Review: Disability and rationing of care amid COVID-19
This blog from the Petrie-Flom Center’s Bill of Health argues that many state guidelines for the rationing of scarce resources [...]
Review: Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19
This study makes the case that a lot of disease transmission occurs before symptoms occur in index cases, and disease [...]
Review: Association between platelet parameters and mortality in coronavirus disease 2019: Retrospective cohort study
This study found that baseline platelet levels and changes in levels were associated with subsequent mortality. This study explored the [...]
Review: “Reserve system” could help to address COVID-19 ventilator crisis
This press release summarizes findings from a report generated by a team of economists that advances a reserve system approach [...]
Review: Federation of State Medical Boards posts resource on state changes to telemedicine licensure requirements for COVID-19
This analysis of state laws shows that 43 out of 51 jurisdictions (including Washington DC) have amended their state medical [...]
Review: Hospitalization rates and characteristics of patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1–30, 2020
Population-based rates of laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)–associated hospitalizations are lacking in the United States. This CDC report describes the [...]
Review: The role of YouTube and the entertainment industry in saving lives during COVID-19
This article discusses the role of YouTube and the entertainment industry in saving lives by educating and mobilizing the public [...]
Review: COVID-19 and African Americans
This Viewpoint discusses the long history of racial inequities that cause black populations in US cities to bear a disproportionate [...]
Review: Rates of co-infection between SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens
This study describes the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 co-infection with noncoronavirus respiratory pathogens in a sample of symptomatic patients undergoing PCR [...]
Review: Predictive mathematical models of the COVID-19 pandemic
This Viewpoint discusses the challenges of accurately modeling the COVID-19 pandemic and reviews principles that will make some models more [...]