In critically ill patients with Covid-19, therapeutic anticoagulation with heparin did not result in improved outcomes compared to usual-care pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis.
Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine Editorial: Surviving Covid-19 with Heparin? Commentaries: Full-dose blood thinners reduce the need for organ support in moderately ill COVID-19 patients, but not in critically ill patients – National Institutes of Health Therapeutic-Dose Heparin in COVID-19: Who Benefits, Who Doesn’t […]
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Opinion (video): “The Delta Surge May Collapse Faster Than You Think.”
The Delta Surge May Collapse Faster Than You Think – ZDoggMD Related: The study behind new CDC’s mask guidance found vaccinated people can spread delta variant. How the coronavirus infects cells — and why Delta is so dangerous. COVID vaccines slash viral spread, but Delta is an unknown – “Studies show that vaccines reduce the […]
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Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset.
Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset – eLlife Related: Exploring the gap between excess mortality and COVID-19 deaths in 67 countries. Report: Three new estimates of India’s all-cause excess mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic – pandemic death toll estimated to be between 3.4 million and 4.9 million […]
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Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2 – “Only 25 (1.8%) of 1379 children experienced symptoms for at least 56 days.”
Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic UK school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2 – The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Invited commentary: Citizen science and biomedical research (free registration required) Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at long-lasting symptoms from COVID-19 in children – Science Media Centre Long Covid uncommon in children, analysis finds – […]
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RCT: Text-message reminders can increase COVID-19 vaccinations.
Behavioral Nudges Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations – Nature Commentaries: Text-message ‘nudges’ can encourage holdouts to get COVID vaccination, study finds – UCLA Text reminders boost vaccine appointments – Carnegie Mellon University Commentary on Twitter Sometimes the tools that actually work in public health are profoundly boring. Here, a text message reminder system is shown in […]
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Spontaneous pneumomediastinum in patients diagnosed with covid-19: a case series with review of literature.
Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum in Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19: a Case Series with Review of Literature – Academic Radiology
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Antimicrobial stewardship in the ICU in COVID times: the known unknowns.
Antimicrobial stewardship in the ICU in COVID times: the known unknowns – International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents Related: IDSA Updated Covid-19 Guidance: Co-Infection and Antimicrobial Stewardship – “bacterial coinfections with SARS-CoV-2 infection are relatively infrequent (likely occurring in less than 10% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients)”. Antimicrobial stewardship in ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic: back to […]
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Covid: Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin, experts say.
Covid: Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin, experts say – BBC Related: FDA issues alert on ‘limitations’ of pulse oximeters, without explicit mention of racial bias “Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement”. In two large cohorts, Black patients had nearly three times the frequency of occult hypoxemia that was not detected by […]
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A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID (neutralizing antibodies).
A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID – Nature Related: A correlate of protection for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is urgently needed – “Recent studies suggest that neutralizing antibodies could serve as a correlate of protection for vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in humans”. Neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. Covid-19 […]
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Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 Pneumonia: 6-month Chest CT Follow-up.
Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 Pneumonia: 6-month Chest CT Follow-up – Radiology
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