UPDATED JUNE 2, 2020

What does COVID-19 look like?

For months, healthcare professionals from all over the world have been sharing their COVID-19 clinical cases on Figure 1. The chest x-ray is the image that many have come to associate with the virus, but the images in this video, all taken from COVID-19 cases, show a bigger picture.

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UPDATED JUNE 2, 2020

Upcoming Q&A: End-of-life planning

Do your loved ones know your end-of-life wishes? How do you guide patients and their families through making those same decisions?

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Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, an internal medicine physician in California, is passionate about improving end-of-life experiences for patients and their families. In 2017, she founded the End Well Project, an initiative dedicated to the belief that all people should experience the end of life in a way that reflects their goals. 

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Have questions or an experience you'd like to share with Dr. Ungerleider? Post them in the comments. She'll be responding on June 11, 2020. 

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UPDATED June 2, 2020

From Brief19: Another remdesivir trial reported by press release

Gilead Science released preliminary results via press release of the SIMPLE trial, a randomized clinical trial of remdesivir versus standard of care for patients admitted to the hospital with moderate covid-19 illness. To be included in the study, patients had to have laboratory confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection with evidence of pneumonia but without reduced levels of oxygen. Patients were given either five days of remdesivir (and other treatments considered “standard of care”), 10 days of remdesivir plus standard of care, or standard of care alone (essentially placebo)...

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