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The COVID-19 LST Report
by COVID19LST
The COVID-19 Literature Surveillance Team is a group of physicians, medical students, PhDs and others that are keeping up with the latest research on SARS-CoV-2. We find the newest articles, read them and grade their level of evidence to bring you the bottom line.Visit COVID19LST.org for full daily report with links to articles.Contact us at: [email protected]: Sarah Taylor Writers: Thamanna Nishath, Sangeetha ThevuthasanHost: Jasmine Rah, Will Smith © 2020 | COVID19LST.org
Episodes
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Week of February 15th, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) made 4 strong recommendations for preventing COVID-19 infection in health care personnel. A pulmonologist and interventional cardiologist from the Cleveland Clinic and Emory University critique recently…
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We are an affiliated group of medical students, PhDs, and physicians keeping up with the latest research on SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19. We find the newest articles, read them, grade their level of evidence, and bring you the bottom line. Our goal is to empower you to take the best care of yourself and...
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Week of February 1st, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology · What does the literature say about face mask usage against COVID-19? A large international, interdisciplinary group summarize the evidence supporting mask wearing to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. They reviewed direct epidemiological evidence,...
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January 18, 2021 & January 19, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in over 6000 healthcare workers show increased occupational risk. Physicians and laboratory scientists from Spain conducted a cross-sectional study of 6,038 healthcare workers (HCW) across 4 regions in Spain to...
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January 11, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Do we need routine COVID-19 testing of Emergency Department staff? A study from the University of Washington uses a mathematical model based on the Diamond Princess cruise ship data to predict detection of SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic health care…
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January 8, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: The authors present a case report of a 29-year-old SARS-CoV-2 positive woman with minimal, mild symptoms who underwent an uncomplicated and successful vaginal delivery to a healthy baby boy at the University of Missouri Women and Children’s Hospital…
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January 7, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Adjusting Practice During COVID-19: A team of cardiologists and pharmacists from hospitals in Shanghai and Wuhan, China assessed the association between mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients (n=535) and low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) use between January...
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January 6, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: American physicians from Yale and the University of Maryland argue that the US government should mandate vaccination of migrant detainees against COVID-19. They assert the crowded and inadequate sanitary conditions in these facilities create epicenters for...
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January 5, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: More transparency is needed for emergency use authorizations (EUA), including drugs and vaccines for COVID-19, according to a journalist writing for the Journal of the American Medical Association reporting on a recent US Government Accountability Office...
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January 4, 2021
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: A systematic review by an international team of researchers highlights the significant underrepresentation of geriatric patients in published COVID-19 randomized control trials (RCTs). In the 12 RCTs included in the review, patients had mean age of 56.3...
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December 30, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: The US Centers for Disease Control COVID-19 Response Team used data from three online CARAVAN omnibus surveys (n=858) conducted to assess parental attitudes and concerns about schools reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic and found more white families…
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December 29, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Understanding the Pathology: SARS-CoV-2 Infection likely triggers an autoimmune response. A case control study from Northern Italy found elevated inflammatory markers and autoantibodies (ANA, ASCA, IgG and anti-Cardiolipin) in 40 hospitalized COVID-19 patients...
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December 22, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: Board members of the International Society of Vaccine (ISV) summarize their organization's recent efforts to provide information and resources about COVID-19 vaccines to members worldwide: they provide links to their recent virtual lecture series on…
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December 21, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: What was the SARS-CoV-2-specific neutralizing antibody response in Norwegian healthcare workers after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic? A multicenter prospective survey study of 607 healthcare workers (HCW) by a researcher at the Influenza Centre…
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December 17, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: Operations officers from several international biomedical manufacturing companies discuss the ability of manufacturers to reduce distribution of counterfeit vaccines in light of counterfeit SARS-CoV-2 vaccines being found in Russia and Ecuador in 2020....
