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A Kawasaki-like multisystem inflammatory syndrome

Kawasaki-Like Disease More Common in Children of African Ancestry

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Kawasaki-like inflammatory syndrome temporally linked to SARS-CoV-2 marked by GI symptoms
A partnership that would bypass the drug industry to sell a potential vaccine against the new coronavirus has been formed by a laboratory at Imperial College London.

Partnership Would Bypass Drug Industry to Sell COVID-19 Vaccine

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Vaccine could be sold without profits or licensing fees in Britain and low- and middle-income countries
About half of patients with perioperative severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 have postoperative pulmonary complications

Postoperative Lung Complications Common in Patients With SARS-CoV-2

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Pulmonary complications found in 51.2 percent of patients; 30-day mortality 38 percent in these patients
Understaffing and increased nursing workload are associated with multiple organ failure in intensive care unit patients

Nurse Understaffing May Up Risk for Multiple Organ Failure in ICU Patients

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Nursing workload was significantly higher in patients with multiple organ failure, nonsurvivors
COVID-19 patients with hypertension have increased mortality risk

COVID-19 Mortality Higher for Those Not Taking Meds for Their HTN

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Mortality similar with renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitor, non-RAAS inhibitor for HTN
Francis Collins

NIH Head Fears Some Will Bypass a COVID-19 Vaccine

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Name of campaign -- 'Operation Warp Speed' -- does not mean corners will be cut on safety
Here is what the editors at Physician's Briefing chose as the most important COVID-19 developments for you and your practice for the week of June 1 to 5

Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup

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Here is what the editors at Physician's Briefing chose as the most important COVID-19 developments for you and your practice for the week of...
Patients admitted to a New York City hospital with COVID-19 faced major morbidity and mortality

Acute Kidney Injury Common in COVID-19 Patients at NYC Hospital

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Of patients admitted to ICU, 78.0 percent developed acute kidney injury, 35.2 percent needed dialysis
Pediatric patients with COVID-19 rarely have systemic inflammation

Systemic Inflammation Rare in Pediatric COVID-19 Patients

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Level of interleukin 10 increased in moderate versus mild cases; no difference seen in IL6, TNFα, IFN-γ
Two premiere medical journals are questioning the validity of the data in two studies: one that showed the use of blood pressure drugs was safe in COVID-19 patients and another that showed the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was dangerous

COVID-19 Drug Studies Questioned

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Journals issue 'expressions of concern' over two recent studies of medications and their effect on COVID-19 patients