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Today’s top news highlights: Primary care practices struggle, Americans split on COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 puts primary care practice in peril, and social distancing takes a toll on seniors.
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COVID-19 complicates prescribing for children with inflammatory skin disease
Pediatric dermatologists say they would continue children on most immunosuppressive treatments, but are more reluctant to initiate.
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Half of Americans would get COVID-19 vaccine, poll shows
Black Americans were more likely than were Hispanic or white responders to say that they don’t plan to get a vaccine.
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Domestic violence amid COVID-19: Helping your patients from afar
In the United States, 2,345 calls were placed to the National Domestic Violence Hotline during March 16–April 6, 2020.
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Seek safe strategies to diagnose gestational diabetes during pandemic
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Can you catch COVID-19 through your eyes?
The conjunctiva can be infected by other viruses, an expert says.
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Severe disease not uncommon in children hospitalized with COVID-19
Of the 46 hospitalized patients, 13 were admitted to the pediatric ICU.
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COVID-19: Psychiatrists assess geriatric harm from social distancing
“Certainly the appalling number of deaths in nursing homes is the No. 1 horror of the pandemic.”
Conference Coverage
Social isolation tied to higher risk of cardiovascular events, death
“These results are especially important in the current times of social isolation during the coronavirus crisis.”
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More evidence hydroxychloroquine is ineffective, harmful in COVID-19
New observational data show that hydroxychloroquine it is not only without benefit for COVID-19 but also increases death and arrhythmias.
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Immunotherapy, steroids had positive outcomes in COVID-19–associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome
“Incomplete forms of Kawasaki disease occur in infants who may have fever as the sole clinical finding, whereas older patients are more prone to...