Nature publishes an article talking about COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a strain of coronavirus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global pandemic that has affected the lives of billions of individuals. Extensive studies have revealed that SARS-CoV-2 shares many biological features with SARS-CoV, the zoonotic virus that caused the 2002 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, includ...

Managing COVID-19 in Surgical Systems

Annals of Surgery published this paper about surgical systems.As COVID-19 spreads quickly from Europe and Asia to the rest of the world, hospitals are rapidly becoming hot zones for treatment and transmission of this disease in settings with rising community transmission. Health care workers are increasingly contracting this illness, decreasing the human resources available to care for a population in crisis.
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British Journal of Surgery publishes an article talking about how surgeons adapt to new normal.
An optimized workflow is mandatory to restore surgical care to the population in the ‘new‐normal’ of COVID‐19 pandemic1-3. Our hospital was the largest tertiary centre in Beijing that continued to provide full‐ranged surgical care from January 26 through April 29. We have received 99 809 surgical outpatients and 4376 emergencies, and 5378 surgeries have been performed. We herein introduce our mo...

WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 23 July 2020
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More than 15 million cases of COVID-19 have now been reported to WHO, and almost 620 thousand deaths.

Although all countries have been affected, we continue to see intense transmission in a relatively small group of countries.

Almost 10 million cases, or two-thirds of all cases globally, are from 10 countries, and almost half of all cas...

COVID-19: Africa needs unprecedented attention to strengthen community health systems


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Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR ) for the protection of surgeons during operative tasks: a user perspective assessment

British Journal of Surgery publishes an article talking about air purifying respirators for surgeons protection.The unfolding COVID‐19 pandemic has challenged surgical care where aerosol‐generating operations may expose the surgical team1-3. Optimization of theatre airflow management and the application of smoke evacuation devices have been recommended and some...

Machine learning for COVID-19—asking the right questionsComments about machine learning for COVID-19—asking the right questions are published in Lancet.


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Loss of speech or movement has become listed as serious COVID-19 symptom in the new update of WHO. 

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has now spread to most countries, with WHO declaring a COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020. The pandemic has tested the resilience of health-care systems, including hospitals, which were largely unprepared for the scale of the pandemic. Patients having surgery are a vulnerable group at risk of SARS-CoV-2 exposure in hospital and might be particularly susceptible to subsequent pulmonary complications, due to the pro-inflammatory ...

Governments around the world are responding to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with unprecedented policies designed to slow the growth rate of infections. Many actions, such as closing schools and restricting populations to their homes, impose large and visible costs on society, but their benefits cannot be directly observed and are currently understood only through process-based simulations. Here, we compile new data on 1,717 local, regional, and national non-pharmaceutical int...

In late 2019, China reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases of unknown etiology in Wuhan. The causative agent was identified as a new betacoronavirus, called severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The virus rapidly spread across the globe and caused a pandemic. Sequencing of the viral genome allowed for the development of nucleic acid–based tests that have since been widely used for the diagnosis of acute (curr...

Non-pharmaceutical interventions have been implemented to reduce transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the UK. Projecting the size of an unmitigated epidemic and the potential effect of different control measures has been crucial to support evidence-based policy making during the early stages of the epidemic. This study assesses the potential impact of different control measures for mitigating the burden of COVID-19 in the UK.Click here for reference<...