There is little coordination or information exchange between national or regional initiatives. Although ad hoc mechanisms leveraging mobile phone data can be effectively (but not easily) developed at the local or national level, regional or even global collaborations seem to be much more difficult given the number of actors, the range of interests and priorities, the variety of legislations concerned, and the need to protect civil liberties. The global scale and spread of the COVID-19 pan...

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Over the past decade, most academic medical centers have experienced increasing demands for surgical services. In many instances, lack of capacity in the operating rooms has resulted in a back log of patients needing surgery. On March 12th, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a worldwide pandemic. In the United States, in preparation for a surge in patients requiring hospitalization for COVID-19, national societies, including the American College of Surgeons...

Extra-pulmonary disease has been observed in patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this publication, the gastrointestinal (GI) complications of patients with severe COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at the Massachusetts General Hospital between March 13thand April 12th, 2020 are described. 

During this time period, 141 patients were admitted to the ICU with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection confirmed by reverse-t...

The number of people infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has exponentially increased worldwide1 and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is officially a pandemic. On Feb 21th, 2020, the first person-to-person transmission was reported in Italy and since then the infection chain has led to one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks outside Asia to date. All started and spread in the Lombardy region, the most populated region in Italy (10.2 million of inhabi...

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a Clinical update about how to manage respiratory distresses that Covid-19 patients can suffer. They provide information about how to treat ARDS, the acute respiratory distress syndrome. 

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can originate from either the gas or vascular side of the alveolus. Although the portal for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is inhalational, and alveolar infiltrates are ...

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a Clinical update about how to manage respiratory distresses that Covid-19 patients can suffer. They provide information about how to treat ARDS, the acute respiratory distress syndrome. 

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can originate from either the gas or vascular side of the alveolus. Although the portal for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is inhalational, and alveolar infiltrates are ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) on March 11, 2020.1 The rapid spread of COVID-19 infections heavily impacts health care systems worldwide, resulting in limitations in both hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) capacity. As a result, this pandemic not only affects COVID-19 patients, but strikes the entire health care system including the care for patients with pancreatic cancer and other pancreatic diseases.

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This paper published in Annals of Surgery examines the conflicting obligations of a surgeon as he tries to decide whether to opt out of the care of Covid-19 patients. These obligations include duty to care, duty to society, duty to family, duty to co-workers, and duty to self. What should he do?

There is little coordination or information exchange between national or regional initiatives. Although ad hoc mechanisms leveraging mobile phone data can be effectively (but not easily) developed at the local or national level, regional or even global collaborations seem to be much more difficult given the number of actors, the range of interests and priorities, the variety of legislations concerned, and the need to protect civil liberties. The global scale and spread of the COVID-19 pan...

Taking a look at the benefits of joining a hackathon and listing 11 active hackathons working to fight the effects of COVID-19.

We’re all sitting at home to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and many of us are feeling pretty helpless. You might have offered to pick up groceries for an elderly neighbour or helped a friend set up Zoom and other remote tools to enable them to work from home. But what if you have skills that can help map COVID-19, create support structures or solve problem...

You just need an old T-shirt, bleach, and rubber bands! Make your old T-shirts cool again and become the best fashion victim of your town!

Scientists still don’t know whether coronavirus antibodies give a person immunity or reduce the risk of reinfection, even as some nations consider issuing passports or certificates that indicate whether someone has had the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday.

Some countries are considering issuing so-called immunity passports or risk-free certificates to people who have antibodies against Covid-19, enabling them to travel or return to work assuming that they are ...