General Interest
Health Care Workers Seek to Flatten COVID-19’s ‘Second Curve’—Their Rising Mental Anguish
24 Apr, 2020 | 03:42h | UTCHealth care workers seek to flatten COVID-19’s ‘second curve’—their rising mental anguish – Science
Related: Understanding and Addressing Sources of Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic – JAMA AND Mental health outcomes among front and second line health workers associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. – medRxiv AND Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 – JAMA Network Open
“there’s a second curve we’re going to have to flatten: the mental health consequences of the pandemic.”
A Skeptic’s Guide To Ecologic Studies During A Pandemic
24 Apr, 2020 | 03:34h | UTCA Skeptic’s Guide To Ecologic Studies During A Pandemic – Forbes
Related: BCG Against Coronavirus: Less Hype And More Evidence, Please – Forbes
Debate: Is it Wrong to Prioritize Younger Patients with Covid-19?
24 Apr, 2020 | 03:30h | UTCIs it wrong to prioritise younger patients with covid-19? – The BMJ
Commentary: Should age be a prioritizing factor in deciding who gets treated for COVID-19? – News Medical
‘Where Are All our Patients?’: Covid Phobia is Keeping People with Serious Heart Symptoms Away From ERs
24 Apr, 2020 | 03:26h | UTCRelated: Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone? – The New York Times
Hydroxychloroquine and Coronavirus: A Guide to the Scientific Studies so Far
24 Apr, 2020 | 03:28h | UTCHydroxychloroquine and coronavirus: a guide to the scientific studies so far – The Guardian
Podcast: Twitter, Social Media and Digital Scholarship in Medicine
24 Apr, 2020 | 03:25h | UTC#209 LIVE! Twitter, Social Media and Digital Scholarship – The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
See also: Episode List
Clinical Features and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area
23 Apr, 2020 | 09:43h | UTC
Alterations in Smell or Taste in Mildly Symptomatic Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection
23 Apr, 2020 | 09:41h | UTCAlterations in Smell or Taste in Mildly Symptomatic Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection – JAMA
Related: Study Validates Loss of Smell and Taste as Symptoms of Covid-19
[Preprint] Observational Study: No Benefit from Hydroxychloroquine in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19
22 Apr, 2020 | 08:58h | UTCOutcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in United States veterans hospitalized with Covid-19 – medRxiv
Commentaries: Study finds no benefit, higher death rate in patients taking hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 – CNN AND More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study – Associated Press
Editorial: Modelling the Pandemic
22 Apr, 2020 | 08:48h | UTCModelling the pandemic – The BMJ
Related: Predictive Mathematical Models of the COVID-19 Pandemic (other commentaries on the subject)
“Over-reliance on modelling leads to missteps and blind spots in our response”
Interview: The Epidemiologist Behind Sweden’s Controversial Coronavirus Strategy
22 Apr, 2020 | 08:46h | UTC
Video: Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr. John Ioannidis Update
21 Apr, 2020 | 08:12h | UTCPerspectives on the Pandemic | Dr. John Ioannidis Update: 4.17.20
Related (from Dr. John Ioannidis): Antibody Tests Suggest that Coronavirus Infections Vastly Exceed Official Counts AND Study: Population-level COVID-19 Mortality Risk
Sweden Says Controversial Virus Strategy Proving Effective
21 Apr, 2020 | 08:09h | UTCSweden Says Controversial Virus Strategy Proving Effective – Bloomberg
Related: Coronavirus in Europe: Is it a myth to say it’s life as normal in Sweden amid COVID-19 pandemic? – Euronews AND Sweden’s government has tried a risky coronavirus strategy. It could backfire – Vox AND Sweden has nearly 10 times the number of COVID-19-related deaths than its Nordic neighbors. Here’s where they went wrong – Business Insider
The Pandemic’s Hidden Victims: Sick or Dying, but Not from the Virus
21 Apr, 2020 | 08:01h | UTCThe Pandemic’s Hidden Victims: Sick or Dying, but Not From the Virus – The New York Times
Cohort Study: Association of Early-Life Social and Digital Media Experiences with Development of Autism Spectrum Disorder–Like Symptoms
21 Apr, 2020 | 07:55h | UTCAssociation of Early-Life Social and Digital Media Experiences With Development of Autism Spectrum Disorder–Like Symptoms – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at screen time in infants and autism spectrum disorder-like symptoms – Science Media Centre AND More Screen Time, Less Parental Playtime Increase Toddler’s ASD-Like Symptoms – Physician’s Weekly
