Top news of the week: 12.05.2020.
Pneumonia, Vaccination, Health care, World Health Organization, Medicine, The Economist
Coronavirus
Dr. Peter Piot is a long-time hero in the world's fight against viruses. He identified Ebola in 1976 and later helped lead the fight against HIV. And then he came down with the coronavirus: https://t.co/57FZ3HQSHA
Open‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19
Top virologist Peter Piot spent 1 week at a London hospital in April and has been recovering at home since
Many different reports on mutations. This nice clear @iansample piece highlights #COVID19 is pretty stable.
We must be vigilant though. LSHTM found 2 new mutations are in the critical protein the virus uses to invade cells.
More in @guardianscience ➡️ https://t.co/TTOpwLuPar
OpenWill Covid-19 mutate into a more dangerous virus?
What do we know about the way coronavirus is evolving?
American Samoa has sealed itself off for nearly 2 months from the outside world. It is the only part of the U.S. without a single confirmed case of the coronavirus. https://t.co/0VK8BPWHov
OpenA Place in the U.S. With No Covid-19? Look to American Samoa.
The territory, which has sealed itself off from the outside world, has no confirmed cases.
Writing in The Economist, historian Margaret MacMillan argues that covid-19 is challenging the old order https://t.co/qyE2VVib8f https://t.co/5zCHpcqljj
OpenThe world after covid-19 Margaret MacMillan on covid-19 as a turning point in history
The pandemic exposes our weaknesses and strengths. How the story unfolds will depend on leaders
The number of childhood vaccinations has plunged since the Covid-19 pandemic began spreading in the US, the CDC says https://t.co/V1glQaXEox
OpenChildhood vaccinations plunge since Covid-19 pandemic started, CDC says
Childhood vaccinations have plunged since the Covid-19 pandemic started hitting the US, the CDC says.
Writing in The Economist, historian @ELuttwak argues that the coronavirus has revealed submerged truths about political regimes, international institutions and entire societies https://t.co/IvmCznbEhH
OpenThe world after covid-19 By invitation: Edward Luttwak
The heavy toll of a virus that exposes uneasy truths wherever it infects
We've published our new COVID-19 rapid guideline on acute kidney injury in hospital. Read the full story here: https://t.co/2kMEVbf6Rg https://t.co/mxie2AdGKE
OpenNew COVID-19 guideline on acute kidney injury
The guideline aims to help healthcare professionals who are not kidney specialists to prevent, detect and manage AKI in patients in hospital with suspected or confirmed …
RT @Azeem_Majeed: Important points about the challenge of patient rehabilitation after intensive care for COVID-19 in this @bmj_latest article. GPs such as @DrSimonHodes and @SianStanley1 are working hard with colleagues to put in place services for these patients. https://t.co/vM4osTSxsm
OpenCovid-19: the challenge of patient rehabilitation after intensive care
As the UK’s coronavirus patients begin to leave ICUs, Jacqui Thornton examines how the NHS plans to meet a “tsunami of need” Covid-19 has shone a bright light on the impressive work of NHS ...