Global & Public Health (all articles)
What Is the Infection-Fatality Rate of COVID-19?
30 Apr, 2020 | 04:04h | UTCWhat Is the Infection-Fatality Rate Of COVID-19? – Medium
USPSTF Statement: Primary Care Interventions for Prevention and Cessation of Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents
30 Apr, 2020 | 03:48h | UTCEditorial: Recommendations From the USPSTF for Prevention and Cessation of Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents (free for a limited period)
Author Interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation in Children and Adolescents
Commentary: USPSTF: Clinicians Should Counsel Kids to Not Start Smoking – NEJM Journal Watch
Perspective: Pandemic Science Out of Control
29 Apr, 2020 | 05:20h | UTCPandemic Science Out of Control – Issues in Science and Technology
Related Commentary on Twitter
"Especially in times of crisis, statistically meaningless, methodologically shoddy, and even fraudulent research can find a receptive audience in desperate patients, credulous doctors, and uninformed journalists."
@JeanneLenzer1 & @ShannonBrownlee https://t.co/Jdw3nT3Z8E— Issues in Science and Technology (@ISSUESinST) April 28, 2020
Perspective: What Policy Makers Need to Know About COVID-19 Protective Immunity
29 Apr, 2020 | 05:19h | UTCWhat policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity – The Lancet
Related: What Covid-19 antibody tests say — and don’t say — about immunity – Vox AND The False Hope of Antibody Tests – The Atlantic AND What Antibody Studies Can Tell You — and More Importantly, What They Can’t – ProPublica AND What if immunity to covid-19 doesn’t last? – MIT Technology Review AND Beware of Antibody-based COVID-19 “Immunity Passports” – Scientific American AND Coronavirus immunity: Can you catch it twice? – BBC
Related Commentary on Twitter
An especially astute and succinct essay on #COVID19 protective immunity @TheLancet todayhttps://t.co/HFGUGPdson
highlights unknowns on duration, role of T lymphocytes, what constitutes real protection, and herd immunity features pic.twitter.com/oBC48DcGCl— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 28, 2020
How Sweden Has Faced the Virus Without a Lockdown
29 Apr, 2020 | 04:53h | UTC‘Life Has to Go On’: How Sweden Has Faced the Virus Without a Lockdown – The New York Times
USPSTF Draft Statement: Not Enough Evidence to Recommend Hypertension Screening in Children
29 Apr, 2020 | 04:34h | UTCHigh Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: Screening – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Randomized Trial: Focal Mass Drug Administration and Reactive Focal Vector Control Can Reduce Malaria Transmission by 75%
29 Apr, 2020 | 04:32h | UTCCommentaries: Reducing malaria transmission with reactive focal interventions – The Lancet AND Smart interventions reduce malaria transmission by 75% – University of the Witwatersrand
IDSA Guidelines on Infection Prevention in Patients with Suspected or Known COVID-19
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:47h | UTC
Perspective: Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — We’ve Had Enough Already
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:35h | UTCPseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already – Nature
Aerodynamic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Two Wuhan Hospitals
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:36h | UTCAerodynamic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in two Wuhan hospitals – Nature
Commentary: SARS-CoV-2 Found in Aerosols in Hospital Staff Areas, Public Places – NEJM Journal Watch AND Coronavirus Lingers in Air of Crowded Spaces, New Study Finds – Bloomberg AND Expert reaction to a Nature paper presenting evidence for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the air – Science Media Centre
Which Epidemiologist do you Believe? The Debate About Lockdown is Not a Contest Between Good and Evil
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:33h | UTCWhich epidemiologist do you believe? – UnHeard
“The debate about lockdown is not a contest between good and evil”
Perspective: Scientists Who Express Different Views on Covid-19 Should Be Heard, not Demonized
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:30h | UTCScientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized – STAT
Twitter-based Learning for Continuing Medical Education? A New Perspective for a Paradigm Shift in Medical Education, Accelerated by COVID-19
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:28h | UTCRelated: How Twitter is Changing Medical Research (texts on the subject)
Twentieth-Century Lessons for a Modern Coronavirus Pandemic
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:25h | UTCTwentieth-Century Lessons for a Modern Coronavirus Pandemic – JAMA
Related Podcasts: Pandemic Part 1: 1918 Flu Pandemic and COVID-19 – JAMA AND Pandemic Part 2: A Trip to Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum – JAMA
Study: Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection Common Among Residents of a Large Homeless Shelter
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:26h | UTCPrevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Residents of a Large Homeless Shelter in Boston – JAMA
“36.0% had PCR test results positive for SARS-CoV-2… Among individuals with PCR test results positive for SARS-CoV-2, cough (7.5%), shortness of breath (1.4%), and fever (0.7%) were all uncommon, and 87.8% were asymptomatic”
Mitigating the Wider Health Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic Response
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:23h | UTCAnalysis: Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response – The BMJ
Covid-19: What do We Know so Far About a Vaccine?
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:20h | UTCCovid-19: What do we know so far about a vaccine? – The BMJ
Pandemic Parlance: Public Health Needs new Language for the Coronavirus Pandemic
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:22h | UTCPandemic parlance: public health needs new language for the coronavirus pandemic – The BMJ Opinion
Global Injury Morbidity and Mortality from 1990 to 2017
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:14h | UTCRelated Studies: The Burden of Unintentional Drowning: Global, Regional and National Estimates of Mortality from the Global Burden of Disease Study AND Global and National Burden from Road Injuries
Does BCG Vaccination Protect Against Acute Respiratory Infections and COVID-19
28 Apr, 2020 | 04:17h | UTC
WHO Scientific Brief: “Immunity passports” in the context of COVID-19
26 Apr, 2020 | 21:40h | UTC“Immunity passports” in the context of COVID-19 – World Health Organization
Commentaries: WHO: ‘No Evidence’ That COVID-19 Antibodies Protect From Potential Re-infection – TIME AND WHO warns against coronavirus immunity passports – The Guardian AND ‘No Evidence’ Yet That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Are Immune, WHO Says – NPR AND “No evidence” that recovered COVID-19 patients cannot be reinfected: WHO – Reuters
Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles’ Heel of Current Strategies to Control Covid-19
26 Apr, 2020 | 21:32h | UTC
COVID-19 Clinical Trials Registry: A Real-time Dashboard of Clinical Trials for COVID-19
26 Apr, 2020 | 21:38h | UTCA real-time dashboard of clinical trials for COVID-19 – The Lancet
See the platform: COVID-19 clinical trials registry
Related Commentary on Twitter
NEW—A real-time dashboard of clinical trials for #COVID19
"An urgent need exists to track clinical trials, avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts, & understand what trials are being done & where"
Correspondence @LancetDigitalH from K Thorlund et al https://t.co/f18UkjSeWU pic.twitter.com/RegM7DJRkP
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) April 25, 2020
Transforming Operating Rooms into ICUs
26 Apr, 2020 | 21:34h | UTCTransforming ORs into ICUs – New England Journal of Medicine
When Should Schools Reopen?
26 Apr, 2020 | 21:30h | UTCWhen Should Schools Reopen? – Center for Global Development