This article compares the ventilator allocation policies of hospitals that are associated with members of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD), finding that at the time of survey over half of these hospitals did not have a ventilator triage
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This study of olfactory impairment suggests the resulting COVID-19 disease is more likely to be mild to moderate, a potential early indicator that could help health care providers determine which patients may require hospitalization. The authors conducted a retrospective review
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A new study shows that hospitalizations, ventilators, and other health resources that patients would require could cost the United States $654 billion if 80% of the population gets infected with COVID-19. With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, one of
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This report describes an investigation of coronavirus disease 2019 in residents and staff members from homeless shelters in four U.S. cities between March 27 and April 15, 2020. The authors performed reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction testing at commercial and public
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This case series reports the characteristics, clinical presentation, and outcomes of patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the New York City area between March 1, 2020, and April 4, 2020. The authors examined data from 5700 patients with
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This large case series provides characteristics and early outcomes of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in the NYC area. Researchers described the clinical characteristics and outcomes of 5700 patients with COVID-19 admitted to 12 hospitals in the NYC area. All were
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This modeling study of Utah found that handing the pandemic like South Korea versus Italy had a 3-month variation in pandemic length, a 1.5-fold difference in the peak number of daily infections, and a 3-fold difference in the total cumulative
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This article reports on the California Department of Public Health’s newly released guidelines for allocating scarce resources if necessary due to case surge related to COVID-19. The guidance includes discussion of: Continuum of care (conventional, contingency, crisis); Roles and responsibilities;
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This paper employed a segmented Poisson model to analyze the available daily new cases data of the COVID-19 outbreaks in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, UK and USA. Their model predicts that the USA will have the most confirmed cases in
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This article demonstrated the power of Twitter for world leaders to rapidly and directly communicate public health information about COVID-19 to citizens. By analyzing tweets from Group of Seven (G7) world leaders, researchers concluded that Twitter can be a powerful
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