UB COVID-19Information Digest —1 April 2020— With links to the latest news, reports, science educational materials, and innovation
NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 01, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

MAP OF Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) –An inactive map that can tell country cases and is updated frequently—use + sign in lower right corner to enlarge and choose country

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Botswana Declares Emergency on First Confirmed COVID Cases https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/botswana-declares-emergency-first-confirmed-covid-cases

Botswana reports 1st death from coronavirus–79-year-old person had underlying health issues https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/botswana-reports-1st-death-from-coronavirus/1787205

Infected but Feeling Fine: The Unwitting Coronavirus Spreaders–The C.D.C. director says new data about people who are infected but symptom-free could lead the agency to recommend broadened use of masks.

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Patients Can Carry Coronavirus after Symptoms Have Resolved: Study

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1164/rccm.202003-0524LE

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/covid-19-patients-can-carry-coronavirus-after-symptoms-have-resolved-study/ar-BB11UmRC?ocid=spartandhp

Michigan Critical Care Collaborative Network (MCCCN)

http://www.med.umich.edu/surgery/mcccn/

The MCCCN is a statewide collaboration formed to link healthcare professionals managing COVID-19 patients in the State of Michigan. To prepare for the expected surge in ICU patients, tertiary facilities in Michigan have been gathering lessons learned from around the world. This site serves to collect, curate, and distribute best practices from across the state of Michigan and externally to facilitate care for large numbers of COVID patients.

Novel Coronavirus Information Center– Elsevier’s free health and medical research on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center?fbclid=IwAR2yFxbJzhOf7cHW7vlYxB6mcWbDNSSRxZQaFncnBGLLCYYwYg-HwajbWu8

TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies, a Facebook group that is crowdsourcing solutions to address the diminishing stock of medical equipment around the world. https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensourcecovid19medicalsupplies/?fref=mentions

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —2 April 2020— With links to the latest news, reports, science and educational materials, and innovation
NEWS WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic Last updated: April 02, 2020, 03:23 GMT https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Why Sub-Saharan Africa needs a unique response to COVID-19 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/why-sub-saharan-africa-needs-a-unique-response-to-covid-19/

From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus

By Carolyn Kormann https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/from-bats-to-human-lungs-the-evolution-of-a-coronavirus

March 27, 2020

COVID-19 Updates COSECSA Countries https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/RuNzz/12/

Vox: Social distancing won’t just save lives. It might be better for the economy in the long run. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/31/21199874/coronavirus-spanish-flu-social-distancing

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Patients Can Carry Coronavirus after Symptoms Have Resolved: Study

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1164/rccm.202003-0524LE

Time Kinetics of Viral Clearance and Resolution of Symptoms in Novel Coronavirus Infection Time Kinetics of Viral Clearance and Resolution of Symptoms in Novel Coronavirus Infection De Chang1,4* MD&PhD, Guoxin Mo1* MD, Xin Yuan2* MD, Yi Tao1 MD, Xiaohua Peng5 MD, Fusheng Wang2 ️ MD, Lixin Xie1 ️ MD, Lokesh Sharma5# PhD, Charles S. Dela Cruz5# MD&PhD, Enqiang Qin#2 ️ MD 1. College of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chinese PLA General Hospital, http://www.atsjournals.org

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/covid-19-patients-can-carry-coronavirus-after-symptoms-have-resolved-study/ar-BB11UmRC?ocid=spartandhp

Michigan Critical Care Collaborative Network (MCCCN)

http://www.med.umich.edu/surgery/mcccn/

Novel Coronavirus Information Center– Elsevier’s free health and medical research on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center?fbclid=IwAR2yFxbJzhOf7cHW7vlYxB6mcWbDNSSRxZQaFncnBGLLCYYwYg-HwajbWu8

TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —3 April 2020—
NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 03, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop
Botswana	4		1			3		2	0.4

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Resource Centre

https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

To assist health workers and researchers working under challenging conditions to bring this outbreak to a close, The Lancet has created a Coronavirus Resource Centre. This resource brings together new 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) content from across The Lancet journals as it is published. All of our COVID-19 content is free to access.

Medical Student Education in the Time of COVID-19 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764138

The need to prepare future physicians has never been as focused as it is now in the setting of a global emergency. The profound effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may forever change how future physicians are educated.

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. From US National Institutes of Health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

COVID-19 Ethics Resource Center

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/covid-19-ethics-resource-center?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%25m%25d%25y&utm_content=Journal+of+Ethics_04-01-20&utm_campaign=NEWS_ETHICS_Journal_of_Ethics&utm_uid=8647421&utm_effort=&utm_h=

As communities and nations work together to confront the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, difficult decisions lie ahead that raise potential challenges, such as rationing limited health care resources, imposing restrictions to individual movement and liberties, and upholding professional duty to treat in the face of personal danger. The following resources aim to promote ethical reflection and decision making during this pandemic.

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —4 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 04, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop
Botswana	4		1			3		2	0.4

Daily updates on the emerging novel coronavirus from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. 3 April 2020

The Center for Health Security is analyzing and providing update s on the emerging novel cor on avirus. If you would like to receive these daily update s, please sign up here and select COVID-19. Additional resources are also available on our website . https://myemail.constantcontact.com/COVID-19-Updates—April-3.html?soid=1107826135286&aid=IT8zRlEnReU

RESOURCES

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Website with numerous references and resources http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/COVID-19/index.html

INNOVATIONS

Credit to BHI – Building Health International—Sent by a colleague–a building plan for a COVID treatment facility for low-resource settings made by a colleague of hers. He designed/built the Partners In Health hospital in Mirebalais. Perhaps it can be of use.

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —4 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 04, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop
Botswana	4		1			3		2	0.4

Daily updates on the emerging novel coronavirus from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. 3 April 2020

RESOURCES

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Website with numerous references and resources http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/COVID-19/index.html

INNOVATIONS

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —7 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 07, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop
Botswana	6		1			5		3	0.4	966	411
Total:	1,347,235	+1,231	74,767	+113	286,234	986,234	47,353	172.8	9.6

African Union Report https://au.int/en/covid19

COVID-19 Surveillance Update: 6 April 2020 5:00p.m EAT

African Union Member States (51) reporting COVID-19 cases (9,457), deaths (442), and recoveries (848) by region:

Central (917 cases; 33 deaths; 30 recoveries): Burundi (3; 0; 0), Cameroon (650; 9; 17), Central African Republic (9; 0; 3), Chad (9; 0; 1), Congo (45; 5; 2), DRC (161; 18; 5), Equatorial Guinea (16; 0; 1), Gabon (24; 1; 1)

Eastern (841; 18; 38): Djibouti (90; 0; 9), Eritrea (29; 0; 0), Ethiopia (44; 2; 4), Kenya (158; 6; 4), Madagascar (82; 0; 2), Mauritius (227; 7; 7), Rwanda (104; 0; 4), Seychelles (11; 0; 0), Somalia (7; 0; 1), South Sudan (1; 0; 0), Sudan (12; 2; 3), Tanzania (24; 1; 3), Uganda (52; 0; 0)

Northern (4,204; 321; 420): Algeria (1,320; 130; 90), Egypt (1,173; 78; 247), Libya (18; 1; 0), Mauritania (6; 1; 2), Morocco (1,113; 71; 76), Tunisia (574; 18; 5)

Southern (1,757; 16; 55): Angola (8; 2; 0), Botswana (6; 1; 0), Eswatini (9; 0; 1), Malawi (5; 0; 0), Mozambique (10; 0; 1), Namibia (16; 0; 3), South Africa (1,655; 11; 45), Zambia (39; 1; 5), Zimbabwe (9; 1; 0)

Western (1,741; 54; 306): Benin (22; 1; 5), Burkina Faso (345; 17; 90), Cape Verde (6; 1; 0), Côte d’Ivoire (261; 3; 37), Gambia (4; 1; 2), Ghana (214; 5; 3), Guinea (111; 0; 5), Guinea-Bissau (18; 0; 0), Liberia (13; 3; 3), Mali (47; 3; 1), Niger (184; 10; 13), Nigeria (232; 5; 33), Senegal (226; 2; 92), Sierra Leone (6; 0; 0), Togo (52 3; 22)

T. P. Sheahan et al., An orally bioavailable broad-spectrum antiviral inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in human airway epithelial cell cultures and multiple coronaviruses in mice. Science Translational Medicine.10.1126/scitranslmed.abb5883 (2020).

Coronaviruses (CoVs) traffic frequently between species resulting in novel disease outbreaks, most recently exemplified by the newly emerged SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. Herein, we show that the ribonucleoside analog β-D-N4-hydroxycytidine (NHC, EIDD-1931) has broad spectrum antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and related zoonotic group 2b or 2c Bat-CoVs, as well as increased potency against a coronavirus bearing resistance mutations to the nucleoside analog inhibitor remdesivir. In mice infected with SARS-CoV or MERS-CoV, both prophylactic and therapeutic administration of EIDD-2801, an orally bioavailable NHC-prodrug (β-D-N4-hydroxycytidine-5′-isopropyl ester), improved pulmonary function, and reduced virus titer and body weight loss. Decreased MERS-CoV

yields in vitro and in vivo were associated with increased transition mutation frequency in viral but not host cell RNA, supporting a mechanism of lethal mutagenesis in CoV. The potency of NHC/EIDD-2801 against multiple coronaviruses and oral bioavailability highlight its potential utility as an effective antiviral against SARS-CoV-2 and other future zoonotic coronaviruses.

HIV and SARS-CoV-2: What Are the Risks?

Source: 2020 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections*

In Spain, we have sadly surpassed 100,000 cases of COVID-19 at the time of this writing (April 1, 2020), with a mortality rate of 8.9% among those diagnosed. Quite unexpectedly, we have seen that PLWH (People living with HIV) are not at increased risk of acquiring COVID-19 or of progressing to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) once infected, across the 3 risk classes defined above. For reasons that are as yet unknown, it appears that their risk may even be lower than that of the general population.

https://www.clinicaloptions.com/hiv/conference-coverage/retroviruses-2020/european-perspectives/ct5/page-

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —8 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 08, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	6		1			5		3	1,154
Total:	1,431,706	+787	82,080	+46	302,150	1,047,476	47,894	183.7

African Union COVID-19 Surveillance Update: 7 April 2020 5pm EAT

African Union Member States (52) reporting COVID-19 cases (10,252), deaths (492), and recoveries (989) by region:

Central (950 cases; 33 deaths; 34 recoveries): Burundi (3; 0; 0), Cameroon (650; 9; 17), Central African Republic (9; 0; 3), Chad (9; 0; 1), Congo (49; 5; 2), DRC (180; 18; 9), Equatorial Guinea (16; 0; 1), Gabon (30; 1; 1), Sao Tome & Principe (4; 0; 0)

Eastern (922; 18; 54): Djibouti (121; 0; 18), Eritrea (31; 0; 0), Ethiopia (52; 2; 4), Kenya (172; 6; 7), Madagascar (88; 0; 7), Mauritius (244; 7; 7), Rwanda (105; 0; 4), Seychelles (11; 0; 0), Somalia (7; 0; 1), South Sudan (1; 0; 0), Sudan (14; 2; 3), Tanzania (24; 1; 3), Uganda (52; 0; 0)

Northern (4,506; 365; 444): Algeria (1,423; 173; 90), Egypt (1,322; 85; 259), Libya (18; 1; 0), Mauritania (6; 1; 2), Morocco (1,141; 83; 88), Tunisia (596; 22; 5)

Southern (1,864; 19; 61): Angola (16; 2; 2), Botswana (6; 1; 0), Eswatini (10; 0; 3), Malawi (8; 1; 0), Mozambique (10; 0; 1), Namibia (16; 0; 3), South Africa (1,749; 13; 45), Zambia (39; 1; 7), Zimbabwe (10; 1; 0)

Western (2,010; 57; 396): Benin (26; 1; 5), Burkina Faso (364; 18; 108), Cape Verde (7; 1; 1), Côte d’Ivoire (323; 3; 41), Gambia (4; 1; 2), Ghana (287; 5; 31), Guinea (128; 0; 5), Guinea-Bissau (18; 0; 2), Liberia (14; 3; 3), Mali (47; 5; 9), Niger (253; 10; 26), Nigeria (238; 5; 35), Senegal (237; 2; 105), Sierra Leone (6; 0; 0), Togo (58; 3; 23)

Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions –The Lancet Microbe https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30003-3/fulltext

This virus can be detected on different surfaces in a contaminated site. Here, we report the stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions.

