COVID-19 does not easily spread via contaminated surfaces, CDC says
New report from CDC suggests that COVID primarily spreads person-to-person through respiratory droplets, and that contaminated surfaces...
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New report from CDC suggests that COVID primarily spreads person-to-person through respiratory droplets, and that contaminated surfaces...
Science magazine discusses a paper just published in Cell describes a study that shows CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells in the immune system of...
Here is an interesting report presenting a state-by-state count of nursing home mortality. It shows that across all states, >53% of all...
An interesting article in the NY Times makes the claim that much of the SARS-CoV-2 spread in the USA relates back to an outbreak in NYC...
Worldometers.info that provides real-time statistics about world population and other things put up a description of how they are...
Nice paper in Science reporting estimates of proportion of infected, hospitalized, ICU, and death rate in France, split out by age and...
A JAMA paper was just published that reports results from a large observational cohort study in NYC area. The first author is Eli...
A recent article was posted on line (not peer reviewed yet) from late last month performing an epidemiological model based analysis...
A Mount Sinai study published in the American Journal of Cardiology demonstrates that hospitalized patients given blood thinners have...
This medRxiv paper (not peer reviewed yet) presents a cohort study of >17 million medical records that includes >5500 COVID-19 related...
This treatment is so controversial. Too bad the president pushed it so hard and oversold it, but I think we have to be careful not to...
This German study using blood antibody tests of a random sample of residents in a German town estimated that the true case rate is about...
Regeneron and Sanofi provided interim update in randomized phase 2/3 trial of Kevzara, and IL6-inhibitor. They decided moving forward to...
NIH reports results from an interim data analysis from a large randomized trial of remdesivir. Some specifics: * The trial is called the...
Great website that summarizes all the ongoing clinical trials internationally on covid-19. Very handy source!
The US Department of Homeland Security has done a laboratory study "mimicking natural sunlight" and suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 does not...
A collaborative review of the emerging COVID-19 literature and ongoing chat Great idea!
NY Times article report on progress of an Oxford group, one of many rapidly developing potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Their results were...
Report has emerged of results from a randomized clinical trial of immune modulators designed to block the cytokine storm that can lead to...
Article in Sciencemag.org This article describes newly reported efforts to study famotidine, the active compound in OTC heartburn drug...