Containment of a Large SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Among Healthcare Workers in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit #PedsICU
By Knoll, Rebecca Luise
https://t.co/Int9HsA5Up
Pediatric COVID🚨: NYC issues alert on “Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome Potentially Associated with #COVID19”
➡️ Fifteen cases compatible with multi-system inflammatory syndrome have been identified in children in New York City hospitals. 🧵
https://t.co/mEevU7MboU
NEW #LancetVoice Podcast🎧: Our Editors discuss using plasma from recovered patients as a treatment for #COVID19, with special guest Prof Liise-Anne Pirofski of @EinsteinMed https://t.co/fAsislhnZa
NEW Podcast🎧: In a special episode of #LancetVoice, our Editors speak to front-line obstetricians and neonatologists from China, Switzerland, and the UK about how their approach to handling pregnancy and #COVID19 has evolved https://t.co/dDdB9q2t0P
To access webinar recordings, response documents, patient guidelines, and other ASTCT resources, visit the COVID-19 Resource Community Library. https://t.co/fZZ8iju2pe
More on potential of BCG’s off-target effects to reduce impact of #COVID19. We are about to start an RCT in Australia.
Can a century-old TB vaccine steel the immune system against the new coronavirus? https://t.co/xJtc2NH1aE
New research Article: Clinical and epidemiological features of 36 children with coronavirus disease 2019 (#COVID19) in Zhejiang, China: an observational cohort study https://t.co/tHEHJM9Ing
Register now for ASTCT's Town Hall Webinar: COVID-19, taking place today from 2-3 p.m. CDT. ASTCT President, Dr. Pavan Reddy, will be joined by Dr. Alpana Waghmare and Dr. Roy Chemaly from the Infectious Disease SIG. https://t.co/qCujxfpRvR #COVID19
UV disinfection of N95 masks: good study of repeated UV. First, past studies show “UVGI on respirator appearance, fit, airflow resistance, and filtration efficiency after 1-3 decontamination cycles and have found no sig effects”. But >3? 🧵 #COVID19 https://t.co/Oz9xCxZcUa
6) Here is @ElsevierConnect’s previous pledge to make all #COVID19 studies open access. Why did they go back on their word? If accident they need to unlock quickly. This is now one of the most talked about papers. https://t.co/VTRdS8NuMy
Join @TheEBMT for Friday's Update on COVID-19 webinar, that will cover: a short intro, what is currently known about the virus, prevention strategies focusing on transplanted patient & donors, treatment options & practical consideration. Register here: https://t.co/gp3xbggByx
A retrospective analysis of routine surveillance data involving children hospitalized in Wuhan, China, for acute lower respiratory infection in early January 2020 revealed six cases of #COVID19. Authors report clinical characteristics of disease in children and laboratory data.
Friends!
Please wash your hands.
Please stay at home.
The best advice I read about #Corona today was about changing our mindset: instead of trying not to get infected, we should assume we ARE infected and do everything so we don’t transmit it to somebody else.
Children infected with the #COVID19 outbreak coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, show mild symptoms but prolonged shedding of viral RNA in feces, suggesting that the fecal–oral route might play a role in virus transmission #CORONAVIRUS
https://t.co/e9MhsaONI5
I’m NERVOUS again- about young adults. Korea’s pop wide #COVID19 tests have revealed something scary: YOUNG PEOPLE are leading carriers. (Italy only tests the rather sick, biases to old people). If the socially active age20-29 truly carry 30% of all cases— that means trouble! 😨