Deep Learning for Malignancy Risk Estimation of Pulmonary Nodules Detected at Low-Dose Screening CT – Radiology Commentaries: AI predicts lung cancer risk – Radiological Society of North America AND AI Takes LDCT Further for Lung Cancer Prediction – Diagnostic Imaging Commentary on Twitter A deep learning algorithm can have a discriminative performance comparable to […]
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Neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection – Nature Medicine Commentary: Scientists find new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy – University of New South Wales Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more) Just published @NatureMedicine: For 7 vaccines, the neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of […]
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Using resources wisely in the COVID-19 pandemic: an international list of Choosing Wisely recommendations – Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
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News release: Vaccines highly effective against B.1.617.2 variant after 2 doses – Public Health England Original study: Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the B.1.617.2 variant – Public Health England Commentary: Covid: Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs effective against Indian variant – study – BBC
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Tocilizumab in COVID-19: a meta-analysis, trial sequential analysis, and meta-regression of randomized-controlled trials – Intensive Care Medicine Commentary on Twitter Tocilizumab as IL-6 antagonist in hospitalized #COVID19 pts, SR/MA/TSA:➡️10 RCTs/6493 pts (52.2% ➡️ tocilizumab)➡️some evidence suggests tocilizumab may be associated with short-term mortality benefit➡️tocilizumab may prevent disease progression to MVhttps://t.co/sWR4Y351sl pic.twitter.com/JPD31Nb5rn — Intens Care […]
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REGEN-COV Antibody Cocktail Clinical Outcomes Study in Covid-19 Outpatients – medRxiv Commentary on Twitter REGEN-COV Antibody Cocktail(casirivimab with imdevimab) Clinical Outcomes Study in Covid-19 Outpatients: N:>4000 ptsBoth 1200mg IV&2400mg REGEN-COV led to a ≥70% ⬇️ (vs placebo) in Covid-19 hospitalization or all-cause death over 28 days after treatmenthttps://t.co/NJxF4BjZRs pic.twitter.com/CFdvEEIWEL — Antibiotic Steward ???Bassam Ghanem […]
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Effectiveness of the CoronaVac vaccine in the elderly population during a P.1 variant-associated epidemic of COVID-19 in Brazil: A test-negative case-control study – medRxiv
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The impact of COVID-19 on global health goals – World Health Organization Related: Covid-19 pandemic: approximately one million excess deaths occurred in 2020 in 29 high income countries. AND Perspective | Tracking lives we’ve lost to COVID-19. AND COVID-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports show Commentary on […]
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AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Adult Patients with Tracheostomy in the Acute Care Setting – Respiratory Care
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Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission – Science
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