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22% of children with COVID or MIS-C had neurologic conditions — US hospital study
Among US children and teens hospitalised with COVID-19 or its related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), 22% had neurologic conditions, most of them...
Ocular swabs detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in 57% of COVID-19 cases — Italian study
Genetic evidence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was found on the ocular surface of 57% of Italian COVID-19 patients, according to a...
Iranian trial of efficacy and safety of Ivermectin in patients with mild and moderate COVID-19
Researchers at the Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran are trialling the efficacy and safety of Ivermectin in patients with mild and...
Smell tests should be part of routine COVID-19 screenings — STAT News
Temperature checks could well join the long list of fumbled responses to the pandemic, from the testing debacle to federal officials’ about-face on masks,...
Clinical and demographic risk factors for COVID-19 deaths in 17 million NHS patients
Risk factors associated with COVID-19 death, based on analyses of full pseudonymized health records of 17m adults in England, are reported in a study...
COVID-19 herd immunity may be unachievable — Spanish study of 61,000 people
Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to COVID-19...
NICD report: Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in SA children
According to a National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) report, children made up less than 7% of all reported COVID-19 cases in South Africa and...
Groote Schuur doctors on benefits of high-flow nasal oxygen — Spotlight report
Spotlight reports that doctors at two of the Western Cape’s most impacted COVID-19 hospitals say they have seen positive outcomes from using high-flow nasal...
Problematic response of the elderly to COVID-19 — 27-country survey
Survey results from 27 countries suggest that, despite their increased risk of severe illness due to COVID-19, elderly people are not more willing to...
WHO discontinues hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir treatment arms for COVID-19
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that it has accepted the recommendation from the Solidarity Trial’s International Steering Committee to discontinue the trial’s...
JAMA study: 35% of excess US deaths tied to causes other than COVID-19
Since COVID-19’s spread to the US earlier this year, death rates in the US have risen significantly. But deaths attributed to COVID-19 only account...
Immunity to COVID-19 may be higher than tests have shown — Karolinska Institutet
Research from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital shows that many people with mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 demonstrate so-called T-cell-mediated immunity to the new...
Outbreak in Italian town of Vo shows importance of asymptomatic cases — Nature
A study of COVID-19 in the quarantined Italian town of Vò, where most of the population was tested, reveals the importance of asymptomatic cases....
Small Spanish study supports link between coronavirus and COVID toes
There's considerable controversy over whether "COVID toes” – red sores or lesions on the feet and hands in children and young adults – are...
SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with platelet hyper-reactivity — small Utah study
Changes in blood platelets triggered by COVID-19 could contribute to the onset of heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications in some patients who...
Promising results from small COVID-19 blood plasma study
A coronavirus patient was able to come off ventilation just two days after receiving the blood plasma of people who have recovered from the...
Limited supply may scupper proposals to use antimalarials to ward off COVID-19
The results of preliminary lab tests have prompted scientists to propose that these drugs be used to treat patients with pneumonia caused by COVID-19...
BCG vaccination and reduced morbidity and mortality for COVID-19 — non-peer reviewed US study
US researchers propose that the severity of COVID-19 impact may be linked to varying national policies on the childhood tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin...
Clinical trial to assess potential treatment for COVID-19-related respiratory failure
A team of physician-scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (BIDMC) – part of Beth Israel Lahey Health – are now enrolling patients in...
Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Guidelines on caring for ICU patients with COVID-19
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 panel has released 54 recommendations on such topics as infection control, laboratory diagnosis and specimens, the dynamics of blood...
Ivermectin stops SARS-CoV-2 virus growing in cell culture within 48 hours
The Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute's Dr Kylie Wagstaff, who led the study, said the scientists showed that the drug, Ivermectin, stopped the SARS-CoV-2 virus...
Individuals taking class of steroid medications at high risk for COVID-19
Individuals taking a class of steroid hormones called glucocorticoids for conditions such as asthma, allergies and arthritis on a routine basis may be unable...
People with well-controlled HIV do not have elevated COVID-19 risk — Wuhan study
The first data from Wuhan, China suggest that people living with HIV suffered no worse a coronavirus epidemic than other people in the city,...
Experimental AI tool predicts which COVID-19 patients develop respiratory disease
An artificial intelligence tool accurately predicted which patients newly infected with the COVID-19 virus would go on to develop severe respiratory disease, a study...
Clinical features of 85 fatal COVID-19 cases in Wuhan – American Thoracic Society
InA study of 85 fatal cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan found most cases were male aged over 50 years old with noncommunicable chronic diseases....
COVID-19 most infectious during first week — small, non-peer reviewed study
Since January, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the new coronavirus outbreak a global public health emergency, international experts have kept on researching...
COVID-19 transmission via expiratory particles during speech
Normal speech by individuals who are asymptomatic but infected with coronavirus may produce enough aerosolised particles to transmit the infection, according to aerosol scientists...
Public use of surgical masks 'could help slow' COVID-19 pandemic's advance
In laboratory experiments, the masks significantly reduced the amounts of various airborne viruses coming from infected patients, measured using the breath-capturing "Gesundheit II machine"...
International expert on aerial transmission for MedicalBrief webinar
A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study concludes that health workers may be underestimating the risk of aerial transmission of COVID-19, while the head of China’s Centre for Disease...
MIT: Two metre social distancing might not be enough
Keeping a two-metre distance from others may not be enough to stop the spread of coronavirus, a new study suggests. Health officials around the...
China's CDC head says 'biggest mistake' is failure to use masks
Chinese scientists at the front of that country’s outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have not been particularly accessible to foreign media, says a...
UK looks to 'convalescent plasma' as experimental treatment for COVID-19
Doctors have drawn up plans to infuse British coronavirus patients and their carers with blood plasma harvested from “hyper-immune” people who have recovered from...
Concern over Sweden's giant 'business as usual' experiment with COVID-19
Swedish children continue to pour through the gates of their schools and kindergartens as the Nordic nation stands increasingly alone in Europe in its...
UK data shows ICU mortality rate of 48% for COVID-19 patients
The mortality rate for patients put in intensive care after being infected with COVID-19 is running at close to 50%, The Guardian report a...
Some COVID-19 patients still have coronavirus after symptoms disappear
Researchers led by Dr Lixin Xie report on a study of 16 patients with COVID-19, who were treated and released from the Treatment Centre...
No evidence for or against the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for patients with COVID-19
A recent study has found that there is no evidence for or against the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen for patients...
COVID-19 has natural origin, not created through genetic engineering
The analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or...
Remdesivir and other therapeutic compounds with potential for treating COVID-19
In humans, coronaviruses cause mainly respiratory infections. Individuals with SARS-CoV-2 may remain asymptomatic for 2 to 14 days post-infection and some individuals likely transmit...
Oxford's COVID-19 clinical trial of lopinavir-ritonavir and dexamethasone
Researchers from the University of Oxford have launched a new clinical trial to test the effects of potential drug treatments for patients admitted to...
Lessons from Vietnam, South Korea and Taiwan on containing COVID-19 pandemic
Vietnam, South Korea and Taiwan – all three countries are placed uncomfortably close to China, the initial epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic that's now...