Published Research | March 2020

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March 31, 2020

  1. The Lancet Patients who had the poorest outcomes from COVID-19 infection were those who were older, showed signs of sepsis, and/or had blood clotting disorders.
  2. JAMA Significant number of critically ill COVID-19 patients developed septic shock and organ dysfunction, such as kidney injury
  3. Covid-19 in Critically Ill Patients in the Seattle Region — Case Series – NEJM
  4. Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis – Lancet
  5. SARS-CoV-2 Testing: Trials and Tribulations – Oxford Academic

March 30, 2020

  1. Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for IPC precaution recommendations – WHO
  2. Structural basis of receptor recognition by SARS-CoV-2 – Nature
  3. Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain bound to the ACE2 receptor – Nature
  4. SARS-CoV-2–Positive Sputum and Feces After Conversion of Pharyngeal Samples in Patients With COVID-19 – Annals of Internal Medicine
  5. The First 75 Days of Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Outbreak: Recent Advances, Prevention, and Treatment – Environmental Research and Public Health
  6. Identifying SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins – Nature

March 27, 2020

  1. SARS-CoV-2 viral load and the severity of COVID-19 – CEBM
  2. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine: Current evidence for their effectiveness in treating COVID-19 – CEBM
  3. Management of Critically Ill Adults With COVID-19 – JAMA
  4. Antibodies in Infants Born to Mothers With COVID-19 Pneumonia – JAMA
  5. Temperature, Humidity and Latitude Analysis to Predict Potential Spread and Seasonality for COVID-19 – SSRN DB
  6. With COVID-19, modeling takes on life and death importance – Science

March 26, 2020

  1. Association of Cardiac Injury With Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in Wuhan, China – JAMA
  2. Characteristics and Outcomes of 21 Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 in Washington State – JAMA
  3. Eleven Faces of Coronavirus Disease 2019 – European Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
  4. Early Introduction of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 into Europe – Emerging Infectious Diseases
  5. The clinical characteristics of pneumonia patients co‐infected with 2019 novel coronavirus and influenza virus in Wuhan, China – Journal of Medical Virology
  6. The Possible Immunological Pathways for the Variable Immunopathogenesis of COVID—19 Infections among Healthy Adults, Elderly and Children – Electronic Journal of General Medicine/UK

March 25, 2020

  1. Treating COVID-19—Off-Label Drug Use, Compassionate Use, and Randomized Clinical Trials During Pandemics – JAMA
  2. Lung Recruitability in SARS-CoV-2 Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Single-center, Observational Study. – Respiratory Critical Care
  3. Interventions to mitigate early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore: a modelling study – Lancet
  4. The first infant case of COVID-19 acquired from a secondary transmission in Vietnam – Lancet

March 24, 2020

  1. Case-Fatality Rate and Characteristics of Patients Dying in Relation to COVID-19 in Italy – JAMA
  2. Temporal profiles of viral load in posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples and serum antibody responses during infection by SARS-CoV-2: an observational cohort study – Lancet
  3. A review of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) based on current evidence – Intl Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

March 23, 2020

  1. A Retrospective Analysis of Influence of Environmental/Air Temperature and Relative Humidity on SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak – Virology
  2. Molecular Analyses of Over Hundred Sixty Clinical Isolates of SARS-CoV-2: Insights on Likely Origin, Evolution and Spread, and Possible Intervention – Virology
  3. Hypothesis: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers may increase the risk of severe COVID-19 – Journal of Travel Medicine
  4. Genomic analysis of a 2019-nCoV strain in the first COVID-19 patient found in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
  5. Early Clinical and CT Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia – American Journal of Roentgenology
  6. Clinical outcome of 55 asymptomatic cases at the time of hospital admission infected with SARS-Coronavirus-2 in Shenzhen, China – Journal of Infectious Diseases

March 20, 2020

  1. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Types of Clinical Specimens – JAMA
  2. Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 – NEJM
  3. Facing Covid-19 in Italy — Ethics, Logistics, and Therapeutics on the Epidemic’s Front Line – NEJM
  4. Epidemiology of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease-19 in Gansu Province, China, 2020 – Emerging Infectious Diseases
  5. Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) – Science
  6. Network-based drug repurposing for novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2 – Nature/Cell Discovery
  7. Rapidly increasing cumulative incidence of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the European Union/European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, 1 January to 15 March 2020 – Eurosurveillance

March 19, 2020

  1. A Trial of Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Adults Hospitalized with Severe Covid-19 – NEJM
  2. [Editorial] SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children – NEJM
  3. ACE2 Is the SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Required for Cell Entry – NEJM JournalWatch

March 18, 2020

  1. Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand – Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team
  2. Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) – Science
  3. Breadth of concomitant immune responses prior to patient recovery: a case report of non-severe COVID-19 – Nature
  4. Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 – NEJM

March 16, 2020

  1. [letter to editor] Genetic evolution analysis of 2019 novel coronavirus and coronavirus from other species – Infection, Genetics and Evolution
  2. A high ATP concentration enhances the cooperative translocation of the SARS coronavirus helicase nsP13 in the unwinding of duplex RNA – Scientific Reports
  3. Effectiveness of glucocorticoid therapy in patients with severe novel coronavirus pneumonia – Chinese Medical Journal
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