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Intensive care management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): challenges and recommendations.

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Streamlining of workflows for rapid diagnosis and isolation, clinical management, and infection prevention will matter not only to patients with COVID-19, but also to health-care workers and other patients who are at risk from nosocomial transmission.
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This article is published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.The article was published on 2020-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1147 citations till now.

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Telehealth transformation: COVID-19 and the rise of virtual care.

TL;DR: The role that telehealth has played in transforming healthcare delivery during the 3 phases of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic is described and how people, process, and technology work together to support a successful telehealth transformation is examined.
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Attitudes Toward a Potential SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: A Survey of U.S. Adults.

TL;DR: This national survey explores factors associated with vaccine hesitancy and suggests that multipronged efforts will be needed to increase acceptance of a coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine.
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Angiotensin?converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), SARS?CoV?2 and the pathophysiology of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID?19)

TL;DR: The role of ACE2 in CO VID‐19 pathophysiology is described, including factors influencing ACE2 expression and activity in relation to COVID‐19 severity, and the relevant pathological changes resulting from SARS‐CoV‐2 infection are discussed.
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Pulmonary Arterial Thrombosis in COVID-19 With Fatal Outcome : Results From a Prospective, Single-Center, Clinicopathologic Case Series.

TL;DR: COVID-19 predominantly involves the lungs, causing DAD and leading to acute respiratory insufficiency and death may be caused by the thrombosis observed in segmental and subsegmental pulmonary arterial vessels despite the use of prophylactic anticoagulation.
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Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used univariable and multivariable logistic regression methods to explore the risk factors associated with in-hospital death, including older age, high SOFA score and d-dimer greater than 1 μg/mL.
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Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

TL;DR: The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China, and hospital-associated transmission as the presumed mechanism of infection for affected health professionals and hospitalized patients are described.
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

TL;DR: Characteristics of patients who died were in line with the MuLBSTA score, an early warning model for predicting mortality in viral pneumonia, and further investigation is needed to explore the applicability of the Mu LBSTA scores in predicting the risk of mortality in 2019-nCoV infection.
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