Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 07 February 2020

– Clinical evidence does not support corticosteroid treatment for 2019-nCoV lung injury – The Lancet (free PDF) See Commentary: Steroids could do more harm than good in treating coronavirus – University of Edinburgh (free)

– Reducing mortality from 2019-nCoV: host-directed therapies should be an option – The Lancet (free)

– Travelers Give Wings to Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Journal of Travel Medicine (free PDF)

– Origin and evolution of the 2019 novel coronavirus – Clinical Infectious Diseases (free PDF)

– Editorial: Communication, collaboration and cooperation can stop the 2019 coronavirus – Nature (free)

– Updates on Wuhan 2019 Novel Coronavirus Epidemic – Journal of Medical Virology (free PDF)

– Measures for diagnosing and treating infections by a novel coronavirus responsible for a pneumonia outbreak originating in Wuhan, China – Microbes and Infection (free)

– SARS to novel coronavirus – old lessons and new lessons – Epidemiology and Infection (free)

Preprints:

– Evidence and characteristics of human-to-human transmission of 2019-nCoV – medRxiv (free PDF)

– Modelling the epidemic trend of the 2019-nCOV outbreak in Hubei Province, China – medRxiv (free PDF)

– Epidemic doubling time of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak by province in mainland China – medRxiv (free PDF)