Infectious Diseases (all articles)
Opinion | Data from routine Covid testing can help schools stay open this year.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:14h | UTCData from routine Covid testing can help schools stay open this year – STAT
Routine COVID testing doubles detection at 3 public schools.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:16h | UTCRoutine COVID testing doubles detection at 3 public schools – CIDRAP
Original study: Assessment of a Program for SARS-CoV-2 Screening and Environmental Monitoring in an Urban Public School District – JAMA Network Open
Characterizing long COVID: a living systematic review.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:29h | UTCCharacterising long COVID: a living systematic review – BMJ Global Health
Related:
Long Covid – The illness narratives.
New guidelines to help doctors manage long COVID patients published.
M-A: More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19. (several articles on the subject)
Commentary on Twitter
https://twitter.com/CharitiniSt/status/1442528255718748164
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transgender and gender diverse health care.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:21h | UTC
WHO and partners call for urgent action on meningitis – New meningitis strategy aims to save more than 200,000 lives annually.
29 Sep, 2021 | 10:06h | UTCSee guidance: Defeating meningitis by 2030: a global road map – World Health Organization
Commentaries:
WHO Launches First Global Strategy to Eliminate Bacterial Meningitis by 2030 – Health Policy Watch
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
🆕! First ever global strategy to #DefeatMeningitis – a debilitating disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. 👉https://t.co/wG6CqmOPH1 pic.twitter.com/0q6fkTwRHm
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) September 28, 2021
Global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the HIV epidemic, 1990–2019, for 204 countries and territories: the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2019.
29 Sep, 2021 | 09:56h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
🗨️2019 #GBDstudy examines the #global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the #HIV epidemic from 1990-2019 for #204 countries and territories.
Read more from @TheLancet here⬇️https://t.co/d4s6Hw8uDX
— Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (@IHME_UW) September 27, 2021
Editorial: It’s time to send children back to school.
28 Sep, 2021 | 09:49h | UTCIt’s time to send children back to school – Nature Medicine
COVID-19 testing moves out of the clinic and into the home.
28 Sep, 2021 | 09:46h | UTCCOVID-19 Testing Moves Out of the Clinic and Into the Home – JAMA
Study shows COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II.
28 Sep, 2021 | 09:51h | UTCNews release: COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II – University of Oxford
Commentaries:
Life expectancy falls in 27 of 29 nations amid COVID-19 – CIDRAP
Covid has wiped out years of progress on life expectancy, finds study – The Guardian
Related:
Just how do deaths due to COVID-19 stack up?
Exploring the gap between excess mortality and COVID-19 deaths in 67 countries.
COVID-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports show
Commentary on Twitter
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the largest loss of life expectancy since World War II, worst among American menhttps://t.co/7eNCkwBuJA @jm_aburto @UniofOxford @OxfordDemSci @ridhikash07 @melindacmills pic.twitter.com/ckRIDD9G4m
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 27, 2021
Evidence shows that, yes, masks prevent COVID-19 – and surgical masks are the way to go.
28 Sep, 2021 | 09:45h | UTCRelated: [Preprint] Largest study of masks yet details their importance in fighting Covid-19.
Functioning of the international health regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
28 Sep, 2021 | 09:41h | UTCFunctioning of the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic – The Lancet
Systematic review: Can non-pharmacological measures prevent or reduce Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in long term care facilities?
28 Sep, 2021 | 09:47h | UTC
Review: The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.
28 Sep, 2021 | 09:43h | UTCThe biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants – Nature Reviews Genetics
Commentary on Twitter
A Review in @NatureRevGenet describes the latest understanding of the emergence and properties of SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants, particularly those designated as WHO “variants of concern.” https://t.co/MUERXQRQxd pic.twitter.com/6dsHEMmk2p
— Nature Portfolio (@NaturePortfolio) September 22, 2021
Drug-resistant malaria is gaining a foothold in Africa – “Analyses of patient blood samples suggest artemisinin effectiveness is slipping”.
28 Sep, 2021 | 08:49h | UTCDrug-resistant malaria is gaining a foothold in Africa – Science
Commentary on Twitter
Drug-evading parasites appeared in Southeast Asia in the early 2000s, eventually leading to failures of key therapies.
But the stakes are higher for Africa, home to 94% of both malaria cases and deaths worldwide in 2019. https://t.co/ILamXKP3yh
— Global Health NOW (@ghn_news) September 27, 2021
Podcast: Neutropenic Fever.
28 Sep, 2021 | 08:52h | UTC#288 LIVE! Neutropenic Fever featuring Dr. Susan Seo – The Curbsiders
Updated WHO Living Guideline: Therapeutics and COVID-19.
26 Sep, 2021 | 22:16h | UTCTherapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline – World Health Organization
WHO Statement: On new recommendation for treatment of COVID-19 patients: WHO calls for equitable access to casirivimab and imdevimab for COVID-19
See also:
WHO recommends antibody treatment for COVID patients at high risk of hospital admission.
Commentary: WHO adds new recommendation for COVID-19 monoclonal antibody combo – CIDRAP
[Preprint] More data showing longer dosing interval increases immune response after Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine.
26 Sep, 2021 | 22:15h | UTCCommentary: Researchers encourage longer dosing intervals for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine – News Medical
Related:
[Preprint] Covid-19: Longer interval between Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine doses boosts immunity.
Study Commentary | Single-dose Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine followed by a 12-week booster
In Gratitude for mRNA Vaccines.
26 Sep, 2021 | 22:13h | UTCIn Gratitude for mRNA Vaccines – New England Journal of Medicine
CDC Report: Schools without mask requirements were more likely to have Covid-19 outbreaks.
26 Sep, 2021 | 22:10h | UTCCommentary: Schools Without Mask Requirements More Likely to See COVID-19 Outbreaks – U.S. News
Commentary on Twitter
New @CDCMMWR finds schools in two Arizona counties w/o a mask requirement were 3.5 times more likely to have a #COVID19 outbreak than schools requiring masks from the start of the school year. CDC recommends universal masking for all K–12 schools. More: https://t.co/suuuLNItxJ. pic.twitter.com/zYYqXoLH3j
— CDC (@CDCgov) September 24, 2021
Graphic Perspective: Mask Wars.
26 Sep, 2021 | 22:12h | UTCMask Wars – New England Journal of Medicine
Opinion | Inappropriate Mixing Clinical and Systemic Thinking: Vaccines in the Young.
26 Sep, 2021 | 22:07h | UTCInappropriate Mixing Clinical and Systemic Thinking: Vaccines in the Young – Medium
Fraudulent ivermectin studies open up new battleground between science and misinformation.
26 Sep, 2021 | 22:08h | UTC
Covid-19 Vaccines – Billions Committed, Millions Delivered.
26 Sep, 2021 | 22:05h | UTCBillions Committed, Millions Delivered – Think Global Health
Commentary on Twitter
We've combed government websites, official statements, COVAX, and media reports, and have identified 61 countries that have donated 361 million COVID vaccine doses to 148 nations.
Dive into our interactive maps/analysis via @samckiernan and @serena_tohmehttps://t.co/rkrYgvmzBw
— Think Global Health (@ThinkGlobalHlth) September 24, 2021
Less common bacterial, fungal and viral infections: review of management in the pregnant patient.
26 Sep, 2021 | 21:38h | UTC
Antibiotic Overuse and Stewardship at Hospital Discharge: The Reducing Overuse of Antibiotics at Discharge (ROAD) Home Framework.
26 Sep, 2021 | 21:40h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
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— Valerie Vaughn (@ValerieVaughnMD) September 23, 2021