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CDC - Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWe analyzed reports for 59,073 contacts of 5,706 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) index patients reported in South Korea during January 20–March 27, 2020. Of 10,592 household contacts, 11.8% had COVID-19....

NEJM - Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 — Preliminary Report

The New England Journal of MedicineCoronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is associated with diffuse lung damage. Glucocorticoids may modulate inflammation-mediated lung injury and thereby reduce progression to respiratory failure and death.

JAMA - Factors Associated With Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the US

JAMA NetworkThis study identified demographic, clinical, and hospital-level factors associated with death in critically ill patients with COVID-19 that may be used to facilitate the identification of medications and supportive therapies that can...

NEJM - An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report

The New England Journal of MedicineThe severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in late 2019 and spread globally, prompting an international effort to accelerate development of a vaccine. The candidate vaccine...

WHO - Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: implications for infection prevention precautions

World Health OrganizationThis document is an update to the scientific brief published on 29 March 2020 entitled “Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for infection prevention and control (IPC) precaution recommendations”...

WHO - How to use WHO risk assessment and mitigation checklist for mass gatherings in the context of COVID-19

World Health OrganizationThis document provides a COVID-19 risk assessment and mitigation checklist for use by host countries and mass gathering organizers. It also includes an operational tool which offers guidance for organizers holding...

DGS - Prevenção e Controlo de Infeção por SARS-CoV-2: Blocos Operatórios e Procedimentos Cirúrgicos

Norma da Direção-Geral da SaúdeConsiderando a reorganização dos recursos humanos e materiais afetos à prestação de cuidados de saúde no sistema de saúde e no Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) para dar resposta à avaliação e tratamento dos doentes...

DGS - Populações em Situação de Maior Vulnerabilidade Social e Económica

Orientação da Direção-Geral da SaúdeDurante uma Pandemia e considerando o perfil clínico e epidemiológico da infeção pelo novo coronavírus (SARS-CoV-2), agente causador da COVID-19, é necessário uma particular atenção para as pessoas mais...

BMJ Journals - Children are not COVID-19 super spreaders: time to go back to school

Since the first reports of SARS-CoV-2 infections in China, doctors, parents and policy-makers have been aware that COVID-19 is 'not just another respiratory virus' in children.

THE LANCET - Intensive care admissions of children with paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in the UK: a multicentre observational study

In April, 2020, clinicians in the UK observed a cluster of children with unexplained inflammation requiring admission to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs). We aimed to describe the clinical characteristics, course, management, and outcomes...

JAMA - School Superintendents Confront COVID-19—“There Are No Good Options for Next Year”

JAMA NetworkEnfield is the superintendent of Highline Public Schools, which serves more than 17 000 students in suburban Seattle. She’s been losing sleep over how to prevent those students—who haven’t been inside a classroom since March 12—from...

JAMA - Pathophysiology, Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

JAMA NetworkThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, due to the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused a worldwide sudden and substantial increase in hospitalizations for pneumonia with multiorgan...

NATURE - OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients

COVID-19 has rapidly affected mortality worldwide. There is unprecedented urgency to understand who is most at risk of severe outcomes, requiring new approaches for timely analysis of large datasets.

BMJ - Reduction of secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in households by face mask use, disinfection and social distancing: a cohort study in Beijing, China

The British Medical JournalTransmission of COVID-19 within families and close contacts accounts for the majority of epidemic growth. Community mask wearing, hand washing and social distancing are thought to be effective but there is little...

BMJ - Diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis

The British Medical Journal

To determine the diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for coronavirus disease-2019 (covid-19).