Contamination in manufacturing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention test for the coronavirus caused weeks of delays that slowed the US response to the pandemic, multiple health officials have told CNN, a problem that stemmed in part from the CDC not adhering to its own protocols, according to a US Food and Drug Administration…
Month: April 2020
Scientific American reports “Shortcuts in COVID-19 Drug Research Could Do Long-Term Harm, Bioethicists Worry”
Compassionate use of experimental medicine needs to coexist with scientific rigor to help patients, researchers write in the journal Science Does a widespread medical emergency justify speedier, and sometimes less rigorous, ways to test treatments and evaluate results? Doctors and patients urgently need to get their hands on drugs for the COVID-19 pandemic.But bioethicists Jonathan Kimmelman…
Stanford research reports “Covid-19 much more prevalent than previously thought”
The population prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Santa Clara County implies that the infection is much more widespread than indicated by the number of confirmed cases. Population prevalence estimatescan now be used to calibrate epidemic and mortality projections. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf
CDC releases “guidance on classifying Covid-19 deaths”
It is important to emphasize that Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-1-Guidance-for-Certifying-COVID-19-Deaths.pdf