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December 16, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Understanding the Pathology: Researchers from the Department of Health & Exercise Science at Appalachian State University analyze the vascular impact of SARS-CoV-2 on 20 healthy young adults 3-4 weeks post-infection by doppler ultrasound of arterial blood flow in…
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December 15, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: What are the COVID-19 vaccine trial ethics once we have efficacious vaccines? An expert opinion penned by bioethicists from the National Institutes of Health and Fogarty International Center in Bethesda, MD explore the ethics of continuing blinded,...
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December 11, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: The editorial team at JAMA explains their decision to publish the Lenze et al study "Fluvoxamine vs placebo and clinical deterioration in outpatients with symptomatic COVID-19: a randomized clinical trial." While it is a preliminary study with limitations,...
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December 9, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: A systematic review of 39 articles (30 retrospective and 9 prospective) on venous thromboembolic events (VTE) in COVID-19 by a team of cardiologists and molecular biologists from the Central South University in Hunan, China found that D-dimer,...
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December 8, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: No-fault compensation for vaccine injury. Are we looking at the other side of equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines? An opinion piece on COVID-19 vaccination explains that though there are 79 higher-income countries ready to pay for vaccine distribution in...
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December 7, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Understanding the Pathology: Critical illness is associated with cerebral microbleeds for patients with severe COVID-19. A retrospective cohort study conducted at University Hospitals of Strasbourg, France compared 19 severe COVID-19 patients with MRI evidence of...
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December 3, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Management: A systematic review analyzed a set of 45 studies (n= 4,203 patients) published between November 1, 2019 and March 15, 2020 and found that elevated leukocyte count, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate transaminase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase…
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December 4, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Understanding the Pathology: Investigators in South Korea analyzed samples from 6 COVID-19-positive patients at 3 tertiary hospitals who had recovered with negative SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR results and then presented again with subsequent positive rRT-PCR results. One of...
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December 2, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: A review by pediatric specialists with The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine in Haifa, Israel discusses the phenomenon known as “vaccine hesitancy” (continued deferment of vaccines despite proven effectiveness and extremely rare adverse effects),...
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December 1, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Is there SARS-CoV-2 persistence and non-protective immunity in infected haematological patients? Greek infectious disease physicians present a case of 35-year-old with a history of acute lymphoblastic leukemia 14 days status-post chemotherapy with...
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November 30, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: There is higher prevalence of pulmonary macrothrombi in SARS-CoV-2 than in influenza A. A comparative analysis by pathologists at University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland assessed pulmonary macrothrombi autopsy findings in 411 patients who died from...
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November 25, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Transmission & Prevention: A review by biomedical engineers in Canada discusses the possibility of using animal models including rhesus macaques, hamsters, and ferrets to help guide research on COVID-19 vaccine development. They also describe 8 current vaccine...
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November 24, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Body Mass Index is correlated with Risk for Intubation or Death in SARS-CoV-2 Infection according to a retrospective cohort study. The study, conducted at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, investigated the association between body mass index...
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November 23, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Understanding the Pathology: Truncation of orf3b in the circulating SARS-CoV-2 strains has been shown in one study. Microbiologists and Infectious Disease researchers from the University of Hong Kong analyze the genome of SAR-CoV-2 with a particular focus on the...
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November 20, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: A retrospective case series conducted by radiologists from Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Manhasset, NY evaluated imaging features of six patients (all >65 years old) who presented to the emergency department with PCR-confirmed...
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November 18, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Pediatric cardiologists from the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology's COVID-19 Rapid Response Team evaluated 286 children with symptoms of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and found 65% had laboratory...
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November 17, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Persistent fatigue following SARS-CoV-2 infection is common and independent of severity of initial infection according to one study. Immunologists and infectious disease specialists at St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland examined prevalence of...
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November 16, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: The International COVID-19 Parental Attitude Study (COVIPAS) group conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1541 caregivers from six countries and found that 65% of caregivers were willing to vaccinate their child against COVID-19 whenever a vaccine became...
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November 13, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Adjusting Practice During COVID-19: A prospective survey study of 66 patients who had undergone image-guided corticosteroid injections for pain management by musculoskeletal imaging specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found no significant...
