Coronavirus disease WHO situation update (COVID19) Report 71 No new countries/territories/areas reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours As mentioned by the Director-General in his regular media briefing yesterday, ensuring free movement of essential health products is vital for saving lives and curbing the social and economic impacts of the pandemic. WHO is […]
Between war and fragile health systems, tackling Tuberculosis (TB) in Sudan and South Sudan, MSF share a series of testimonials from some of their patients and medical staff in the region. Years of war and a fragile health system have left many people without access to treatment for chronic infectious diseases such as TB in […]
GMB Union is calling for urgent supply of PPE and testing for all staff GMB Union says the lack of PPE and testing for frontline workers ‘a national crisis’ as the number of self-isolating ambulance workers hits 4,100 – across just eight trusts. London, Yorkshire, North East, Wales, East Midlands, South Central, South East Coast and North West ambulance services have reported hundreds of cases of self-isolation each. GMB ambulance workers report […]
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This is the account of a medic working in the ER of hospital in the United States. Below he gives his first hand observations and opinion on the clinical progression of the Covid 19 patients he has treated. I am an ER MD in New Orleans. Class of 98. Every one of my colleagues have […]
The Royal College of Midwives has today made a plea to NHS leaders to protect the safety of pregnant women by ringfencing maternity services in the current crisis. There is concern that vital staff, including midwives and maternity support workers, will be redeployed to other areas, at a time when a survey of senior midwives […]
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The ‘soft-launch’ of Science Matters: Lets Talk about COVID-19 on Coursera in February rapidly became the most popular in the world. Imperial College London researchers and the leading global education platform Coursera have partnered to offer a free massively open online course (MOOC) explaining the science behind the response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Reaching […]
Day 9 with Covid 19 I’m pleased to say that my cough is much better and my lungs are clearer, but this bug is a tenacious one. Today, for the first time I woke up sneezing with a runny nose. I’ve been reaching for the tissues all day. I also feel the headache lingering and […]
The Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University are tracking the COVID-19 spread in real-time on their interactive dashboard with data available for download. They are also modeling the spread of the virus. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 […]
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The use of Povidone-Iodine Nasal Spray and Mouthwash during the current Covid-19 Pandemic may protect healthcare workers and reduce cross infection. Povidone-iodine (PVP-I) has a better anti-viral activity than other antiseptics, and has already been proven to be an effective virucide in vitro against severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronaviruses (SARS-CoV […]
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Created by Henry Reich of MinutePhysics this video is a collaboration with Aatish Bhatia about how to see the COVID-19 tipping point. Together they present a better way to graph COVID-19 coronavirus cases using a logarithmic scale in “phase space” – plotting the growth rate against the cumulative cases, rather than either of these against […]