Paul Byers

TL;DR: Chronic conditions, including cardiac and respiratory diseases and mental health conditions, were common among hospitalized patients with EVALI.

TL;DR: Clinicians and organ procurement organizations and transplant centers should be aware of the potential for Balamuthia infection in donors with encephalitis of uncertain etiology, and OPOs should communicate this elevated risk for infection to transplant centers so they can make an informed risk assessment in the decision to accept an organ.

TL;DR: A case-control study was conducted to compare exposures reported by parents or guardians of children and adolescents aged <18 years with Sars-CoV-2 infection confirmed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing (case-patients) with exposures reported among those who received negative SARS-Cov-2 RT-PCr test results (control participants).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a case series of suspected SARS-CoV-2-associated deaths in the United States in persons and found that most of the decedents were male (71, 63%), 31 (28%) were Black (non-Hispanic) persons, and 52 (46%) were Hispanic persons.

TL;DR: Clinicians and organ procurement organizations and transplant centers should be aware of the potential for Balamuthia infection in donors with possible encephalitis and also assess donors carefully for signs of neurologic infection that may have been misdiagnosed as stroke or as noninfectious forms ofEncephalitis.