January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

COVID-19: Online tool identifies patients at highest risk of deterioration (MedicalXpress)

MedicalXpress: COVID-19: Online tool identifies patients at highest risk of deterioration. “A new risk-stratification tool which can accurately predict the likelihood of deterioration in adults hospitalised with COVID-19 has been developed by researchers from the UK Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation Consortium (known as ISARIC4C). Researchers say the online tool, made freely available to NHS doctors from […]
January 11, 2021 / Last updated : January 11, 2021 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong.

New York Times: People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong.. “Young adults are dying at historic rates. In research published on Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, we found that among U.S. adults ages 25 to 44, from March through the end of July, there were almost […]
December 28, 2020 / Last updated : December 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Johns Hopkins: Online Covid-19 Mortality Risk Calculator Could Help Determine Who Should Get Vaccines First

Johns Hopkins: Online Covid-19 Mortality Risk Calculator Could Help Determine Who Should Get Vaccines First. “Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a new online calculator for estimating individual and community-level risk of dying from COVID-19. The web tool calculates the mortality risk in currently uninfected individuals based on a […]
December 28, 2020 / Last updated : December 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Poynter: More than 500 journalists and media workers have died from COVID-19

Poynter: More than 500 journalists and media workers have died from COVID-19. “Press Emblem Campaign, a press freedom nonprofit, has gathered news of their deaths and been a key source in Poynter’s collection of coronavirus obituaries. It reports more than 500 journalists have died of the coronavirus in more than 57 countries. That number might […]
December 18, 2020 / Last updated : December 18, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

COVID-19 causes more severe disease than seasonal influenza: comparison of data from over 130,000 hospitalized patients (Medical XPress)

Medical Xpress: COVID-19 causes more severe disease than seasonal influenza: comparison of data from over 130,000 hospitalized patients. “Nearly twice as many people were admitted to hospital for COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic than were for influenza at the peak of the 2018/2019 flu season, a study of French national data published today […]
December 18, 2020 / Last updated : December 18, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

The Root: CDC’s New Numbers Show Black Americans and Other People of Color Dying at Higher Rates From COVID-19 Than It Previously Reported

The Root: CDC’s New Numbers Show Black Americans and Other People of Color Dying at Higher Rates From COVID-19 Than It Previously Reported. “After initially saying that Black Americans are dying at about two times the rate of their white counterparts from COVID-19, the CDC has updated its publicly reported figures to show that the […]
December 17, 2020 / Last updated : December 17, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

CBS News: Gottlieb says U.S. could near 4,000 deaths a day as virus surges

CBS News: Gottlieb says U.S. could near 4,000 deaths a day as virus surges. “With infections and deaths from the coronavirus surging nationwide, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), warned [December 6] it’s likely the pandemic will continue to worsen in the coming weeks and predicted the U.S. could […]
December 16, 2020 / Last updated : December 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: 35-year-old Iraq War vet, father of 5, dies of COVID in Texas. ‘Can happen to anybody’

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: 35-year-old Iraq War vet, father of 5, dies of COVID in Texas. ‘Can happen to anybody’. “Four weeks after developing COVID-19 symptoms he initially thought were flu-related, a 35-year-old Texas father died. Matthew Law, a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Iraq War, did not have any underlying health conditions before […]
December 10, 2020 / Last updated : December 10, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

‘Very dark couple of weeks’: Morgues and hospitals overflow (AP)

AP: ‘Very dark couple of weeks’: Morgues and hospitals overflow. “Nearly 37,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in November, the most in any month since the dark early days of the pandemic, engulfing families in grief, filling newspaper obituary pages and testing the capacity of morgues, funeral homes and hospitals. Amid the resurgence, states have begun […]
December 2, 2020 / Last updated : December 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

US is ’rounding the corner into a calamity,’ expert says, with Covid-19 deaths projected to double soon (CNN)

CNN: US is ’rounding the corner into a calamity,’ expert says, with Covid-19 deaths projected to double soon. “More than 205,000 new cases were reported Friday — which likely consists of both Thursday and Friday reports in some cases, as at least 20 states did not report Covid-19 numbers on Thanksgiving. As of Saturday evening, […]