PHE - Resources

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD Phd. "New data showed black patients have less trust in COVID-19 mitigation, underscoring decades of racial health disparities and limited patient trust."

Recommended by Tyler Orion: "For researchers who track how information spreads, COVID-19 is an experimental subject like no other. "This is an opportunity to see how the whole world pays attention to a topic," says Renée diResta at the Stanford Internet Observatory in California. She and many others have been scrambling to track and analyse the disparate falsehoods floating around - both 'misinformation', which is wrong but not deliberately misleading, and 'disinformation', which refers to organized falsehoods that are intended to deceive. "

"Vicky Newman's memorial was held in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic on 03-15-1986"

"The government's disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same."

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD Phd, "At Cell Press, we recognize the urgent need to quickly share information about SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. On this hub page, curated by members of our editorial team, you'll find the latest content about the outbreak as it appears in Cell Press journals."

Published May 20, 2020 - Perspective and advice from Mimi Guarneri. Vitamin C and D, right foods, good sleep, time in the sun, all help strengthen the soil. Her explanation of the "Pearl" metaphor resonates.

Recommended by Megan Sweeney I listened to the article. It gave me a sense of context for self-study. I also found a strong path of hope that this kind of science will grow during the disruption caused by Covid-19

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark, MD. Phd.

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark, MD. Phd. : Summary of Our Work For many years, up to 25 years for some, members of the COVID Human Genetic Effort have studied the human genetic basis of life-threatening diseases striking previously healthy human beings in the course of primary infection by a variety of viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites. In particular, we and others have identified monogenic inborn errors of immunity (IEI) that selectively underlie life-threatening or lethal viral diseases in previously healthy children or adults, including various severe diseases caused by Epstein-Barr virus, herpes simplex virus encephalitis, varicella zoster virus encephalitis, fulminant hepatitis due to hepatitis A virus, lethal primary infection by cytomegalovirus, severe pneumonitis due to influenza virus or rhinovirus, beta-papillomavirus-driven skin cancer, human herpes virus 8-driven Kaposi sarcoma, and others (see references below).

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark, MD, PhD & Meg Sweeney

Recommended by Meg Sweeney: "Abstract SARS-CoV-2 infection displays immense inter-individual clinical variability, ranging from silent infection to lethal disease. The role of human genetics in determining clinical response to the virus remains unclear. Studies of outliers - individuals remaining uninfected despite viral exposure and healthy young patients with life-threatening disease - presents a unique opportunity to reveal human genetic determinants of infection and disease."

Recommended by Meg Sweeney © 2020 Press Ganey Associates LLCIn a Press Ganey analysis of 350,000 comments from ED and medical practice patients between January 1 and March 20, 2020, the number of comments mentioning COVID-19 has grown at an average rate of 134% each week from early February through mid-March.To identify emerging themes and provide insights and recommendations to provider organizations, we isolated and analyzed the nearly 12,000 COVID-19-related comments, generating approximately 27,000 insights and leading to the following observations

Recommended by Dr. Michael Kurisu D.O.

Suggested by Ozzie Gontang, "A bed time story of how it started, and why hindsight's 2020."

Recommended by Tyler Orion, "It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I'm not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have robust data from the outbreaks in China and Italy, that shows the backside of the mortality curve declines slowly, with deaths persisting for months. Assuming we have just crested in deaths at 70k, it is possible that we lose another 70,000 people over the next 6 weeks as we come off that peak. That's what's going to happen with a lockdown. "

Erin Bromage: I am a Comparative Immunologist and Professor of Biology (specializing in Immunology) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. I balance Teaching, Research, and Public Service (that is, when we are allowed in our labs)."

Discovered by DeAunne Denmark, MD. Phd, with the statement "It isn't clear to me how this information was collected." A new survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies in partnership with Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock examines some of the critical questions facing America's health care delivery system... (including) What will be required to ensure Americans are once again comfortable and safe in a hospital or health care setting? The Executive Summary of the online survey of 1,000 adults was conducted nationally on April 16-20, 2020.

"This pandemic has been studied more intensely in a shorter amount of time than any other human event. Our globalized world has rapidly generated and shared a vast amount of information about it. It is inevitable that there will be bad as well as good data in that mix. These massive, decentralized, and crowd-sourced data can reliably be converted to life-saving knowledge if tempered by expertise, transparency, rigor, and collaboration. When making your own decisions, read closely, trust carefully, and when in doubt, look to the experts."

Hans Rosling - Gap Minder - 2019 Iife Expectancy World Regions

I found Posit Science and BrainHQ thanks to a suggestion from Dr. Kurisu. He recommended Norman Doige's books, The Brain That Changes Itself; Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science and The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity. One of the case studies is about Dr. Michael Merzenich, a research who was vilified by the medical establishment for investigating neuroplasticity. Great story. Merzenich is a founder of PositScience and BrainHQ.