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COVID-19 studies offer risk scores, experts issue guidance on vaccine prioritization
One study found that albumin was key to identifying COVID-19 patients safe to discharge, while another suggested CT findings could be helpful in diagnosis and triage. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and ACP considered who should be vaccinated first, and the CDC revised quarantine advice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/09/1.htm
9 Dec 2020
Did you sign up for this, too?
I will absorb this sorrow. However, I find myself wondering: Why are others of you still here?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/did-you-sign-up.htm
15 Nov 2020
The face of COVID
To me, this was COVID-19 showing its ugly “face” as a formidable virus that is difficult to manage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/the-face-of-covid.htm
15 Nov 2020
COVID-19 in community hospitals
Hospitalists describe the steps they've taken to prepare for the pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/04/covid-19-in-community-hospitals.htm
15 Apr 2020
People, not problems
The pace, the stress, the facelessness behind masks, and the lack of any real chance to connect made the patients blur together in my mind like never before.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/people-not-problems.htm
15 Nov 2020
Anti-Asian bias brought out by pandemic
Some physicians have fought discrimination along with the virus.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/06/anti-asian-bias-brought-out-by-pandemic.htm
15 Jun 2020
COVID-19 spurs hospital tech, highlights inequalities
The September issue of ACP Hospitalist covers multiple aspects of the pandemic, including resulting advances in hospital tech and disparate impacts on Americans by race, ethnicity, and economic status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/16/5.htm
16 Sep 2020
COVID-19 research looks at effects and risks of potential drug therapies, proning
Trials offered inconclusive evidence about remdesivir, a pilot study found benefits to prone self-positioning for ED patients, and other research quantified the risk of QT prolongation with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin and provided reassurance about hypertension drugs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/05/06/1.htm
6 May 2020
COVID-19 flu guidance, data on convalescent plasma, cardiac effects, and clot risk
Flu testing and treatment advice came from the NIH, convalescent plasma failed in a trial, new studies suggested looking out for myocardial injury and not overdoing thromboprophylaxis, and remdesivir got full approval, among other COVID-19 news.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/28/1.htm
28 Oct 2020
New authorization, guidance on vaccines against SARS-CoV-2
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was authorized by the FDA and recommended by the CDC, additional guidance was issued on the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and ACP and Annals of Internal Medicine held a forum on encouraging vaccine uptake.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/23/2.htm
23 Dec 2020