Review: Hospitalization and mortality among black patients and white patients with COVID-19
This retrospective cohort study found that 76.9% of the patients who were hospitalized with Covid-19 and 70.6% of those who [...]
Review: From guidance to practice: Promoting risk communication and community engagement for prevention and control of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in China
This perspective suggests integrating risk communication and community engagement to address the COVID-19 pandemic. By studying the communication in China [...]
Ethics, Law & Policy Roundup: Space, Staff, and Supplies
TESTING: Tennessee is taking a bold approach to testing for COVID-19, making testing available to any person who wants it, [...]
Review: Communicating about COVID-19: Practices for today, planning for tomorrow
This editorial provides technical communicators with suggestions to make meaningful and effective communication materials to help local communities during the [...]
Review: Social media: Friend or foe in the COVID-19 pandemic?
This commentary provides recommendations for using social media effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic. Disseminating accurate and timely information is crucial [...]
Review: Acute cerebral stroke with multiple infarctions and COVID-19, France, 2020
This case series described two patients who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 who had thrombotic strokes during ongoing anti-coagulation treatment for [...]
Review: Association of stay-at-home orders with COVID-19 hospitalizations in 4 states
This study uses state public health department data to describe trends in COVID-19 hospitalizations before and after state executive stay-at-home [...]
Review: Prognostic value of C-reactive protein in patients with COVID-19
This study found that admission C-reactive protein (CRP) correlated with disease severity and tended to be a good predictor of [...]
Review: Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among patients admitted for childbirth in southern Connecticut
This study describes the prevalence of positive SARS-CoV-2 test results among asymptomatic pregnant women presenting for labor and delivery at [...]
Review: Universal and serial laboratory testing for SARS-CoV-2 at a long-term care skilled nursing facility for veterans — Los Angeles, California, 2020
This report describes how universal, serial reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction testing of residents in a long-term care skilled nursing facility [...]