Global & Public Health (all articles)
Africa Covid-19 Report: At Least 300.000 People Could Lose Their Lives as a Direct Result of COVID-19
20 Apr, 2020 | 00:05h | UTCCOVID-19 in Africa: Protecting Lives and Economies – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
News Release: COVID-19 in Africa: Protecting Lives and Economies – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Commentary: Africa could see 300,000 or more coronavirus deaths this year, report says – The Globe and Mail AND U.N. Agency Fears ‘Vulnerable’ Africa May Suffer At Least 300,000 COVID-19 Deaths – NPR
The Pandemic’s Effects on Patients Without Covid-19
19 Apr, 2020 | 23:58h | UTC
COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning?
20 Apr, 2020 | 00:03h | UTC
Systematic Review: Prophylactic Role of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine in COVID‐19
19 Apr, 2020 | 23:57h | 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
Study Commentary: Hydroxychloroquine Fails First Meaningful RCT
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:25h | UTCHydroxychloroquine fails first meaningful RCT – PulmCrit
Original Study: Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19: No Benefit in New Open-label, Randomized Trial
Related Commentary: Hydroxychloroquine in the management of critically ill patients with COVID-19: the need for an evidence base – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
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
CDC Guidance: Key Strategies to Prepare for COVID-19 in Long-term Care Facilities
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:18h | UTC
Estimating the Maximum Capacity of COVID-19 Cases Manageable per Day Given a Health Care System’s Constrained Resources
17 Apr, 2020 | 02:15h | UTC
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
Podcast: Caring for Patients with Covid-19
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:57h | UTCAudio Interview: Caring for Patients with Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine
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
NIH Study Validates Decontamination Methods for Re-use of N95 Respirators
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:50h | UTCNews Release: NIH study validates decontamination methods for re-use of N95 respirators – NIH News Releases
Original Study: [Preprint] Assessment of N95 respirator decontamination and re-use for SARS-CoV-2 – medRxiv
COVID-19: The Case for Health-care Worker Screening to Prevent Hospital Transmission
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:53h | UTCCOVID-19: the case for health-care worker screening to prevent hospital transmission – The Lancet
Related Commentary on Twitter
Every #healthcare worker must be tested for #COVID19 (should have been weeks ago, and needs to be serially assessed going forward). This isn't happening. The case is well laid out here today:
https://t.co/pS9MYfZdJw@TheLancet by @TheCrick's @CharlesSwanton and colleagues @UCL pic.twitter.com/d4VPmI5LwQ— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 15, 2020
Study Confirms Substantial Presymptomatic Transmission of Covid-19
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:52h | UTCTemporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19 – Nature Medicine
Commentaries: People might be most infectious with coronavirus before they show symptoms, study suggests – CNN AND Expert reaction to a study looking at the timing of SARS-CoV-2 transmission – Science Media Centre
Evidence Based Management Guideline for the COVID-19 Pandemic
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:48h | UTC
ASCO Recommendations for the Oncology Community During the COVID19 Pandemic
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:41h | UTC
Global Guidance for Surgical Care During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
16 Apr, 2020 | 02:37h | UTCGlobal guidance for surgical care during the COVID‐19 pandemic – British Journal of Surgery
Related: New Scoring System to Prioritize Medically Necessary Operations
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
Ending Coronavirus Lockdowns Will be a Dangerous Process of Trial and Error
15 Apr, 2020 | 03:45h | UTCEnding coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error – Science
Related: ‘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
New Scoring System to Prioritize Medically Necessary Operations
15 Apr, 2020 | 03:40h | UTCNews Release: Scoring system empowers surgery departments to prioritize medically necessary operations – American College of Surgeons
Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19: No Benefit in New Open-label, Randomized Trial
15 Apr, 2020 | 03:42h | UTC[Preprint] Hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: an open-label, randomized, controlled trial – medRxiv
See also just published observational study (Preprint): No evidence of clinical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 infection with oxygen requirement: results of a study using routinely collected data to emulate a target trial – medRxiv
Related Commentary on Twitter
#COVID19 Here comes another dataset of #Hydroxychloroquine from an open-label randomized controlled trial in Chinahttps://t.co/qW93wMDILK
No difference in 28-day #coronavirus negative conversion rate for HCQ + SOC vs SOC
No difference in 28-day symptoms alleviation rate either pic.twitter.com/pOsBSQWeuO
— Andy Biotech (@AndyBiotech) April 14, 2020
FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization to Decontaminate Millions of N95 Respirators
15 Apr, 2020 | 03:38h | UTCCommentary: FDA clears N95 decontamination process that could clean up to 4 million masks per day – Tech Crunch
CEBM Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Updates:
15 Apr, 2020 | 03:32h | UTC“Current data do not support the use of hydroxychloroquine for prophylaxis or treatment of COVID-19.”
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