TOP 10 Medical News Stories

“Within two weeks of opening schools in communities with high virus transmission, teachers will become ill. All it will take is for a single teacher to become hospitalized with COVID and everything will shut down.”

8 – SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Infection Among Attendees of an Overnight Camp — Georgia, June 2020 – CDC – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

Commentaries: The Coronavirus Infected Hundreds at a Georgia Summer Camp – The New York Times AND How At Least 44% Of Young People At A Summer Camp Caught Coronavirus – Forbes

9 – Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Screening Strategies to Permit the Safe Reopening of College Campuses in the United States – JAMA Network Open

Commentaries: Researchers offer ways to promote safety when reopening colleges – CIDRAP AND New Study: College Students Who Get Tested Every Two Days Can Return To Campus Safely – Forbes

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 03 August 2020 Edition

03 August 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Fri July 31 – 10 Stories of The Day!

31 Jul, 2020 | 09:02h | UTC

1 – Remdesivir for severe covid-19: a clinical practice guideline – The BMJ

Commentaries: Young kids could spread COVID-19 as much as older children and adults, study suggests – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago AND Study finds higher viral load in young children, raising questions about how likely they are to transmit the coronavirus – CNN AND Children May Carry Coronavirus at High Levels, Study Finds – The New York Times

3 – COVID-19 and Dexamethasone: A Potential Strategy to Avoid Steroid-Related Strongyloides Hyperinfection – JAMA

4 – SARS-CoV-2-reactive T cells in healthy donors and patients with COVID-19 – Nature

Commentaries: Could prior exposure to common cold viruses affect the severity of SARS-CoV-2 symptoms? – Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin AND Why some people who haven’t had Covid-19 might already have some immunity – CNN

5 – Single-shot Ad26 vaccine protects against SARS-CoV-2 in rhesus macaques – Nature

Commentaries: Vaccine Candidate Delivers Protection In A Single Shot (In Monkeys) – NPR AND Novel vaccine candidate robustly protects non-human primates against SARS-CoV-2 – News Medical

6 – Study: Travel to 3 countries may have seeded COVID-19 pandemic – CIDRAP

Original study: Observations of the global epidemiology of COVID-19 from the prepandemic period using web-based surveillance: a cross-sectional analysis – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

7 – COVID-19 pandemic is “one big wave” says WHO – News Medical

8 – Things you should think about when you hear “vaccine by end of the year” – Health News Review

9 – ‘A huge experiment’: How the world made so much progress on a Covid-19 vaccine so fast – STAT

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 31 July 2020 Edition

31 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Thu July 30 – 10 Stories of The Day!

30 Jul, 2020 | 10:55h | UTC

1 – Roche provides an update on the phase III COVACTA trial of Actemra/RoActemra in hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19 associated pneumonia

2 – Association Between Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US – JAMA

Editorial: COVID-19 and School Closures

Author Interview: COVID-19 and School Reopenings

Commentaries: School closures in spring linked to drastic decrease in Covid-19 cases and deaths – STAT AND Schools closures in spring were linked to reductions in Covid-19 cases and deaths, study says – CNN AND Closing schools in March may have saved the lives of 40,000 Americans, a new analysis found – Business Insider AND School Closures in the Spring Saved Lives, Study Asserts – The New York Times

3 – Reopening K-12 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Report From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – JAMA

Original report: Reopening K-12 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

4 – How Schools & Parents Should Navigate Reopening During COVID-19 – Infectious Diseases Society of America

5 – Reopening Primary Schools during the Pandemic – New England Journal of Medicine

6 – Opening Schools Won’t Be Easy, but Here’s How to Do It Safely – The New York Times

7 – What Do We Know About Children and Coronavirus Transmission? – Kaiser Family Foundation

8 – Swabs Collected by Patients or Health Care Workers for SARS-CoV-2 Testing – New England Journal of Medicine

9 – SARS-CoV-2 viral load dynamics, duration of viral shedding and infectiousness: a living systematic review and meta-analysis – medRxiv

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 30 July 2020 Edition

30 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Wed July 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!

