Vitamin D can help reduce coronavirus risk by 54%: Boston University doctor The sunshine vitamin is easy to find and relatively cheap By Alexi Cohan | Boston Herald PUBLISHED: September 17, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. | UPDATED: January 4, 2021 at 7:34 p.m. SUDBURY, MA: September 16, 2020: Dr. Michael Holick holds Vitamin D […]
Researchers claim SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant likely to become globally dominant By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD The new variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) detected in England replicates more than two times faster than the earlier strains according to new research. This replication advantage promises to make it the dominant global variant very […]
Certain COVID-19 Serology/Antibody Tests Should Not Be Used – Letter to Clinical Laboratory Staff and Health Care Providers The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that clinical laboratories and health care providers stop using COVID-19 antibody tests that are listed on FDA’s “removed” test list, found on the FDA’s FAQs on Testing for […]
Latest COVID-19 antibody detection with ‘Gold Standard’ results The current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has created an urgent need for rapid point-of-care diagnostic tools. Many of these tests are being developed and are achieving FDA approval. In the face of a sweeping pandemic, assays should require no specialized equipment and should have rapid and easy-to-read visual results. […]
The Lancet Volume 8, ISSUE 12, P1167-1168, December 01, 2020 False-positive COVID-19 results: hidden problems and costs Elena Surkova Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy Francis Drobniewski Published: September 29, 2020, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30453-7 RT-PCR tests to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA are the operational gold standard for detecting COVID-19 disease in clinical practice. RT-PCR […]
Doctors try to untangle why they’re seeing ‘unprecedented’ blood clotting among Covid-19 patients By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Updated 0450 GMT (1250 HKT) April 22, 2020 Dr. Kathryn Hibbert’s Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit was not doing well. As his blood pressure plummeted, she tried to insert an intravenous line into an […]
“We’re saving lives with this, one hundred percent.” by Victor Tangermann Healthcare workers are finding that flipping COVID-19 patients onto their stomachs, or “prone positioning,” is an effective way to keep them alive in intensive care, according to CNN. “We’re saving lives with this, one hundred percent,” Mangala Narasimhan, regional director for critical care at […]
Statistics and Research: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) by Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell Confirmed CoVid-19 deaths 1. What is the total number of confirmed deaths? This chart shows the total confirmed deaths from COVID-19 over time. What is important to note about these death figures? • the reported death figures on a […]
Shunqing Xu Yuanyuan Li Published: April 08, 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30845-X The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which began in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, has spread to 203 countries as of March 30, 2020, and has been officially declared a global pandemic. (1) With unprecedented public health interventions, local transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome […]
Jean-Paul Moatti Open Access Published: April 07, 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30087-6 Faced with criticisms, French authorities claim that their policy towards the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has been evidence-based—they appointed an advisory board of 11 scientists to help manage the crisis. However, in situations where decision makers face radical uncertainty, sticking to conventional […]