Joint Statement: Roadmap for Resuming Elective Surgery after COVID-19 PandemicAmerican College of Surgeons American Society of Anesthesiologists Association of periOperative Registered Nurses American Hospital Association
Introduction In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Surgeon General and many medical specialties such as the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Anesthesiologists recommended interim ca...

The catalan technological center Eurecat and the chilean company Comberplast, are working together in the FreeBreath project for the development of PPE masks made of reusable and sterilizable plastic, with interchangeable filters to quickly achieve different levels of protection agains Covid-19.
Concretely, the objective of the project is to produce FFP2 and FFP3 PPE masks, with widely available filters to "guarantee the supply of these PPE elements to the healthcare workers", says Carme M...

A repository of open source plans for medical supplies that can be made anywhere in the world out of local materials, to enable resilient local response to pandemics
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A repository of open source plans for medical supplies that can be made anywhere in the world out of local materials, to enable resilient local response to pandemics

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Reports from UK’s two biggest operators come prior to release of official figures on Tuesday.

Two of the UK’s biggest care home operators have reported falling death rates from Covid-19, raising hopes that outbreaks which have devastated some of the most vulnerable and elderly people may finally be abating.

The number of residents who have recovered from the virus has now eclipsed the numbers of deaths from it across 220 care settings operated by MHA, the largest charitable prov...

Spain recorded fewer fatalities from the coronavirus as about half the country’s population awaits a further easing of lockdown restrictions starting Monday.

The number of deaths in the last 24 hours was 143, the lowest tally since March 18, versus 179 the previous day, according to Health Ministry data. The number of new cases rose by 621, slightly more than 604 the previous day.

The government has authorized a further partial easing of restrictions from Monday for areas of...

A summary of the biggest developments in the global coronavirus outbreak

Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include: Global cases approach 4.2 million 



South Korea’s Seoul nightclub cluster grows to 64 

China reports no new domestic cases after spike on weekend 

New York City’s death toll may be 5,000 higher than official toll 

Fauci to tell US senate reopening early risks ‘needless suffering and death Trump accused of raci...

Question 
Among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is there an association between use of hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, and in-hospital mortality?



Findings 
In a retrospective cohort study of 1438 patients hospitalized in metropolitan New York, compared with treatment with neither drug, the adjusted hazard ratio for in-hospital mortality for treatment with hydroxychloroquine alone was 1.08, for azithromycin alone was 0.56, and for combi...

A new study -- the largest of its kind -- shows that hydroxychloroquine, the drug touted by President Trump, does not work against Covid-19 and could cause heart problems.
The study was published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It follows a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine that also showed the drug doesn't fight the virus.Even before these reports were published, the US Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of...

​Robots for all aspects of infectious diseases, from health care to how individuals cope! 




In 2015 during the west Africa Ebola outbreak, the White House OSTP with multiple universities and agencies, the National Science Foundation, and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service sponsored workshops on robotics (ground, aerial, marine).  Since Ebola didn’t turn into a global threat, at the time things didn’t progress much farther than those workshops, but there’s now a ...

Spot is a robot with dog appearance designed by Boston Dynamics. It has been used during two weeks in a hospital in Boston – Brigham and Women’s Hospital – to help minimize the staff exposure to the Covid-19. The medical team is using the robot as a telemedicine platform, allowing healthcare providers to remotely triage patients. 




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Wireless sensor gently sits on throat to monitor coughs, fever and respiratory activity.


The more we learn about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the more unknowns seem to arise. These ever-emerging mysteries highlight the desperate need for more data to help researchers and physicians better understand — and treat — the extremely contagious and deadly disease.

Researchers at Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago have developed a nov...