Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Perspective

• Lessons Lost: How 'Outbreak Culture' Is Shaping the COVID Response Many of the warnings issued after the response to Ebola went unheeded -- and those mistakes have repeated themselves in the world's response to coronavirus.
  Medscape Public Health, August 04, 2020
• Arguments Against Aerosol Transmission Don't Hold Water The relative importance of aerosols as a mode of transmission for COVID-19 is widely debated. This aerosol scientist explains why the arguments against it are weak or invalid.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 30, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't: Silent Transmission, Smart Distance, Plague Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, July 17, 2020
• Wave, Surge, or Tsunami Different COVID-19 models and predicting inpatient bed capacity. We could not imagine the effects of COVID-19 would be so devastating from an economic and medical perspective.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, July 15, 2020
• How to Examine and Understand COVID-19 Data   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr F. Perry Wilson about the COVID-19 percentages and numbers we hear about every day -- and what they really mean.
  WebMD, July 14, 2020
• A 72-Year-Old Woman With Fatigue and Progressive Dyspnea A 72-year-old woman presents with fatigue and progressive dyspnea despite optimal medical treatment for heart failure. What is responsible?
  Osmosis, July 10, 2020
• Talking Through Pandemic Anxiety With a Pioneer of Mind-Body Medicine   Dr Andrew Wilner speaks with Dr James Gordon about drawing on his decades of experience to stay mentally and physically healthy in a year of unprecedented challenges.
  Medscape Neurology, July 02, 2020
• Wearable Tech May Detect COVID-19 Infection Before Symptoms   Eric Topol explains how digital technologies can help identify COVID clusters and contacts.
  Medscape, June 29, 2020
• Preventing Arrhythmias in COVID-19 Patients on Psychotropics Patients with preexisting mental health conditions who are being treated for COVID-19 are particularly susceptible to clinical deterioration. Three mental health clinicians share their thoughts.
  Medscape Psychiatry, June 18, 2020
• Will Primary Care Physicians Be COVID-19's Next Victims? Dr Tom Frieden discusses his recent editorial outlining his fear that primary care practices may be the next to succumb to the coronavirus pandemic.
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, June 18, 2020
• Harvey Fineberg Reviews the US Pandemic Response   Dr Harvey Fineberg outlined how to 'flatten the curve' of the pandemic in 10 weeks; so how have we done?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, June 17, 2020
• 'Unwitting Transmission': No One Means to Spread COVID-19 Are people truly asymptomatic? Or is it more accurate to say that they are 'unusually symptomatic,' and therefore become unwitting transmitters of COVID-19?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, June 12, 2020
• Viral Shedding and COVID-19 Superspreading Events Transmission of SARS-CoV2 is heterogenous, and superspreading events account for most local outbreaks. Eric Meyerowitz and Aaron Richterman review the evidence and the implications for curtailing the pandemic's spread.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, June 08, 2020
• 'A Fuse Has Been Lit': Dr Jerome Adams on Racism and Civil Unrest   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with US Surgeon General Jerome Adams about racism, social justice, health disparities, and their impact on vulnerable communities.
  WebMD, June 05, 2020
• Is COVID-19 Fueling the Fire of Opinion-Based Medicine? This pandemic is causing people to turn to the 'pseudosciences' in their desperation to quickly save the world, writes Harpreet Bajaj.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 04, 2020
• Why Don't We Have a Vaccine for SARS or MERS? We don't have vaccines for SARS, MERS, or HIV. Does that spell doom for efforts to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 28, 2020
• Patients on Biologic Agents for Dermatological Conditions and COVID-19 Dr Saakshi Khattri, assistant professor in dermatology and rheumatology (internal medicine) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, US, helps us make sense of emerging evidence about how COVID-19 affects dermatology patients taking biologic therapies.
  Medscape, June 15, 2020
• Bellevue Starts to Reopen After COVID Peak   After a month that felt like years, Bellevue hospital staff are starting to reform their daily routines in a changed world. Dr Danielle Ofri shares her insights.
  Medscape, May 27, 2020
• The Future of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Stroke Renewed interest and recent data suggest that hypothermia may be neuroprotective in patients suffering from stroke.
  Medscape Neurology, May 22, 2020
• Treating Liver Disease During COVID-19: New Recommendations Guidance from the AASLD comes with a disclaimer but still offers valuable insights to clinicians, says Dr William F. Balistreri.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 14, 2020