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Rapidly managing pneumonia in older people during a pandemic
(2020-03-20)The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the risk faced by older adults, who are more susceptible to complications, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, usually as a result of pneumonia. Comorbidities, ... -
Peer-to-Peer Contact Tracing: A Privacy-Preserving Smartphone Application
(2020-04-02)[Abstract]. Background: The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an urgent public health crisis, with epidemiologic models predicting severe consequences, including high death rates, if the virus is permitted ... -
Creating a Palliative Care Inpatient Response Plan for COVID19 – The UW Medicine Experience
(2020-03-24)[Abstract]. Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is stressing healthcare systems throughout the world. Significant numbers of patients are being admitted to the hospital with severe illness, often in the setting of advanced ... -
Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 — United States, February 12–April 9, 2020
(2020-04-14)What is already known about this topic? Limited information is available about COVID-19 infections among U.S. health care personnel (HCP). What is added by this report? Of 9,282 U.S. COVID-19 cases reported among HCP, ... -
Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for COVID-19: Present or Future
(2020-04-13)“COVID-19” is the word that certainly isn’t forgotten by everybody who lives in the first half of the twenty-first century. COVID-19, as a pandemic, has led many researchers from different biomedical fields to find solutions ... -
How can pandemic spreads be contained in care homes?
(2020-04-14)Care home settings serve a primarily elderly population with a diverse range of medical requirements. Care homes are unique in being both health-related institutions and people’s home. In available data the risk of dying ... -
Biorisk assessment for infrastructure & biosafety requirements for the laboratories providing coronavirus SARS-CoV-2/(COVID-19) diagnosis
(2020)Novel coronavirus infection [coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)] has spread to more than 203 countries of various regions including Africa, America, Europe, South East Asia and Western Pacific. The WHO had declared COVID-19 ... -
Reliance for Emergency Use Authorization of Medicines and Other Health Technologies in a Pandemic (e.g. COVID-19)
(2020-04-23)Purpose and Context: This document provides guidance to national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and regulatory systems on practical ways to implement reliance for emergency use of medicines and other health technologies in ... -
Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case
(2020-03-24)Epidemic outbreaks are a special case of supply chain (SC) risks which is distinctively characterized by a long-term disruption existence, disruption propagations (i.e., the ripple effect), and high uncertainty. We present ... -
Evidence Based Management Guideline for the COVID-19 Pandemic - Review article
(2020-04-11)COVID-19 has now been declared a pandemic. To date, COVID-19 has affected over 944,181 people worldwide, resulting in over 47,312 reported deaths. Numerous preventative strategies and non-pharmaceutical interventions have ...