Proning intubated patients has become a staple of ARDS care, and has been shown to improve mortality
COVID19 – Awake Pronation – A guest write-up by David Gordon, MD
This article is a clinical piece and mostly for medical professionals.
Author: SupremeCmdr
Vietnam’s Low-Cost COVID-19 Strategy
theaseanpost.com – Hong Kong Nguyen, 13 April 2020 As COVID-19 expands across the southern hemisphere, governments there have a lot to learn from Vietnam’s approach. Clear communication and government-citizen cooperation that leveraged technology are the main reasons why the country has had relatively few cases. Much attention has been paid to other models in Asia. Taiwanese […]
Take a Break (from Covid-19) – 04.12.20
Covid-19 Buzz Cut – Week Two – 04.12.20
Getting longer…
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Two weeks ago.
Counting The Dead
Data source nature.com article link below the graph.
Why daily death tolls have become unusually important in understanding the coronavirus pandemic
Although figures might not always be comparable, more approaches to counting the dead are useful. Diseases have always cut differing paths through communities, says Maia Majumder, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts. “This disease is going to look enormously different from one context to another, and we need to get comfortable with that,” says Majumder.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma…
Data Source: Acute Disease Service, Oklahoma State Department of Health.
*As of 2020-04-12 at 7:00 AM.
Why hospitals are hotbeds for coronavirus transmission — Science Chronicle
At 31.9%, the intensive care unit specialised for taking care of COVID-19 patients was the most contaminated in the hospital. And nearly 14% of all commonly used hospital objects and medical equipment had the virus on them. Across the world, hospitals have become the hotspot for novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection. And hundreds of healthcare workers […]
via Why hospitals are hotbeds for coronavirus transmission — Science Chronicle
Almost 90% of COVID-19 Admissions Involve Comorbidities
The Latest in COVID-19 News: Week Ending 04.11.20 – NEJM Journal Watch
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The Latest in COVID-19 News: Week Ending Apr. 11
Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at Two Family Gatherings — Chicago, Illinois, February–March 2020
Investigation of COVID-19 cases in Chicago identified a cluster of 16 confirmed or probable cases, including three deaths, likely resulting from one introduction. Extended family gatherings including a funeral and a birthday party likely facilitated transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in this cluster.
Citation for this article: Ghinai I, Woods S, Ritger KA, et al. Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at Two Family Gatherings — Chicago, Illinois, February–March 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. ePub: 8 April 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6915e1external icon.
Do You Know COBOL?
I guess no one learned their lessons from Y2K.
FUBAR!!!
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