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Released: 12-Mar-2020 4:10 PM EDT
Important Information About COVID-19 for Those with Asthma
American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI)

COVID-19 is causing confusion and anxiety for many, including those with asthma. The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology advises staying on your asthma medications to keep asthma under control.

Released: 12-Mar-2020 2:55 PM EDT
Hackensack Meridian Health’s Center for Discovery and Innovation Launches Rapid Response Coronavirus Test
Hackensack Meridian Health

Health care network deploys diagnostic to faster respond to outbreaks as they happen

Released: 12-Mar-2020 1:40 PM EDT
DePaul University experts available to discuss coronavirus issues
DePaul University

Faculty experts at DePaul University are available for news media interviews about the COVID-19 pandemic. Scholars who research transportation, supply chain management, the history of pandemics, public health, hospitality and more.

       
Released: 12-Mar-2020 1:10 PM EDT
Uninsured older adults more likely to be sicker and in need of inpatient care in China
University of Toronto

A new study, published this week in the International Journal of Health Services, found that older adults without health insurance in China were 35% less likely to receive needed inpatient care compared to those with job-based health insurance.

Released: 12-Mar-2020 11:55 AM EDT
Researchers Predict Potential Spread and Seasonality for COVID-19 Based on Climate Where Virus Appears to Thrive
University of Maryland Medical Center

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Institute of Human Virology (IHV), which is part of the Global Virus Network (GVN), predict that COVID-19 will follow a seasonal pattern similar to other respiratory viruses like seasonal flu. They base this on weather modeling data in countries where the virus has taken hold and spread within the community.

Released: 12-Mar-2020 11:15 AM EDT
What is “social distancing” and should we be doing it?
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, many are starting to consider scaling back exposure to people, a tactic called “social distancing” and a buzz phrase for people closely following the pandemic. Much to the delight of germophobes and introverts, epidemiologists say social distancing can help prevent the spread of disease.

Released: 12-Mar-2020 11:00 AM EDT
Keck Medicine of USC Takes Precautionary Measures to Reduce Spread of COVID-19
Keck Medicine of USC

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak and the rising number of cases in California, Keck Medicine of USC has taken precautions to protect staff and patients and reduce the spread of the disease.

Released: 12-Mar-2020 10:15 AM EDT
Considerations about current evolution of SARS-nCOV-2 epidemic in Italy
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

In Italy, a COVID-19 epidemic is raging. This analysis, which might be useful also to forecast the next epidemic trends in the U.S., is briefly recapitulated in the following document.

Released: 12-Mar-2020 9:30 AM EDT
Rapid Diagnosis Test for Coronavirus COVID-19 Now Available
Surgisphere Corporation

Surgisphere Corporation announces the availability of a rapid diagnostic tool for novel coronavirus.

   
Released: 12-Mar-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Coriell Life Sciences to Provide Coronavirus COVID-19 Reporting to Laboratories
Coriell Life Sciences

Coriell Life Sciences (CLS), a leading provider of molecular test interpretation and reporting, is offering its coronavirus analysis and reporting services to laboratories throughout the United States at no cost during this period of public health crisis.

   
Released: 12-Mar-2020 8:55 AM EDT
Coronavirus Dehydration Concerns & Solutions Addresses by Board Certified Internist, Who Facilitates Donation Benefitting (Hydrating) Health Workers & Test-Positive Patients in Hard-Hit States
SOSHydration.com

Amid escalating concerns about derivative health implications of COVID-19 and influenza illnesses in general—with dehydration paramount among the more ubiquitous health concerns as detailed in a multitude of reports—board-certified internist Dr. Blanca Lizaola-Mayo is driving awareness for, and underscoring the importance of, proper hydration—and understanding the perils of dehydration—as a way to stay healthy and better recover from sickness.

   
Released: 12-Mar-2020 8:30 AM EDT
Now is the time to act on the coronavirus
University of Georgia

I am the Director of the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia. My colleagues and I have been following COVID-19 since the middle of January. Our analysis of the data leads me to believe that serious action now is imperative.

Released: 11-Mar-2020 6:15 PM EDT
LJI scientists identify potential targets for immune responses to novel coronavirus
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Publishing in the March 16, 2020, online issue of Host, Cell and Microbe, a team of researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, in collaboration with researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute, provides the first analysis of potential targets for effective immune responses against the novel coronavirus. The researchers used existing data from known coronaviruses to predict which parts of SARS-CoV-2 are capable of activating the human immune system.

   
Released: 10-Mar-2020 4:05 PM EDT
How Do You Wash Your Hands?
RUSH

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads throughout the United States, it’s important to refresh one’s memory on basic disease prevention techniques. Parents should be passing these techniques on to their children.

Released: 10-Mar-2020 11:45 AM EDT
The Lancet: First study identifies risk factors associated with death in adults hospitalized with new coronavirus disease in Wuhan
Lancet

Being of an older age, showing signs of sepsis, and having blood clotting issues when admitted to hospital are key risk factors associated with higher risk of death from the new coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a new observational study of 191 patients with confirmed COVID-19 from two hospitals in Wuhan, China, published in The Lancet.

