Global & Public Health (all articles)
Selected Articles: COVID-19 in Surgical Patients
3 Jul, 2020 | 08:46h | UTCArticle 1: Managing COVID-19 in Surgical Systems – Annals of Surgery
Article 3: COVID-19 – Considerations and Implications for Surgical Learners – Annals of Surgery
Article 5: A Guide for Surgical and Procedural Recovery After the First Surge of Covid-19 – NEJM Catalyst
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
Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Patients with COVID-19 vs. Patients with Influenza
3 Jul, 2020 | 08:37h | UTCCommentaries: Stroke appears 8 times more likely with COVID than with flu – MedicalXpress AND Comparing COVID-19’s stroke rate with those of other respiratory infections – Cardiovascular Business
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
Cohort Study: Recommended Physical Activity and All Cause and Cause Specific Mortality
3 Jul, 2020 | 08:24h | UTC
Estimation of Excess Deaths From COVID-19 in the United States
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:53h | UTCExcess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes, March-April 2020 – JAMA
Editorial: Mortality and Morbidity: The Measure of a Pandemic
Author Interview: Estimation of Excess Deaths From COVID-19 in the United States
Commentaries: About 30% of COVID deaths may not be classified as such – CIDRAP AND Study: 35 percent of excess deaths in pandemic’s early months tied to causes other than COVID-19 – Virginia Commonwealth University
Meta-Analysis: Diagnostic Accuracy of Serological Tests for Covid-19
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:54h | UTCDiagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis – The BMJ
Related Commentary on Twitter
New: A systematic review and meta-analysis assessment of #SARSCov2 antibody testing: "does not support the continued use of existing point-of-care serological tests"@BMJ_latest https://t.co/HVzpsygUOV pic.twitter.com/Q1MLWZNlg8
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 1, 2020
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
The Ethics of COVID-19 Treatment Studies: Too Many are Open, Too Few are Double-masked
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:43h | UTCThe ethics of COVID-19 treatment studies: too many are open, too few are double-masked – CEBM Oxford
Randomized Trial of Amoxicillin vs. Placebo for Pneumonia in Children from Low-Income Communities
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:40h | UTCRandomized Trial of Amoxicillin for Pneumonia in Pakistan – New England Journal of Medicine
Randomized Trial: Amoxicillin for 3 Days Noninferior to Amoxicillin for 5 Days for Chest-Indrawing Pneumonia in Children
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:41h | UTCVisual Abstract: Amoxicillin for 3 or 5 Days for Chest-Indrawing Pneumonia
Commentaries: Antibiotic use, duration questioned for kids’ pneumonia in low-resource areas – CIDRAP AND Three-day amoxicillin course effective for chest-indrawing pneumonia in Malawi children – 2 Minute Medicine
Meta-Analysis: Electronically Delivered vs. Face to Face Cognitive Behavioral Therapies in Depressive Disorders
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:35h | UTC
Global Variation in the Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation, Anxiety and their Correlates Among Adolescents
2 Jul, 2020 | 08:33h | UTC
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
Meta-Analysis: Outcomes from Intensive Care in Patients with COVID‐19
1 Jul, 2020 | 07:46h | UTC
AAP COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry
1 Jul, 2020 | 07:45h | UTCCOVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry – American Academy of Pediatrics
Commentaries: U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall – NPR AND Academic, mental and physical benefits of in-person school outweigh virus risks, pediatrics group says – CNN AND Why a Pediatric Group Is Pushing to Reopen Schools This Fall – The New York Times
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
Meta-Analysis: Digital Mammography Does Not Improve Outcomes in Population Screening when Compared to Film Mammography
1 Jul, 2020 | 07:37h | UTCCommentaries: Digital breast cancer detection technology does not improve outcomes – Oxford University Press USA AND How Beneficial Is Digital Mammography? – MedicalResearch.com AND Meta-Analysis: Digital Mammography No Better Than Film – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Press Release: No Clinical Benefit from Use of Lopinavir-ritonavir in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
30 Jun, 2020 | 08:08h | UTC