Blog entry written on: Correlation between chest CT and RT-PCR testing in India’s second COVID-19 wave: a retrospective cohort study, (bmjebm-2021-111801). Authors: Vishal Mehta, Divya Jyoti, Rishi Tuhin Guria, Chandra Bhushan Sharma. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, researchers are toiling in their attempt to explain the unexplained – the crucial pathophysiological pathway, the appropriate […]
Category: COVID-19
Navigating the COVID-19 infodemic – can we do better?
Blog entry written on: Characteristics, quality and volume of the first 5 months of the COVID-19 evidence synthesis infodemic: a meta-research study (bmjebm-2021-111710.R1). Authors: Rebecca Abbott, Alison Bethel, Morwenna Rogers, Rebecca Whear, Noreen Orr, Liz Shaw, Ken Stein, Jo Thompson Coon Since the emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, […]
Testing for COVID-19: still many unknowns
Blog entry written on: ‘Effectiveness of tests to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus, and antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, to inform COVID-19 diagnosis: a rapid systematic review’ (bmjebm-2020-111511). Authors: David Jarrom, Lauren Elston, Jennifer Washington, Matthew Prettyjohns, Kimberley Cann, Susan Myles, Peter Groves. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread at the start of 2020, there was a […]
On “clinical vulnerability” during COVID-19
Blog entry written on: ‘Asthma and COVID-19: a review of evidence on risks and management considerations’ (bmjebm-2020-111506) Authors: Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, James Gunnell, Jonny Drake, Afolarin Otunla, Jana Suklan, Ella Schofield, Jade Kinton, Matt Inada-Kim, F D Richard Hobbs, Paddy Dennison Not all reasonable assumptions prove true. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic all people […]