Thu March 26 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Evidence of initial success for China exiting COVID-19 social distancing policy after achieving containment – Imperial College London (PDF)

See also: Summary

Commentaries: Initial success for COVID-19 social distancing in China – Imperial College London AND China shows way to ease lockdowns before vaccine, says report – The Guardian AND When can we let up? Health experts craft strategies to safely relax coronavirus lockdowns – STAT

Related: What China’s coronavirus response can teach the rest of the world – Nature AND Locked-down no longer, China’s Hubei begins return to normal – Reuters AND The effect of control strategies to reduce social mixing on outcomes of the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan, China: a modelling study – The Lancet Public Health

2 – The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China – Science

News Release: Travel restrictions are most useful in the early and late phase of an epidemic – University of Oxford

3 – What do we know about the risk of dying from COVID-19? – Our World in Data

Related: Global Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates – Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford (free)

4 – Studies: Cardiac Injury Associated to Increased Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19

• Association of Cardiac Injury With Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in Wuhan, China – JAMA Cardiology AND Commentaries: Cardiac injury linked to increased mortality in COVID-19 – MedicalXpress AND Cardiac injury in COVID-19 patients associated with higher in-hospital mortality – Cardiovascular Business AND Cardiac Injury and Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients – American College of Cardiology
• Cardiac troponin I in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Evidence from a meta-analysis – Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases AND Commentary: Meta-Analysis on Troponin I in Patients With Coronavirus – Latest in Cardiology

5 – Randomized placebo-controlled trial of the effects of aspirin on dementia and cognitive decline – Neurology (PDF)

Commentary: Study: An aspirin a day does not keep dementia at bay – American Academy of Neurology (free)

6 – Prolonged presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in faecal samples – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

“Very important article about viral shedding. Spoiler alert: quarantine may need to be much longer than 14 days. Virus is detectible in feces for up to 5 weeks. Caveat: virus not necessarily viable” (via @figgyjam see Tweet)

7 – Assessing Viral Shedding and Infectivity of Tears in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients – Ophthalmology

Commentary: Low risk of coronavirus spreading through tears – American Academy of Ophthalmology

8 – Maintaining a safe and adequate blood supply during the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – World Health Organization

9 – Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents – The Journal of Hospital Infection

Commentaries: Coronavirus: household cleaning products can kill the virus – an expert on which ones to use – The Conversation AND One graphic shows how long the coronavirus lives on surfaces like cardboard, plastic, and steel – Business Insider

Related Study: Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 – New England Journal of Medicine

10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates / 26 March 2020 Edition

26 March 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)