This case series showed convalescent plasma was well tolerated and has potential to improve the clinical outcomes of severe COVID-19 cases. The optimal dose and timing, as well as the true clinical benefit, needs further study in larger well-controlled trials.
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This review discussed how clinical decision scores can be used to make decisions about ICU care in the COVID-19 pandemic and tests three scores in the current environment. It’s very possible that the COVID-19 pandemic may overwhelm healthcare resources in
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This report from the team of experts that published the earlier Road Map to Reopening report describes the core capabilities and processes states need to build to allow our response to be more granular than the current, broadly applied institutional
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This article offers health care providers evidence-based principles for communicating with sick patients during a community health crisis. Communication challenges with sick patients have been exacerbated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Health care providers are facing patients with extreme levels of
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This paper outlines that COVID-19 circulated cryptically and was undetected 4-6 weeks before the first community transmission case was detected at Seattle. Mass testing will enable public health officials to detect and track these under-detected community cases. Following its emergence
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This study describes the use of pooled screening strategies to detect early community transmission of COVID-19. COVID-19 has shown us the importance of robust diagnostic testing. Given the limited testing capacity available in the US, people symptoms, but without travel
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This review article details important considerations in providing critical care to patients with COVID-19. Initial reports gave us reason to believe that about 5% of proven infections required critical care. Given how infectious the virus is, critical care will be
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In this Australian news article, health care providers demand government officials to provide consistent information related to COVID-19. Other countries can learn from the ineffectiveness of the inconsistent messages Australian government leaders and public health officials have been disseminating. General
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This forthcoming article from the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine argues that, in allocating scarce resources, determining a patient’s potential to benefit from treatment should rely on a structured, evidence-based, and global assessment of frailty that accounts for more than
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This study describes the development the COVID-19 Symptom Tracker mobile application launched in the UK on March 24, 2020 and the US on March 29, 2020 that has more than 2.25 million users to date. The rapid pace of the
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