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…
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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
Express reports “Coronavirus study identifies ‘gain of function for efficient spread in humans’
COVID-19 has now infected nearly 120,000 people, killing more than 4,600 in the process in a devastating outbreak which has now been declared a pandemic. Italy has been placed on lockdown as the infection spreads through Europe at an alarming rate. A study released by Chinese scientists earlier this month found the origin of coronavirus could…
Stanford law professor Nora Freeman reports “Federal program for vaccine-injured children is failing”
“The bottom line is that the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was supposed to offer ‘simple justice’ to vaccine-injured children. But it has largely failed to do so,” wrote Stanford law Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom in a new research article.
Market Watch reports “U.S. health officials say Americans shouldn’t wear face masks to prevent coronavirus”
Though health officials have warned Americans to prepare for the spread of the novel coronavirus in the U.S., people shouldn’t wear face masks to prevent the spread of the infectious illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. surgeon general. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-dont-have-to-wear-facemasks-because-of-coronavirus-2020-01-30