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Latest COVID-19 Research & Evidence — 09/12/20
Research
Title: Retrospective Analysis of Asymptomatic COVID‐19 Patients Presenting to [the] Emergency Department
Description: In this study, the authors aimed to investigate the clinical and demographic characteristics of asymptomatic COVID‐19 cases incidentally diagnosed at the emergency department.
Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijcp.13913
Title: Contamination of inert surfaces by SARS-CoV-2: Persistence, stability and infectivity.
Description: Although person-to-person close contact and small aerosol respiratory droplets are the main methods of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, indirect transmission of the virus cannot be discarded: A review.
Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...1-s2.0-S0013935120314560-main.pdf
Title: Evidence of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in cats and dogs from households in Italy
Description: Here, the authors report on a large-scale study to assess SARS-CoV-2 infection in 919 companion animals living in northern Italy, sampled at a time of frequent human infection.
Available from: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20097-0.pdf
Guidance
Title: Inpatient Hyperglycemia Management and COVID-19
Description: Diabetes is one of the most common comorbidities in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. This review presents recommendations for the management of hyperglycemia in critical and non-critical settings.
Available from: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13300-020-00966-z.pdf
Title: BMJ COVID-19 guidance (updated daily)
Description: COVID-19 point of care guidance covering: theory, diagnosis, management, follow-up, as well as additional resources (e.g. guidelines and patient leaflets).
Available from: https://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/3000201
Expert Opinions
Title: Could Slovakia’s mass testing programme work in England?
Description: In a recent assessment of G7 countries, the UK was second worst in the cumulative number of deaths in relation to population. Here, the authors discuss what is happening in Slovakia—and what the UK could learn.
Available from: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/12/...ting-programme-work-in-england/
Title: Coronavirus vaccine? Join the queue
Description: In order for vaccine supply to cope with demand, nations, and expert organisations must select which groups will first be immunised. This editorial gives an overview of some of the considerations made.
Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2213-8587%2820%2930409-5
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