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November 12, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: A retrospective cohort study by physicians in Wuhan, China found no significant difference in levels of testosterone, follicle-stimulating hormone, or luteinizing hormone between 39 male patients with SARS-CoV-2 and 22 control patients without...
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November 11, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: An observation-based modeling study conducted at Columbia University analyzed reproductive numbers of COVID-19 in the United States and found a significant and rapid drop following social distancing and other control measures. Based on changes…
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November 10, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Transmission & Prevention: Pediatricians published best practices for breastfeeding mothers who were positive for or exposed to COVID-19 in JAMA Pediatrics. The authors express that while the literature is uncertain on risk of COVID-19 transmission through...
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November 6, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: How effective are public health measures, such as quarantine, in decreasing viral spread? An extended Susceptible–Infected–Recovered (SIR) model to estimate the case rate mortality (CFR) of COVID-19 in Wuhan and the rates of infection, recovery, and...
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November 5, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Understanding the Pathology: Do childhood vaccines help protect against SARS-CoV-2? A team of Egyptian virologists inoculated mice with common childhood vaccines (BCG, Pneumococcal, Rotavirus, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae,...
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November 4, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Understanding the Pathology: Should we be testing for more than SARS-CoV-2 antibodies? Microbiologists, pathologists, and public health experts associated with Mount Sinai Hospital analyzed 3277 blood specimens from recovered COVID-19 patients and found that...
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November 3, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: Hospital Volumes during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2 US Medical Centers, Stanford University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, were explored with the incidence of 5 medical emergencies: acute MI, ischemic stroke,...
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November 2, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: No-Fault Compensation for Vaccine Injury and Equitable Access to Covid-19 Vaccines are explored by Public Health experts associated with Yale University. They discuss the concept of Vaccine Nationalism, the creation of the COVAX facility, and the plight of...
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October 29, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: An online survey of 1777 pregnant and postpartum women conducted in Japan found high prevalence of prenatal anhedonia, depression, and anxiety (17%; evaluated via Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale [EDPS]), which was positively correlated with...
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October 26, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: Navigating through health care data showed disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic and was found to be variable and potentially unreliable due to the pandemic's effects on health-seeking, patient triage, and overall outcomes. Authors note that analytic methods...
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October 23, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Health policy researchers analyzed the COVID-19 and excess all-cause mortality rates across three periods (since the start of the pandemic, since 10 May 2020, and since 7 June 2020) between the U.S. and 18 nations and found that while the U.S.…
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October 21, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: A 3-patient case series highlights the potential association between COVID-19 and pancreatitis in pediatric patients. The authors report this association based on temporal observations, asserting that clinicians should be aware of COVID-19 as a...
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October 20, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Clinical features and outcomes of adults with COVID-19 admitted to the hospital based on a systematic review and pooled analysis of the literature —Understanding the Pathology: Endotheliopathy is induced by plasma from critically-ill patients and...
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October 19, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Sex differential in COVID-19 mortality varies markedly by age according to collated data from the National Institute for Demographic Studies of pooled aggregate rates of infection and mortality of almost 400 million COVID-19 patients in Europe and...
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October 16, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Climate: Decreased air pollution reported during the global shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic was "a brief respite" from the impacts of climate change, but in light of the global recession, governments and individuals will likely prioritize the economy and…
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October 14, 2020
In today's episode we discuss: —Epidemiology: Outcomes of COVID-19 in living donor liver transplant (LDLT) recipients are studied by hepatologists and leading liver transplant surgeons from the Institute of Liver Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine in Gurugram, India through a case series of…
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The COVID-19 Literature Surveillance Team is a group of physicians, medical students, PhDs and others that are keeping up with the latest research on SARS-CoV-2. We find the newest articles, read them and grade their level of evidence to bring you the bottom line.Visit COVID19LST.org for full daily report with links to articles.Contact us at: [email protected]: Sarah Taylor Writers: Thamanna Nishath, Sangeetha ThevuthasanHost: Jasmine Rah, Will Smith © 2020 | COVID19LST.org
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