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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 ... -
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 ... -
Initial impacts of global risk mitigation measures taken during the combatting of the COVID-19 pandemic
(2020-04-15)This paper presents an analysis of risk mitigation measures taken by countries around the world facing the current COVID-19 outbreak. In light of the current pandemic the authors collated and clustered (using harmonised ... -
COVID‐19 in Seattle—Early lessons learned
(2020-03-25)The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has rapidly evolved and now dominates the attention and full efforts of the emergency medicine community, both domestic and abroad. Seattle is the site of the initial diagnosed ... -
COVID-19 pandemic: triage for intensive-care treatment under resource scarcity
(2020-03-24)Owing to the rapid spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), an extraordinary situation has been declared, and acute hospitals will therefore be confronted with a massive influx of patients. Initially, this can be absorbed ... -
What is the evidence for social distancing during global pandemics?
(2020-03-20)Background: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government has now moved from its contain phase to a delay phase. Social distancing measures are being mandated, including self-isolation for anyone with specific ...