Doctors try to untangle why they’re seeing ‘unprecedented’ blood clotting among Covid-19 patients

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Updated 0450 GMT (1250 HKT) April 22, 2020 Dr. Kathryn Hibbert’s Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit was not doing well. As his blood pressure plummeted, she tried to insert an intravenous line into an…

Why Rolling Coronavirus Patients Onto Their Stomachs Is Saving Lives

“We’re saving lives with this, one hundred percent.” by Victor Tangermann Healthcare workers are finding that flipping COVID-19 patients onto their stomachs, or “prone positioning,” is an effective way to keep them alive in intensive care, according to CNN. “We’re…

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Death Statistics: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Statistics and Research: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) by Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell Confirmed CoVid-19 deaths 1. What is the total number of confirmed deaths? This chart shows the total confirmed deaths from COVID-19 over time. What…

Beware of the second wave of COVID-19

Shunqing Xu Yuanyuan Li Published: April 08, 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30845-X The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, has spread to 203 countries as of March 30, 2020, and has been officially declared a…

The French response to COVID-19: intrinsic difficulties at the interface of science, public health, and policy

Jean-Paul Moatti Open Access Published: April 07, 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30087-6 Faced with criticisms, French authorities claim that their policy towards the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has been evidence-based—they appointed an advisory board of 11 scientists to help…

Invisible spread of SARS-CoV-2

Nian Xiong Tao Wang Zhicheng Lin Published: April 07, 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30263-2 We read with interest Adam Kucharski and colleagues’ mathematical modelling study of the early dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). (1) We agree that a stochastic transmission model might…

Making decisions to mitigate COVID-19 with limited knowledge

Weituo Zhang Bi-yun Qian Published: April 07, 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30280-2 On March 11, 2020, WHO declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic. Aggressive actions should be taken immediately to mitigate the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus…

Intensive care management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): challenges and recommendations

Jason Phua, MRCP Li Weng, MD Lowell Ling, MRCP Moritoki Egi, MD Prof Chae-Man Lim, MD Prof Jigeeshu Vasishtha Divatia, MD et al. Published: April 06, 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30161-2 Summary As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads across the world, the intensive…

SARS-CoV-2 viral load and the severity of COVID-19

March 26, 2020, The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Carl Heneghan, Jon Brassey, Tom Jefferson Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service Team Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences University of Oxford Correspondence to [email protected] 26/03/2020 Every day no…

New Clinical Medical Trials for Hydroxychloroquine Show Astounding Clinical Results

Coronavirus cure: French researchers completed new additional study on 80 patients, results show a combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin to be effective in treating COVID-19   TechStartups Team, March 27, 2020   On March 19, we published a story about…

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