Global & Public Health (all articles)
Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 07 February 2020
7 Feb, 2020 | 08:05h | UTC– W.H.O. Fights a Pandemic Besides Coronavirus: an ‘Infodemic’ – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
– Coronavirus: Everything you need to know in a visual explainer – South China Morning Post (free) (via @DrTomFrieden)
– Coronavirus Expert Reality Check – Global Health NOW (free)
– How the new coronavirus will finally get a proper name – BBC (free)
– WHO says too early to say coronavirus peaking in China – Reuters (free)
– WHO sees no sign of nCoV peak in China, cases rise overseas – CIDRAP (free)
Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 06 February 2020
6 Feb, 2020 | 01:58h | UTC– China marks biggest nCoV jump; WHO unveils response plan – CIDRAP (free)
– Experts offer first US nCoV clinical guidance – CIDRAP (free)
– Amid Coronavirus Fears, a Mask Shortage Could Spread Globally – Wired (free)
– Why the New Coronavirus (Mostly) Spares Children – New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
– Coronavirus: A visual guide to the outbreak – BBC (free)
– Coronavirus: Five things you need to know – BBC (free)
– Data suggests virus infections under-reported, exaggerating fatality rate – Reuters (free)
WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 5 February 2020 / WHO Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan
6 Feb, 2020 | 02:01h | UTCWHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 5 February 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)
See also: US$675 million needed for new coronavirus preparedness and response global plan – World Health Organization (free) AND The Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for the 2019 novel coronavirus – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Related Commentary on Twitter
https://twitter.com/alexandraphelan/status/1224818782578692097?s=03
Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 06 February 2020
6 Feb, 2020 | 01:56h | UTC– 2019 Novel Coronavirus—Important Information for Clinicians – JAMA (free)
New WHO-ITU Standard Aims to Prevent Hearing Loss Among 1.1 Billion Young People
5 Feb, 2020 | 08:22h | UTCSee Resources: Toolkit for safe listening devices and systems (free PDF) AND Safe listening devices and systems: a WHO-ITU standard (free PDF)
Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 05 February 2020
5 Feb, 2020 | 08:10h | UTC– Experts envision two scenarios if the new coronavirus isn’t contained – STAT (free)
– Coronavirus: Window of opportunity to act, World Health Organization says – BBC (free)
– Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Spread of the Outbreak – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
– nCoV total tops 20,000 as officials probe spread from nations outside of China – CIDRAP (free)
– Why are we panicked about coronavirus — and calm about the flu? – The Hill (free)
WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 4 February 2020
5 Feb, 2020 | 08:12h | UTCWHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 4 February 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)
See also: WHO says Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is not yet a pandemic – CNN (free)
Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 05 February 2020
5 Feb, 2020 | 08:05h | UTC– Study claiming new coronavirus can be transmitted by people without symptoms was flawed – Science (free)
– Case Series: CT Imaging Features of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Radiology (free PDF) See Commentary: Radiologists describe coronavirus imaging features – Radiology Society of North America (free)
– Interim US Guidance for Risk Assessment and Public Health Management of Persons with Potential 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Exposure in Travel-associated or Community Settings – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free) See Commentary: CDC Spells out Risk Levels for Novel Coronavirus – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
– Baricitinib as potential treatment for 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease – The Lancet (free)
– Risk of 2019 novel coronavirus importations throughout China prior to the Wuhan quarantine – medRxiv (free PDF) See Commentary: Early spread of coronavirus extends far beyond China’s quarantine zone – University of Texas at Austin (free)
Open Access 2019: A Year of Momentum on the Subscription Off-Ramp
4 Feb, 2020 | 08:50h | UTCOpen Access 2019: A Year of Momentum on the Subscription Off-Ramp – Absolutely Maybe Blog (free)
Related: The Future of OA: A Large-scale Analysis Projecting Open Access Publication and Readership (free study and commentary) AND WHO Joins Coalition for Free Digital Access to Health Research (free resources)
Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, United States, 2020
4 Feb, 2020 | 08:02h | UTCRecommended Adult Immunization Schedule, United States, 2020 – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)
Commentary: ACIP releases updated vaccination schedule with several changes – ACP Hospitalist (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Just out in @AnnalsofIM
New Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (#ACIP) Adult #Immunization Schedule recommends changes to several vaccineshttps://t.co/wa31QMpWct
Nice simplified tables, too. 👇#vaccines pic.twitter.com/u2EoD1gNbe
— Chris Hendel (@chrishendel) February 3, 2020
It’s World Cancer Day – 4 February 2020 / Report: WHO Outlines Steps to Save 7 Million Lives from Cancer
4 Feb, 2020 | 07:57h | UTCWHO outlines steps to save 7 million lives from cancer – World Health Organization (free)
See Report: World Cancer Report: Cancer Research for Cancer Prevention – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Related: Is the world making progress against cancer? – Our World in Data (free)
WHO Q&A on Coronaviruses / WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 3 February 2020
4 Feb, 2020 | 07:44h | UTCWHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 3 February 2020 – World Health Organization (free)
See also: WHO Q&A on Coronaviruses (free) AND WHO Page on the Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) (free resources)
Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 04 February 2020
4 Feb, 2020 | 07:40h | UTC– The New Coronavirus Is a Truly Modern Epidemic – The Atlantic (free)
“New diseases are mirrors that reflect how a society works—and where it fails.”
