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Cell Phone Activity in Categories of Places and Associations With Growth in Cases of COVID-19 in the US
ST Sehra et al, JAMA Internal Medicine, August 31, 2020

In this cohort study, greater reductions in cell phone activity in workplace, transit stations and retail locations and greater increases in activity at the residence were associated with a lower incidence of COVID-19 cases in the next 2 weeks.

Clinical, immunological and virological characterization of COVID-19 patients that test re-positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR.
Lu Jing et al. EBioMedicine 2020 Aug 102960

Among 619 discharged COVID-19 cases, 87 re-tested (14%) as SARS-CoV-2 positive in circumstances of social isolation. No infectious strain could be obtained by culture and no full-length viral genomes could be sequenced from re-positive cases.

Digital advantage in the COVID-19 response: perspective from Canada’s largest integrated digitalized healthcare system
DC Baumgart et al, NPJ Digital Medicine, August 31, 2020

IL-6 and IL-10 as predictors of disease severity in COVID 19 patients: Results from Meta-analysis and Regression
SK Dhar et al, MEDRXIV, August 29, 2020

Real-time Nowcasting and Forecasting of COVID-19 Dynamics in England: the first wave?
PJ Birrell et al, NEDRXIV, August 31, 2020

Predicting critical state after COVID-19 diagnosis: Model development using a large US electronic health record dataset
MD Rinderknecht et al, MEDRXIV, August 31, 2020

We present a prognostic model predicting critical state within 28 days following COVID-19 diagnosis trained on data from US electronic health records, including demographics, comorbidities, symptoms, insurance types, and hospitalization. Of 15816 COVID-19 patients, 2054 went into critical state or deceased. The model had an ROC AUC of 0.872.