29 Jul, 2020 | 09:54h | UTC

1 – Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentary: Experimental COVID-19 vaccine protects upper and lower airways in nonhuman primates – National Institutes of Health

2 – Case characteristics, resource use, and outcomes of 10 021 patients with COVID-19 admitted to 920 German hospitals: an observational study – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Commentary: Mortality in COVID-19 is not merely a question of resource availability – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

3 – Epidemiology of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis among COVID-19 intubated patients: a prospective study – Clinical Infectious Diseases

4 – Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention – Science

Commentaries: Cost of preventing next pandemic ‘equal to just 2% of Covid-19 economic damage’ – The Guardian AND Report: Cost Of Preventing The Next Pandemic Will Be Just 2% Of Covid-19’s Economic Damage [Infographic] – Forbes AND 3 ways to prevent the next pandemic with nature, according to science – Conservation International

5 – Viral RNA level, serum antibody responses, and transmission risk in discharged COVID-19 patients with recurrent positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA test results: a population-based observational cohort study – medRxiv

6 – Management of Infants Born to Mothers with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 – American Academy of Pediatrics

Commentary: AAP no longer recommends separating newborns from mothers with COVID-19 – Healio (free registration required)

7 – Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing – Our World in Data

8 – Longitudinal analyses reveal immunological misfiring in severe COVID-19 – Nature

Commentary: Immune system variation can predict severe COVID-19 outcomes – Yale University

9 – Sodium–Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and the Risk for Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Multicenter Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine

Commentary: Sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor use associated with increased risk of diabetic ketoacidosis – 2 Minute Medicine

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 29 July 2020 Edition

29 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Tue July 28 – 10 Stories of The Day!

28 Jul, 2020 | 08:08h | UTC

1 – Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on Infection Prevention for Health Care Personnel Caring for Patients with Suspected or Known COVID-19 – Clinical Infectious Diseases

2 – Respiratory support in patients with COVID-19 (outside intensive care unit). A position paper of the Respiratory Support and Chronic Care Group of the French Society of Respiratory Diseases

3 – Respiratory Mechanics of COVID-19– versus Non–COVID-19–associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

4 – Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – JAMA Cardiology

Editorial: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Heart—Is Heart Failure the Next Chapter? – JAMA Cardiology

Commentaries: Research reveals heart complications in COVID-19 patients – CIDRAP AND 78% of COVID-19 patients show signs of heart damage after recovery – Cardiovascular Business

5 – Characteristics and Strength of Evidence of COVID-19 Studies Registered on ClinicalTrials.gov – JAMA Internal Medicine

Editorial: Setting Expectations for Clinical Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Commentary: Large proportion of COVID-19 studies have low-level evidence – MedicalXpress

6 – Covidization of research: what are the risks? – Nature Medicine

7 – Assessing the extent of SARS-CoV-2 circulation through serological studies – Nature Medicine

8 – A Vaccine Reality Check – The Atlantic

9 – Covid-19 vaccines may cause mild side effects, experts say, stressing need for education, not alarm – STAT

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 28 July 2020 Edition

28 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Mon July 27 – 10 Stories of The Day!

27 Jul, 2020 | 10:08h | UTC

1 – A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine as Prevention of Covid-19 Transmission and Disease – medRxiv

2 – Presence of Genetic Variants Among Young Men With Severe COVID-19 – JAMA

Editorial: Molecular Underpinnings of Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019

Commentary: Genetic mutations predispose individuals to severe COVID-19 – Radboud University

3 – COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease: from basic mechanisms to clinical perspectives – Nature Reviews Cardiology

4 – Multimodality Imaging in Evaluation of Cardiovascular complications in Patients with COVID-19 – Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Commentary: Which Modality and When? New Guidance for Cardiac Imaging in COVID-19 – TCTMD

5 – Symptom Duration and Risk Factors for Delayed Return to Usual Health Among Outpatients with COVID-19 in a Multistate Health Care Systems Network — United States, March–June 2020 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Commentary: Covid-19 Can Cause ‘Prolonged Illness And Persistent Symptoms’ Even In Young People: Study – Forbes

6 – Anosmia and loss of smell in the era of covid-19 – The BMJ

7 – Particle sizes of infectious aerosols: implications for infection control – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

8 – Which mask works best? We filmed people coughing and sneezing to find out – The Conversation

Original Study: Face coverings and mask to minimise droplet dispersion and aerosolisation: a video case study – Thorax

9 – Neonatal management and outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observation cohort study – The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Commentaries: Covid-19 and breastfeeding: Moms unlikely to pass virus to newborns with proper safety techniques – CNN AND Management of mother–newborn dyads in the COVID-19 era – The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 27 July 2020 Edition

27 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Fri July 24 – 10 Stories of The Day!