Released: 10-Mar-2020 8:45 AM EDT
COVID-19 poses risk to global supply chains
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School professors Goker Aydin and Tinglong Dai of Carey Business School discuss how COVID-19 is impacting business supply chains and operations.

Released: 10-Mar-2020 8:00 AM EDT
Story Tips From Johns Hopkins Experts on COVID-19
Johns Hopkins Medicine

The following are various story ideas regarding the COVID-19 illness. To interview experts in these tips or others at Johns Hopkins, contact [email protected].

Released: 10-Mar-2020 7:00 AM EDT
Knowing more about a virus threat may not satisfy you
Ohio State University

People who rate themselves as highly knowledgeable about a new infectious disease threat could also be more likely to believe they don’t know enough, a new study suggests.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 5:55 PM EDT
What does self-quarantine mean?
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

So, what does self-quarantine look like? Susan Wootton, MD, an infectious disease pediatrician at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, explains.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 5:15 PM EDT
AERA Announces 2020 Annual Meeting Change Due to Coronavirus
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

The American Educational Research Association has announced it will not hold a place-based Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, in April 2020 due to the coronavirus. Instead, AERA is shifting to a virtual meeting.

6-Mar-2020 8:30 AM EST
New Study on Covid-19 Estimates 5.1 Days for Incubation Period
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

An analysis of publicly available data on infections from the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes the respiratory illness COVID-19 yielded an estimate of 5.1 days for the median disease incubation period, according to a new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 4:55 PM EDT
Endocrine Society cancels ENDO 2020 amid COVID-19 concerns
Endocrine Society

Today, following the latest reports from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and local health authorities in San Francisco, the Endocrine Society announced the necessary cancellation of ENDO 2020.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 2:15 PM EDT
Study Estimates COVID-19 May Have Infected Over 9,000 in U.S.
Cedars-Sinai

By March 1, more than 9000 people in the U.S. may have already been infected by COVID-19 (coronavirus), far more than the number that had been publicly reported, according to a new Cedars-Sinai study.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 12:45 PM EDT
SARS influencing response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Singapore
American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS)

n open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) Collections article detailing how a tertiary hospital in Singapore responded to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) offers a thorough summary of ground operational considerations for radiology departments presently reacting to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 12:05 PM EDT
Individual response to COVID-19 'as important' as government action
University of Oxford

How individuals respond to government advice on preventing the spread of COVID-19 will be at least as important, if not more important, than government action, according to a new commentary from researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London in the UK, and Utrecht University and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 8:55 AM EDT
Understanding COVID-19 Origins First Step to Treating Cases, Stopping Spread
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

“The new virus originating from Wuhan is the third coronavirus that has made the ‘jump’ from animals to humans,” explains Enrico Bucci, Ph.D., professor and research scientist at the Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO), at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 8:40 AM EDT
CEL-SCI Initiates Development of Immunotherapy to TreatCOVID-19 Coronavirus Infection
Cel-Sci Corp

Immunotherapy using LEAPS peptide technology may be able to reduce COVID-19 viral load and tissue damage resulting from infection in the lungs.

Released: 9-Mar-2020 8:20 AM EDT
UTSW researchers and international collaborators find human protein that potently inhibits coronavirus
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A protein produced by the human immune system can potently inhibit several coronaviruses, including the one behind the current COVID-19 outbreak.

Released: 7-Mar-2020 8:50 AM EST
GI symptoms and potential fecal transmission in coronavirus patients
American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

The world is bracing for the impact of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, which has now spread to over 30 countries, infecting more than 80,000 people with over 2,600 deaths globally.

Released: 7-Mar-2020 8:50 AM EST
GI symptoms and potential fecal transmission in coronavirus patients
American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

The world is bracing for the impact of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, which has now spread to over 30 countries, infecting more than 80,000 people with over 2,600 deaths globally.

Released: 7-Mar-2020 8:30 AM EST
Wuhan CT scans reliable for coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis, limited for differentiation
American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS)

n article by radiologists from Wuhan, China--published open-access and ahead-of-print in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)--concluded that chest CT had a low rate of misdiagnosis of COVID-19 (3.9%, 2/51) and could help standardize imaging features and rules of transformation for rapid diagnosis; however, CT remains limited for the identification of specific viruses and distinguishing between viruses.

Released: 6-Mar-2020 4:30 PM EST
FAU Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians Train for Coronavirus Contagion
Florida Atlantic University

With seven reported cases in Florida to-date, FAU emergency medicine resident physicians prepared for the threat of a coronavirus contagion using a simulated or “mock” disaster scenario at FORTS Medical. The simulation involved a cruise ship dock-setting scenario and mock passengers were transported by bus. The passengers stormed into the large warehouse to challenge the resident physicians to react and respond quickly to triage the patients. About 100 people participated in the half-day simulation including local nurses, paramedics, and student and community actors.

   


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