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 AIIMS, NEW DELHI Be careful, not fearful Dispel the myths of corona scare, Imbibe correct knowledge & become aware, Follow cough etiquettes, hand hygiene & personal care, Spread a word of precaution through your share.                    […]

 Neurosci. Bull. March, 2020, 36(3):299–302 http://www.neurosci.cn https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-020-00476-9 http://www.springer.com/12264 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Yuncheng Zhu1 • Liangliang Chen2 • Haifeng Ji2 • Maomao Xi3 • Yiru Fang1,5,6 • Yi Li4 Received: 14 February 2020 / Accepted: 16 February 2020 / Published online: 25 February 2020 Ó Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS 2020 Dear Editor, […]

Liu et al. Cell Discovery (2020)6:16 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41421-020-0156-0 Cell Discovery http://www.nature.com/celldisc    CORRESPONDENCE Open Access   Hydroxychloroquine, a less toxic derivative of chloroquine, is effective in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro Jia Liu1, Ruiyuan Cao2, Mingyue Xu1,3, Xi Wang1, Huanyu Zhang1,3, Hengrui Hu1,3, Yufeng Li1,3, Zhihong Hu 1, Wu Zhong2 and Manli Wang1 […]

SARS-CoV-2 (or 2019-nCoV) has mainly surfaced in the form of respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia. However, there is a range of clinical manifestations observed among infected patients, haematological changes being one of them. Here we give you findings that point out haematology-related changes in infected patients and the associated risks they face. For our comprehensive coverage […]

  Dr Frances is Professor Emeritus and former Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University; Chair, DSM-IV Task Force. He is the author of Saving Normal and Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis. Twitter: @AllenFrancesMD. I recently came across this compelling tweet: “An open question on mental health as a junior psychiatrist. What do you think I should […]

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Damir Huremović Editor         Psychiatry of Pandemics A Mental Health Response to Infection Outbreak 1 3 Psychiatry of Pandemics Damir Huremović Editor Psychiatry of Pandemics A Mental Health Response to Infection Outbreak   Editor Damir Huremović North Shore University Hospital Manhasset, NY USA ISBN 978-3-030-15345-8 ISBN 978-3-030-15346-5 […]

  (COVID-19)   Introduction •Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).    •The corona Virus appears to be spreading at a fast pace around the country.   •Precaution & maintaining personal hygiene seem […]

 Neurosci. Bull. March, 2020, 36(3):299–302 http://www.neurosci.cn https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-020-00476-9 http://www.springer.com/12264 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Yuncheng Zhu1 • Liangliang Chen2 • Haifeng Ji2 • Maomao Xi3 • Yiru Fang1,5,6 • Yi Li4 Received: 14 February 2020 / Accepted: 16 February 2020 / Published online: 25 February 2020 Ó Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS 2020 Dear Editor, […]

A day after President Donald Trump declared an anti-malaria drug a “game changer” in the fight against the novel coronavirus, the nation’s top infectious disease expert downplayed any role it might play in the fast-moving pandemic and said signs of the drug’s promise were purely “anecdotal.” Fauci’s statements at a White House briefing Friday amounted […]

  Setting Personnel Required Inventory/Activity/ Skills to be tested 1. Outpatients facilities/ Initial Triage Consultation Room Healthcare workers (Doctors and Nurses) Physical examination of patients with respiratory symptoms. Inventory PPEs & Medicines, hand washing and sanitizer facility. Healthcare workers (Doctors and Nurses) Physical examination of patients without respiratory symptoms but based on self-declaration and […]

Anosmia as a marker fir Covid , here is the official ENT UK update Loss of sense of smell as marker of COVID-19 infection Dear Colleague, There is new evidence for the loss of smell as a symptom of COVID-19 infection. We are circulating the following intelligence to Public Health England with regards to anosmia. […]

The COVID-19 outbreak which has rapidly jumped from epidemic to pandemic has affected over 2 lakh people worldwide with fatality rates being particularly high among the elderly. In this article, Dr. OP Sharma lists the risk factors responsible for infection among older people and specific instructions that doctors can give to vulnerable patients.   What […]

