Sociedad Española de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Terapéutica del Dolor guidelines related to hard ethical decisions and the adequacy of care intensity / admission to intensive care units in exceptional crisis situations. 

SECOT, Sociedad Española de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, provides this guidance in Spanish that contains the national and international recommendations against the COVID-19 pandemic in order to protect the health of patients and all health personnel in the Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology services.

Roylab Stats post live videos everyday in Youtube with a real-time counter of coronavirus confirmed and recovered cases in all over the world. 
The video also shows a colored world map, and breaking news. This stream is for anyone that wants to know the real-time progression of the worldwide spread of this virus.

Click here to access its Youtube channel

The worst outbreaks of COVID-19 so far have been in colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere during winter or early spring. Will warmer weather slow the transmission?

Could the Southern Hemisphere see outbreaks intensify as that part of the globe moves into winter?

And is it possible that transmission might be naturally interrupted as it is each year for the seasonal flu?

These are some of the key questions about COVID-19 that scientists are trying to answer.

The Spanish Society for Pediatric Surgery (SECP) provides this guidance for the management of pediatric surgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Dataset Description
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House and a coalition of leading research groups have prepared the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). CORD-19 is a resource of over 47,000 scholarly articles, including over 36,000 with full text, about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and related coronaviruses. This freely available dataset is provided to the global research ...

These statements published by the Spanish Surgeons Association (AEC) provide some recommendations on how to manage the surgical activity that must go on even the actual situation. It is important to highlight that the current scientific evidence in this regard is minimal and is mainly based on the extrapolation of other similar viral infections or on the recommendations carried out by Scientific Organizations or expert meetings.

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) provides the following guidance for trauma medical directors. The intent of this document is to advise trauma medical directors and trauma program managers on factors to consider as the public health and health care sectors prepare for an anticipated surge of critically ill patients related to COVID-19 infection. 
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CoronaHack is a virtual hackathon bringing together Biomedical and data scientists to explore ways to combat CoronaVirus!
It is going to open on Tuesday 14th April until Sunday 19th April. 
Description:
Please join us for this high profile hackathon designed to accelerate approaches to monitoring, diagnosing and controlling the CoronaVirus.

This event will shortly go virtual through a platform with full access to covid-19 datasets and other technology.

You will work...

As well as the saltshaker, in that instant, they shared the new coronavirus, scientists have since concluded. That their exchange was documented at all is the result of intense scrutiny, part of a rare success story in the global fight against the virus. The co-workers were early links in what was to be the first documented chain of multiple human-to-human transmissions outside Asia of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

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Here you can find all the recommendations the AEC has been publishing last weeks, translated to English. If you prefer to visit the website to see all the upadates, click here. 

Background

As of March 18, 2020, 13 415 confirmed cases and 120 deaths related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in mainland China, outside Hubei province—the epicentre of the outbreak—had been reported. Since late January, massive public health interventions have been implemented nationwide to contain the outbreak. We provide an impact assessment of the transmissibility and severity of COVID-19 during the first wave in mainland Chinese locations outside Hubei.

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