The following is a guest post by Daniel R. Lucey M.D., MPH FIDSA Updated yesterday, May 27 the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that of the 285,282 persons officially reportedin the U.S. with COVID-19 for whom health care status was available, a total of 62, 690 were infected “health care personnel.” […]
The following is a guest post by Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA A crucial mile marker in the marathon to understand when and where the Covid-19 pandemic began has been crossed. The China Center for Disease Control Director, Dr. George Fu Gao (Gao Fu) was quoted in the South China Morning Post May 23 […]
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average there were tested for tuberculosis with the rapid and reliable Xpert diagnostic tool each week. An average of more than 3,700 of those tests identified active tuberculosis in people […]
The following is a guest post by Daniel R. Lucey MD, MPH, FIDSA As of May 20, 2020 more than 93,000 deaths in people laboratory-confirmed to have COVID-19 have been reported in the United States and more than 1.5 million persons have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. All 50 states have now begun partially reopening. It […]
On Saturday, the World Health Organization released a scientific brief on the multisystem inflammatory syndrome seen in children and adolescents with COVID-19. Today in Science Speaks two guest posts respond to findings around the syndrome. The following is a guest post Daniel R. Lucey M.D., MPH and Kristen R. Kent, MPhil. Since April 26 England, […]
On Saturday, the World Health Organization released a scientific brief on the multisystem inflammatory syndrome seen in children and adolescents with COVID-19. Today in Science Speaks two guest posts respond to findings around the syndrome. The following is a guest post by Bertha Serwa Ayi, M.D., FACP, FIDSA, MBA During a World Health Organization briefing, […]
Amid unprecedented challenges to routine healthcare access, trial results mark a first for a critically needed HIV prevention measure An investigational drug administered by injection every eight weeks has been found to be effective and safe in preventing HIV infection among men who have sex with men and transgender women who have sex with men, […]
The following is a guest post by Daniel R. Lucey M.D., MPH and Katherine R. McAleese, M.D. The initial wave of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic includes tens of thousands of health care workers in less than five months. Reports of health care worker infections began in China in January and spread globally elsewhere in Asia, Europe, […]
“You have to know the past to understand the future” Carl Sagan, astronomer, science communicator (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) The following is a guest post by Bertha Serwa Ayi, M.D., FACP, FIDSA, MBA A good look into the rear view mirror at the Spanish Influenza pandemic that began in 1918 will offer […]
HIV
Leader Needed to Fight Another Pandemic: HIV – While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted HIV services worldwide, the office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator has remained […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]