COVID-19 Updates
From the Journals
Heart damage even after COVID-19 ‘recovery’ evokes specter of later heart failure
Recovery from acute COVID-19 isn’t necessarily the end of it, clearly. Two reports aim to clarify how SARS-CoV-2 can directly invade the heart and...
From the Journals
More data needed to better understand COVID-19 skin manifestations
Histopathologic exams were done for only 23 patients and, in all cases, showed “inflammatory features without specific pathological changes.”
Opinion
Are you SARS-CoV-2 vaccine hesitant?
How do you feel about the potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine? Are you going to roll up your sleeve as soon as the vaccine becomes available in your...
Opinion
COVID-19 bits and pieces
An essay on pediatric transmission of SARS-CoV-2, deep cleaning, and reopening schools and colleges.
Conference Coverage
Higher death rate seen in cancer patients with nosocomial COVID-19
All-cause mortality was higher in cancer patients with hospital-acquired COVID-19 than in those with community-acquired COVID-19.
From the Journals
Low vitamin D linked to increased COVID-19 risk
A large study evaluates associations between low serum vitamin D levels and risks for acquiring COVID-19 and hospitalization.
News
MIS-C is a serious immune-mediated response to COVID-19 infection
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is still a moving target because there is much still to learn about it.
Latest News
NFL’s only physician player opts out of 2020 season over COVID
“I cannot allow myself to potentially transmit the virus in our communities simply to play the sport that I love. If I am to take risks, I will do...
Feature
Diary of a rheumatologist who briefly became a COVID hospitalist
As a rheumatologist, it had been well over 10 years since I had last done any inpatient work. I was filled with trepidation, but I was also...
From the Journals
COVID-19 fears would keep most Hispanics with stroke, MI symptoms home
From the Journals
Cleaner data confirm severe COVID-19 link to diabetes, hypertension
Initial reports that tied more severe COVID-19 disease to diabetes or hypertension used confounded data, but more refined data show similar links...