COVID-19 Research News Update for April 16
Post Date: April 16, 2020 | Publish Date:
The Research Horizons science blog is sharing links to research-oriented news about the COVID-19 pandemic, especially information about how children are affected.
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From Cincinnati Children’s:
Gamble Program Seeks Donors for COVID-19 T-Cell Study
Journal of Hospital Medicine: Pediatric Hospital Medicine Management, Staffing, and Well-being in the Face of COVID-19
Co-authors: Katie Meier, MD , Karen Jerardi, MD, MEd, Angela Statile, MD, MEd, and Samir Shah, MD, MSCE, MHM
Pediatric Grand Rounds special presentations on COVID-19
April 14: Transmission and Testing
Presenters: Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH and Jeffrey Simmons, MD, MSc
From the University of Cincinnati:
UC, UC Health to examine potential COVID-19 treatment
Protocol allows expanded access to convalescent plasma for the sickest patients
Explore these findings:
JAMA: Pharmacologic Treatments for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Review
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: COVID-19 in Children in the United States: Intensive Care Admissions, Estimated Total Infected, and Projected Numbers of Severe Pediatric Cases in 2020
Clinical Immunology: COVID-19 – Considerations for the paediatric rheumatologist
The Journal of Infection: Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 and Treatment
Journal of Medical Virology: Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients dying from COVID‐19 in Italy versus China
Journal of Clinical Virology: Clinical characteristics and risk assessment of newborns born to mothers with COVID-19
Journal of Clinical Virology: Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of 10 children with coronavirus disease 2019 in Changsha, China
CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases: Aerosol and Surface Distribution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Hospital Wards, Wuhan, China, 2020
NEJM: Stability and Viability of SARS-CoV-2 (Correspondence)
HOW YOU CAN TRACK PEDIATRIC NEWS ABOUT COVID-19
COVIDview: A Weekly Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-19 Activity from the CDC
COVID-19 projections assuming full social distancing through May 2020
Pandemic tracker from Worldometer
Pandemic tracking dashboard from Johns Hopkins University
Ohio Department of Health: COVID-19 dashboard
Guidance for care providers from Cincinnati Children’s
A frequently updated collection of pediatric COVID-19 papers can be found here