Welcome to our seventh webinar and journal club reviewing recent research and featuring COVID-19 updates, hosted by the University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with St Emlyn’s.
The live event took place on Tuesday 26th May at 11.00am BST (10.00am GMT) and is available on YouTube here.
The Podcast
The COVID-19 Journal Club Panel
Today’s panel will be hosted by Rick Body The panel includes Prof Paul Klapper (Professor of Clinical Virology), Dr Charlie Reynard (NIHR Clinical Research Fellow), Dr Anisa Jafar, Prof Pam Vallely (Professor of Medical Virology), Ellie Hothershall (Consultant in Public Health), Prof Simon Carley and special guest Kelly Ann Janssens (Emergency Physician in Ireland) to discuss five papers about COVID-19 infection.
The COVID-19 Papers
Deep Dive
Beigel J, Tomashek K, Dodd L1. Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Preliminary Report. N Engl J Med (2020)
The Other Papers….
Mehra M, Desai S, Ruschitzka F2. Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis. The Lancet (2020)
Gray N, Calleja D, Wimbush A. “No test is better than a bad test”: Impact of diagnostic uncertainty in mass testing on the spread of Covid-193 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2020)
Peyrony O, Marbeuf-Gieye C, Truong V4. Accuracy of Emergency Department clinical findings for diagnostic of coronavirus disease-2019 Annals of Emergency Medicine (2020)
Ludvigsson J5. Children are unlikely to be the main drivers of the COVID‐19 pandemic – a systematic review Acta Paediatr (2020)
Other St Emlyn’s COVID-19 Resourses
You can find more on COVID-19 at these St Emlyn’s Resources.
References
- 1.Beigel JH, Tomashek KM, Dodd LE, et al. Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Preliminary Report. N Engl J Med. Published online May 22, 2020. doi:10.1056/nejmoa2007764
- 2.Mehra MR, Desai SS, Ruschitzka F, Patel AN. Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis. The Lancet. Published online May 2020. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31180-6
- 3.Gray N, Calleja D, Wimbush A, et al. “No test is better than a bad test”: Impact of diagnostic uncertainty in mass testing on the spread of Covid-19. Published online April 22, 2020. doi:10.1101/2020.04.16.20067884
- 4.Peyrony O, Marbeuf-Gueye C, Truong V, et al. Accuracy of Emergency Department clinical findings for diagnostic of coronavirus disease-2019. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Published online May 2020. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.05.022
- 5.Ludvigsson JF. Children are unlikely to be the main drivers of the COVID‐19 pandemic – a systematic review. Acta Paediatr. Published online May 19, 2020. doi:10.1111/apa.15371
