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A Weekly Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-19 Activity.

May 13, 2020 Kari Brisolara is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Louisiana State University. In this episode Kari discusses a review of current science that finds there is no eviden…

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Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as practised in some countries, does not eliminate the novel coronavirus and even poses a health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Saturday.In a

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Various members of the picornavirus family, adenovirus 2, papovavirus SV40, as well as rotaviruses were tested for inactivation of infectivity by hand…

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in patients with COVID-19 can lead to death but more than 50% of these cases are associated with co-infection with bacterial pathogens. …

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Deborah Birx’s comments come even as several governors said they were moving to relax some measures meant to stem the spread of the virus.

An over-the-counter disinfectant won't kill off the coronavirus unless you've cleaned it the proper way first.

The World Health Organization warned against "immunity passports," which allow travel only to recovered patients, saying studies must first confirm whether people are indeed safe from reinfection.

We also discuss the phenomenon of symptom-free cases — how many are there, do we know how much of a role they play in spreading the virus?

PubChem trial studies

A study shows the coronavirus doesn’t survive as long in hot, humid weather and under UV light.

Dear Editor, Recent clinical guidelines regarding the use of home non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) during the COVID-19 epidemic have tried to balance the risks of stopping NIV or CPAP against the unknown potential risk of increased aerosol-related transmission to family and carers.1 2 We read with interest views put forward by Barker et al 3 but feel that wider aspects need consideration, and for NIV and CPAP separately. NIV use: NIV is primarily used for those with previous, or at risk from, hypercapnic respiratory failure (neuromuscular disorde...

“This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is dangerous,” said Craig Spencer, an emergency room doctor in New York.

The global coronavirus pandemic has brought countries around the world to a standstill. Here's the latest updates on worldwide Covid-19 cases, deaths, government responses, and more.

Perhaps some places in the country might be able to reopen earlier than others.

An acute respiratory disease, caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, previously known as 2019-nCoV), the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread throughout China and received worldwide attention. On 30 January 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the COVID-19 epidemic as a public health emergency of international concern. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2, since the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2002 and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012, marked the third introduction of a highly pathogenic and large-scale epidemic coronavirus into the human population in the twenty-first century. As of 1 March 2020, a total of 87,137 confirmed cases globally, 79,968 confirmed in China and 7169 outside of China, with 2977 deaths (3.4%) had been reported by WHO. Meanwhile, several independent research groups have identified that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to β-coronavirus, with highly identical genome to bat coronavirus, pointing to bat as the natural host. The novel coronavirus uses the same receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as that for SARS-CoV, and mainly spreads through the respiratory tract. Importantly, increasingly evidence showed sustained human-to-human transmission, along with many exported cases across the globe. The clinical symptoms of COVID-19 patients include fever, cough, fatigue and a small population of patients appeared gastrointestinal infection symptoms. The elderly and people with underlying diseases are susceptible to infection and prone to serious outcomes, which may be associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and cytokine storm. Currently, there are few specific antiviral strategies, but several potent candidates of antivirals and repurposed drugs are under urgent investigation. In this review, we summarized the latest research progress of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical characteristics of COVID-19, and discussed the current treatment and scientific advancements to combat the epidemic novel coronavirus.

Objective To systematically review evidence for the effectiveness of physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.Data extraction Search strategy of the Cochrane Library, Medline, OldMedline, Embase, and CINAHL, without ...