24 Jul, 2020 | 09:38h | UTC

1 – Hydroxychloroquine with or without Azithromycin in Mild-to-Moderate Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentary: Another study finds hydroxychloroquine does not help Covid-19 patients – CNN

2 – Evolution and epidemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil – Science

Commentary: COVID-19 in Brazil: Research reveals how epidemic spread around country – Imperial College London

3 – The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income countries – Science

Commentaries: LMICs will face ‘extreme strain’ on health systems despite younger populations – Imperial College London AND Is COVID-19 magnifying colonial attitudes in global health? – Devex AND New modeling study evaluates impact of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries – News Medical

4 – A large COVID-19 outbreak in a high school 10 days after schools’ reopening, Israel, May 2020 – Eurosurveillance

5 – Coronavirus Update With Eric Topol – JAMA

6 – Covid-19 Patients No Longer Need Tests to End Isolation – The New York Times

Original CDC Guidance: Duration of Isolation and Precautions for Adults with COVID-19 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

7 – Trusting evidence over anecdote: Clinical decision making in the era of covid-19 – The BMJ Opinion

8 – Epidemiology of and Risk Factors for Coronavirus Infection in Health Care Workers: A Living Rapid Review – Annals of Internal Medicine

9 – Bacterial co-infection and secondary infection in patients with COVID-19: a living rapid review and meta-analysis – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 24 July 2020 Edition

24 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Thu July 23 – 10 Stories of The Day!

23 Jul, 2020 | 08:51h | UTC

1 – Effect of Systemic Glucocorticoids on Mortality or Mechanical Ventilation in Patients With COVID-19 – Journal of Hospital Medicine

Commentaries: A blood test may show which COVID-19 patients steroids will help — or harm – Science News AND Common blood test identifies benefits and risks of steroid treatment in COVID-19 patients – Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2 – Managing uncertainty in the covid-19 era – The BMJ Opinion

3 – Audio Interview: Dexamethasone and Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine

4 – Rapid Scaling Up of Covid-19 Diagnostic Testing in the United States — The NIH RADx Initiative – New England Journal of Medicine

5 – Coronavirus vaccines leap through safety trials — but which will work is anybody’s guess – Nature

6 – Covid-19 Vaccines With ‘Minor Side Effects’ Could Still Be Pretty Bad – Wired

7 – Controversial ‘human challenge’ trials for COVID-19 vaccines gain support – Science

8 – How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers – ProPublica

9 – COVID-19 Serological Tests: How Well Do They Actually Perform? – Diagnostics

Commentary: Overview of Covid-19 Serological Tests – MedicalResearch.com

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 23 July 2020 Edition

23 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Wed July 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!

22 Jul, 2020 | 02:38h | UTC

1 – The RECOVERY Platform – New England Journal of Medicine

2 – Rapid Decay of Anti–SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Persons with Mild Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine

3 – Seroprevalence of Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in 10 Sites in the United States, March 23-May 12, 2020 – JAMA Internal Medicine

Editorial: Serosurveillance and the COVID-19 Epidemic in the US: Undetected, Uncertain, and Out of Control – JAMA

Commentaries: Actual Covid-19 case count could be 6 to 24 times higher than official estimates, CDC study shows – STAT AND Coronavirus Infections Much Higher Than Reported Cases in Parts of U.S., Study Shows – The New York times

4 – Community prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in England during May 2020: REACT study – medRxiv

Commentary: Expert reaction to preprint (not a published paper) from the REACT study on community prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 – Science Media Centre

