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November 10, 2020
Characteristics and Outcomes of Neonatal SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the UK: A Prospective National Cohort Study Using Active Surveillance
A national prospective study in the UK found low incidence (5.6 per 10,000 live births) of neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection. Of the 66 babies identified with SARS-CoV-2 during the study period, 17 (26%) babies were born to mothers with known perinatal SARS-CoV-2 infection, and only 2 (3%) were considered to have possible vertically acquired infection. The…
High Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Pets from COVID-19+ Households
In households with a SARS-CoV-2 positive case, 10 out of 47 (21%) cats and dogs were seropositive for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, compared to 1 out of 38 (3%) cats and dogs in households without a person with known SARS-CoV-2 infection. Seroprevalence was not associated with the number of pets per household, which the authors suggest…
The Effect of SARS-CoV-2 Mitigation Strategies on Seasonal Respiratory Viruses: A Tale of Two Large Metropolitan Centers in the United States
Public health measures implemented to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission may have reduced the transmission of other seasonal respiratory viruses. In a retrospective review of medical records from health systems in Atlanta and Boston, average reproductive number (Rt) was found to remain above 1 for much longer in the past 5 seasons for influenza A, influenza B,…
November 9, 2020
Team Contact Sports in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic- a Scientific Concept for the Austrian Football League
[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] No COVID-19 infections occurred during the 12-week period following resumption of the Austrian national male association football league with COVID-19 monitoring. A pre-defined monitoring concept, including (1) health diaries of potential COVID-19 symptoms; (2) PCR results, body temperature and oxygen saturation; and (3) geo-tracking data of players’ movement outside the training/competition facilities…
US Clinicians’ Experiences and Perspectives on Resource Limitation and Patient Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A qualitative study with 61 clinicians involved in institutional planning during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US between April-May 2020 described their experience providing care in settings with limited resources. While clinician leaders planned to avoid decision-making at bedside, unanticipated forms of resource limitations could compromise care and require difficult allocation decisions. The need to…
COVID-19 Wastewater Epidemiology A Model to Estimate Infected Populations
[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] A susceptible-exposed-infectious-removed (SEIR) model based on composite wastewater samples from sewersheds tested for SARS-CoV-2 RNA (a method to estimate the number of infected individuals in a sewershed per day) in South Carolina during June-August 2020 estimated the unreported rate for COVID-19 was 12 times (95%CI 6-19) higher than the rate for confirmed…
Characteristics of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Discharged and Experiencing Same-Hospital Readmission — United States, March–August 2020
Among 106,543 patients discharged after hospitalization for COVID-19 in the US between March–July 2020, 9,504 (9%) experienced at least one readmission to the same hospital within 2 months of discharge, including 1,667 (2%) who were readmitted more than once. The median interval from discharge to first readmission was 8 days (IQR 3–20 days). Risk factors for…
Validation of Home Oxygen Saturations as a Marker of Clinical Deterioration in Patients with Suspected COVID-19
[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] A retrospective cohort study among 1,080 COVID-19 patients conveyed by ambulance to the hospital in the UK found that oxygen saturation measurements at first point of contact in the community were the most predictive of 30-day COVID-19 mortality or ICU admission, with an area under receiver operator curve (AUROC) of 0.8. This…
Containment of a COVID-19 Outbreak in an Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit
An inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit in King County, Washington reported a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak between March 11-18, 2020, with 9 inpatients and 7 staff members with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Enhanced infection prevention interventions and engagement of frontline psychiatric care staff following the outbreak effectively contained the outbreak, with no further patients and only one staff member…
The Prevalence of Asymptomatic and Symptomatic COVID19 Disease in a Cohort of Quarantined Subjects
In a cohort of 2,714 travelers returning to Bahrain by air between February 25th and March 14th, 2020, 136 were SARS-CoV-2 positive on arrival, 68% of whom were asymptomatic. A further 52 became SARS-CoV-2 positive during the mandatory 14-day quarantine following arrival, 46% of whom remained asymptomatic until viral clearance. Al-Qahtani et al. (Nov 2,…
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