International

This review article provides ED clinicians with recommendations for the evaluation and management of patients presenting with suspected COVID-19. Care for potentially infected patients in the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic requires significant consideration, as the virus is primarily Read More

This systematic review of prediction models for COVID-19 showed that while they are quickly entering the academic literature and are urgently needed, most are poorly reported, at high risk of bias, and their reported performance is probably optimistic. Authors reviewed Read More

This systematic review showed that quarantine is important in reducing incidence and mortality with respect to COVID-19, and that early implementation it with other public health measures is important to ensure effectiveness. The Cochrane Collaboration conducted a rapid review to Read More

This panel report contains five main and three additional recommendations intended to help medical practitioners use CXR and CT in the management of COVID-19. While mild cases of COVID-19 appear like other common upper respiratory viral infections, more severe cases Read More

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 Read More

This systematic review and meta-analysis found that low certainty evidence suggests that medical masks and N95 respirators offer similar protection against viral respiratory infection in health care workers conducting non-aerosol generating care. Preservation of N95 respirators for high-risk, aerosol-generating procedures Read More

This study was a meta-analysis of the current scientific literature that finds that hypertension is associated with an up to 2.5-fold higher risk of severe and fatal COVID-19, especially in older individuals. As amazing as it is, there are enough Read More

This report details why cruises are at significant risk for outbreaks, and no one should be going on one during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 30 million people travel on 272 cruise ships each year worldwide. Cruise ships are a closed Read More