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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Update: Epidemics in History Apr 06, 2020

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Infectious epidemics have always driven change and triggered discrimination in human societies. Frank Snowden, DPhil, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Yale University Press, 2019), puts the COVID-19 pandemic in historical context.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Safe Shopping at Stores and Pharmacies Apr 03, 2020

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Food and medicine shopping is essential during the COVID-19 pandemic, but requires getting out and standing close to strangers at a time when social distancing and sheltering-in-place are recommended to slow spread of disease. David Aronoff, MD, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, explains how to minimize COVID-19 risk while shopping.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Critical Care Management Apr 02, 2020

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Noninvasive ventilation (NIV), working with dying patients' families, use of experimental therapies, and more. JAMA Associate Editor Derek Angus, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, provides a COVID-19 ICU management update.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: The Near Future Apr 01, 2020

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How does the current pandemic compare to historical infectious outbreaks and what can we expect in summer and fall of 2020? Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the Human Nature Lab, Co-director of the Institute of Network Science, and Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, discusses the epidemiology of COVID-19.

Humans, Viruses, and the Eye—An Early Report From the COVID-19 Front Line Mar 31, 2020

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Interview with Alfred Sommer, MD, author of Humans, Viruses, and the Eye—An Early Report From the COVID-19 Front Line

Safety Recommendations for Evaluation and Surgery of the Head and Neck During the COVID-19 Pandemic Mar 31, 2020

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Interview with Joshua K Tay, author of Surgical Considerations for Tracheostomy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned From the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak, and Babak Givi, MD, author of Safety Recommendations for Evaluation and Surgery of the Head and Neck During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Fairly Rationing ICU Care Mar 30, 2020

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Hospitals need ways to make rational, fair decisions about who gets ICU beds and ventilators if COVID-19 patients overwhelm capacity. Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, Director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a framework for those decisions and a guideline he helped develop for allocation of scarce resources in public health emergencies.

Association of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) With Myocardial Injury and Mortality Mar 27, 2020

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Interview with Robert O. Bonow, MD, Patrick T. O'Gara, MD, Clyde W. Yancy, MD, and Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, authors of Association of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) With Myocardial Injury and Mortality and Ajay J. Kirtane, MD

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Update: PCR Testing and Shortages Mar 27, 2020

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The lack of availability of COVID-19 testing has interfered with the ability to contain the spread of disease. Omai Garner, PhD, laboratory director for Clinical Microbiology in the UCLA health system, explains how PCR testing for COVID-19 works and why testing is in short supply.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Vaccines and Immunity Mar 26, 2020

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As COVID-19 spreads globally, populations who survive their illness will become immune. Mayo Vaccine Research Group Director Gregory Poland, MD, discusses antibody responses, duration of immunity, vaccine safety, and the prospects for using convalescent serum to passively immunize people unexposed to SARS-CoV-2.

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