Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
4-7-2020
Abstract
Executive Summary:
Today we celebrate World Health Day: JAMA suggests ways to support healthcare workers in the crisis. NM Emergency orders extended. Some NM prisoners freed. Pueblos threatened by outbreaks. CDC to provide $186M in state funding for surveillance programs. Colleges hit hard financially. Nine states refuse to issue stay-at-home order. Wuhan cautiously ends its 76-day lockdown. Lack of cough and fever for children creates special challenges. Fauci JAMA interview tomorrow. WHO guidelines and megatrial of 4 therapies. Numerous CDC guidelines. 23 clinical trials registered today. One negative result on hydroxychloroquine efficacy. In vitro screens suggest promising FDA drugs for repurposing. JAMA clinical questions update. Vaccine trials launched.
Recommended Citation
Lambert, Christophe G.; Shawn Stoicu; Anastasiya Nestsiarovich; Praveen Kumar; Hannah Groves; Danielle Rivera; Estefania Montanez; Tudor I. Opera; Andrew S. Rowland; and Douglas J. Perkins. "2020-04-07 DAILY UNM GLOBAL HEALTH COVID-19 BRIEFING." (2020). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hsc_covid19_briefings/3
Comments
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