Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)


Coronavirus is our future | Alanna Shaikh | TEDxSMU

Mar 11, 2020

Global health expert Alanna Shaikh talks about the current status of the 2019 nCov coronavirus outbreak and what this can teach us about the epidemics yet to come. Alanna Shaikh is a global health consultant and executive coach who specializes in individual, organizational and systemic resilience. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in public health from Boston University. She has lived in seven countries and it the author of What’s Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems. Recent article publications include an article on global health security in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper and an essay in the Annual Review of Comparative and International Education. She blogs on coaching and personal resilience at www.thisworldneedsbrave.com.
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Pandemic explained

Mar 11, 2020

As the new coronavirus spreads across the world and cases of COVID-19 mount, the World Health Organization has declared a global pandemic. Here's what that means for you.
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Mayo Clinic develops test to detect COVID-19

Mar 12, 2020

Dr. Matthew Binnicker oversees Mayo Clinic's laboratory response in developing a test to detect COVID-19 in clinical samples. A process that usually takes six months to a year, was accomplished in under a month, thanks to a dedicated team working around the clock.

The test should help ease the burden currently being felt at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and state health labs.

That will also mean faster turnaround times for results.

Patients can expect results within 24 hours of when samples are collected and sent to Mayo Clinic Laboratories.

Initially, Dr. Binnicker says the laboratory has the capacity to run between 200-300 tests daily. Additional equipment has been ordered to double that capacity in the coming weeks.
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Professor Lauren Gardner discusses how the COVID-19 dashboard is built and maintained

Mar 13, 2020

The COVID-19 dashboard built by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University gets over a billion requests a day from around the world. Since its creation in late January 2020, it has been a main source of information for people across social media, as well as local, state, and federal governments, and public health entities.

On March 6, 2020, Lauren Gardner, Co-director of the CSSE, appeared on Capitol Hill alongside a panel of other Johns Hopkins experts to brief congressional staff and media about the global COVID-19 outbreak.
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UW Medicine doctors give COVID-19 response update 3/12/20

Mar 13, 2020

The latest developments in UW Medicine's response to the COVID-19 outbreak in western Washington were presented to the news media at a press briefing March 12, 2020. The speakers were Dr. Tim Dellit, chief medical officer of UW Medicine, who is also an infection control expert, and Dr. Santiago Neme, medical director of UW Medical Center-Northwest.

One of the areas they spoke about were UW Medicine protocols that are now becoming models for other parts of the country preparing for or responding to outbreaks in their own communities. Among these are the design and implementation of a laboratory test for the new coronavirus in the UW School of Medicine's Department of Laboratory Medicine. The local availability of the diagnostic test is speeding up the identification of new cases of COVID-19.

Dellit and Neme also discussed the drive-thru testing of UW Medicine employees with respiratory symptoms. This takes place at the UW Medical Center-Northwest campus. The testing can detect influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, as well as SARS-CoV2, the virus responsible for the present pandemic.

Dellit said, "it is no longer business as usual" as COVID-19 spreads. He mentioned the public health goal of flattening the curve in the increase of COVID-19 cases to effectively meet the demand for care. He also explained why coronavirus testing has not become universal for any consumer requesting it. While the criteria has expanded, the ordering is based on clinical criteria and the judgement of the person's healthcare provider.

Dellit and Neme also updated reporters on some of the new cases of COVID-19 reported within the UW Medicine system. These include the number of employees who have tested positive. They also spoke about the two cases of COVID-19 detected as of March 12 at the inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry unit at UW Medical Center-Northwest, and detailed the steps underway in response.

Neme explained to reporters that one important lessons learned in other countries and the U.S. during this outbreak is that elderly people may not manifest the classic symptoms of COVID-19, due to their waning immune systems. This knowledge can help clinicians be aware of the possibility of infection in their older patients.

Dellit mentioned that UW Medicine is making its policies and protocols developed in response to the outbreak publicly available on a web site. These are continuously revised as new information is obtained. COVID-19 is a rapidly changing situation, he said.
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