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The pandemic has exposed massive cracks in the foundations of the U.S. public health system. Getting the country back to normal, experts say, will require a major investment in Public Health 101: t…
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About this question, too, decisions with great consequences are being made, as they must be, based on only glimmers of data.
About this question, too, decisions with great consequences are being made, as they must be, based on only glimmers of data.
Massachusetts grocery store and supermarket workers can now get free coronavirus testing as the state ramps up preparations and activates more National Guard personnel ahead of the “very diff…
Nearly 60 percent of people on board a cruise ship that was sailing toward Antarctica have been diagnosed with coronavirus.
Biogen employees unwittingly spread the coronavirus from Massachusetts to Indiana, Tennessee and North Carolina.
We’ve seen what happens when people with immunity to a deadly disease are given special treatment. It isn’t pretty.
“How can we assess the total number of #SARSCoV2 infections that have occurred up to this point? As others have noted, it's not easy to extrapolate from confirmed cases to total infections. Some thoughts here, but no real answers. 1/9”
It starts with good detective work. It requires a White House willing to listen.
Concerns grow that by downplaying threat, Brazil’s president risks public health crisis
On Easter Sunday (April 12, 2020), by invitation of the City and of the Duomo cathedral of Milan, Italian global music icon Andrea Bocelli gave a solo perfor...
Considering the history and science behind making these drugs, âa year to 18 months would be absolutely unprecedented,â one expert warns.
Historically, disease outbreaks have happened at a time of social inequality and discord, says science journalist Laura Spinney
Identifying changes in the reproduction number, rate of spread, and doubling time during the course of the COVID-19 outbreak whilst accounting for potential biases due to delays in case reporting both nationally and subnationally in the United States of America. These results are impacted by changes in testing effort, increases and decreases in testing effort will increase and decrease reproduction number estimates respectively (see Methods for further explanation).
The appearance and spread of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) led to the official declaration of a global pandemic, with states in the US implementing shelter in place orders at an unprecedented scale. SARS-CoV-2 has a robust person-to-person transmission rate and an asymptomatic period of two weeks or more, leading to widespread infection that has overwhelmed healthcare infrastructures around the globe. Effective public health measures require extensive, a...
BACKGROUND Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 are routinely collected by health care workers, putting them at risk of infection and requiring use of personal protective equipment (PPE). Self-collected swabs offer many advantages provided detection rate of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses is not compromised. METHODS In a prospective study, patients attending dedicated COVID-19 collection clinics were offered the option to first self-collect (SC) nasal and throat swabs prior to health worker collecti...
BCG, a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis, is in the news, raising hopes for the COVID-19 pandemic. But existing ecological studies have serious limitations. Randomized trials are urgently needed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven use of the words "kit" and "reagent". I completely feel for you if you still have no real idea of what is meant by the labels in any given story.
With April edging forward and warmer weather enticing people to go outside, the hard truth is that no one really knows when life will begin to return to normal, or what that will even look like in the first few halting weeks.
Tests that reveal whether someone has been infected with the coronavirus are on their way. But they’re not perfect. Here’s what you need to know.
Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.
People got sick — and some died — after attending crowded parties and theme parks in Florida as the coronavirus spread.
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 has already caused over 50,000 deaths, infected a million people worldwide, triggered massive economic disruption and changed how the entire world moves and interacts. The race to find a vaccine to prevent this disease is on.
“If people saw this, they would stay home.” What the war against the coronavirus looks like inside two Bronx hospitals.
An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.
New York City (NYC) has emerged as one of the epicenters of the current SARS-CoV2 pandemic. To identify the early events underlying the rapid spread of the virus in the NYC metropolitan area, we sequenced the virus causing COVID19 in patients seeking care at one of the hospitals of the Mount Sinai Health System. Phylogenetic analysis of 84 distinct SARS-CoV2 genomes indicates multiple, independent but isolated introductions mainly from Europe and other parts of the United States. Moreover, we...
Background In classical mathematical epidemiology, individuals do not adapt their contact behavior during epidemics. They do not endogenously engage, for example, in social distancing based on fear. Yet, adaptive behavior is well-documented in true epidemics. We explore the effect of including such behavior in models of epidemic dynamics. Methodology/Principal Findings Using both nonlinear dynamical systems and agent-based computation, we model two interacting contagion processes: one of dis...
Grein et al. just published a case series of patients with COVID-19 treated with remdesivir via a compassionate use program. I’ve been expecting
Travelers seeded multiple cases starting as early as mid-February, genomes show.
COVID-19 affected every facet of a Grand Blanc woman's grief as she deals with the virus-related deaths of her husband and only child
Blood samples from healthy volunteers needed to inform public health decision making.
The most difficult thing for an epidemiological model to predict: human behavior.
Deaths from all causes have surged, undermining arguments that coronavirus numbers have been overblown.
An infectious-disease expert’s long crusade against some of humanity’s most virulent threats.