Randomized Trial: Twitter Promotion Increases Citation Rates of Cardiovascular Articles
21 Apr, 2020 | 07:53h | UTC
Antibody Tests Suggest that Coronavirus Infections Vastly Exceed Official Counts
20 Apr, 2020 | 00:25h | UTCAntibody tests suggest that coronavirus infections vastly exceed official counts – Nature
See original preprint study: COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California – medRxiv
Author interview: Dr. John Ioannidis Announces Results of COVID-19 Serology Study (video)
Other commentaries: Far more people may have been infected by coronavirus in one California county, study estimates – CNN AND The number of coronavirus infections in Santa Clara, California may be up to 85 times higher than testing shows, according to new research – Business Insider AND Up to 4% of Silicon Valley is already infected with coronavirus – MIT Technology Review
The Promise and Peril of Antibody Testing for COVID-19
20 Apr, 2020 | 00:23h | UTCThe Promise and Peril of Antibody Testing for COVID-19 – JAMA
See also: Will antibody tests for the coronavirus really change everything? – Nature AND Antibody Test, Seen as Key to Reopening Country, Does Not Yet Deliver – The New York Times AND With Broad, Random Tests for Antibodies, Germany Seeks Path out of Lockdown
The Pandemic’s Effects on Patients Without Covid-19
19 Apr, 2020 | 23:58h | UTC
Coronavirus: Nine in 10 Dying Have Existing Illness
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:20h | UTCCoronavirus: Nine in 10 dying have existing illness – BBC
Original Report: Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales: deaths occurring in March 2020 – Office for National Statistics
Predictive Mathematical Models of the COVID-19 Pandemic
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:14h | UTCRelated: The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus – Wired AND Mathematics of life and death: How disease models shape national shutdowns and other pandemic policies – Science AND How to model a pandemic – The Conversation AND Coronavirus exposes the problems and pitfalls of modelling – The Guardian AND Systematic review and critical appraisal of prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of COVID-19 infection – medRxiv AND Modelling the models – CEBM University of Oxford
These European Countries Are Slowly Lifting Coronavirus Lockdowns. Here’s What That Looks Like
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:12h | UTCRelated: When to re-open the economy – Medium AND Strategic preparedness and response plan for the new coronavirus – World Health Organization AND Study: Some Social Distance May Need to Continue Until 2022 AND Ending coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error – Science AND ‘Suppress and lift’: Hong Kong and Singapore say they have a coronavirus strategy that works – Science AND Opinions on Lifting Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdowns (opinions and report) AND Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing – Vox AND No country has beaten the coronavirus yet – Vox
Video: Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:59h | UTCCommentaries: Droplets and Aerosols in the Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – New England Journal of Medicine AND Simply speaking could transmit coronavirus, new study suggests – STAT
Death from Covid-19 of 23 Health Care Workers in China
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:55h | UTCDeath from Covid-19 of 23 Health Care Workers in China – New England Journal of Medicine
Study: Some Social Distance May Need to Continue Until 2022
15 Apr, 2020 | 03:47h | UTCProjecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period – Science
Commentaries: Coronavirus distancing may need to continue until 2022, say experts – The Guardian AND Harvard Researchers Say Some Social Distancing May Be Needed Into 2022 – Bloomberg AND Researchers Say Social Distancing To Prevent Coronavirus May Need To Continue Until 2022 – Forbes AND Some social distancing may be needed into 2022 to keep coronavirus in check, new study says – STAT
Related Commentary on Twitter
They had me at "Prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022." An important new @Sciencemagazine paper on what to expect in the #COVID19 "post pandemic" periodhttps://t.co/x1KlVanIxo @mlipsitch @yhgrad @StephenKissler and colleagues @HarvardChanSPH pic.twitter.com/mq2QIWvfgk
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 14, 2020