What Have We Learned About the Clinical Progression and Recovery of Patients With COVID-19?
Originally published in March, this blog was updated and re-released in September with the most recent epidemiology and information. One notable thing we learned during this time was that many patients experience prolonged illness even after relatively mild acute infection. This is certainly something researchers are actively investigating, and we will continue to report on the clinical progression of COVID-19 in DynaMed®.
EBM Focus: COVID-19 – Ten Things You Need to Know and EBM Focus: COVID-19 – Ten Things You Need to Know, Now
The EBM Focus team at DynaMed typically evaluates a single trial each week for the EBM Focus article. However, given all the questions raised about clinical management of patients with COVID-19 during the pandemic, the team wrote not one but two “Ten Things You Need to Know” articles. All 20 questions and answers are freely available, and we invite our physician colleagues to share them.
What You Need to Know about Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in 2020
After a peak in EEE infections in 2019, many people were rightfully wary of the mosquito season this summer, particularly in the Atlantic and Gulf coast states and the Great Lakes regions of the United States. Preventing mosquito bites is the most effective way to reduce the risk of EEE. Let your patients know about mosquito prevention from the CDC.
What Physicians Around the World Should Know About Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Just days after the first reported case of COVID-19 (then known as novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV) in the United States, this blog post was published. While we have learned so much more about this novel pathogen, this article remains a detailed description of what we knew in January and the sequence of events at the start of the pandemic.
A guest post written by Dr. Stephen Berger, cofounder of GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network) rounds out the top five medical blogs of 2020. In this article, Dr. Berger delves into the history of disease nomenclature and explains how SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 got their names.
