Preparing for the COVID-19 Pandemic Podcast

Preparing for the COVID-19 Pandemic Podcast

In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, this episode focuses on the pandemic planning all ICUs should be doing – if they haven’t already been overwhelmed. This week a Working Group of 30 colleagues released the... read more

COVID-19: The Endgame, And How to Get There

COVID-19: The Endgame, And How to Get There

Nobody likes talking about the COVID-19 endgame, but we need to choose one. The appropriate interventions – public health, government spending, and freedom of movement – all depend on the endgame we choose. The differences... read more

1 Million Ventilators Project

1 Million Ventilators Project

We need to develop a strategic reserve of 1,000,000+ emergency ventilators ASAP. These don't need to be fancy medical ventilators, they just need to work. In a pandemic, the limited existing ventilator supply and stockpile... read more

Doctors and Nurses Plead for Masks on Social Media

Doctors and Nurses Plead for Masks on Social Media

As supplies have dwindled, doctors and nurses have improvised ways to make their stock last. Now they're urging leaders to help. An intensive-care nurse in Illinois was told to make a single-use mask last for five days. An... read more

Characteristics and Outcomes of 21 Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients in Washington State

Characteristics and Outcomes of 21 Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients in Washington State

This study represents the first description of critically ill patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the US. Patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection (positive result by polymerase chain reaction testing of a nasopharyngeal... read more

Chinese Anesthesiologists Share Strategies for Health Care Response to COVID-19

Chinese Anesthesiologists Share Strategies for Health Care Response to COVID-19

Anesthesiologists treating patients at the forefront of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan, China, share valuable lessons for other practitioners as the wave of coronavirus infections rolls through other countries.... read more

Statement in Support of the Scientists, Public Health Professionals, and Medical Professionals of China Combatting COVID-19

Statement in Support of the Scientists, Public Health Professionals, and Medical Professionals of China Combatting COVID-19

We are public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and wellbeing. We have watched as the scientists,... read more

Health Professionals Fight Against COVID-19 Myths and Misinformation

Health Professionals Fight Against COVID-19 Myths and Misinformation

Misinformation about the COVID-19 travels faster than the virus and complicates the job of doctors who are treating those infected and responding to concerns of their other patients. An array of myths springing up around... read more

COVID-19: We’re Making Decisions Without Reliable Data

COVID-19: We’re Making Decisions Without Reliable Data

The current coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco. At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modelers and... read more

COVID-19: A Message From Concerned Physicians

COVID-19: A Message From Concerned Physicians

The COVID-19 pandemic has reached a point where containment is no longer possible. The COVID-19 threat is real, and rapidly getting worse. Many of you are very nervous, some are unsure of the validity of the information you... read more

Care for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19

Care for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19

Initial reports suggest that COVID-19 is associated with severe disease that requires intensive care in approximately 5% of proven infections. Given how common the disease is becoming, as in prior major severe acute respiratory... read more

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It

The fascinating, true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children... read more

Safe Airway Society Principles of Airway Management and Tracheal Intubation Specific to the COVID-19

Safe Airway Society Principles of Airway Management and Tracheal Intubation Specific to the COVID-19

Transmission of COVID-19 is primarily through droplet spread. These droplets are affected by gravity and may cause direct transmission from close contact or contribute to surface contamination (where the virus may remain... read more

Critical Care and the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy: Early Experience and Forecast

Critical Care and the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy: Early Experience and Forecast

There was an immediate sharp increase in ICU admissions from day 1 to day 14. The increase was steady and consistent. Publicly available data indicate that ICU admissions (n = 556) represented 16% of all patients (n = 3420)... read more