10 - October

The Surgisphere Scandal: What Went Wrong?, the Scientist, 2020-10-01

Survival of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus on the human skin: Importance of hand hygiene in COVID-19, Clinical infectious Diseases, 2020-10-03

The President’s Coronavirus Treatment, Science Translational Medicine, 2020-10-05

Frequent neurologic manifestations and encephalopathy‐associated morbidity in Covid‐19 patients, Annals of Clinical and translational Neurology, 2020-10-05

Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Science, 2020-10-05

‘It’s been so, so surreal.’ Critics of Sweden’s lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash, Science, 2020-10-06

HOW WE CAN FIX THIS PANDEMIC IN A MONTH, Orthomolecular.org, 2020-10-06

Effect of school closures on mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: old and new predictions, BMJ, 2020-10-07

The Stress of Bayesian Medicine — Uncomfortable Uncertainty in the Face of Covid-19, NEJM, 2020-10-07

The effect of temperature on persistence of SARS-CoV-2 on common surfaces, Virology Journal, 2020-10-07

Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized pediatric and adult patients, Science Translational Medicine, 2020-10-07

Three Quarters of People with SARS-CoV-2 Infection are Asymptomatic: Analysis of English Household Survey Data, Clinical Epidemology, 2020-10-08

SARS-CoV-2 disrupts splicing, translation, and protein trafficking to suppress host defenses, Cell, 2020-10-08

COVID-19 Is Now the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S., Scientific American, 2020-10-08

Vitamin C Cuts COVID Deaths by Two-Thirds, Orthomolecular.org, 2020-10-13

Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?, Science, 2020-10-14

John P A Ioannidis: Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data, Bulletin of WHO, 2020-10-14

Breath-, air- and surface-borne SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals, Journal of Aerosol Science, 2020-10-15

Repurposed antiviral drugs for COVID-19; interim WHO SOLIDARITY trial results, medRxiv, 2020-10-15

Act now, wait for perfect evidence later, says ‘high priestess’ of U.K. COVID-19 masking campaign, Science, 2020-10-15

Safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, BBIBP-CorV: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1/2 trial, Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020-10-15

How Straight Talk Helped One State Control COVID, Scientific American, 2020-10-16

Remdesivir and interferon fall flat in WHO’s megastudy of COVID-19 treatments, Science, 2020-10-16

Emergency Use Authorization of Covid Vaccines — Safety and Efficacy Follow-up Considerations, NEJM, 2020-10-16

Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Science, 2020-10-16

Postlicensure Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccines, JAMA, 2020-10-16

Use of adenovirus type-5 vectored vaccines: a cautionary tale, the Lancet, 2020-10-19

Neuropilin-1 facilitates SARS-CoV-2 cell entry and infectivity, Science, 2020-10-20

Global COVID-19 pandemic demands joint interventions for the suppression of future waves, PNAS, 2020-10-20

The Missing Piece — SARS-CoV-2 Testing and School Reopening, NEJM, 2020-10-21

Effectiveness of Face Masks in Preventing Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, mSphere, 2020-10-21

Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren’t designed to tell us, BMJ, 2020-10-21

What We Know So Far about How COVID Affects the Nervous System, Scientific American, 2020-10-22

The engines of SARS-CoV-2 spread, Science, 2020-10-23

Modeling COVID-19 scenarios for the United States, Nature Medicine, 2020-10-23

The temporal association of introducing and lifting non-pharmaceutical interventions with the time-varying reproduction number (R) of SARS-CoV-2: a modelling study across 131 countries, the Lancet, 2020-10-22

Interoperable medical data: the missing link for understanding COVID‐19, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2020-10-23

A large national outbreak of COVID-19 linked to air travel, Ireland, summer 2020, Eurosurveillance, 2020-10-22

Regional and global contributions of air pollution to risk of death from COVID-19, Cardiovascular Research, 2020-10-26

Robust neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection persist for months, Science, 2020-10-27

Vitamin D Status in Hospitalized Patients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology&Metabolism, 2020-10-27

The ‘very, very bad look’ of remdesivir, the first FDA-approved COVID-19 drug, Science, 2020-10-28

COVID-19 transmission—up in the air, the Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2020-10-29

Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for COVID-19: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Public Policy Implications, medRxiv, 2020-10-31

“Effect of calcifediol treatment and best available therapy versus best available therapy on intensive care unit admission and mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19: A pilot randomized clinical study”, The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2020-10