5 – Impact of delays on effectiveness of contact tracing strategies for COVID-19: a modelling study – The Lancet Public Health

Commentaries: Quick testing is needed for coronavirus contact tracing to be most effective, research finds – CNN AND Speed of testing is most critical factor in the success of contact tracing strategies to slow COVID-19 transmission – The Lancet AND Expert reaction to paper looking at COVID-19 contact tracing strategies and speed of testing – Science Media Centre AND Can digital contact tracing make up for lost time? – The Lancet Public Health

6 – Care of the pregnant woman with coronavirus disease 2019 in labor and delivery: anesthesia, emergency cesarean delivery, differential diagnosis in the acutely ill parturient, care of the newborn, and protection of the healthcare personnel – American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology

7 – Clinical characteristics of children and young people hospitalised with covid-19 in the United Kingdom: prospective multicentre observational cohort study – medRxiv

8 – Clinical Manifestations and Outcomes of Critically Ill Children and Adolescents with COVID-19 in New York City – The Journal of Pediatrics

9 – SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls – Nature

Commentaries: New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus – Science Translational Medicine AND Scientists uncover SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in recovered COVID-19 and SARS patients – Duke-NUS Medical School AND Expert reaction to study looking at SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS and uninfected controls from data from Singapore – Science Media Centre

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 22 July 2020 Edition

22 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Tue July 21 – 10 Stories of The Day!

21 Jul, 2020 | 09:36h | UTC

1 – Encouraging results from phase 1/2 COVID-19 vaccine trials – The Lancet

Podcast: The Lancet Editor-in-Chief Richard Horton explains the current status of the Oxford and China COVID-19 vaccines

Commentaries: Promising early findings for 2 more COVID-19 vaccines – CIDRAP AND Expert reaction to two vaccine candidate studies: a phase 1/2 trial of the University of Oxford’s ChAdOx1 vaccine candidate; and a phase 2 trial of China’s Ad5-vectored COVID-19 vaccine candidate – Science Media Centre

2 – Safety and immunogenicity of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: a preliminary report of a phase 1/2, single-blind, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet

Commentaries: New study reveals Oxford coronavirus vaccine produces strong immune response – University of Oxford AND Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine appears safe and induces immune response, early results suggest, but more research is needed – CNN AND Early Oxford-AstraZeneca Coronavirus Vaccine Data ‘Encouraging,’ Scientists Say – NPR

3 – Immunogenicity and safety of a recombinant adenovirus type-5-vectored COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults aged 18 years or older: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial – The Lancet

Commentaries: China’s Ad5 vectored COVID-19 vaccine safe and induces immune response – News Medical AND CanSino COVID-19 vaccine generates immune response in 90% of patients – UPI

4 – Synairgen announces positive results from trial of SNG001 in hospitalised COVID-19 patients

Commentaries: New Treatment for Covid-19 Shows Promise, but Scientists Urge Caution – The New York Times AND Expert reaction to announcement by Synairgen that their drug SNG001 has had positive results in initial trials on COVID-19 patients – Science Media Centre AND Trial of Covid-19 drug given via inhaler ‘very promising’, say scientists – The Guardian

5 – Symptom clusters in Covid19: A potential clinical prediction tool from the COVID Symptom study app – medRxiv

Commentaries: Covid-19: Study reveals six clusters of symptoms that could be used as a clinical prediction tool – The BMJ AND Six distinct ‘types’ of COVID-19 identified – King’s College London AND Coronavirus symptoms fall into six different groupings, study finds – The Guardian

6 – Survivorship after COVID-19 ICU stay – Nature Reviews

7 – Ketoacidosis in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany – JAMA

8 – Thrombosis in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in a New York City Health System – JAMA

9 – The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer deaths due to delays in diagnosis in England, UK: a national, population-based, modelling study – The Lancet Oncology

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 21 July 2020 Edition

21 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Mon July 20 – 10 Stories of The Day!