– China Pledged to Build a New Hospital in 10 Days. It’s Close. – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“State news outlets reported that the 1,000-bed facility would accept patients from Monday even as construction workers raced to complete it.”
– Coronavirus: Here Are 10 Misconceptions Being Spread – Forbes (free)
– China nCoV surge tops 17,000 as more vaccine support announced – CIDRAP (free)
– We need new forms of governance to better manage our response to pandemics – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 04 February 2020
4 Feb, 2020 | 07:38h | UTC– A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China – Nature (free PDF)
– A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin – Nature (free PDF)
WHO Advises Against any Restrictions of International Traffic / WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 02 February 2020
2 Feb, 2020 | 20:21h | UTCSee also: WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 02 FEBRUARY 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Related Commentary on Twitter
.@WHO doesn’t recommend limiting trade & movement.
Travel restrictions can cause more harm than good by hindering info-sharing & medical supply chains & harming economies. We urge countries & companies to make evidence-based, consistent decisions. https://t.co/ksxOV6sbDN— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) January 31, 2020
Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 03 February 2020
2 Feb, 2020 | 20:14h | UTCWellcome Trust Statement: Sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak (free)
– First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
– Drug treatment options for the 2019-new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Bioscience Trends (free PDF)
– Novel Wuhan (2019-nCoV) Coronavirus – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (free PDF)
Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 03 February 2020
2 Feb, 2020 | 20:16h | UTC– How Bad Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Get? Here Are 6 Key Factors – The New York Times (free)
– Why Travel Bans Don’t Work During An Outbreak Like Coronavirus – Forbes (free)
– 8 questions about the coronavirus outbreak, answered – Vox (free)
– Is reporting of the coronavirus producing viral panic? – The BMJ Opinion (free)
– Top WHO official says it’s not too late to stop the new coronavirus outbreak – STAT (free)
Modeling Analysis: Mortality Impact of Achieving WHO Cervical Cancer Elimination Targets
2 Feb, 2020 | 20:07h | UTCRelated Study: Impact of HPV vaccination and cervical screening on cervical cancer elimination: a comparative modelling analysis in 78 low-income and lower-middle-income countries – The Lancet (free)
Commentaries: New estimates of the number of cervical cancer cases and deaths that could be averted in low-income and lower-middle-income countries by scale-up of screening and vaccination activities – International Agency for Research on Cancer (free) AND Mass cervical cancer vaccine rollout could save 62 million lives in next 100 years – The Guardian (free)
Study: Spring Daylight Saving Time Transition Acutely Increases Fatal Traffic Accident Risk by 6%
2 Feb, 2020 | 19:57h | UTCCommentaries: ‘Spring forward’ to daylight saving time brings surge in fatal car crashes – University of Colorado at Boulder (free) AND Daylight Saving Time Linked to More Deadly Car Crashes – Gizmodo (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Yet another new paper on the health danger of Daylight Savings Time from a large dataset of >730,000 fatal car accidentshttps://t.co/yYHfTbQEHI @CurrentBiology @CellPressNews by @DrCelineVetter and colleagues @CUBoulderIPHY @CUBoulder pic.twitter.com/mZlQzz4hAe
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 31, 2020
Systematic Review: No Safe Amount of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
2 Feb, 2020 | 19:54h | UTCCommentary: New evidence supports advice not to drink alcohol in pregnancy – NHS Choices (free) AND Study backs up advice not to drink alcohol at all in pregnancy – OnMedica (free) AND Drinking alcohol during pregnancy: #Drymester the safest approach – University of Bristol (free)
Perspective: When Is a Suboptimal Approach to Cancer Screening Better Than None in Low- and Middle-income Countries?
