Hydroxychloroquine for SARS-CoV-2 Infection: How Did We Get Here?
Hydroxychloroquine is a less-toxic metabolite of the antimalarial drug chloroquine and is used as an immunomodulator for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.
Viral Infections
Face Masks Offer Slight Protective Effect From Flu-Like Illness
Wearing face masks could be slightly protective against primary infection with influenza-like illness from casual community contact.
Anxiety Up for Nonmedical Health Care Workers Versus Those on Front Lines
Non-medically trained health care workers caring for patients with COVID-19 have an increased prevalence of anxiety compared with medically trained health care workers.
FDA Approves New Way to Decontaminate N95 Face Masks
The second emergency use authorization to decontaminate N95 face masks and equivalents for reuse by hospital health care workers has been issued by the FDA.
Clinical Trial Underway to Test Nitric Oxide in COVID-19 Patients
Doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are enrolling patients in an international clinical trial to find out if inhaled nitric oxide benefits those with COVID-19 who have severely damaged lungs.
Older Adults, Men, Preexisting Conditions Tied to COVID-19 Death
Researchers have identified the most common clinical characteristics among 109 patients out of 1,017 with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia who died of COVID-19-related pneumonia in Wuhan, China.
Healthcare Workers Report Elevated Psychiatric Symptoms Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
A study of Chinese healthcare workers may foreshadow the mental health burden placed upon physicians, nurses, and other professionals as COVID-19 strains the medical system in the United States.
Interim AHA Guidelines for Reducing COVID-19 Transmission During Resuscitation
The American Heart Association released interim guidance on resuscitation care in patients with known or suspected COVID-19.
Shortages Seen for Drugs That Show Promise Against COVID-19
Strong demand for medications that show promise as treatments for COVID-19 have led to shortages of those drugs in the United States.
No Evidence Found for SARS-CoV-2 Vertical Transmission to Fetus
There is currently no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 undergoes intrauterine or transplacental transmission from COVID-19-infected pregnant women to fetuses.
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