COVID-19 Update | 19 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.

IMMUNITY AND SEVERE DISEASE IN CHILDREN

• Risks to children and young people during covid-19 pandemic
• Pre-existing and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans
• PIMS, a new ‘hyperinflammatory syndrome’ in children
• Acute heart failure in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in the context of global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
• Potent neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

TEST, TEST, TEST

• Variation in False-Negative Rate of Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction–Based SARS-CoV-2 Tests by Time Since Exposure
• COVID-19 Diagnostics In Context
• How to get millions of people to take coronavirus tests and stay home if they’re positive

RESEARCH AND ETHICS

• 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.
• Controversy: care protocols or research protocols
• Avoiding dangerous mistakes in COVID research
• Defeating COVID-19 requires unprecedented action and collaboration
• Is COVID-19 an Endothelial Disease ?
• Drowned by numbers
• I’d rather have Covid-19 in a free country than no COVID in a totalitarian state

RENAL

• Tocilizumab for Hemophagocytic Syndrome in a Kidney Transplant Recipient With COVID-19
• Early Outcomes of Outpatient Management of Kidney Transplant Recipients with COVID
• Use of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system inhibitors and risk of COVID-19

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

• Why American life went on as normal during the killer pandemic of 1969
• The day after, COVID generation?
• Geopolitics for tomorrow 
• A “new deal” for healthcare
• Scepticism prevail
• Lessons for tomorrow

• Dark times (French)
• In today’s ZIP file COVID 19 mai 2020

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Don’t forget to click on ESPN COVID resource <https://www.espn-online.org/covid-19/>, on IPNA COVID initiative <https://ipna-online.org/covidinitiative/>, and on EAP resource page <https://www.eapaediatrics.eu/covid-19-resource-centre/>.

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.