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Social distancing impacts other infectious diseases
September 11, 2020
Social distancing had a significant impact on each of the 12 commonly diagnosed infectious diseases analyzed.
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Dangers behind antimaskers and antivaxxers: How to combat both
September 10, 2020
Just as antivaxxers work to swing the opinion of the vaccine-hesitant, anti-maskers are vying with public health advocates for the support of the mask-hesitant, according to one physician.
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U.S. tops 500,000 COVID-19 cases in children
September 9, 2020
Milestone provides “a chilling reminder of why we need to take this virus seriously,” said the AAP president.
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Mounting data support COVID-19 acute pancreatitis
September 9, 2020
“It has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 has systemic effects that also includes the gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary systems,” the investigators wrote.
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Tools emerging to predict liver failure in cirrhosis
September 9, 2020
Systemic inflammation, with high levels of proteins, is one of the mechanisms that leads to organ failure.
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Deaths sky high in hospitalized COVID patients with kidney injury
September 9, 2020
“We may be facing an epidemic of post–COVID-19 kidney disease and that, in turn, could mean much greater numbers of patients who require kidney dialysis and even transplants.”
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Could these old drugs help fight COVID-19 and save lives?
September 9, 2020
“The beauty of a repurposed drug is that if you can get funding and start enrolling patients, you could potentially find out fairly quickly, as early as a few months, if that drug has an antiviral effect or not.”
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MIS-C cardiac evaluation requires more than EF
September 9, 2020
Children with COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome need a thorough coronary work-up to evaluate later-phase cardiac injury and dysfunction.
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Unexpected results in new COVID-19 ‘cytokine storm’ data
September 9, 2020
Circulating cytokine concentrations are lower in patients with COVID-19, compared with other diseases.
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Study: 10% of pregnant women test positive for COVID-19, with most asymptomatic
September 8, 2020
This study is based on ongoing living systematic reviews of the literature, in which information is posted in real time on the website.
