Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
6-2-2020
Abstract
Executive Summary:
NM Highlights: New public health order. First coronavirus death in state prison. NM case count. ABQ black lives matter protest. Santa Fe Fiesta canceled. U2 drummer donated to Navajo. US Highlights: Americans’ COVID-19 survey. Immunity for essential businesses in 4 states. International Highlights: Tiananmen Square closed to vigil. Shared approaches helpful for Africa. Economics, Workforce, Supply Chain, PPE: Face masks effective. Distance and Mask combined key to success. Economic effect on dental practice. Dow predicted to fall before new high. Epidemiology Highlights: Other causes of death increase. Virus not losing potency. Protests may spread virus. Wastewater surveillance. Healthcare Policy Recommendations: Recommendations for opening K-12. Air disinfection. Youth sports guidelines. External debt payments. Practice Guidelines: Algorithm for treatment timing based on clinical, lab and imaging results. The 5th edition of Research Data Alliance guidelines on COVID-19 management is available. Testing: Rapid point-of-care nucleic acid amplification testing performance. Cold-chain free testing validation and implementation. Drugs, Vaccines, Therapies, Clinical Trials: Two-tier screen identifies four potential treatments. Warp Speed vaccine short list. RAAS inhibitors protective. Cytokine storm review. Reduced lab monitoring for clozapine use. Lilly starts Phase I AbCellera trial. 82 new trials registered. Other Science: Breast milk does not transmit virus. Brainstem involvement and respiratory failure. Greater risk of cytokine storm in blacks than whites. Co-infection rates in hospitals. Purifying selection in SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Poor outcomes with perioperative infection. Mental health in Chinese doctors. Pandemic impact on education.
Recommended Citation
Lambert, Christophe G.; Shawn Stoicu; Ingrid Hendrix; Lori D. Sloane; Mari Anixter; Anastasiya Nestsiarovich; Praveen Kumar; Nicolas Lauve; Jenny Situ; Alexandra Yingling; Kristine Tollestrup; Orrin Myers; and Douglas J. Perkins. "2020-06-01/02 DAILY UNM GLOBAL HEALTH COVID-19 BRIEFING." (2020). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hsc_covid19_briefings/46
Comments
Disclaimer: The UNM Global Health COVID-19 Briefing is provided as a public service. Sources include not only peer-reviewed literature, but also preliminary research manuscripts that have not been peer reviewed along with lay news media reports. The peer-review process often results in manuscript improvement, with corrections made for errors and unsubstantiated conclusions being corrected. Furthermore, many headlines and summaries in the briefing are written by student volunteers and others who may lack subject matter expertise in this rapidly evolving field. As such, the headlines and summaries should not be regarded as conclusive. Instead, readers are encouraged to use the briefing to identify areas of interest and then use the embedded links to read and critically evaluate the primary sources.