20 Jul, 2020 | 08:22h | UTC

1 – Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 — Preliminary Report – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentary: Trial data support dexamethasone, but not hydroxychloroquine, for COVID-19 – CIDRAP

2 – Research in the Context of a Pandemic – New England Journal of Medicine

3 – Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020 – CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases

Commentaries: Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds – The New York Times AND Children over age 10 spread COVID-19 as much as adults, study finds – CTV

4 – The role of chest radiography in confirming covid-19 pneumonia – The BMJ

5 – What counts as a covid-19 death? – The BMJ

6 – Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic – Our World in Data

7 – Benefits of routine childhood vaccines far outweigh risks of additional COVID-19 transmission in Africa, modelling study suggests – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Original Study: Routine childhood immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a benefit–risk analysis of health benefits versus excess risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection – The Lancet Global Health

8 – COVID-19 in people with diabetes: understanding the reasons for worse outcomes – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

9 – Histopathology and ultrastructural findings of fatal COVID-19 infections in Washington State: a case series – The Lancet

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 20 July 2020 Edition

20 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Fri July 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

17 Jul, 2020 | 09:01h | UTC

1 – RIP Hydroxychloroquine? 2 studies show no benefit in early/mild COVID-19

Study 1: Hydroxychloroquine in Nonhospitalized Adults With Early COVID-19: A Randomized Trial – Annals of Internal Medicine

Study 2: Hydroxychloroquine for Early Treatment of Adults with Mild Covid-19: A Randomized-Controlled Trial – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Commentaries: Hydroxychloroquine also doesn’t help Covid-19 patients who aren’t hospitalized, new study finds – CNN AND New Covid-19 study, despite flaws, adds to case against hydroxychloroquine – STAT

2 – Palliative care for patients with severe covid-19 – The BMJ

3 – How effective does a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine need to be to stop the pandemic? A new study has answers – The Conversation

Original Study: Vaccine Efficacy Needed for a COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent or Stop an Epidemic as the Sole Intervention – American Journal of Preventive Medicine

4 – Challenge Trials for COVID-19 – 1 Day Sooner

Commentary: Scientists call for volunteers to be infected with the coronavirus to test vaccines – CNBC

5 – Coronavirus Drug and Treatment Tracker – The New York Times

6 – What happens if Covid-19 symptoms don’t go away? Doctors are trying to figure it out – Vox

7 – Coronavirus: why are some people experiencing long-term fatigue? – The Conversation

8 – How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer – The Conversation

9 – Social Isolation—the Other COVID-19 Threat in Nursing Homes – JAMA

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 17 July 2020 Edition

17 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Thu July 16 – 10 Stories of The Day!

16 Jul, 2020 | 08:40h | UTC

1 – Effect of Hydroxychloroquine in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: Preliminary results from a multi-centre, randomized, controlled trial – medRxiv

2 – WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19 – World Health Organization

Commentary: Officials warn about drop in childhood vaccination due to COVID-19 – CIDRAP

3 – Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries – The BMJ

Editorial: Lockdown-type measures look effective against covid-19

4 – Covid-19: Experts criticise claim that remdesivir cuts death rates – The BMJ

5 – Covid-19: an opportunity to reduce unnecessary healthcare – The BMJ

Commentary: ED volume recoveries are sluggish. That might not be a bad thing – Health Leaders

6 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) infection risk during elective peri‐operative care: a narrative review – Anaesthesia

7 – COVID-19 pandemic and admission rates for and management of acute coronary syndromes in England – The Lancet

Commentaries: About 5,000 heart attack sufferers in England missed out on lifesaving hospital treatment due to pandemic – University of Oxford AND Thousands missed heart attack treatment during pandemic – University of Leeds AND Expert reaction to paper suggesting 5000 heart attack sufferers in England did not seek treatment due to the COVID-19 pandemic – Science Media Centre

8 – Haematological characteristics and risk factors in the classification and prognosis evaluation of COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study – The Lancet Haematology

Commentary: Coagulation disorder in COVID-19 – The Lancet Haematology

9 – Intrauterine Transmission of Sars-Cov-2 Infection in a Preterm Infant – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Commentary: COVID-19 can be transmitted in the womb, reports pediatric infectious disease journal – Wolters Kluwer Health

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 16 July 2020 Edition

16 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Wed July 15 – 10 Stories of The Day!