   The Pandemic Notebook A handy guide from The Hindu on understanding the coronavirus pandemic and staying protected against COVID-19                          WRITERS EDITED BY R. Prasad P.J. George Bindu […]

The new england journal of medicine Original Article B. Cao, Y. Wang, D. Wen, W. Liu, Jingli Wang, G. Fan, L. Ruan, B. Song, Y. Cai, M. Wei, X. Li, J. Xia, N. Chen, J. Xiang, T. Yu, T. Bai, X. Xie, L. Zhang, C. Li, Y. Yuan, H. Chen, Huadong Li, H. Huang, S. […]

Special for Wodehouse fans: JEEVES DEALS WITH CORONAVIRUS As ever, Jeeves entered the room at the exact time. Neither too soon or too late, but just when I was about to begin to open my eyes, the honest man shimmered into view holding the salver with the invigorating cup of morning tea. ‘Good morning, Jeeves’, […]

WE WILL HEAR ‘ONLY URGENT CASES’, says SUPREME COURT! ‘ Corona virus: SC, Delhi HC restrict hearings to urgent cases only. Supreme Court judges have decided that they will hear only urgent matters as of now, to prevent overcrowding of courts and thereby prevent potential danger of spread of Corona virus. Supreme Court’s Secretary-general Sanjeev […]

A LETTER FROM F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, QUARANTINED IN 1920 IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE DURING THE SPANISH INFLUENZA OUTBREAK. Dearest Rosemary, It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter. Outside, I perceive what may be a collection of fallen leaves tussling […]

What became known as Covid-19, or the coronavirus, started in late 2019 and early 2020 in the Chinese city of Wuhan as a cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause. The cause of the pneumonia was found to be a new virus – severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or Sars-CoV-2. The illness caused […]

Are you confused why this is more than just the flu? This was the best thing I found on the Internet to explain it, have a read .. Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share […]

Please Read – Letter from MDs in Boston to our Community bracing for a calamity of epic proportion. “As there is so much confusion, misinformation and denial on social media about the coronavirus we hope to explain, in plain language, why the experts see this as such an emergency. Many people are reading the claim […]

At the moment the disease Covid 19 is in stage 2 in India. Community transmission has not yet documented so far. But surely will happen this week or in next couple of weeks.. To “‘flatten the curve” strategy countries are coming up with drastic measures including lockdown of cities and towns. In India most states […]

कृपया जरूर पढ़ें: ये ट्विटर थ्रेड (मैसेज श्रंखला) है इटली के लोगों की.. मैं इसे अपने हिंदी भाषी दोस्तों के लिए ट्रांसलेट कर रहा हूँ.. पढ़िए और समझिये कि हमारा और आपका सामना किस से होने वाला है अगर आप अभी भी अपने दोस्तों के साथ घूम रहे हैं, होटल जा रहे हैं, पार्टी कर […]

भारत सरकार GOVERNMENT OF INDIA Novel Corona Virus The Helpline Number for corona-virus : +91-11-23978046 Toll Free No: 1075 The Helpline Numbers of States & Union Territories for corona-virus The Helpline Email ID for corona-virus : ncov2019[at]gov[dot]in Advisory – Social Distancing Guidelines on Dead Body Management DoPT OM – Preventive measures to be taken to […]

  Information Management in the context of COVID-19  Rational for Data and Information for COVID-19 preparedness and response • For tracking of cases and contacts and to provide care and treatment • For rapid detection of new cases where the SARS- CoV-2 is not circulating; • To provide epidemiological information to conduct risk […]

National Training of Trainers for COVID-19 March 6, 2020 Samples to be collected • Essential samples: – Throat swab (oropharyngeal swab). – Nasal swab (Nasopharyngeal swab) • Other preferred samples: – Bronchoalveolar lavage – Tracheal aspirate – Sputum • In lab confirmed patients: – Blood – Stool and urine – Wide mouth sterile plastic containers […]

