Researchers Differentiate MIS-C From Severe COVID-19 in Children
Severe cardiovascular or mucocutaneous involvement, more extreme inflammation are among distinguishing features of MIS-C
U.K., U.S. COVID-19 Symptom Checkers May Delay Health Contact
Symptom checkers for U.K., U.S. consistently failed to identify severe COVID-19, bacterial pneumonia, sepsis
Suicide Decedents in Child Welfare System Had Used Health Services
Young suicide decedents more likely to have accessed mental health services, physical health services; visited ED
New Models Predict Risk for Ventilation, Death From COVID-19
Age not a predictor of which hospitalized COVID-19 patients will require ventilation
Neurologic Involvement Common in Children Hospitalized With COVID-19
Twelve percent of those with neurologic involvement develop life-threatening conditions associated with COVID-19
FDA Warns Consumers to Not Use Ivermectin for COVID-19
Agency has received reports of patients requiring medical support after self-medicating with ivermectin for use in horses
Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup
Three Modes of Transmission Explain Most Giardiasis Outbreaks
Water exposure, person-to-person contact, contaminated food accounted for more than half of outbreaks in 2012 to 2017
CDC: 21,869 West Nile Virus Cases Identified in U.S. in 2009 to 2018
59 percent were neuroinvasive disease cases, which occurred more often with increasing age