Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 21, 20201 minNot Enough COVID-19 Tests ... Yet Too Many COVID-19 TestsInterest article from fivethirtyeight.com talking about our tricky situation with covid testing
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 21, 20201 minCurrent NIH Guidelines for COVID-19 TreatmentCurrent NIH recommendations on Covid-19 Treatment: * No treatment shown to be safe and effective yet. * Remdesivir and HCQ/CQ said to hav...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 20, 20201 minJohns Hopkins Public Health Principles for a Phased Reopening During COVID-19: Guide for GovernorsGuidelines from CenterforHealthSecurity.org: The contact tracing is most difficult part in the USA right now.
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 18, 20201 minArticle on "Swedish Model" by Project-SyndicateNice article on Project-Syndicate discussing Swedish strategy to covid that did not practice social distancing until much later and did n...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 18, 20201 minCommentary by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine on Small Molecule Clinical Data Here is a blog in Science Translational Medicine that looks at available evidence for the three main antiviral treatment regimens being t...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 17, 20201 minNIH Private-Public Partnerships Launched to Speed COVID-19 Vaccine and Treatment OptionsGreat private-partnership effort to try to coordinate the hundreds of civid-related research studies so we can most effectively and effic...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 16, 20207 minWhat Next with COVID-19?Ok -- I can't any longer resist the temptation to say what I think about the next steps in this covid crisis ... these are my own thought...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 16, 20201 minMedia's Virus Messaging Shapes Public Compliance, Skepticism (RealClearPolitics)Interesting article from my favorite balanced political website RealClearPolitics tracking the media's discussion of the virus, seeing as...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 15, 20201 minWHO Launches Global Meta-Trial of COVID-19Science magazine describes international WHO clinical trial for covid-19. It randomizes between local standard of care, Remdisivir, HCQ/C...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 14, 20201 minWhich Coronavirus statistics can we trust and which should we ignore?Article in the Observer from two well-know statisticians, Sylvia Richardson and David Spiegelhalter, summarizing the trickiness of inter...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 13, 20201 minDiagram Showing How COVID-19 Attacks the BodyVery informative and accessible diagram showing how COVID-19 affects you
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 12, 20201 minAsymptomatic and Mild Cases of COVID-19: potential concernArticle looking at immune response and possible immunity or not -- we still have a lot to learn!
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 11, 20201 minTexas A&M pandemic expert: Coronavirus will have 5 stages: We're in stage 2Great article from Houston Chronicle interviewing Gerald Parker, Texas A&M expert on pandemics with government experience, describing wha...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 11, 20201 minCOVID antibody test shows German town 15% infectedArticle in Spectator USA: Interesting — in the next few months we should get a clearer picture of what % of us were exposed to the virus ...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 10, 20201 minPenn Today Article by Zeke Emanuel: Is US winning COVID-19 war?This article from Penn Today conveys the thoughts of Penn colleague Zeke Emanuel, one of the key authors of the Affordable Care Act, abou...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 9, 20201 minWhistleblower doctors say coronavirus infection may be even deadlierNY Post article: Just something to be careful and mindful of: as we get blood based antibody tests, many assume having the antibodies mea...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 8, 20202 minVentilators being overused for Covid-19?Article in STAT: I’ve seen a few reports and articles the past couple days that question the high level of ventilator use with advanced c...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 8, 20201 minFrench hospital reports HCQ cardiac eventThis article reports on a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in combination with other treatments, that was aptly monitoring cardiac to...
Jeffrey S. MorrisApr 7, 20201 minHold the Line: MetropoleNice article — we will see really bad news in rising incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths the next two weeks but this does not mean th...
