Search Results for: United States

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020

Imaging of children with COVID-19: experience from a tertiary children’s hospital in the United States.

Publication date: Sep 18, 2020 Imaging of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been described in adults, but children have milder forms of disease. Pediatric imaging descriptions are of asymptomatic ... Read more

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

Decreased Influenza Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic – United States, Australia, Chile, and South Africa, 2020.

Coronavirus Discovery

After recognition of widespread community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), by mid- to late February 2020, indicators of influenza activity began to decline in ... Read more

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020

Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Sep 15, 2020 Voluntary physical distancing is essential for preventing the spread of COVID-19. We assessed the role of political partisanship in individuals’ compliance with physical distancing recommendations ... Read more

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020

The COVID-19 cannabis health study: Results from an epidemiologic assessment of adults who use cannabis for medicinal reasons in the United States.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Sep 15, 2020 Clinical indications for medicinal cannabis include chronic conditions; thus users (MCUs) are at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19). ... Read more

September 17, 2020September 19, 2020

Testing, Testing: What SARS-CoV-2 testing services do adults in the United States actually want?

Coronavirus Pandemic

Importance: Ascertaining preferences for SARS-CoV-2 testing and incorporating findings into the design and implementation of strategies for delivering testing services may enhance testing uptake and engagement, a prerequisite to reducing ... Read more

September 17, 2020September 19, 2020

Heterogeneity and temporal variation in the management of COVID-19: a multinational drug utilization study including 71,921 hospitalized patients from China, South Korea, Spain, and the United States of America

Coronavirus Discovery

Objectives: A plethora of medicines have been repurposed or used as adjunctive therapies for COVID-19. We characterized the utilization of medicines as prescribed in routine practice amongst patients hospitalized for ... Read more

September 17, 2020September 18, 2020

Mental Distress in the United States at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Coronavirus Discovery

Objectives. To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental distress in US adults. Methods. Participants were 5065 adults from the Understanding America Study, a probability-based Internet panel representative ... Read more

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Are we there yet? An adaptive SIR model for continuous estimation of COVID-19 infection rate and reproduction number in the United States

Coronavirus News

Publication date: Sep 14, 2020 The dynamics of the COVID-19 epidemic vary due to local population density and policy measures. When making decisions, policy makers consider an estimate of the ... Read more

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020

Interim Recommendations for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems and 911 Public Safety Answering Points/Emergency Communication Centers (PSAP/ECCs) in the United States During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic

Coronavirus News

Publication date: Jul 14, 2020 EMS practices should be based on the most up-to-date clinical recommendations and information from appropriate public health authorities and EMS medical direction about SARS-CoV-2 infection. ... Read more

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020

A commentary on interpreting the United States preventive services task force autism screening recommendation statement.

Autism Literature

Publication date: Sep 14, 2020 In 2016, the US Preventive Services Task Force concluded that there was “insufficient” (“I” statement) evidence to support universal primary care screening for autism spectrum ... Read more