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Waste in covid-19 research
BMJ Editorial, May 2020

Before the pandemic, it was estimated that up to 85% of research was wasted because of poor questions, poor study design, inefficiency of regulation and conduct, and non or poor reporting of results. Many of these problems are amplified in covid-19 research, with time pressures and inadequate research infrastructure contributing.

How to address the coronavirus’s outsized toll on people of colour- US scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to erasing inequalities — and to defeating the pandemic overall.
N Subbaraman, Nature News, May 18, 2020

Artificial intelligence–enabled rapid diagnosis of patients with COVID-19
X Mei et al, Nature Medicine, May 19, 2020

We used artificial intelligence algorithms to integrate chest CT findings with clinical symptoms, exposure history and laboratory testing to rapidly diagnose patients who are positive for COVID-19. Among a total of 905 patients, 419 (46.3%) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. In a test set of 279 patients, the AI system achieved an area under the curve of 0.92.

Machine learning on Big Data from Twitter to understand public reactions to COVID-19
J Xue et al, ARXIV, May 18, 2020

Critical Impact of Social Networks Infodemic on Defeating Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: Twitter-Based Study and Research Directions
A Mourad et al, ARXIV, May 18, 2020

DHP Framework: Digital Health Passports Using Blockchain
CM Angelopolous et al. ARXIV, May 18, 2020

COVID Faster R-CNN: A Novel Framework to Diagnose Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in X-Ray Images
KH Shibly et al, MEDRXIV, May 19, 2020

Reproducing SARS-CoV-2 epidemics by region-specific variables and modeling contact tracing App containment
A Ferrari et al, MEDRXIV, May 19, 2020

Blacks/African Americans are 5 Times More Likely to Develop COVID-19: Spatial Modeling of New York City ZIP Code-level Testing Results
C DiMaggio et al, MEDRXIV, May 19, 2020

Highly sensitive and full-genome interrogation of SARS-CoV-2 using multiplexed PCR enrichment followed by next-generation sequencing
C Li et al, BIORXIV< May 18, 2020

COVID-19 and cancer: do we really know what we think we know?
AG Robinson et al, Nat Rev Clin Oncol, May 18, 2020

Blockchain-facilitated sharing to advance outbreak R&D
MB van der Waal et al, Science, May 2020