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One in 10 diabetes patients with COVID-19 dies within 7 days — French CORONADO study
The first study of COVID-19 to specifically analyse the effect of the disease in hospitalised patients with diabetes has found that one in ten...
Even mild coronavirus infection leads to antibodies — Pasteur Institute
A medical study in France suggests even mild cases of coronavirus infection, not requiring hospital treatment, produce antibodies in almost all patients, with the...
Cancer patients with COVID-19 have 13% death rate — CC19 first report
People with cancer sickened by COVID-19 have a crude death rate of 13%, according to the largest series of data released thus far from...
Public disclosure of COVID-19 more effective than lockdowns — NBER working paper
The COVID-19 outbreak was identified in both South Korea and in the US on 13 January. As of 22 May, South Korea had 11,142...
'Vast majority’ with COVID-19 are asymptomatic — UK's Office of National Statistics
The vast majority of people who contract coronavirus never show any symptoms, The Daily Telegraph reports the first analysis of antibody tests by the...
CORONA inventory of drugs being used to treat COVID-19
With doctors and researchers around the world searching for effective treatments for COVID-19, many drugs approved to treat other diseases are being used in...
Vitamin D supplementation: No benefit in preventing/treating COVID-19 — Consensus paper
Scientists from the UK, Europe and the US, including experts from the University of Birmingham, have published a vitamin D consensus paper warning against...
COVID-19 patients undergoing surgery at increased risk of post-operative death — NIHR
Patients undergoing surgery after contracting coronavirus are at greatly increased risk of post-operative death, a global study reveals. Researchers found that amongst SARS-CoV-2 infected...
Characteristics of ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19 — American Heart Association
In a study, researchers have reported key demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who developed ischaemic stroke associated with the COVID-19 infection and received...
Using riboflavin, UV light reduces SARS-CoV-2 pathogens in plasma/whole blood
Scientists do not yet know if SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – can be transmitted by blood transfusion. But given the unknowns...
COVID-19 far deadlier than the flu — University of Washington analysis of 116 counties
COVID-19 is a lot more deadly than the flu, concludes a study by the University of Washington.
The study's results also project a grim future if...
Evidence review shows cloth masks may reduce COVID-19 transmission
The evidence shows that cloth masks, particularly those with several layers of cotton cloth, block droplet and aerosol contamination of the environment, which may...
Similarities between COVID-19 deaths and severe rheumatic illnesses — University of Calgary
Rheumatologists at the University of Alberta are flagging similarities between the deaths of some COVID-19 patients and those with rheumatic illnesses, and are testing...
WHO Guide: Cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in the context of COVID-19
The key challenge faced by all countries is slowing the rate of transmission of the virus to mitigate the overwhelming of health services. In...
England's minority ethnic groups at higher risk of COVID-19 – UK Biobank data
Evidence available to date suggests that minority ethnic groups in England, particularly black and south Asian people, may be at increased risk of testing...
Impacts of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in SA may differ from other countries
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) rapidly became a public health emergency of international concern requiring urgent...
Remdesivir for COVID-19 improves time to recovery – peer-reviewed Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial
The investigational antiviral remdesivir is superior to the standard of care for the treatment of COVID-19, according to a study. The preliminary analysis is...
Negligible transmission of COVID-19 among pupils and teachers — Australian study
Coronavirus does not spread widely in schools, according to an Australian study. Previous studies have suggested that younger children are likely to only contract...
People with HIV not at higher risk of death or severe illness from COVID-19
Two studies of COVID-19 cases published in recent days lead investigators to the cautious conclusion that people living with HIV are not at higher...
New COVID-19 treatment shows promising results in animal trial — Peking University
Chinese scientists say a new drug is showing promising results in treating and preventing COVID-19, which could be effective in ending the pandemic before...
Rapid coronavirus diagnosis using AI: sensitivity equal to a senior thoracic radiologist
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms applied to chest computed tomography (CT) images and clinical history can quickly and accurately identify patients with COVID-19, according to...
Evidence that early social distancing policies saves lives — Columbia model
If the US had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died...
Uncoordinated regional policies threaten core policy responses to COVID-19 — MIT 'big data' model
Social distancing is the core policy response to COVID-19. But as federal, state, and local governments begin opening businesses and relaxing shelter-in-place orders worldwide...
Milken Institute tracker of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
FasterCures, a centre of the Milken Institute, is currently tracking the development of treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 (coronavirus).
This tracker contains an aggregation of...
Review of epidemiology, mechanisms, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 — Zunyi Medical University
In a review article – explicitly targeted to non-specialists as well – a team of experts from Zunyi Medical University in China review the...
Positive early results from Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine — NIH non-reviewed study
Volunteers who received Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine had positive early results, according to the biotech company, which partnered with the National Institutes of Health to...
Former UCT doctor warns SA: Be ready for an enigmatic disease and a flood of patients
COVID-19 is not a single-specialty disease. Everyone has to collaborate, parceling out work where resources are most needed and finding the best way to...
More evidence from France and China that hydroxychloroquine not successful in treating COVID-19
The anti-inflammatory drug hydroxychloroquine does not significantly reduce admission to intensive care or death in patients hospitalised with pneumonia due to COVID-19, finds a...
Life-threatening COVID-associated inflammatory syndrome affects more children in Europe
A new life-threatening inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19 has affected 230 children in Europe and killed two so far this year. Reuters Health reports...
Delays in cancer surgery caused by COVID-19 may cost UK thousands of lives — Institute of Cancer Research
Delays to cancer surgery and other treatment caused by the COVID-19 crisis could result in thousands of additional deaths linked to the pandemic in...
Recommendations on stroke management in a COVID-19 setting — international panel
Neurologist Dr Adnan I Qureshi, a professor of clinical neurology at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, led a team of stroke experts...
First empirical findings that strongly associate sensory loss with COVID-19
Loss of smell and taste has been anecdotally linked to COVID-19 infections. And now researchers at University of California – San Diego Health report...
Cambridge study shows need to screen hospital workers with minimal or no symptoms
Hospital staff may be carrying SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, without realising they are infected, according to a study by researchers at...
Talking loudly produces enough droplets to transmit coronavirus — Stanford study
Given that 1mm of oral fluid contains approximately 7m copies of the coronavirus (according to previous research), Business Insider reports that the authors of...
Antihypertensives do not increase risk of COVID-19 infection or its severity
Antihypertensive medications acting on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system were not found to increase the risk of either testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) or...
Experimental cell therapy treatment improves 4 out of 6 patients — small, peer-reviewed study
Four of six critically ill COVID-19 (coronavirus) patients significantly improved after receiving an experimental therapeutic designed to reduce inflammation, a major cause of death...
Anti-inflammatory improved respiratory function in 8 severe COVID-19 patients with sHLH
A small study in Greece found that the clinically approved anti-inflammatory drug anakinra, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, improved respiratory function in patients with...
Antiviral drug speeds recovery of COVID-19 patients — small Wuhan study
According to a study, treatment with interferon (IFN)-α2b may significantly accelerate virus clearance and reduce levels of inflammatory proteins in COVID-19 patients. The research...
Antibody from recovered SARS patient inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infectivity — proof of concept study
An antibody isolated from a patient who has recovered from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) is shown to effectively block SARS-CoV-2 infectivity. Antibodies that...
Not a true reflection to compare COVID-19 and seasonal influenza mortality — JAMA viewpoint
As of early May 2020, approximately 65,000 people in the US had died of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the severe...