 Government of India Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Directorate General of Health Services (EMR Division) Guidelines on Clinical Management of COVID – 19 This document is intended for clinicians taking care of hospitalised adult and paediatric patients of COVID – 19. It is not meant to replace clinical judgment or specialist consultation but […]

Broken pottery reveals the sheer devastation caused by the Black Death A 14th century woodcut showing victims of the plague. (The National Library of Medicine) By Sarah Kaplan  Reporter May 25, 2016 at 12:13 a.m. GMT+5:30 Working in the quiet villages of rural eastern Britain, surrounded by well-tended gardens and quaint country homes, Carenza Lewis has […]

Whenever a virus jumps from its natural host to another host (like humans), it tends to be virulent during the first few days, chiefly because the new host doesn’t have specific protective immunity against the novel virus. This results in higher mortality during the first few days or weeks. However, innate immunity provides protection to […]

Letter to the Editor Giuseppe Lippi* and Mario Plebani https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2020-0198 Received for publication February 24, 2020 Keywords: coronavirus; COVID-19; laboratory medicine; laboratory tests; prognosis. To the Editor, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a form of respira- tory and systemic zoonosis caused by a virus belonging to the Coronaviridae family, originated from the town of Wuhan in […]

               COVID-19 The right clinical information, right where it’s needed  Last updated: Mar 12, 2020 Table of Contents Summary 3 Basics 4 Definition 4 Epidemiology 4 Aetiology 5 Pathophysiology 6 Prevention 8 Primary prevention 8 Screening 9 Secondary prevention 9 […]

Save lives with Social Distancing: How to protect your family from coronavirus, primed to hit India like a bomb March 16, 2020, 2:00 AM IST Devi Shetty in TOI Edit Page | Edit Page, India | TOI Biogen, a Boston-based biotech company, held a conference in the last week of February. 175 senior managers from […]

Story My 15-year-old son locks himself with his girlfriend inside our bedroom: What THE HELL? Dr. Harish Shetty [An Imaginary Conversation] “The HOME is a Laboratory where habits are shaped. Never fear children, they are waiting for ‘democratic’ conversations but remember you have the veto power. ” Father: What do I do? He again locked […]

 A THERAPIST’S GUIDE TO JEFFREY A. CULLY, PH.D. ANDRA L. TETEN, PH.D. Published by the Department of Veterans Affairs, South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), 2008. Suggested citation: Cully, J.A., & Teten, A.L. 2008. A Therapist’s Guide to Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Department of Veterans Affairs South Central MIRECC, Houston. […]

VIDYA KRISHNAN 14 March 2020 India continues to respond to COVID-19 with a focus on “imported” cases. With the current limits on testing for the virus, the Indian government is likely blind to the full scale of local transmission. SANJEEV VERMA / HINDUSTAN TIMES / GETTY IMAGES On Friday, 707 employees of a Noida-based leather […]

Here’s what happened with the fatality announced yesterday. @db_is_db pieced together the story from different news reports. Mohammed Hussain Siddiqui is a 76-year-old Maulana from Kalburgi, Karnataka. He had returned from Mecca on Feb 29th, landed at Bengaluru airport and proceeded to Kalburgi, 500 km away. He had had a history of hypertension and asthma. […]

I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the government, not the school district, not the mayor, each individual citizen has […]

8 min read . Updated: 13 Mar 2020, 01:11 PM IST Ajai Sreevatsan Over a century ago, Spanish flu all but destroyed the Indian economy. What can we learn from those experiences? 1918 experience matters because it was the last major pandemic that spread rapidly within India, showing what happens when an unprepared country comes […]

Annals of Internal Medicine ORIGINAL RESEARCH2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application Stephen A. Lauer, MS, PhD*; Kyra H. Grantz, BA*; Qifang Bi, MHS; Forrest K. Jones, MPH; Qulu Zheng, MHS; Hannah R. Meredith, PhD; Andrew S. Azman, PhD; Nicholas G. Reich, PhD; and Justin Lessler, PhD Background: A novel human coronavirus, […]

  March 2020 In January 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus disease in Hubei Province, China to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. WHO stated there is a high risk of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreading to other countries around the world. WHO and […]

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