15 Jul, 2020 | 08:34h | UTC

1 – Association Between Universal Masking in a Health Care System and SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Among Health Care Workers – JAMA

Editorial: Universal Masking to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission—The Time Is Now – JAMA

Commentaries: CDC director: We can control virus in 4 to 8 weeks if everyone in the US wears a mask – Business Insider AND CDC Director: It’s Time For Universal Masking To End Covid-19 Pandemic – Forbes

2 – Coronavirus Update With CDC Director, Robert R. Redfield, MD – JAMA

3 – Absence of Apparent Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Two Stylists After Exposure at a Hair Salon with a Universal Face Covering Policy — Springfield, Missouri, May 2020 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Commentary: How two hairstylists with COVID-19 saw 139 clients without passing on the virus – CTV

4 – Persistence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Aerosol Suspensions – CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases

5 – Coronavirus Sparks New Interest In Using Ultraviolet Light To Disinfect Indoor Air – NPR

6 – An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report – New England Journal of Medicine

Editorial: The Covid-19 Vaccine-Development Multiverse – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentaries: Experimental COVID-19 vaccine safe, generates immune response – NIH News Release AND First data for Moderna Covid-19 vaccine show it spurs an immune response – STAT

7 – Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response: Recommendations From a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report – JAMA

Full Report: Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

8 – Transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection – Nature Communications

Commentaries: Baby Was Infected With Coronavirus in Womb, Study Reports – The New York Times AND Expert reaction to a case study which finds evidence for the potential transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via the placenta from a mother to her baby – Science Media Centre

9 – How scientific societies are weathering the pandemic’s financial storm – Nature

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 15 July 2020 Edition

15 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Tue July 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!

14 Jul, 2020 | 08:35h | UTC

1 – Researchers develop COVID-19 mortality risk calculator – News Medical

Original Study [Preprint]: COVID-19 Mortality Risk Assessment: An International Multi-Center Study – medRxiv

See Calculator: COVID Analytics

2 – Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: Theoretical Considerations and Available Evidence – JAMA

Author Interview: How Is COVID-19 Transmitted?

3 – Communicating Science in the Time of a Pandemic – JAMA

4 – A New Understanding of Herd Immunity – The Atlantic

5 – Potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study – The Lancet Global Health

Invited Commentary: HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria: how can the impact of COVID-19 be minimised? – The Lancet Global Health

6 – My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes. – Vox

7 – A perspective on potential antibody-dependent enhancement of SARS-CoV-2 – Nature

8 – Evidence-based medicine and COVID-19: what to believe and when to change – Emergency Medicine Journal

9 – Interferon-γ release assays or tuberculin skin test for detection and management of latent tuberculosis infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 14 July 2020 Edition

14 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

Mon July 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

13 Jul, 2020 | 00:31h | UTC

1 – Pathophysiology, Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Review – JAMA

2 – Extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 – Nature Medicine

3 – The mathematical strategy that could transform coronavirus testing – Nature

4 – Mounting evidence suggests coronavirus is airborne — but health advice has not caught up – Nature

5 – WHO Concedes Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2; Critics Say Advice On Masks Still Falls Short – Health Policy Watch

6 – Face masks and coverings for the general public: Behavioural knowledge, effectiveness of cloth coverings and public messaging – The Royal Society / The British Academy

Commentary: Oxford COVID-19 study: face masks and coverings work – act now – University of Oxford

7 – Ivermectin and COVID-19: Keeping Rigor in Times of Urgency – The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

8 – COVID-19 in Children and the Dynamics of Infection in Families – Pediatrics

News Release: Study: Household COVID-19 infection rarely starts with children – American Academy o Pediatrics

Commentaries: COVID-19 Transmission and Children: The Child Is Not to Blame – Pediatrics AND Children rarely transmit COVID-19, doctors write in new commentary – University of Vermont AND Children Seem Not to Be Driving SARS-COV-2 Transmission – Physician’s Briefing

9 – Change in the Incidence of Stillbirth and Preterm Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic – JAMA

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 13 July 2020 Edition

13 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

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