COVID-19 UPDATE POSTS

We’ll be posting our summary updates of the most recent literature here.

SARS-CoV-2 & Back to School.

It has been a few weeks since our last post on the blog. It seems that COVID-19 has shown us it is here to stay for the time being. Local legislators, public health officials, and politicians are trying to navigate how to safely return to a somewhat normal life while keeping infection rates low. One…

by Kellie August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

Practice Guidelines

TREATMENT.

Throughout the globe, there are now more than 10 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. Worldwide there have been more than 500,000 deaths. According to the most recent WHO situation report there were over 200,000 newly confirmed cases in the last day, with the Americas reporting over 120,000 of those. Outside of the US, Brazil and…

by Kellie July 6, 2020August 25, 2021

Uncategorized

COVID IN THE PEDS ICU

Over the past two weeks, COVID took a back seat in the media to another public health crisis: Racial Inequalities and Disparities in the United States. (See this JAMA Article here on COVID-19 and Racial Disparities.) So that those important issues could be addressed, I only updated small parts of the website as to not…

by Kellie June 11, 2020July 6, 2020

Epidemiology

#PIMSTS

At the beginning of last week I posted a brief review of the literature that had been published about the association between COVID-19 and Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome. We knew that more information would be coming and you would be kept up to date with that. As promised, here is your update. This syndrome has…

by Kellie May 19, 2020July 6, 2020

Epidemiology

PEDIATRIC MULTI-SYSTEM INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME.

It has been 108 days since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the US. We have heard of the devastating effects the virus has had on adults for months. However, over the last week, media attention has shifted to focusing on pediatric patients and the late effects COVID-19 seems to be causing. For…

by Kellie May 11, 2020July 6, 2020