Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Inhibitors and Susceptibility to and Severity of COVID-19 G Kurfman, JAMA, June 19, 2020

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Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Inhibitors and Susceptibility to and Severity of COVID-19
G Kurfman, JAMA, June 19, 2020

A new study together with previous studies in other patient populations, should lay to rest concerns about the use of ACEI/ARBs in patients with or at risk for COVID-19. When there is a clinical indication for their use, ACEI/ARBs should not be discontinued in patients with COVID-19, unless the drugs cannot be tolerated due to hemodynamic instability.

Can phone apps slow the spread of the coronavirus?
K Servick, Science, June 19, 2020

Epidemiological models suggest apps can change a pandemic's course. Ensuring that an app detects risky contacts without overwhelming users with false alarms is one challenge; getting enough people to download an app is another. Health officials weigh competing apps and prepare pitches to privacy-conscious citizens considering how to put an app to the test.

First environmental surveillance for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and river water in Japan
E Haramoto et al, MEDRXIV, June 18, 2020

Classification of COVID-19 from Chest X-ray images using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
S Asif et al, MEDRXIV, June 18, 2020

Global Infodemiology of COVID-19: Focus on Google web searches and Instagram hashtags
A Rovetta et al, MEDRXIV, June 18, 2020

Exosomal microRNAs Drive Thrombosis in COVID-19
J Gambardella et al, MEDRXIV, June 18, 2020

The male excess in case-fatality rates for COVID-19. A meta-analytic study of the age-related differences and consistency over six countries
MS Green et al, MEDRXIV, June 17, 2020

Benchmarking Deep Learning Models and Automated Model Design for COVID-19 Detection with Chest CT Scans
X He et al, MEDRXIV, June 17, 2020

Explainable machine learning models to understand determinants of COVID-19 mortality in the United States
P Mathur et al, MEDRXIV, June 17,2020

CO-Search: COVID-19 Information Retrieval with Semantic Search, Question Answering, and Abstractive Summarization
A Esteva et al, ARXIV< June 17, 2020

Here’s how genes from covid-19 survivors could help you- Gene therapy could put an end to future pandemics.
A Regalado, MIT Tech Review, June 18, 2020