This report from STAT discusses how, to move toward suppression of COVID-19 in the United States, financially strapped state and local public health agencies nationwide will need to hire potentially hundreds of thousands of fieldworkers to conduct the labor-intensive work
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This analysis by leading health law and bioethics scholar Hank Greeley examines challenges with using “immunity cards,” “immunity certificates,” “Covid passports” or other such devices as part of the process of “reopening” society before robust treatments and/or effective vaccines become
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This article describes statewide initiatives launched in Illinois to reach vulnerable populations and keep noncritical cases out of their hospitals. On Saturday, the Illinois governor announced the launch of several statewide initiatives leveraging telehealth capacity to reach community-based individuals with
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This systematic review showed that diarrhea is a presenting symptom of patients with COVID-19, and raises concerns of continued fecal-oral transmission after respiratory symptoms have resolved. Researchers noted an increasing number of reports of diarrhea related to COVID-19. They conducted
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In this opinion piece, physicians provide suggestions for leaders to support health care professionals based on their experience and direct requests from other health care providers. To support health care professionals so that they are able to provide the best
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This review discusses why prisons are a special concern during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers thoughts on how to proceed. Prisons are epicenters for outbreaks because of a higher background prevalence of infection, more risk factors for infection, unavoidable close
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This preliminary case series of patients hospitalized with severe Covid-19 who were treated with compassionate-use remdesivir found that 68% showed clinical improvement. Ongoing randomized, placebo-controlled trials of remdesivir therapy should be followed. Clinicians provided remdesivir on a compassionate-use basis to
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This study showed that a series of multifaceted public health interventions was temporally associated with improved control of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. In this cohort study of 32,538 confirmed COVID-19 infections, researchers evaluated the association of public health
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This article reports on the development of two sets of ethical allocation guidelines in Australia for a public health emergency in which resources must be rationed. One approach, led by bioethicist Angus Dawson, rejects the use of strict allocation formulas
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This op-ed describes ways that existing guidance for rationing scarce resources in response to COVID-19 case surge may be discriminatory towards persons with disabilities and reflect harmful stereotypes. The author cites recent resource allocation guidance from the British Medical Association
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