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A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma in Covid-19 Severe Pneumonia Abstract BACKGROUND Convalescent plasma is frequently administered to patients with Covid-19 and has been reported, largely on the basis of observational data, to improve clinical outcomes. Minimal data are available from adequa...

Doc wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:08 pm John Campbell seems to stick to the research for the most part

Hope his optimism is warranted. We shall see.

Doc wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:08 pmI pray your wife has speedy recovery and long happy retirement Kmich

Thank you, Doc.

Our current testing positivity rate is ≈ 10% nationally on a 7-day moving average. This means that the pandemic is rapidly spiraling out of control throughout the country. Around 150-200 thousand new cases reported daily over the past week and 1500-2000 or so daily new deaths. In comparison, the hig...

Someone forgot to get back into his coffin before sunrise....

What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
That Glory never shall his wrath or might
Extort from me.

- Satan, Paradise Lost, John MIlton, Book 1

ACEP Rebuts President Trump’s False Statements about Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths On behalf of the nation’s emergency physicians, ACEP is appalled by President Trump’s reckless and false assertions that physicians are overcounting deaths related to COVID-19. Emergency physicians and other health ca...

Covid-19: US pulls plan to give early vaccine to Santa Claus

Face masks as an effective means to mitigate the spread of respiratory infections has been well established for over a century, and is standard medical practice.   As a current public health measure, mask usage  aims to implement source control by limiting people with a SARS-CoV-2 infection who are ...

Modeling COVID-19 scenarios for the United States Abstract We use COVID-19 case and mortality data from 1 February 2020 to 21 September 2020 and a deterministic SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infectious and recovered) compartmental framework to model possible trajectories of severe acute respiratory s...

Herd Immunity and Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Control https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/0/jit200033f1_1603146145.80672.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=gNjbbH3vyJnSmkAY2xOwJEEUJbzvsb1Uyu9elc1Q~UTBpC0YhJ5a7kPNKhHgX291Xg-GnBA6fiOJQyiF-kaHk-FX7xjfn1ub3LWLKehDN1PN83TxkH53m...