A study of home healthcare workers (HCWs) in New York City published today in JAMA Internal Medicine found that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated challenges they already faced as a critical yet vulnerable and marginalized workforce at high risk for coronavirus infection.  Led by researchers at Cornell University in a partnership with the 1199 Service Employees International Union, [...]

As the nation continues to grapple with COVID-19, Robert Redfield, MD, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned US parents today that children will likely also be at increased risk this year for acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, a mysterious, polio-like illness that seems to cause outbreaks in the United [...]

Hong Kong researchers who tested 68 respiratory specimens from 35 COVID-19 patients, of whom 32 had mild illness, found that live virus and evidence of viral replication were rarely detectable beyond 8 days after symptom onset but that viral RNA was detectable for many weeks using RT-PCR. The study, published today in Emerging Infectious Diseases, involved isolating viable [...]

Question  Do ophthalmologists run the risk of encountering individuals who are asymptomatically carrying severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) when maintaining elective examinations during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic? Finding  In this quality improvement study of samples from 1 examination room, slitlamp breath shield and phoropter surface samples were analyzed by real-time polymerase chain reaction. [...]

Growing clusters of Covid-19  infections at two wet markets have sparked fears of wider outbreaks in Hong Kong similar to ones in Wuhan and Beijing, as the city reported another 80 coronavirus  cases on Tuesday and four more deaths. Health officials and an infectious disease expert made comparisons between fish stalls in Hung Hom and [...]

“Social Precluding via Broadly Using the Appropriate Simple Face Shields by the General Public” BRIEF: “Social Precluding (Social Barricading)”, via broadly using the appropriate simple face shields (even homemade) by the general public, can have a determining role in helping to preclude the severe infection and sepsis by New Coronavirus. It can also be useful [...]

Abstract Understanding the pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection is critical for therapeutic and public health strategies. Viral–host interactions can guide discovery of disease regulators, and protein structure function analysis points to several immune pathways, including complement and coagulation, as targets of coronaviruses. To determine whether conditions associated with dysregulated complement or coagulation systems impact disease, we [...]

The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran’s government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation has found. The government’s own records appear to show almost 42,000 people died with Covid-19 symptoms up to 20 July, versus 14,405 reported by its health ministry. The number of people known to be infected [...]

Anthony Fauci, MD, White House advisor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on July 29 that wearing goggles or eye shields in addition to a mask might be advisable. During an interview on Instagram Live with ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Jennifer Ashton, MD, Fauci explained that people have [...]

Hong Kong will build at least two temporary hospitals for Covid-19  patients and expand existing makeshift facilities with the help of mainland Chinese experts deployed to the city, adding as many as 2,400 beds to capacity, the Post has learned. The plans, which include an up to tenfold rise in daily coronavirus testing, were revealed on [...]