flu Virus In China Has ‘Pandemic Potential,’ Here Are 7 Reasons Why – Forbes AND A new swine-flu strain with ‘pandemic potential’ was just found circulating in Chinese pigs – Business Insider
Editorial: Twin Epidemics of Covid-19 and Non-communicable Disease
1 Jul, 2020 | 07:42h | UTCTwin epidemics of covid-19 and non-communicable disease – The BMJ
[Preprint] Immunity to COVID-19 is Probably Higher than Tests Have Shown
30 Jun, 2020 | 08:04h | UTCImmunity to COVID-19 is probably higher than tests have shown – Karolinska Institutet
Original Study: Robust T cell immunity in convalescent individuals with asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 – bioRxiv
Opinion – Coronavirus: Could it be Burning out After 20% of a Population is Infected?
30 Jun, 2020 | 08:00h | UTCCoronavirus: could it be burning out after 20% of a population is infected? – The Conversation
Opinion: Why N95 Should Be the Standard for All COVID-19 Inpatient Care
30 Jun, 2020 | 07:54h | UTCWhy N95 Should Be the Standard for All COVID-19 Inpatient Care – Annals of Internal Medicine
PAHO: Existing Evidence on Ivermectin is Insufficient to Draw a Conclusion on Benefits and Harms
30 Jun, 2020 | 07:51h | UTC
Updated CDC Guidance: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
30 Jun, 2020 | 07:50h | UTCConsiderations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Worldwide Effect of COVID-19 on Physical Activity: A Descriptive Study
30 Jun, 2020 | 07:53h | UTCWorldwide Effect of COVID-19 on Physical Activity: A Descriptive Study – Annals of Internal Medicine