2 Feb, 2020 | 19:48h | UTCWhen Is a Suboptimal Approach to Cancer Screening Better Than None? – AMA Journal of Ethics (free)
See Special Issue: Global Burden of Cancer Inequality – AMA Journal of Ethics (free articles)
WHO Declares the New Coronavirus Outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
30 Jan, 2020 | 20:39h | UTCSituation Report: WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 30 JANUARY 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Commentaries: WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency – STAT (free) AND The coronavirus outbreak is now a global health emergency, WHO says – Vox (free) AND WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak A Global Health Emergency – NPR (free) AND W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency as Wuhan Coronavirus Spreads – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND WHO declares China virus outbreak an international emergency – Reuters (free)
Latest Articles: Transmission of 2019-nCoV Infection from an Asymptomatic Contact in Germany – New England Journal of Medicine (free) Viewpoint: The Novel Coronavirus Originating in Wuhan, China Challenges for Global Health Governance – JAMA (free) AND Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding – The Lancet (free) AND Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study – The Lancet (free)
Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia
30 Jan, 2020 | 07:49h | UTCSee also: WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 29 JANUARY 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF) AND WHO Reconsiders Public Health Emergency Declaration Over Wuhan Coronavirus – As Cases Skyrocket – Health Policy Watch (free) AND WHO praises China’s response to coronavirus, will reconvene expert committee to assess global threat – STAT (free) AND WHO experts to again weigh nCoV emergency status as more nations affected – CIDRAP (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Authors provide an epidemiologic analysis of first 425 confirmed cases of infection with #2019nCoV in Wuhan, China. This analysis provides estimates of the epidemic doubling time and the basic reproductive number and shows clear evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission.
— NEJM (@NEJM) January 29, 2020
Eliminating Medication Overload: A National Action Plan
29 Jan, 2020 | 08:28h | UTCEliminating Medication Overload: A National Action Plan – Lown Institute (free PDF)
Press Release: Millions of Older Americans Harmed by Too Many Medications – Lown Institute (free)
Commentary: ‘Small’ tactics to counter Big Pharma’s influence on medication overload – STAT (free)
Related: Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy (several articles and commentaries on the subject)
Related Commentary on Twitter
After a year of collaboration and hard work, our comprehensive action plan to eliminate medication overload is published! Find out how you can help reduce harm from multiple #medication use here: https://t.co/pHjKbpVsIY
— Lown Institute (@lowninstitute) January 28, 2020
WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 28 JANUARY 2020
29 Jan, 2020 | 08:24h | UTCNovel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 28 JANUARY 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)
See also: WHO, China leaders discuss next steps in battle against coronavirus outbreak – World Health Organization (free) The Deceptively Simple Number Sparking Coronavirus Fears – The Atlantic (free) AND What Will It Take to Stop Coronavirus? – Harvard Business Review (free) AND The 2 key questions that will determine if the coronavirus outbreak becomes a pandemic – Vox (free) AND WHO seeks to answer nCoV unknowns as more local spread noted outside of China – CIDRAP (free) The coronavirus questions that scientists are racing to answer – STAT (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Patients with new #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection are presenting with a wide range of symptoms. Most seem to have mild disease. About 20% appear to progress to severe disease. Some have died.
WHO Situation Report 28 January 2020 https://t.co/uXR2BXEW2A pic.twitter.com/L9CKuFoDEN
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 28, 2020