COVID-19

Screening and Diagnosis of COVID-19 – A Training Toolkit

Aug 21, 2020

This toolkit was developed by ICAP to provide training to health care providers (primarily physicians and nurses) who are involved in the frontline clinical management of COVID-19 patients in a resource limited setting. These training modules focus on recognition of...

Quantifying early COVID-19 outbreak transmission in South Africa and exploring vaccine efficacy scenarios

Jul 24, 2020

Mukandavire Z, Nyabadza F, Malunguza NJ, Cuadros DF, Shiri T, Musuka G (2020) PLoS ONE 15(7): e0236003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236003   Abstract The emergence and fast global spread of COVID-19 has presented one of the greatest public health...

Special Webinar (Archived Recording) – Phylogeny and COVID-19: Shedding light on origin and transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Jul 22, 2020

RECORDED: Wednesday, July 22, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT   Moderator: Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA Global Director ICAP at Columbia University Panelists: Bette Korber, PhD Laboratory Fellow and Scientist, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Los Alamos National...

Managing COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria: matters arising

Jul 20, 2020

Onyeaghala, A. A., & Olajide, I. (2020). Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, /j/cclm.ahead-of-print/cclm-2020-0748/cclm-2020-0748.xml. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2020-0748   Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome...

Antibody testing for coronavirus disease 2019: not ready for prime time

Jul 8, 2020

Duong Yen T, Wright Connor G, Justman Jessica. Antibody testing for coronavirus disease 2019: not ready for prime time BMJ 2020; 370 :m2655 BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2655 (Published 03 July 2020) Editorial   The tests need work, and...