In a sample of 1200 patients with respiratory symptoms in California, 21% of nasopharyngeal swab specimens that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 also tested positive for other respiratory pathogens, like … Read More
Researchers in France examined the medical records of 84 patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen who received hydroxychloroquine (600 mg daily) and 97 similar patients who did not get the … Read More
In JAMA, authors review various treatment options for COVID-19 and lay out the evidence as it currently exists. No therapies have yet been proven effective, but they assert that remdesivir … Read More
NEJM correspondence on incident command center Physicians from a hospital in the New York City metro area describe their experience in creating an incident command center for COVID-19. They write: … Read More
NEJM correspondence on universal screening at delivery In areas with high rates of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), universal testing for SARS-CoV-2 in pregnant women admitted for delivery could identify many … Read More
Fan Wu*, Aojie Wang, Mei Liu, Qimin Wang, Jun Chen, Shuai Xia, Yun Ling, Yuling Zhang, Jingna Xun, Lu Lu, Shibo Jiang, Hongzhou Lu, Yumei Wen, Jinghe Huang* Shanghai … Read More
Case Report: Combination immunosuppression in critical COVID-19 cytokine storm syndromeS. Thomas Yadegar, MD and Shahin Delkhah, MDProvidence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center Date of Presentation: March 22, 2020 NEJM360 Case … Read More
Mauricio Mora-Ramírez MD; Guadalupe D. Elguea-López MD; Paulina Melgoza-Hernández MD; Juan Manuel Mejía Aranguré MD, PhD. Department of Internal Medicine; Hospital General de Zona 8 IMSS, Mexico City, Mexico. … Read More
Philippe Courtet, MD, PhDa,b,c,*; Emilie Olié, MD, PhDa,b,c; Christophe Debien, MDd,e; and Guillaume Vaiva, MD, PhDd,e Until the beginning of 2020, we believed that our modern societies had replaced … Read More
The SARS-CoV-2 virus might infect a patient’s nervous system and skeletal muscle, according to a retrospective case series of roughly 200 patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, published in … Read More
