Severe COVID-19 Risk Up With Existing Health Conditions in US
Most commonly reported underlying health conditions were diabetes, chronic lung disease, CVD.
Infectious Disease
Study: COVID-19 May Not Result in Acute Kidney Injury
In a study of Chinese COVID-19 patients, no patient experienced acute kidney injury.
Concomitant Myocardial Injury With COVID-19 Infection Linked to Fatal Outcome
Elevated TnT levels associated with arrhythmias, use of glucocorticoid therapy, mechanical ventilation
Persistent Positive SARS-CoV-2 Found in Sputum, Feces Samples
In 22 of 133 patients with COVID-19, positive sputum, fecal samples seen after negative pharyngeal sample.
Dialysis Industry Unites In Wake of COVID-19 Pandemic
DaVita Inc. and Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) jointly announced they are collaborating in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to offer isolation capacity for dialysis patients who are or may be infected with the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. The companies, which are the largest providers of dialysis in the United States, also…
PPE Negative for SARS-CoV-2 After Patient Contact
Samples from goggles, N95 respirators, shoes of 30 health care workers were negative for SARS-CoV-2.
Cancers, Viruses, and the Evolution of Fear
In The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biographic of Cancer, the oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, intuits, “Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.”1 Replace “cancer cells” with “viruses” and the quote holds equally true. Darwinian perpetrators of genomic dysregulation, many viruses have integrated foundationally into…
Increased Risk for SARS-CoV-2 Seen in Cancer Patients in Wuhan
Of the 12 patients with COVID-19, 6 developed severe acute respiratory syndrome; 3 died.
COVID-19 Surfaces in a US Hemodialysis Patient
Physicians at the University of California Irvine describe an unusual presentation of the novel coronavirus illness in a 56-year-old man. The case is believed to be among the first COVID-19 cases in the United States.
Healthcare Workers Report Elevated Psychiatric Symptoms Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
A study of Chinese healthcare workers may foreshadow the mental health burden placed upon physicians, nurses, and other professionals as COVID-19 strains the medical system in the United States.
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