RESOURCES

PLoS COVID-19 pandemic (2019-20)

This Collection of articles highlights all content published across the PLOS journals relating to the COVID-19/SARS-Coronavirus-2 pandemic in 2019-20. PLOS is committed to disseminating research as quickly as possible, particularly in public health emergencies. All articles published in any PLOS journal are Open Access free of charge to all readers.

https://collections.plos.org/covid-19

COVID-19 preparedness within the surgical, obstetric and anesthetic ecosystem in Sub Saharan Africa https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/COVID-19%20preparedness%20within%20the%20surgical,%20obstetric%20and%20anesthetic%20ecosystem%20in%20Sub%20Saharan%20Africa.pdf

Community transmission of COVID-19 is already being reported in Africa (1). Most countries on the continent will have 10,000+ confirmed cases within the month (2). The population, while generally younger than in Europe and North America, has much higher rates of poverty, malnutrition, HIV, and TB, which could shift the demographics of lethality. For surgeons, obstetricians, and anesthesiologists, the major challenge will be maintaining provision of emergency and essential surgery and obstetric care while preserving precious resources, minimizing exposure of health care workers, and preventing onward transmission (Table) (3). The human skill sets, resources, and supply chains supporting surgical services are also those needed for responding to the crisis (4)(5)

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —9 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 09, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	6		1			5		3	1,154
Total:	1,518,773	+813	88,505	+50	330,589	1,099,679	48,079	195

African Union COVID-19 Surveillance Update: 7 April 2020 https://au.int/sites/default/files/documents/38336-doc-africacdc_covidbrief_7april20_en.pdf

Southern Region 1,798 (391) 17 (12) 59

Angola 16 (9) 2 (0) 2 Imported Transmission

Botswana 6 (3) 1 (1) – Imported Transmission

Eswatini 10 (1) – 3 Local Transmission Malawi 5 (5) – – Local Transmission

Mozambique 10 (2) – 1 Local Transmission

Namibia 16 (5) – 3 Local Transmission

South Africa 1,668 (360) 12 (10) 45 Local Transmission

Zambia 39 (4) 1 (1) 5 Local Transmission

Zimbabwe 10 (2) 1 (0) – Local Transmission

The COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA Clinical Update

Saad B. Omer, MBBS, PhD^1,2; Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ^3,4; Carlos del Rio, MD^5,6

JAMA. Published online April 6, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.5788

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764366

Contains New Clinical and Epidemiological Insights

RESOURCES

Coronavirus – guidance for anaesthesia and perioperative care providers https://www.wfsahq.org/resources/coronavirus#LMIC

SASA – South African Society of Anaesthesiologists COVID-19 resource page https://www.sasaweb.com/ContentDetails/ContentDetails#?ContentId=79&SubMenuType=1

Guidance for Low Resource Settings

University of Tasmania – Oxygen therapy with Limited Resources
African Federation of Emergency Services – Emergency Care of COVID-19 in Adults in Low Resource Settings
Annals of Surgery – COVID-19 preparedness within the surgical, obstetric and anesthetic ecosystem in Sub Saharan Africa

JAMA NETWORK Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Check back here for updates on COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

Role of Prone Positioning in Management of COVID-19-Related ARDS

https://www.facs.org/covid-19/newsletter/040720/clinical-guidance Randomized prospective trials and observational studies involving patients with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) have shown improved outcomes with the use of prone positioning. Information and resources that may be useful for surgeons called upon to care for patients with COVID-19-related ARDS can be accessed here.

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —10 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 10, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Continent
Botswana	13		1			12		6	0.4	1,154	491	Africa
Total:	500,872	+652	17,692	+26	32,296	450,884	10,968					North America
Total:	778,852		65,818		185,320	527,714	30,359					Europe
Total:	264,192	+295	9,903	+7	129,248	125,041	6,422					Asia
Total:	39,662	+57	1,620	+5	4,129	33,913	1,128					South America
Total:	7,522	+45	55	+3	3,361	4,106	86					Australia/Oceania
Total:	12,915	+35	634	+2	1,698	10,583	155					Africa
Total:	721		13		619	89	10

South Africa	1,934	18	95	1,821	7	33	0.3	68,874	1,161
Namibia	16		3	13		6		362	142
Zimbabwe	11	3		8		0.7	0.2	371	25

COVID-19 exposes health worker shortages in the USA and UK, but nationalism and self-interest must not exploit medical workforces from low- and middle-income countries—from South African Medical Journal

http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/12905/9186

RESOURCES

Might enjoy reading the Lancet Global Online First—updated 9 April 2020

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/onlinefirst

Softening the blow of the pandemic: will the International Monetary Fund and World Bank make things worse?

COVID-19 and risks to the supply and quality of tests, drugs, and vaccines

13 April 2020 COVID-19 UpdateWORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 13, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases
Botswana	13		1			12

COVID19 Insights #9–Bill Rodriguez

Testing, Testing, Testing

11 April 2020

Editorial Note: It has been another long week for everyone, me included. I really have two or three Insights worth of material here, and had hoped to get half of this out earlier in the week, and the rest by the weekend. Alas.

Maybe you will find time this weekend to digest this one slowly, over a few sittings. Given where we are at the near peak of the global pandemic, amidst religious holidays and the arrival of the Northern spring, I hope many of you will be able to find some peaceful time with family and friends and loved ones this weekend.

https://covid19-insights.squarespace.com/blog/covid19-insights-9?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=5e926305246a8a290cdefbb6&ss_email_id=5e9263f6a56f8a1d6530c1d5&ss_campaign_name=COVID-Insights+%239+-+Testing%2C+Testing%2C+Testing&ss_campaign_sent_date=2020-04-12T00%3A42%3A50Z

New Coronavirus Drug Shows Promise in Animal Tests

Slated for human trials, EIDD-2801 could become the first pill for COVID-19, Scientific American, 7 April 2020

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-coronavirus-drug-shows-promise-in-animal-tests1/

RESOURCES

Africa CDC Dashboard—Can click on country and see COVID stats https://au.int/en/covid19

PDF DRIVE PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files. Excellent up-to-date medical textbooks available appropriate for medical students and trainees and faculty.

“As of today we have 75,724,385 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and don’t forget to bookmark and share the love!” https://www.pdfdrive.com/?fbclid=IwAR2DGKYjMAQu9dUnnb1KbsizEE7MICdGdnvR5N2xXictNsOE57MA96c1AEA

18,000+ Innovators from 175 countries created 1,560 projects to #BuildForCOVID19 (26-30 March 2020) https://globalcovid.hackclub.com/

The #BuildforCOVID19 Global Online Hackathon was an opportunity for developers around the world to come together and tackle challenges related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Innovators around the world were encouraged to use technologies of their choice across a range of suggested themes and challenge areas—some sourced through health partners including the World Health Organization and scientists from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

The hackathon welcomed locally and globally focused software solutions, with support from technology companies and platforms including AWS, Facebook, Giphy, Microsoft, Pinterest, Salesforce, Slack, TikTok, Twitter and WeChat, who shared resources to support participants throughout the submission period.

https://africacheck.org/spot-check/covid-19-and-groceries-what-advice-should-you-take/

Food Safety and COVID-19 –Aimed at patient information but interesting and helpful. JAMA. Published online April 9, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.5877

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764560?utm_source=undefined&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=040920&fbclid=IwAR02rrTp-18CSSR3gbSNnIxmUaHeoGFdx9I6SEIZl9ubY_GTGQ8T8sDC4X4#.Xo-tvpUjg7c.facebook

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —14 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 14, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	13		1			12	6	3,115

University of Chicago to study using plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to help severely ill https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-uchicago-plasma-trial-20200413-qmk3cyfjsvczpoaysx6fsnpndi-story.html

Also tells where other similar studies are being done.

RESOURCES

Africa CDC Dashboard—Can click on country and see COVID stats https://au.int/en/covid19

COVID-19 IN THE WHO AFRICAN REGION—World Health Organization

https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19

The New York Times is making all COVID-19 articles freely available https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/coronavirus?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

COVID-19 Outbreak Sitrep 06 (2020) WHO –08 April 2020
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331712/SITREP_COVID-19_WHOAFRO_20200408-eng.pdf

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 15 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 15, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop
Botswana	13		1			12	6	3,115	1,325

Africa CDC Dashboard 14 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Can select any African country for latest update on cases

Leading the charge: World-class scientist heads SA’s Covid-19 response https://m.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/leading-the-charge-world-class-scientist-heads-sas-covid-19-response-20200414?isapp=true&fbclid=IwAR396jzhlddN8oLW3Kou0VHK1i0pAoEhf3KOLeEMhRfaJMRc9ksv2tBmuAE

WHO investigates reports of recovered COVID-19 patients testing positive again https://www.mdlinx.com/surgery/top-medical-news/article/2020/04/13/7653799/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ajm_49771&uic=ZZ49E3A0D8C02543C7BC6C15948758BBFB

Study finds remdesivir effective against a key enzyme of coronavirus that causes COVID-19

Remdesivir already in human trials in search for treatment of deadly disease

April 13, 2020

University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

Scientists have shown that the drug remdesivir is highly effective in stopping the replication mechanism of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The finding follows closely on research demonstrating how the drug worked against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, a related coronavirus.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200413144055.htm?fbclid=IwAR2ROh2BiZUy80RdIm7JabeiY1MBsEnzR00yESCj1s3K1k8I6mV27hs1jyU

RESOURCES

Science (from AAAS —American Association for the Advancement of Science) is making all COVID-19 articles free open access

NEJM—New England Journal of Medicine—Making all COVID-19 Articles free and open access

https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus?query=RP

Two Articles on Ethics of Surgery in Time of COVID-19

COVID-19, Ethics & Equity – What is our Role as Surgeons? D’Andrea Joseph, MD Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, New York University Winthrop Hospital School of Medicine, Mineala, NY journals.lww.com

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/COVID19,%20Ethics%20and%20Equity%20.pdf

Surgeons, Ethics, and COVID-19: Early Lessons Learned—Peter Angelos

https://www.journalacs.org/article/S1072-7515(20)30301-X/fulltext

COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 16 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 16, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Africa CDC Dashboard 16 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 13
Deaths 1
Recovered 0

Eswatini

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 16
Deaths 2
Recovered 0

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 3

South Africa

Cases 2,506
Deaths 34
Recovered 410

Zambia

Cases 48
Deaths 2
Recovered 30

Zimbabwe

Cases 23
Deaths 3
Recovered 1

Neurologic Features in Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2008597

RESOURCES

Free access to Decker Medical online educational resources has been offered to UB medical faculty (CPD), students, and trainees for 2 years (2020-2021). Surgery is currently using the surgery materials. Here’s the link to their web site that gives an idea of the resources https://www.deckerip.com/. For more in-depth information, you can directly contact their leaders: Brian Decker bcd@deckermed.com and/or Ryan Decker rydecker@deckermed.com. Use requires registration.

Useful online resources

1. Online course on mechanical ventilation of patients with COVID 19 (Harvard University): A 2-5- hour course: overview of basic pulmonary physiology and principles of mechanical ventilation and a section on mechanical ventilation of patients with COVID 19.

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/mechanical-ventilation-covid-19

2. “Critical care for the non-ICU physician” (Society of Critical Care Medicine): Includes critical care of adults and children.

https://covid19.sccm.org/nonicu.htm

3. Critical Care Video Shorts (American College of Physicians): videos on topics including sepsis, ARDS, and vasopressors.

https://www.acponline.org/featured-products/critical-care-video-shorts/view-critical-care-video-shorts

Harvard Macy ICommunity Resources 03.26.20 Crowdsourced List of Online Teaching Resources Collated by the Harvard Macy Institute (@HarvardMacy)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1axEjhwL_VF8EutJcAL1Ds8DP4uyUyYSD/edit#gid=122126530

NON-COVID READING

The 6th European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Congress which was planned to take place in Paris will now be held ONLINE from 23-26 May 2020. The virtual congress will be free of charge . Details about the event will be made available in the next few weeks on the EAN Congress webpage here. An FAQ answering common questions you might have is available here. http://www.ern-rnd.eu/ean-congress-2020-moves-online/ (FYI– 1600 medical students from Brazil signing up for their first international congress!)

Service to Others May Be the Answer to Physician Burnout.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2763981?guestAccessKey=bfbad8a4-4a45-4724-8016-074656f4b004&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamasurgery&utm_content=olf&utm_term=041520

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 17 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 17, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	15	+2	1			14	6	0.4	3,441

Africa CDC Dashboard 17 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	15
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	3,602

Angola

Cases 19
Deaths 2
Recovered 2

Eswatini

Cases 16
Deaths 1
Recovered 8

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 16
Deaths 2
Recovered 0

Mozambique

Cases 29
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 4

South Africa

Cases 2,506
Deaths 34
Recovered 410

Zambia

Cases 48
Deaths 2
Recovered 30

Zimbabwe

Cases 23
Deaths 3
Recovered 1

WHO Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) updated daily (M-F) https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov

Virtual Grand Rounds: Preparing the Perioperative Ecosystem of Sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19

Date: April 21, 2020

Time: 3 PM GMT & Dakar / 4 PM Lagos & London / 5 PM Harare & Kigali / 6 PM Addis & Nairobi https://www.lifebox.org/covid-19-virtual-grand-rounds/

RESOURCES

Performing tracheostomy during the Covid-19 pandemic: guidance and recommendations from the Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Committees of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma https://tsaco.bmj.com/content/5/1/e000482

Surgical Perspective: A Practical Decontamination Framework for COVID-19 Front-Line Workers Returning Home https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/Surgical%20Perspective.pdf

Colleagues around the globe are sharing resources. Here are some of those:

For those looking for quality online COVID resources with a perioperative and critical care focus or resources applicable to colleagues in LMIC settings, the WHO is probably the best resource but here are some other suggestions to reference:

General COVID-19 information, research and protocols:

Society of Critical Care Medicine – https://www.sccm.org/disaster

Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation –https://www.apsf.org/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-resource-center/

COVID Research from PubMed – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

UpToDate – https://www.uptodate.com/contents/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19

Brigham and Women’s Hospital COVID Protocols – https://www.covidprotocols.org/

COVID application for healthcare providers – http://apps.appshed.com/1517747/

MDCalc COVID Resources – https://www.mdcalc.com/covid-19

Society Websites:

ASA COVID-19 FAQs – https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/governance-and-committees/asa-committees/committee-on-occupational-health/coronavirus/clinical-faqs

American College of Surgeons – https://www.facs.org/covid-19

American College of Physicians Guide to COVID-19 – https://assets.acponline.org/coronavirus/scormcontent/?&_ga=2.195469292.1558264411.1585742060-492713261.1585742060#/

European Society of Anesthesiology – https://www.esahq.org/coronavirus-covid-19/

Association of Anaesthetists – https://icmanaesthesiacovid-19.org/clinical-guidance

Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society – https://www.cas.ca/en/practice-resources/news/cas-articles/2020/coronavirus-tips-and-guidelines

Australian Society of Anesthetists – https://asa.org.au/covid-19-updates/

LMIC-specific COVID-19 information:

World Health Organization – https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

WFSA – https://www.wfsahq.org/resources/coronavirus

Partners in Health – https://www.pih.org/covid-response

Africa Center for Disease Control – https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

South African Society of Anaesthesiologists – https://www.sasaweb.com/ContentDetails/ContentDetails#?ContentId=79&SubMenuType=1

Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery – https://www.globalchildrenssurgery.org/gics-network/covid-19-resources/

CUGH COVID-19 Newsletter – https://www.cugh.org/announcements/covid-19-newsletter

COSECSA Information for Healthcare Workers – https://www.schoolforsurgeons.net/course/view.php?id=146

Lifebox

Information includes guidelines, ethics, and innovations https://www.lifebox.org/covid-19-resources

NON-COVID READING

Service to Others May Be the Answer to Physician Burnout.

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 18 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 18, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	15	+2	1			14	6	0.4	3,602

Africa CDC Dashboard 18 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	15
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	3,602

Angola

Cases 19
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Eswatini

Cases 19
Deaths 1
Recovered 8

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 17
Deaths 2
Recovered 0

Mozambique

Cases 34
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 4

South Africa

Cases 2,783
Deaths 50
Recovered 903

Zambia

Cases 52
Deaths 2
Recovered 30

Zimbabwe

Cases 24
Deaths 3
Recovered 2

South Africa flattens its coronavirus curve—and considers how to ease restrictions

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/south-africa-flattens-its-coronavirus-curve-and-considers-how-ease-restrictions?utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&utm_campaign=7e3ebd688e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_15_12_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d0d062dbd-7e3ebd688e-896759

Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-military-sympt/coronavirus-clue-most-cases-aboard-u-s-aircraft-carrier-are-symptom-free-idUSKCN21Y2GB

Lancet—link to latest issue—18 April 2020: https://outlook.office.com/mail/inbox/id/AAMkADkzN2IzNzA4LTU2ZDAtNGQ4My04YmVhLTEwZjg3ZDlmNTM2NwBGAAAAAAC8WMpHWuWOS57LQryZCLW3BwANMwsi6utOTb58IHOQliyvAAAATEIBAADyO5zJQCD4Q6tRqr2CWd5rAABxlwFKAAA%3D

Lancet Global—link to latest issue—April 2020

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/issue/vol8no4/PIIS2214-109X(20)X0004-0

RESOURCES

Virtual Grand Rounds: Preparing the Perioperative Ecosystem of Sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19

Date: April 21, 2020

Time: 3 PM GMT & Dakar / 4 PM Lagos & London / 5 PM Harare & Kigali / 6 PM Addis & Nairobi https://www.lifebox.org/covid-19-virtual-grand-rounds/

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health are committed to supporting healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries during the global COVID-19 pandemic through education. In partnership with Assist International and Project ECHO, we are offering a tele-education series that will provide remote training and a platform for discussion and the sharing of best practices for healthcare providers caring for COVID patients in low-resource settings. The sessions are open to all and will be live-streamed via the Zoom video-conferencing platform. Video recordings will also be available following the sessions—22 April and 24 April are first sessions. https://www.vumc.org/global-health/covid-19-tele-education-series-healthcare-providers-lmics Upcoming webinar: Live Seminar on Epidemic Ethics: Why should ethics be front and centre to the response to COVID-19. Is it? Monday 20 April | 1-2 pm UK time (GMT+1) This is the first online seminar from PHEPREN (Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Ethics Network), the newly launched global community of bioethicists, established to provide real-time, trusted, contextual support to communities, policy makers, researchers, and responders in relation to the ethical issues arising out of global health emergencies. Register by email | Join directly via Zoom

NON-COVID READING

Service to Others May Be the Answer to Physician Burnout.

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 21 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 20, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	20	+5	1			19	9	0.4	4,432

Africa CDC Dashboard 19 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	20
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	4,432

Angola

Cases 19
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Eswatini

Cases 22
Deaths 1
Recovered 8

Kenya

Cases 270
Deaths 14
Recovered 67

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 17
Deaths 2
Recovered 0

Mozambique

Cases 39
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 4

South Africa

Cases 3,034
Deaths 52
Recovered 903

Tanzania

Cases 170
Deaths 5
Recovered 11

Uganda

Cases 55
Deaths 0
Recovered 28

Zambia

Cases 61
Deaths 3
Recovered 33

Zimbabwe

Cases 25
Deaths 3
Recovered 2

How Africa Can Fight the Pandemic

Apr 17, 2020 Arkebe Oqubay The response to Africa’s COVID-19 plight must be swift and at scale rather than too little, too late. In a world short of progressive global leadership, where rules-based global governance is under threat, this is a chance for African and international policymakers to take decisive action. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-africa-can-fight-covid19-by-arkebe-oqubay-2020-04

Africa in the Path of Covid-19. New England J of Medicine. April 17, 2020

Wafaa M. El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., and Jessica Justman, M.D. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2008193

10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That’s Only Part of the Problem. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/10-african-countries-have-no-ventilators-thats-only-part-of-the-problem/ar-BB12Plru

Nigeria president Buhari chief of staff Abba Kyari dies of COVID-19—Includes Nigeria COVID information. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nigeria-president-buhari-chief-of-staff-abba-kyari-dies-of-covid-19/ar-BB12O7yS

Washington Post gives free updates: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/19/coronavirus-latest-news/

Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Transmission from Community Contacts in Healthcare Workers —As of early April 2020, evidence suggests that as many as 50% of all SARS-CoV-2 infections are asymptomatic, although this estimate is still fluid.7 Our goal was to develop a tool to help hospital leadership and healthcare providers estimate the daily risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from an asymptomatic community-dwelling patient or coworker. https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/Asymptomatic%20SARS%20CoV%202%20Transmission.pdf

RESOURCES

Virtual Grand Rounds: Preparing the Perioperative Ecosystem of Sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19

Date: April 21, 2020

Time: 3 PM GMT & Dakar / 4 PM Lagos & London / 5 PM Harare & Kigali / 6 PM Addis & Nairobi https://www.lifebox.org/covid-19-virtual-grand-rounds/

NON-COVID READING

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 21 April 2020— NEWS

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 20, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	20	+5	1			19	9	0.4	4,432

Africa CDC Dashboard 19 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	20
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	4,432

Angola

Cases 19
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Eswatini

Cases 22
Deaths 1
Recovered 8

Kenya

Cases 270
Deaths 14
Recovered 67

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 17
Deaths 2
Recovered 0

Mozambique

Cases 39
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 4

South Africa

Cases 3,034
Deaths 52
Recovered 903

Tanzania

Cases 170
Deaths 5
Recovered 11

Uganda

Cases 55
Deaths 0
Recovered 28

Zambia

Cases 61
Deaths 3
Recovered 33

Zimbabwe

Cases 25
Deaths 3
Recovered 2

How Africa Can Fight the Pandemic

Africa in the Path of Covid-19. New England J of Medicine. April 17, 2020

Wafaa M. El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., and Jessica Justman, M.D. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2008193

Washington Post gives free updates: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/19/coronavirus-latest-news/

RESOURCES

Virtual Grand Rounds: Preparing the Perioperative Ecosystem of Sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19

Date: April 21, 2020

Time: 3 PM GMT & Dakar / 4 PM Lagos & London / 5 PM Harare & Kigali / 6 PM Addis & Nairobi https://www.lifebox.org/covid-19-virtual-grand-rounds/

NON-COVID READING

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 22 April 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 22, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	20	+5	1			19	9	0.4	4,432

Africa CDC Dashboard 22 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	20
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	4,432

South Africa

Cases 3,300
Deaths 58
Recovered 903

Eswatini

Cases 24
Deaths 1
Recovered 8

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 4

Zambia

Cases 70
Deaths 3
Recovered 35

Zimbabwe

Cases 25
Deaths 3
Recovered 2

Angola

Cases 24
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Mozambique

Cases 39
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

Malawi

Cases 17
Deaths 2
Recovered 3

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Uganda

Cases 56
Deaths 0
Recovered 38

Kenya

Cases 296
Deaths 14
Recovered 74

Ethiopia

Cases 114
Deaths 3
Recovered 16

Tanzania

Cases 254
Deaths 8
Recovered 23

Coronavirus in Africa tracker–BBC

updated: 22-04-2020 11:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

20 Total confirmed cases

19 Active confirmed cases

0 Recovered

1 Death

NEWS

Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in United States veterans hospitalized with Covid-19. In this study, we found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine, either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf

Malawi high court suspends lockdown to protect the poor—Financial Times (London). The ruling, the first successful legal challenge to the concept of a lockdown in Africa, adds to a growing debate on the continent about the trade-offs between shutting down economic activity and saving lives.

https://www.ft.com/content/3d863bf5-ed52-30c6-8b5e-0f556bb3b791

Expert U.S. panel develops NIH treatment guidelines for COVID-19. The guidelines are posted online (covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov) and will be updated often as new data are published in peer-reviewed scientific literature and other authoritative information emerges. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/expert-us-panel-develops-nih-treatment-guidelines-covid-19

Coronavirus: Amnesty International urges decongestion of prisons in Africa. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/coronavirus/389002-coronavirus-amnesty-international-urges-decongestion-of-prisons-in-africa.html

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Special Issue – Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine April 2020 http://www.surgeon.co.za/covid-19-special-issue-wits-journal-clinical-medicine/

Welcome to the COVID-19 Portfolio. The iSearch COVID-19 portfolio is NIH’s comprehensive, curated source for publications related to COVID-19. This portfolio includes articles from PubMed and pre-prints from arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv, and ChemRxiv. The portfolio is updated daily with the latest available data. https://icite.od.nih.gov/covid19/search/#search:searchId=5e9fd32fc8718f29cad059e3

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) COVID-19 Journal Articles

All recently-published articles from the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s journals, Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Critical Care Explorations, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.sccm.org/Member-Center/Journals/SCCM-COVID-19-Journal-Articles

Some Drugs for COVID-19 (Updated April 16)—The Medical Letter.

https://secure.medicalletter.org/w1595a#cov4

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health are committed to supporting healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries during the global COVID-19 pandemic through education. In partnership with Assist International and Project ECHO, we are offering a tele-education series that will provide remote training and a platform for discussion and the sharing of best practices for healthcare providers caring for COVID patients in low-resource settings. The sessions are open to all and will be live-streamed via the Zoom video-conferencing platform. Video recordings will also be available following the sessions—22 April (COVID-19 Respiratory Clinical Symptoms and Treatment) and 24 April are first sessions. https://www.vumc.org/global-health/covid-19-tele-education-series-healthcare-providers-lmics

THIS FRIDAY! Join us April 24th for a special edition of our Surgical Services Management in LMICs webinar series. Utilizing the Quality Improvement skills discussed in sessions 2-4, a case study will address surgical site infections. Register at http://bit.ly/surgmgmt #surgmgmt

NON-COVID READING

Fostering Scholarship in Medical Education: Resources for Authors and Reviewers. Examples of materials:

The Conducting Research in Health Professions Education: From Idea to Publication eBook is a collection of one-page infographics offering guidance on each step of the process of conducting and publishing research in health professions education from writing good research questions to analyzing quantitative and qualitative data to responding to reviewer feedback to promoting your published work.
The Research in Medical Education: A Primer for Medical Students includes an overview of medical education research as well as strategies and recommendations for getting started.

https://www.aamc.org/what-we-do/mission-areas/medical-education/fostering-scholarship?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=dfc3d924-a785-469d-9cfc-cf308d35c042

Coronavirus: Nigerian tertiary institutions not equipped for distance learning. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/385262-coronavirus-nigerian-tertiary-institutions-not-equipped-for-distance-learning.html

A spotlight on science, research and innovation in South Africa. Open Access Government charts the priorities of the National Research Foundation when it comes to science, research and innovation in South Africa, at home and abroad https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/science-research-and-innovation-in-south-africa/85659/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 23 April 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 23, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	22	+2	1			21	9	0.4	4,432

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 23-04-2020 11:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

22 Total confirmed cases

21 Active confirmed cases

0 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 22 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	20
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	4,432

South Africa

Cases 3,465
Deaths 58
Recovered 1,055

Botswana

Cases 20
Deaths 1
Recovered 0

Eswatini

Cases 31
Deaths 1
Recovered 8

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 6

Zambia

Cases 74
Deaths 3
Recovered 35

Zimbabwe

Cases 28
Deaths 3
Recovered 2

Angola

Cases 24
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Mozambique

Cases 39
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

Malawi

Cases 23
Deaths 2
Recovered 3

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Uganda

Cases 61
Deaths 0
Recovered 41

Kenya

Cases 303
Deaths 14
Recovered 74

Ethiopia

Cases 116
Deaths 3
Recovered 21

Tanzania

Cases 284
Deaths 8
Recovered 34

NEWS

International Electronic Health Record-Derived COVID-19 Clinical Course Profile: The 4CE Consortium. 96 hospitals in the US, France, Italy, Germany, and Singapore contributed data to the consortium for a total of 27,927 COVID-19 cases and 187,802 performed laboratory values.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.13.20059691v2

Alarmed as COVID Patients’ Blood Thickened, New York Doctors Try New Treatments https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-04-22/alarmed-as-covid-patients-blood-thickened-new-york-doctors-try-new-treatments?src=usn_tw

Alterations in Smell or Taste in Mildly Symptomatic Outpatients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765183?guestAccessKey=f75eef31-3bfa-4215-9255-788126327edd&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3293878942&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=87122162

Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area. In this case series that included 5700 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area, the most common comorbidities were hypertension, obesity, and diabetes. Among patients who were discharged or died (n = 2634), 14.2% were treated in the intensive care unit, 12.2% received invasive mechanical ventilation, 3.2% were treated with kidney replacement therapy, and 21% died. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184?guestAccessKey=28639c30-edee-405e-9618-1be71e09426b&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3293878934&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=87122161

What does ‘leave no one behind’ mean for humanitarian crises-affected populations in the COVID-19 pandemic? BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002540. https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/4/e002540

RESOURCES

CME-accredited COVID-19 Education—Free CPD

Washington University Continuing Medical Education is proud to make available education to support clinicians in the care of patients with COVID-19. Our COVID-19 CME Resources for Learners webpage is updated regularly and includes content being actively developed by faculty from across the institution as well as recent Grand Rounds talks available for credit.
Sparked by our medical and graduate students’ weekly COVID-19 literature summaries, we have also invited senior students to contribute to the COVID-19 efforts by pairing up with a faculty member to develop CME activities

COVID-19 CME Video Modules

150 CMEOnline Courses in 17 different Specialties are also available

CMEONLINE

COVID-19 Special Issue – Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine April 2020 http://www.surgeon.co.za/covid-19-special-issue-wits-journal-clinical-medicine/

Welcome to the COVID-19 Portfolio. The iSearch COVID-19 portfolio is NIH’s comprehensive, curated source for publications related to COVID-19. This portfolio includes articles from PubMed and pre-prints from arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv, and ChemRxiv. The portfolio is updated daily with the latest available data. https://icite.od.nih.gov/covid19/search/#search:searchId=5e9fd32fc8718f29cad059e3

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) COVID-19 Journal Articles

https://www.sccm.org/Member-Center/Journals/SCCM-COVID-19-Journal-Articles

Some Drugs for COVID-19 (Updated April 16)—The Medical Letter.

https://secure.medicalletter.org/w1595a#cov4

NON-COVID READING

FYI—from Facebook University of Cape Town Libraries

April 20 at 5:36 PM ·

Free access to UCT Libraries & OpenUCT websites on Cell C and Telkom networks.

“The university is very pleased to announce that Cell C and Telkom have both agreed to the request to zero-rate access to certain UCT websites. This will enable online learning at no cost to students”.

The Library website (http://www.lib.uct.ac.za) and OpenUCT website (http://open.uct.ac.za) are included in this list.

UCT has called on the remaining two cellphone providers to support this call, which comes not just from UCT but from across the higher education sector. Full media statement http://icts.evlink9.net/serv…/…/52861/555587/1477657/1856422

Fostering Scholarship in Medical Education: Resources for Authors and Reviewers. Examples of materials:

The Conducting Research in Health Professions Education: From Idea to Publication eBook is a collection of one-page infographics offering guidance on each step of the process of conducting and publishing research in health professions education from writing good research questions to analyzing quantitative and qualitative data to responding to reviewer feedback to promoting your published work.
The Research in Medical Education: A Primer for Medical Students includes an overview of medical education research as well as strategies and recommendations for getting started.

https://www.aamc.org/what-we-do/mission-areas/medical-education/fostering-scholarship?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=dfc3d924-a785-469d-9cfc-cf308d35c042

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 24 April 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 24, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	22	+2	1			21	9	0.4	4,432

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 24-04-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

22 Total confirmed cases

21 Active confirmed cases

0 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 23 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	22
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	4,432

South Africa

Cases 3,635
Deaths 65
Recovered 1,055

Eswatini

Cases 32
Deaths 1
Recovered 8

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 7

Zambia

Cases 74
Deaths 3
Recovered 35

Zimbabwe

Cases 28
Deaths 4
Recovered 2

Angola

Cases 24
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Mozambique

Cases 41
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

Malawi

Cases 33
Deaths 3
Recovered 3

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Uganda

Cases 63
Deaths 0
Recovered 46

Kenya

Cases 320
Deaths 14
Recovered 89

Ethiopia

Cases 116
Deaths 3
Recovered 21

Tanzania

Cases 284
Deaths 8
Recovered 34

NEWS

Africa Centers for Disease Control Sees 43% Jump in Reported Coronavirus Cases Across the Continent. https://time.com/5826125/africa-coronavirus-cases/

Malaria complicates Bobirwa COVID-19 fight, PALAPYE: As the nation grapples with containing the highly contagious COVID-19 pandemic, health authorities in Bobirwa have twofold battles to contend with after a recent Malaria outbreak claimed one life.

https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=85322&dir=2020/april/23

UMD studies hydroxychloroquine as possible preventive for COVID-19; volunteers needed. But now research is underway at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to determine if the anti-malarial drug could actually be used as a preventive measure, not as a treatment. https://wjla.com/news/coronavirus/umd-hydroxychloroquine-study-preventive?fbclid=IwAR3sCXzOH9ferVohEbYT8JBthz0DiZXco59rVZSdUNIf2isHe6NX-Y7G4lU

Gaborone City Council responds to COVID-19. In line with that thinking, the council has started to install washing basins, and build additional toilets in its 29 primary schools as well as engage private cleaning companies.

https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=85323&dir=2020/april/23

Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2007800

How to Obtain a Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimen.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMvcm2010260?query=featured_home

How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes.

RESOURCES

CME-accredited COVID-19 Education—Free CPD

COVID-19 CME Video Modules

150 CMEOnline Courses in 17 different Specialties are also available

CMEONLINE

COVID-19 Special Issue – Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine April 2020 http://www.surgeon.co.za/covid-19-special-issue-wits-journal-clinical-medicine/

Welcome to the COVID-19 Portfolio. The iSearch COVID-19 portfolio is NIH’s comprehensive, curated source for publications related to COVID-19. This portfolio includes articles from PubMed and pre-prints from arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv, and ChemRxiv. The portfolio is updated daily with the latest available data. https://icite.od.nih.gov/covid19/search/#search:searchId=5e9fd32fc8718f29cad059e3

CovidSurg– https://globalsurg.org/covidsurg/ There is an urgent need to understand the outcomes of COVID-19 infected patients who undergo surgery. Capturing real-world data and sharing international experience will inform the management of this complex group of patients who undergo surgery throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, improving their clinical care. CovidSurg has been designed by an international collaborating group of surgeons and anaesthetists, with representation from Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. We would be delighted to have you and your team involved and collaborating.

University of Iowa Virtual Three-Week Surgery Curriculum for Third-Year Medical Students https://www.facs.org/-/media/files/covid19/uiowa_surgery_virtual_curriculum.ashx

JOURNAL CLUB SUGGESTION

Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area. Seen on Twitter 24 April 2020. Lots of alarm over the 88% Mortality among #Covid19 patients on ventilators. The paper *should* say “Among pts on vents, mortality will range from 25-97%”. Study is a great for a Journal Club on “Beware Your Denominator”

A better conclusion? – “Among the 1,151 pts who were mechanically ventilated, at a median follow up of 4.5 days, 3% had gone home, 25% had died, & 72% were still in the hospital”. – “The eventual mortaily rate will thus range between 25% (282/1151) and 97% (1113/1151).” from Dr. John Scott, Univ of Michigan surgery faculty.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184

NON-COVID READING

FYI—from Facebook University of Cape Town Libraries

April 20 at 5:36 PM ·

Free access to UCT Libraries & OpenUCT websites on Cell C and Telkom networks.

The Library website (http://www.lib.uct.ac.za) and OpenUCT website (http://open.uct.ac.za) are included in this list.

Fostering Scholarship in Medical Education: Resources for Authors and Reviewers. Examples of materials:

The Conducting Research in Health Professions Education: From Idea to Publication eBook is a collection of one-page infographics offering guidance on each step of the process of conducting and publishing research in health professions education from writing good research questions to analyzing quantitative and qualitative data to responding to reviewer feedback to promoting your published work.
The Research in Medical Education: A Primer for Medical Students includes an overview of medical education research as well as strategies and recommendations for getting started.

https://www.aamc.org/what-we-do/mission-areas/medical-education/fostering-scholarship?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=dfc3d924-a785-469d-9cfc-cf308d35c042

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 28 April 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 28, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	22	+2	1			21	9	0.4	5,023

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 28-04-2020 04:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

22 Total confirmed cases

21 Active confirmed cases

0 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 27 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	22
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	6,016

Angola

Cases 25
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Eswatini

Cases 59
Deaths 1
Recovered 10

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 36
Deaths 3
Recovered 4

Mozambique

Cases 76
Deaths 0
Recovered 9

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

South Africa

Cases 4,546
Deaths 87
Recovered 1,473

Zambia

Cases 89
Deaths 3
Recovered 42

Zimbabwe

Cases 31
Deaths 4
Recovered 2

Ethiopia

Cases 124
Deaths 3
Recovered 50

Kenya

Cases 363
Deaths 14
Recovered 114

Tanzania

Cases 299
Deaths 8
Recovered 37

NEWS

Universal weekly testing as the UK COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy. Published online: April 20, 2020 Lancet

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flancet%2Farticle%2FPIIS0140-6736&data=02%7C01%7Cmargaret.tarpley%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cc116083f99fa4389328708d7eb2ce36e%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637236450337760185&sdata=ai9OTnfxfX%2BlHQw9NY6hb7ju54wR9ru%2BeS%2BgyaT8G%2Fg%3D&reserved=0(20)30936-3/fulltext

Can Estrogen and Other Sex Hormones Help Men Survive Covid-19? Men are more likely than women to die of the coronavirus, so scientists are treating them with something women have more of: female sex hormones. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/health/coronavirus-estrogen-men.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200427&instance_id=17969&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=26464847&segment_id=26040&user_id=9289a6e403a2eb689aa4ab4c407596cc

C.D.C. Adds New Symptoms to Its List of Possible Covid-19 Signs. Chills, muscle pain, sore throat and headache are among the ailments now considered potential indicators of the disease. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/health/coronavirus-symptoms-cdc.html

From Twitter– World Health Organization (WHO) “So far, 14 vaccination campaigns supported by @gavi against polio, measles, cholera, human papillomavirus, yellow fever and meningitis have been postponed, which would have immunized more than 13 million people”-@DrTedros #COVID19 5:31 PM · Apr 27, 2020·Twitter Web App

In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead. As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to be effective in monkeys. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/coronavirus-vaccine-update-oxford.html?fbclid=IwAR0dcawfEbCm0-LPEgOZY5emNNxdd0qKAhervJ585O0Ns-75F3dHdHiWpS8

Hospital-based use of thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19
Published online: April 21, 2020 The Lancet

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flancet%2Farticle%2FPIIS0140-6736&data=02%7C01%7Cmargaret.tarpley%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cc116083f99fa4389328708d7eb2ce36e%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637236450337750191&sdata=qZxYZaGIgu1Sm9Xm0Sxok2ynIC22zxk%2FkPoml%2FTn0Fs%3D&reserved=0(20)30926-0/fulltext

Medical students for health-care staff shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published online: April 23, 2020 The Lancet

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flancet%2Farticle%2FPIIS0140-6736&data=02%7C01%7Cmargaret.tarpley%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cc116083f99fa4389328708d7eb2ce36e%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637236450337750191&sdata=qZxYZaGIgu1Sm9Xm0Sxok2ynIC22zxk%2FkPoml%2FTn0Fs%3D&reserved=0(20)30923-5/fulltext

RESOURCES

Lancet Online First, 27 April 2020

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/onlinefirst

COVID-19 Clinical Trials Explorer South Africa, Ghana & Nigeria included. https://public.tableau.com/profile/marinamarin#!/vizhome/covidTrials/COVID-19ClinicalTrialsExplorer

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

Register for this week’s sessions https://www.vumc.org/global-health/covid-19-tele-education-series-healthcare-providers-lmics

UPCOMING Sessions (start times listed on website) WEDNESDAY | April 29, 2020 Multi-Organ Failure and Sepsis Management in the COVID-19 Patient FRIDAY | May 1, 2020 Cardiac Clinical Symptoms and Treatment

WEDNESDAY | May 6, 2020 COVID-19 in the Operating Theatre

FRIDAY | May 8, 2020 COVID-19 in Special Populations: Obstetrics, Pediatrics, and People Living with HIV

WEDNESDAY | May 13, 2020 What’s new in COVID-19? Treatment and Research Updates

Connecting Global Health Learning with Purpose
Wednesday, April 29, 1:00pm-2:00pm Eastern Time

The first free panel in this virtual series is entitled “Connecting Global Health Learning with Purpose”, which will be held on Wednesday, April 29 from 1:00-2:00pm Eastern Time (7-8 pm Botswana). It will be the first of our Global Health Idea Lab sessions and we are very much looking forward to it!

The live virtual panel will be recorded, and as long as you register, you will automatically receive a link to the video recording when it becomes available. Those who attend live will have the opportunity to submit questions to the panelists.

Partnership Between the Constituency for Africa (CFA), Harvard, John Hopkins and Other Leading Institutions and Diaspora Organizations to Work with the Africa Centers for Disease Control on the COVID-19 Response. To launch the initiative, a virtual/video conference meeting with Dr Nkengasong has been organized to take place on Tuesday, May 5th, from 10 am to 12pm (Eastern Time)—4 pm in Botswana. Participants are expected from across the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and across the African continent. https://allafrica.com/stories/202004241056.html

Unknown unknowns: Surgical consent during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the US and other high-income countries, medical professionals are facing issues of inadequate supplies and equipment. Quote from paper, “This shortage could affect the surgical patient who develops COVID-19 disease in the postoperative period (e.g., ICU bed capacity or ventilator availability). Moreover, treatment of postoperative complications may be impacted by limitations in diagnostic or interventional services including imaging, interventional radiology, or endoscopy due to COVID-19 disruptions in services.”

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/Unknown%20unknowns%20.pdf

AMA Journal Of Ethics. April 2020–Anesthesiologist-Surgeon Relationships  https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/home

AMA Journal of Ethics. January 2020 Volume 22, Number 1: E1-65 Culture, Context, and Epidemic Containment

From the Editor Responding to Global Public Health Crises and other articles. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/culture-context-and-epidemic-containment

Call for Papers AMA Journal of Ethics invites original submissions for peer review consideration on the following themes that will be explored in 2021 and 2022. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/call-papers via @journalofethics

JOURNAL CLUB SUGGESTION

Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area. Seen on Twitter 24 April 2020.

April 24, 2020–Clarification of Mortality Rate and Data in Abstract, Results, and Table 2

JAMA. Published online April 24, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.7681

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765367

Lots of alarm over the 88% Mortality among #Covid19 patients on ventilators. The paper *should* say “Among pts on vents, mortality will range from 25-97%”. Study is a great for a Journal Club on “Beware Your Denominator” A better conclusion? – “Among the 1,151 pts who were mechanically ventilated, at a median follow up of 4.5 days, 3% had gone home, 25% had died, & 72% were still in the hospital”. – “The eventual mortaily rate will thus range between 25% (282/1151) and 97% (1113/1151).” from Dr. John Scott, Univ of Michigan surgery faculty.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184

What Should an Anesthesiologist and Surgeon Do When They Disagree About Terms of Perioperative DNR Suspension? https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/what-should-anesthesiologist-and-surgeon-do-when-they-disagree-about-terms-perioperative-dnr/2020-04

NON-COVID READING

Health sector spending and spending on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and development assistance for health: progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3

Published online: April 23, 2020
Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network
The Lancet
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flancet%2Farticle%2FPIIS0140-6736&data=02%7C01%7Cmargaret.tarpley%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cc116083f99fa4389328708d7eb2ce36e%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637236450337750191&sdata=qZxYZaGIgu1Sm9Xm0Sxok2ynIC22zxk%2FkPoml%2FTn0Fs%3D&reserved=0(20)30608-5/fulltext

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 29 April 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 29, 2020, 03:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	+2	1			22	10	0.4	6,016

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 29-04-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

22 Active confirmed cases

0 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 28 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	22
Deaths	1
Recoveries	0
Tests	6,210

Angola

Cases 25
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Eswatini

Cases 71
Deaths 1
Recovered 10

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 36
Deaths 3
Recovered 5

Mozambique

Cases 76
Deaths 0
Recovered 9

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

South Africa

Cases 4,793
Deaths 90
Recovered 1,473

Zambia

Cases 95
Deaths 3
Recovered 42

Zimbabwe

Cases 31
Deaths 4
Recovered 5

Ethiopia

Cases 126
Deaths 3
Recovered 50

Kenya

Cases 374
Deaths 14
Recovered 124

Tanzania

Cases 306
Deaths 8
Recovered 37

Uganda

Cases 79
Deaths 0
Recovered 52

NEWS

Editorial|

Decolonising COVID-19. The Lancet Global Health V. 8, ISSUE 5, e612, May 01, 2020https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30134-0/fulltext

Not peer-reviewed but in preprint– Saliva is more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swabs. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835v1#disqus_thread

BOMAID partners with The Voice Newspaper for Online fitness sessions. In an attempt to raise the nation’s health and happiness during the Covid-19 pandemic, Botswana Medical Aid Society (BOMAID) has launched online fitness sessions aimed at both its members and the public at large. The classes, which are scheduled for 7am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, are streamed free of charge through Bomaid and The Voice Newspaper’s Facebook pages. https://news.thevoicebw.com/bomaid-partners-with-the-voice-newspaper-for-online-fitness-sessions/

WHO calls for healthy, safe and decent working conditions for all health workers amidst COVID-19 pandemic

World Day for Safety and Health at Work: WHO key facts & key messages to support the day. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/28-04-2020-who-calls-for-healthy-safe-and-decent-working-conditions-for-all-health-workers-amidst-covid-19-pandemic

Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already. The scientific community must take up cudgels in the battle against bunk. Cow urine, bleach and cocaine have all been recommended as COVID-19 cures — all guff. Nature, 27 April 2020. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01266-z?fbclid=IwAR3b9NpqBj1PzJCC1WtjEnxKC-nwMcn5bcb_olgYlclEhXZ_Gj4ahTmOB9M

RESOURCES

Lancet Online First, 27 April 2020

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/onlinefirst

COVID-19 Clinical Trials Explorer South Africa, Ghana & Nigeria included. https://public.tableau.com/profile/marinamarin#!/vizhome/covidTrials/COVID-19ClinicalTrialsExplorer

COVID-19 Knowledge Hub. Curated by GOARN Partners including UN agencies, International and national NGOs, academic institutions and consortiums, the GOARN COVID-19 Information is a public platform for access to the best resources available to support your engagement in responding to this pandemic. https://extranet.who.int/goarn/COVID19Hub

Diagnosing malaria and other febrile illnesses during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published online: April 24, 2020 –The Lancet Global Health
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flanglo%2Farticle%2FPIIS2214-109X&data=02%7C01%7Cmargaret.tarpley%40vanderbilt.edu%7C13abc80cf0a64b32fe1208d7ebad8d0d%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637237002943386502&sdata=X22mOVeUFNBhIQv3pN6t4IXYm5pXa34acfpyqcsxnPw%3D&reserved=0(20)30210-2/fulltext

The following articles are now available on NEJM.org. For more articles and other resources on the Covid-19 outbreak, visit NEJM.org/coronavirus. Recently Published, April 28, 2020 CORRESPONDENCE Reduced Rate of Hospital Admissions for ACS during Covid-19 Outbreak in Northern Italy O. De Filippo and Others

CORRESPONDENCE Covid-19 Cases: Large-Vessel Stroke as a Presenting Feature of Covid-19 in the Young T.J. Oxley and Others

CORRESPONDENCE Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 M.J. Brown and Others

PERSPECTIVE Covid-19 — A Reminder to Reason I. Zagury‑Orly and R.M. Schwartzstein

CORRESPONDENCE Covid-19 Notes: Cancer Management in India during Covid-19 C.S. Pramesh and R.A. Badwe

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

Register for this week’s sessions https://www.vumc.org/global-health/covid-19-tele-education-series-healthcare-providers-lmics

Connecting Global Health Learning with Purpose
Wednesday, April 29, 1:00pm-2:00pm Eastern Time (7-8p Botswana)

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/Unknown%20unknowns%20.pdf

AMA Journal Of Ethics. April 2020–Anesthesiologist-Surgeon Relationships  https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/home

AMA Journal of Ethics. January 2020 Volume 22, Number 1: E1-65 Culture, Context, and Epidemic Containment

From the Editor Responding to Global Public Health Crises and other articles. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/issue/culture-context-and-epidemic-containment

JOURNAL CLUB SUGGESTION

What Should I Do? Is it ethical to opt out of caring for a COVID-19 patient?

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/What%20Should%20I%20Do.pdf

NON-COVID READING

UNESCO-MERCK AFRICA RESEARCH SUMMIT 2020 – Submission Deadline – Deadline 30th of August, 2020. https://opportunitydesk.org/2020/03/27/unesco-merck-africa-research-summit-awards-2020/

Covid-19: A Statement Of Academic Solidarity. In recognition of the profound disruptions to faculty’s personal lives, their research, and their teaching, hundreds of U.S. universities have offered year-long extensions of the tenure clock to assistant professors. https://www.academicsolidaritystatement.com/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 30 April 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: April 30, 2020, 03:40 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	+2	1		5	17	10	0.4	6,016

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 30-04-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

17 Active confirmed cases

5 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 28 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	22
Deaths	1
Recoveries	5
Tests	6,210

South Africa

Cases 4,996
Deaths 93
Recovered 2,073

Zambia

Cases 97
Deaths 3
Recovered 54

Mozambique

Cases 76
Deaths 0
Recovered 9

Eswatini

Cases 91
Deaths 1
Recovered 10

Malawi

Cases 36
Deaths 3
Recovered 5

Southern

Zimbabwe

Cases 32
Deaths 4
Recovered 5

Angola

Cases 25
Deaths 2
Recovered 6

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

Lesotho

Cases
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Kenya

Cases 384
Deaths 14
Recovered 129

Tanzania

Cases 480
Deaths 16
Recovered 167

Ethiopia

Cases 130
Deaths 3
Recovered 58

Uganda

Cases 79
Deaths 0
Recovered 52

NEWS

NIH clinical trial shows Remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-shows-remdesivir-accelerates-recovery-advanced-covid-19?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Science 29 Apr 2020: We find that social distancing alone, as implemented in China during the outbreak, is sufficient to control COVID-19. While proactive school closures cannot interrupt transmission on their own, they can reduce peak incidence by 40-60% and delay the epidemic. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/28/science.abb8001?fbclid=IwAR0NraYMrifi4NJWbt9RjNb6V2SVhrFBXTMnvynskdxm_dDB5NKhHpu42bQ

COVID-19: De Beers in-kind testing machine valued at P1.7m. DeBeers says the highly sought-after testing machine is valued at P1.7 million, which will form part of the De Beers Group’s in-kind support for government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The machine, which is a QIAGEN EZ1 Advanced XL instrument is being installed at the National Health Laboratory in Gaborone, and will play a vital role in supporting Botswana’s COVID-19 testing programme, it said in a statement.

https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=85355&dir=2020/april/29

RESOURCES

Join us on Twitter today—Thurs, 30 April at 11am Johannesburg time (GMT +2) for a LIVE media briefing w/

@WEF

on #COVID19 in the African Region. Speakers include:

Dr. @MoetiTshidi

WHO Regional Director for Africa & Hon. @DrZweliMkhize, Minister of Health, South Africa

WHO Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters. Example—house flies don’t transmit COVID etc. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters

Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19. Advice plus how-to-make masks at home. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html

Viewpoint–Moving Personal Protective Equipment Into the Community: Face Shields and Containment of COVID-19. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765525

Large-Vessel Stroke as a Presenting Feature of Covid-19 in the Young. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009787

Lancet Online First, 27 April 2020

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/onlinefirst

COVID-19 Clinical Trials Explorer South Africa, Ghana & Nigeria included. https://public.tableau.com/profile/marinamarin#!/vizhome/covidTrials/COVID-19ClinicalTrialsExplorer

COVID-19 Knowledge Hub. Curated by GOARN Partners including UN agencies, International and national NGOs, academic institutions and consortiums, the GOARN COVID-19 Information is a public platform for access to the best resources available to support your engagement in responding to this pandemic. https://extranet.who.int/goarn/COVID19Hub

Diagnosing malaria and other febrile illnesses during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published online: April 24, 2020 –The Lancet Global Health
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flanglo%2Farticle%2FPIIS2214-109X&data=02%7C01%7Cmargaret.tarpley%40vanderbilt.edu%7C13abc80cf0a64b32fe1208d7ebad8d0d%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637237002943386502&sdata=X22mOVeUFNBhIQv3pN6t4IXYm5pXa34acfpyqcsxnPw%3D&reserved=0(20)30210-2/fulltext

Aerodynamic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in two Wuhan hospitals. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2271-3_reference.pdf

CORRESPONDENCE Covid-19 Cases: Large-Vessel Stroke as a Presenting Feature of Covid-19 in the Young T.J. Oxley and Others

CORRESPONDENCE Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 M.J. Brown and Others

PERSPECTIVE Covid-19 — A Reminder to Reason I. Zagury‑Orly and R.M. Schwartzstein

CORRESPONDENCE Covid-19 Notes: Cancer Management in India during Covid-19 C.S. Pramesh and R.A. Badwe

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

Register for this week’s sessions https://www.vumc.org/global-health/covid-19-tele-education-series-healthcare-providers-lmics

UPCOMING Sessions (start times listed on website) FRIDAY | May 1, 2020 Cardiac Clinical Symptoms and Treatment

WEDNESDAY | May 6, 2020 COVID-19 in the Operating Theatre

FRIDAY | May 8, 2020 COVID-19 in Special Populations: Obstetrics, Pediatrics, and People Living with HIV

WEDNESDAY | May 13, 2020 What’s new in COVID-19? Treatment and Research Updates

JOURNAL CLUB SUGGESTION

What Should I Do? Is it ethical to opt out of caring for a COVID-19 patient?

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/What%20Should%20I%20Do.pdf

NON-COVID READING

UNESCO-MERCK AFRICA RESEARCH SUMMIT 2020 – Submission Deadline – Deadline 30th of August, 2020. https://opportunitydesk.org/2020/03/27/unesco-merck-africa-research-summit-awards-2020/

Some School Districts Plan to End the Year Early, Call Remote Learning Too Tough In the US–Georgia, other states waive minimum instruction-time requirements during the pandemic. https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-school-districts-plan-to-end-the-year-early-call-remote-learning-too-tough-11588084673

Big Tech is coming for Zoom: Google makes video chatting service Meet free. Google said it would make its Meet video conferencing service free for everyone, with no time limits for several months.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/29/google-meet-zoom-competitor/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 1 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 1, 2020, 03:40 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	+2	1		5	17	10	0.4	6,548

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 01-05-2020 04:00 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

17 Active confirmed cases

5 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 30 April 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	22
Deaths	1
Recoveries	5
Tests	6,210 Kenya Cases 396Deaths 17Recovered 144 Tanzania Cases 480Deaths 16Recovered 167 Ethiopia Cases 131Deaths 3Recovered 59 Uganda Cases 81Deaths 0Recovered 52 South Africa Cases 5,350Deaths 103Recovered 2,073 Zambia Cases 97Deaths 3Recovered 54 Mozambique Cases 76Deaths 0Recovered 9 Eswatini Cases 100Deaths 1Recovered 10 Malawi Cases 37Deaths 3Recovered 7 Zimbabwe Cases 40Deaths 4Recovered 5 Angola Cases 25Deaths 2Recovered 6 Namibia Cases 16Deaths 0Recovered 8 Lesotho Cases 0Deaths 0Recovered 0

NEWS

NIH clinical trial shows Remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-shows-remdesivir-accelerates-recovery-advanced-covid-19?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Govt prescribes mandatory use of masks. Director of Health Services Dr Malaki Tshipayagae has announced that everyone outside their home must wear a cloth mask as part of the new measures to control the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=85365&dir=2020/april/30

Clothing stores remain closed. https://news.thevoicebw.com/clothing-stores-remain-closed/

RESOURCES

Viewpoint–Moving Personal Protective Equipment Into the Community: Face Shields and Containment of COVID-19. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765525

Immediate and long‐term impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on delivery of surgical services. https://bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bjs.11670

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

Register for this week’s sessions https://www.vumc.org/global-health/covid-19-tele-education-series-healthcare-providers-lmics

UPCOMING Sessions (start times listed on website) WEDNESDAY | May 6, 2020 COVID-19 in the Operating Theatre

FRIDAY | May 8, 2020 COVID-19 in Special Populations: Obstetrics, Pediatrics, and People Living with HIV

WEDNESDAY | May 13, 2020 What’s new in COVID-19? Treatment and Research Updates

JOURNAL CLUB SUGGESTION

What Should I Do? Is it ethical to opt out of caring for a COVID-19 patient?

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Documents/What%20Should%20I%20Do.pdf

NON-COVID READING

UNESCO-MERCK AFRICA RESEARCH SUMMIT 2020 – Submission Deadline – Deadline 30th of August, 2020. https://opportunitydesk.org/2020/03/27/unesco-merck-africa-research-summit-awards-2020/

Some School Districts Plan to End the Year Early, Call Remote Learning Too Tough In the US–Georgia, other states waive minimum instruction-time requirements during the pandemic. https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-school-districts-plan-to-end-the-year-early-call-remote-learning-too-tough-11588084673

A Revolution in Science Publishing, or Business as Usual? “Open access” was supposed to change scientific publishing. Critics worry the model is being corrupted by money anyway. https://undark.org/2020/03/30/science-publishing-open-acess/

Back issues of COVID INFO DIGESTS https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 4 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 4, 2020, 05:16 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	0	1		8	14	10	0.4	7,675

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 04-05-2020 05:00 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

14 Active confirmed cases

8 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 4 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	23
Deaths	1
Recoveries	8
Tests	6,210

South Africa

Cases 6,783
Deaths 131
Recovered 2,549

Eswatini

Cases 112
Deaths 1
Recovered 12

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 8

Zambia

Cases 124
Deaths 3
Recovered 78

Zimbabwe

Cases 34
Deaths 4
Recovered 5

Mozambique

Cases 80
Deaths 0
Recovered 19

Malawi

Cases 39
Deaths 3
Recovered 9

Angola

Cases 30
Deaths 2
Recovered 11

Lesotho

Cases 0
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Tanzania

Cases 480
Deaths 16
Recovered 167

Kenya

Cases 465
Deaths 24
Recovered 167

Uganda

Cases 89
Deaths 0
Recovered 52

Ethiopia

Cases 135
Deaths 3
Recovered 75

NEWS

Considering BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31025-4/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email#RESOURCES

Companies Sell the Blood of Recovered Coronavirus Patients for Exorbitant Prices: Live Global Coverage. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/world/coronavirus-news.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide. Eight ways in which scientists hope to provide immunity to SARS-CoV-2 . https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01221-y?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Nature

Preprints are preliminary reports that have not undergone peer review. They should not be considered conclusive, used to inform clinical practice, or referenced by the media as validated information. The role of Vitamin D in the prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 infection and mortality. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-21211/v1

Public Health Measures and the Reproduction Number of SARS-CoV-2. JAMA 1 MAY. One measure of viral spread is the R₀, the expected number of secondary infectious cases produced by a primary infectious case. This calculation is used to determine the potential for epidemic spread in a susceptible population. The effective reproduction number, R_t, determines the potential for epidemic spread at a specific time t under the control measures in place (Figure 1). To evaluate the effectiveness of public health interventions, the R_t should be quantified in different settings, ideally at regular and frequent intervals (eg, weekly). https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765665?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2763981

RESOURCES

Free access to a range of essential textbooks from all disciplines. Check this out for librarians—Says “Institutions will be able to access more than 500 key textbooks across Springer Nature’s eBook subject collections for free.”

https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960?utm_source=other&utm_medium=other&utm_content=null&utm_campaign=SRCS_4_KD_freetxtbookstocinsert

COVID-19 Guidelines from Infectious Diseases, Critical Care, and Thoracic Societies. https://www.jwatch.org/na51367/2020/04/23/covid-19-guidelines-infectious-diseases-critical-care-and?query=C19

Ask the Expert: The role of diet and nutritional supplements during COVID-19. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2020/04/01/ask-the-expert-the-role-of-diet-and-nutritional-supplements-during-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR3YTBZI3aJQa8u_WJZspc_uMHNqQJuUD_yX7S8H4fpK4hhorNkb0kn4HZk

UN Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women. https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2020/policy-brief-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-women-en.pdf?la=en&vs=1406

LANCET—ONLINE FIRST https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/onlinefirst

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

Register for this week’s sessions https://www.vumc.org/global-health/covid-19-tele-education-series-healthcare-providers-lmics

NON-COVID READING

Open Educational Resources (OER) Africa https://www.oerafrica.org/oer-initiatives-africa

UNESCO-MERCK AFRICA RESEARCH SUMMIT 2020 – Submission Deadline – Deadline 30th of August, 2020. https://opportunitydesk.org/2020/03/27/unesco-merck-africa-research-summit-awards-2020/

The International Journal of Public Health transitions to Open Access.

The International Journal of Public Health is pleased to announce that from January 2021 it will transition from a subscription model to Gold Open Access. The journal, which celebrates its 100th anniversary soon, will also be transferring from its current publisher Springer Nature to Frontiers, a leading Gold Open Access publisher offering tailored services and a highly technologically advanced platform. https://blog.frontiersin.org/2020/05/01/the-international-journal-of-public-health-transitions-to-open-access/?utm_source=ad&utm_medium=tw&utm_campaign=sub_imag_corp

Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful Eye. Godfrey Mwampembwa, popularly known as Gado, has been holding politicians accountable for nearly 30 years. Now, his concern has shifted to the coronavirus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/world/africa/tanzanian-cartoonist-gado.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

Innovation in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

Woolliscroft, James O. MD

Academic Medicine: April 8, 2020 – Volume Publish Ahead of Print – Issue –

doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003402

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all aspects of academic medical center missions. The number and rapidity of innovative responses to the crisis are extraordinary. When the pandemic has subsided, the world of academic medicine will have changed. The author of this Invited Commentary anticipates that at least some of these innovations will become part of academic medicine’s everyday clinical and educational operations. Here he considers the implications of exemplary innovations—virtual care, hospital at home, advances in diagnosis and therapy, virtual learning, and virtual clinical learning—for regulators, academic medical centers, faculty, and students. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Innovation_in_Response_to_the_COVID_19_Pandemic.97219.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=ca98d769-5fe2-496e-a8d7-1e6ab2f2791e

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 6 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 6, 2020, 03:21 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	0	1		8	14	10	0.4	8,636

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 06-05-2020 03:55 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

14 Active confirmed cases

8 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 6 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country		Botswana
Cases		23
Deaths		1
Recoveries		8
Tests		6,210 South Africa Cases 7,220Deaths 138Recovered 2,746 Eswatini Cases 116Deaths 1Recovered 12 Namibia Cases 16Deaths 0Recovered 8 Zambia Cases 139Deaths 4Recovered 92 Zimbabwe Cases 34Deaths 4Recovered 5 Mozambique Cases 80Deaths 0Recovered 19 Malawi Cases 41Deaths 3Recovered 9 Angola Cases 30Deaths 2Recovered 11 Lesotho Cases 0Deaths 0Recovered 0 Tanzania Cases 480Deaths 18Recovered 167 Kenya Cases 535Deaths 24Recovered 182 Uganda Cases 97Deaths 0Recovered 55 Ethiopia Cases 145Deaths 4Recovered 91 Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana. https://www.gov.bw/ Gaborone Confirmed: 13 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 7 Ramotswa Confirmed: 1 Deaths: 1 Recoveries: 0 Molepolole Confirmed: 3 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 0 Siviya Confirmed: 1 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 1 Metsimotlhabe Confirmed: 4 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 0 Mahalapye Confirmed: 1 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 0

NEWS

Limiting the spread of COVID-19 in Africa: one size mitigation strategies do not fit all countries. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30212-6/fulltext

Critical care capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Global availability of intensive care beds. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883944120305554

Not peer reviewed. Spike mutation pipeline reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v1.full.pdf

Pfizer Begins Human Trials of Possible Coronavirus Vaccine. The drug company, along with a German partner, is running tests in healthy volunteers. It’s one of several companies on an accelerated timetable to try to find a safe, effective vaccine. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/health/pfizer-vaccine-coronavirus.html

Adaptations and Lessons in the Province of Bergamo. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2011599

COVID-19: mitigating transmission via wastewater plumbing systems. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(20)30112-1.pdf

RESOURCES

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

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UPCOMING Sessions (start times listed on website) WEDNESDAY | May 6, 2020 COVID-19 in the Operating Theatre

FRIDAY | May 8, 2020 COVID-19 in Special Populations: Obstetrics, Pediatrics, and People Living with HIV

WEDNESDAY | May 13, 2020 What’s new in COVID-19? Treatment and Research Updates

JOURNAL CLUB ARTICLES

Correspondence–A Trial of Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Covid-19

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2008043

ORIGINal Article May 7, 2020A Trial of Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Adults Hospitalized with Severe Covid-19B

NON-COVID REPORTS

Malaria ‘completely stopped’ by microbe. Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52530828 More in for in the Nature Communications. A microsporidian impairs Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16121-y

The Value of One: What Can We Learn from Case Studies? Despite their size, researchers say studies of one person can uncover results that would be lost in a large-scale trial. https://undark.org/2020/02/04/value-of-case-studies/

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 7 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 7, 2020, 03:22 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	0	1		8	14	10	0.4	9,066

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 07-05-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

14 Active confirmed cases

8 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 6 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	23
Deaths	1
Recoveries	9
Tests	9,066

South Africa Cases 7,572Deaths 148Recovered 2,746 Eswatini Cases 119Deaths 1Recovered 12 Namibia Cases 16Deaths 0Recovered 8 Zambia Cases 146Deaths 4Recovered 101 Zimbabwe Cases 34Deaths 4Recovered 5 Mozambique Cases 81Deaths 0Recovered 19 Malawi Cases 41Deaths 3Recovered 9 Angola Cases 30Deaths 2Recovered 11 Lesotho Cases 0Deaths 0Recovered 0 Tanzania Cases 480Deaths 18Recovered 167 Kenya Cases 582Deaths 26Recovered 190 Uganda Cases 98Deaths 0Recovered 55 Ethiopia Cases 162Deaths 4Recovered 93

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/ 7 May 2020

9360 Tests perfomed and Resulted 9337 Negative Results 23 Confirmed Cases 0 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

Last update: a minute ago 8 ACTIVE CASES Last update: a minute ago 14 CONFIRMED 23 DEATHS Last update: a minute ago 1 RECOVERIES

NEWS

Millions predicted to develop tuberculosis as result of Covid-19 lockdown. With attention focused on coronavirus, undiagnosed and untreated TB cases will cause 1.4 million to die, research suggests. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/06/millions-develop-tuberculosis-tb-covid-19-lockdown?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet

Gilead signals steps to widen global access to remdesivir for Covid-19 patients. Amid questions about access to remdesivir, its treatment for Covid-19, Gilead Sciences (GILD) says it is pursuing several steps, including licensing agreements with several unnamed companies, to ensure the medicine is supplied to countries beyond the U.S.https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2020/05/05/gilead-remdesivir-covid19-coronavirus/

Children Are Falling Ill With a Baffling Ailment Related to Covid-19. No children are known to have died so far, but several have ended up in intensive care with mysterious symptoms that include enlarged coronary arteries. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyregion/kawasaki-disease-coronavirus.html

Interpreting Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2. This Viewpoint describes how to interpret 2 types of diagnostic tests commonly in use for SARS-CoV-2 infections—reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and IgM and IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)—and how the results may vary over time. May 6, 2020. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765837?guestAccessKey=61b73a23-25e1-46bd-96c5-cf0ec847df25&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3324078795&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=88064719

Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus Heroes. Antibodies from Winter, a 4-year-old llama with great eyelashes, have neutralized coronavirus and other infections in lab experiments. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/science/llama-coronavirus-antibodies.html The Cell article: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30494 3.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867420304943%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

RESOURCES

WHO. Introduction to Go.Data – Field data collection, chains of transmission and contact follow-up. Go.Data is a field data collection platform focusing on case data (including lab, hospitalization and other variables though case investigation form) and contact data (including contact follow-up). https://openwho.org/courses/godata-en

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

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UPCOMING Sessions (start times listed on website) FRIDAY | May 8, 2020 COVID-19 in Special Populations: Obstetrics, Pediatrics, and People Living with HIV

WEDNESDAY | May 13, 2020 What’s new in COVID-19? Treatment and Research Updates The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-Based Licenses (“Immunity Passports”). May 6, 2020. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765836?guestAccessKey=31dcfb02-46ed-4d75-aa2e-55a4f248be48&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3324078793&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=88064718 CPR in the Covid-19 Era — An Ethical Framework. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2010758

JOURNAL CLUB ARTICLES

Correspondence–A Trial of Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Covid-19

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2008043

ORIGINal Article May 7, 2020A Trial of Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Adults Hospitalized with Severe Covid-19B

NON-COVID REPORTS

The Value of One: What Can We Learn from Case Studies? Despite their size, researchers say studies of one person can uncover results that would be lost in a large-scale trial. https://undark.org/2020/02/04/value-of-case-studies/

The Contribution of Surgical Nongovernmental Organizations to Global Surgical Care: An Estimate of Annual Caseload. Research Letter May 6, 2020.

Søren Kudsk-Iversen, MBChB; Sophallyda Krouch, MD, DESAR; Kathryn Chu, MD. Prof. Chu is from Centre for Global Surgery, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2765478

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 8, May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 8, 2020, 05:15 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	0	1		9	14	10	0.4	9,066

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 08-05-2020 05:00 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

14 Active confirmed cases

8 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 7 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	23
Deaths	1
Recoveries	9
Tests	9,066
CFR	4.35

South Africa Cases 7,808Deaths 153Recovered 3,153 Eswatini Cases 123Deaths 2Recovered 12 Namibia Cases 16Deaths 0Recovered 9 Zambia Cases 153Deaths 4Recovered 103 Zimbabwe Cases 34Deaths 4Recovered 5 Mozambique Cases 81Deaths 0Recovered 21 Malawi Cases 43Deaths 3Recovered 14 Angola Cases 30Deaths 2Recovered 11 Lesotho Cases 0Deaths 0Recovered 0 Tanzania Cases 480Deaths 18Recovered 167 Kenya Cases 607Deaths 29Recovered 197 Uganda Cases 100Deaths 0Recovered 55 Ethiopia Cases 187Deaths 4Recovered 93

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/ 7 May 2020

9360 Tests perfomed and Resulted 9337 Negative Results 23 Confirmed Cases 0 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

Last update: a minute ago 8 ACTIVE CASES Last update: a minute ago 14 CONFIRMED 23 DEATHS Last update: a minute ago 1 RECOVERIES

NEWS

Botswana–Govt spells out rules for economic reopening. Most business activities, excluding the liquor and tobacco trade, are set to reopen starting from May 8, 2020 under stringent conditions, which include companies satisfying the Director of Health Services that they can screen for and prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=85391&dir=2020/may/05

Violence against women during covid-19 pandemic restrictions. BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1712 (Published 07 May 2020). https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1712

Profile of a killer: the complex biology powering the coronavirus pandemic. Nature. Scientists are piecing together how SARS-CoV-2 operates, where it came from and what it might do next — but pressing questions remain about the source of COVID-19. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01315-7

UK–Partha Kar: Covid-19 and ethnicity—why are all our angels white? BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1804 (Published 05 May 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1804. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1804?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

US–Perspective—Racial Health Disparities and Covid-19 — Caution and Context. In early April, Wisconsin and Michigan released data showing stark racial disparities in rates of Covid-19 cases and deaths. In those states, many media outlets noted that the percentages of affected people who were black were more than twice as high as the proportion of blacks in the overall population. Similar disparities have since been reported elsewhere, sometimes along with overrepresentation of additional racial minority groups. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2012910

Face Mask Fogging Your Glasses? Here’s A Quick Fix. https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/face-mask-fogging-your-glasses-heres-a-quick-fix/ar-BB13KFs6?ocid=spartandhp

NEJM. Among 1376 patients with #COVID19 admitted to a NYC hospital, 59% were treated with hydroxychloroquine. After adjustment for baseline characteristics, there was no significant association between hydroxychloroquine treatment and the composite end point of intubation or death. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2012410 Had a problem loading this new article. This is a summary from Twitter

COVID-19 vaccine protects monkeys from new coronavirus, Chinese biotech reports. Human trials began 16 April. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/covid-19-vaccine-protects-monkeys-new-coronavirus-chinese-biotech-reports?utm_campaign=NewsfromScience&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Twitter

RESOURCES

Liverpool Drug Interaction Group was established in 1999 by members of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool to provide a freely available drug-drug interaction resource for drugs used to treat HIV infection. Since then, our activity has expanded to included drug interaction information for the treatment of hepatitis B infection, hepatitis C infection, primary biliary cholangitis and various cancers (in collaboration with Radboud UMC, Netherlands). https://www.covid19-druginteractions.org/

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

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JOURNAL CLUB ARTICLES

National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plans Supporting the Vision of Universal Health Coverage. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2020 Mar 30; 8(1): 1–9. Published online 2020 Mar 30. doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00314. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7108944/

NON-COVID REPORTS

Use of genetic variation to separate the effects of early and later life adiposity on disease risk: mendelian randomisation study. BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1203 (Published 06 May 2020). Obesity in children is widely recognised as a global public health crisis, yet its prevalence continues to rise. Conclusions The findings suggest that the positive association between body size in childhood and risk of coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes in adulthood can be attributed to individuals remaining large into later life. However, having a smaller body size during childhood might increase the risk of breast cancer regardless of body size in adulthood, with timing of puberty also putatively playing a role. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1203?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

The Contribution of Surgical Nongovernmental Organizations to Global Surgical Care: An Estimate of Annual Caseload. Research Letter May 6, 2020.

Lacking data, many African governments make policy in the dark. It is hard to help the poor if you don’t count them. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/05/09/lacking-data-many-african-governments-make-policy-in-the-dark

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 9 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 9, 2020, 05:50 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	0	1		9	13	10	0.4	9,066

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 09-05-2020 05:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

13 Active confirmed cases

9 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 8 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 23
Deaths 1
Recovered 9

South Africa

Cases 8,895
Deaths 178
Recovered 3,153

Eswatini

Cases 159
Deaths 2
Recovered 14

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 9

Zambia

Cases 167
Deaths 4
Recovered 111

Zimbabwe

Cases 35
Deaths 4
Recovered 9

Mozambique

Cases 82
Deaths 0
Recovered 27

Malawi

Cases 43
Deaths 3
Recovered 14

Angola

Cases 43
Deaths 2
Recovered 13

Lesotho

Cases 0
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Tanzania
Cases 509
Deaths 18
Recovered 167

Kenya

Cases 621
Deaths 29
Recovered 202

Uganda

Cases 101
Deaths 0
Recovered 55

Ethiopia

Cases 194
Deaths 4
Recovered 95

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/ 9 May 2020

9540 Tests perfomed and Resulted 9517 Negative Results 23 Confirmed Cases 0 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

13 Active

NEWS

African Covid-19 Critical Care Outcomes Study. ACCCOS African Covid-19 Critical Care Outcomes Study went live today, with Groote Schuur Hospital the first approved site. Expecting many sites across Africa. If you will provide #CriticalCare to #COVID19 patients in #Africa, you too can join.

@AfricanSOS

Brief Summary:

The infectious disease COVID-19, caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), has been declared a pandemic and an international healthcare emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). It has spread across the globe, overwhelming healthcare systems by causing high rates of critical illness. Mortality from COVID-19 exceeds 4%, with older people with comorbidities being extremely vulnerable. It is expected that between 50-80% of the world’s population may contract SARS-CoV-2 over the next two years. It is expected that the outcomes will be potentially worse in Africa, because firstly, there is a limited workforce, and secondly there are limited intensive care facilities and critical care resources across Africa to provide sufficient care. It is important therefore to establish what resources, comorbidities and interventions are potentially associated with either mortality or survival in patients with COVID-19 who are referred for critical care in Africa. Rapid dissemination of these findings may help mitigate mortality from COVID-19 in critical care patients in Africa. These points provide the rationale for the African COVID-19 Critical Care Outcomes Study (ACCCOS).

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04367207

Changes in SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Rate in Outpatients in Seattle and Washington State, March 1-April 16, 2020. The positivity rates for SARS-CoV-2 in outpatient settings in Washington State and in emergency departments (EDs) in Seattle were analyzed to identify temporal trends that may reflect the local dynamics of the pandemic and the effect of mitigation strategies such as physical distancing. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766035?guestAccessKey=5c1b0e3a-b296-449f-8481-5354ac601c14&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3329226810&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=88215666

RESOURCES

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

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UPCOMING Sessions (start times listed on website) WEDNESDAY | May 13, 2020 What’s new in COVID-19? Treatment and Research Updates

JOURNAL CLUB ARTICLES

Systematic review of COVID-19 in children shows milder cases

and a better prognosis than adults. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apa.15270

NON-COVID REPORTS

When Should Clinicians Act on Non–Statistically Significant Results From Clinical Trials? Viewpoint

May 8,2020. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766036

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 11 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 11, 2020, 04:53 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	23	0	1		12	10	10	0.4	9,540

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 11-05-2020 04:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

23 Total confirmed cases

10 Active confirmed cases

12 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 10 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 23
Deaths 1
Recovered 9

Malawi

Cases 56
Deaths 3
Recovered 14

South Africa

Cases 9,420
Deaths 186
Recovered 3,983

Eswatini

Cases 163
Deaths 2
Recovered 14

Zambia

Cases 267
Deaths 7
Recovered 117

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 11

Mozambique

Cases 91
Deaths 0
Recovered 34

Zimbabwe

Cases 36
Deaths 4
Recovered 9

Angola

Cases 43
Deaths 2
Recovered 13

Lesotho

Cases 0
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Kenya

Cases 672
Deaths 32
Recovered 239

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 167

Uganda

Cases 116
Deaths 0
Recovered 55

Ethiopia

Cases 239
Deaths 5
Recovered 99

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

9540 Tests perfomed and Resulted 9517 Negative Results 23 Confirmed Cases 0 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

10 Active

NEWS

Observational Study of Hydroxychloroquine in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19. In this observational study involving patients with Covid-19 who had been admitted to the hospital, hydroxychloroquine administration was not associated with either a greatly lowered or an increased risk of the composite end point of intubation or death. Randomized, controlled trials of hydroxychloroquine in patients with Covid-19 are needed. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2012410?articleTools=true

South Korea’s Early Coronavirus Wins Dim After Rash of New Cases

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBC
updated: 20-05-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Botswana

25 Total confirmed cases

7 Active confirmed cases

17 Recovered

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 19 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 25
Deaths 1
Recovered 17

Angola

Cases 50
Deaths 2
Recovered 17

Eswatini

Cases 205
Deaths 2
Recovered 78

Lesotho

Cases 1
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 70
Deaths 3
Recovered 27

Mozambique

Cases 145
Deaths 0
Recovered 46

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 13

South Africa

Cases 16,433
Deaths 286
Recovered 7,298

Zambia

Cases 761
Deaths 7
Recovered 192

Zimbabwe

Cases 46
Deaths 4
Recovered 13

Kenya

Cases 912
Deaths 50
Recovered 336

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 167

Uganda

Cases 260
Deaths 0
Recovered 63

Ethiopia

Cases 352
Deaths 5
Recovered 116

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 14,103 Negative Results 14,079 25 Confirmed Cases 0 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

17 Recoveries 6 Active Gender Male 17 Female 8

NEWS

Coronavirus: Wearing surgical masks can reduce COVID-19 spread by 75%, study claims . Researchers carried out the study in response to world leaders and the WHO questioning whether masks were effective. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-wearing-surgical-masks-can-reduce-covid-19-spread-by-75-study-claims-11990381

Covid-19 has forced a reckoning—the UK has much to learn from low income settings. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/14/covid-19-has-forced-a-reckoning-the-uk-has-much-to-learn-from-low-income-settings/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Let Africa into the market for COVID-19 diagnostics. Africa is boosting its capacity to respond to COVID-19, but lack of solidarity will cost lives, warns Africa CDC head John Nkengasong. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01265-0

Researchers Test Dogs to See If They Can Smell COVID-19 Through Body Odor. with a $606k in funding from the British gov’t, new research is looking to see if COVID-19 patients develop a specific body odor and whether or not dogs will be able to be trained to detect it. https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-test-dogs-see-smell-001500369.html

Lancet knocks Trump for ‘factually incorrect’ statement in letter warning of WHO funding cuts. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/498539-lancet-knocks-trump-for-factually-incorrect-statement-in-letter

Cambridge University moves all lectures online until summer 2021

19 May 2020, 19:08 | Updated: 19 May 2020, 20:41. https://www.lbcnews.co.uk/uk-news/cambridge-university-announced-move-to-hold-all-le/

Covid-19 patients testing positive after recovery aren’t infectious: South Korean study. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/covid-19-patients-testing-positive-after-recovery-arent-infectious

RESOURCES

‘Zoom fatigue’ is real. Here’s why you’re feeling it, and what you can do about it. https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/05/11/zoom-fatigue-is-real-heres-why-youre-feeling-it-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

Bench to Bedside: Integrating Sex and Gender to Improve Human Health Course. E-Learning Course Opportunity from NIH. https://orwh.od.nih.gov/career-development-education/e-learning/bench-bedside

NON-COVID INFORMATION WHO Composition of the Board Members of the Executive Board and Term of Office. https://apps.who.int/gb/gov/en/composition-of-the-board_en.html

How can I break bad news remotely? BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1876 (Published 12 May 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1876. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1876?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Decolonizing Global Health Education. Rethinking Institutional Partnerships and Approaches. Eichbaum, Quentin G. MD, PhD, MPH, MFA, MMHC; Adams, Lisa V. MD; Evert, Jessica MD; Ho, Ming-Jung MD, PhD; Semali, