COVID-19 Update | 15 May 2020

EXITING THE LOCKDOWN

• Covid-19 and children: what does the science tell us, and what does this mean as the lockdown is eased?

• Preparing for a responsible lockdown exit strategy. 

• Vaccination news – success in rhesus monkeys: ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination prevents SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in rhesus macaques.

• Seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among health care workers in a large Spanish reference hospital.

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS

• Responding to the hidden pandemic for healthcare workers: stress. 
• Masks Reveal New Social Norms. 
• Coping with COVID-19: scaling up virtual care to standard practice.

MEDICAL MANAGEMENT / INFECTIVITY

• Hydroxychloroquine in patients with mainly mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019: open label, randomised controlled trial
• Potential of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 causes fears of shortages among people with systemic lupus erythematosus
• Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19
• Caring for patients with cancer in the COVID-19 era. 
• SARS-CoV-2 entry factors are highly expressed in nasal epithelial cells together with innate immune genes. 
• SARS-COV-2, cats and dogs. 
• Early Safety Indicators of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma in 5,000 Patients. 

GLOBAL HEALTH

• A framework for identifying regional outbreak and spread of COVID-19 from one-minute population-wide surveys. 
• Assessment of Deaths From COVID-19 and From Seasonal Influenza
• COVID-19 in humanitarian settings and lessons learned from past epidemics. COVID-19 will damage health not just now but also in the future. Biomedical research: lessons from the last decade’s crisis and austerity-stricken small countries for the current COVID-19-related crisis.

RENAL DISEASE

• Asymptomatic Seroconversion of Immunoglobulins to SARS-CoV-2 in a Pediatric Dialysis Unit. 
• SARS-COV-2 in peritoneal waste

EAP WEBINAR

• EAP Webinar about COVID19 and Paediatric Health. May 21st, 2020 05:00 PM CET. Research to help Women and Children – the PENTA Foundation approach to COVID19 outbreak. Pr. Carlo Giaquinto and Pr. Claire Thorne. Registration required. 

• Visit the webinar page on the EAP website.

In today’s ZIP file COVID 15 mai 2020, interesting papers, recos and bibliographies.

Published on Linkedin

All docs and letters available on-line

Don’t forget to click on ESPN COVID resource, on IPNA COVID initiative, and on EAP resource page.

Best regards.

Merci à Philippe Hugot, Martin Christian, Eric Thervet, Alexandre Fabre, Stephane Burtey, Rob Ross Russell, Pierre Cochat, Labros Stefas, Nathalie Quiles et Lucas Percheron.

Michel Tsimaratos

Mis à jour le 15 mai 2020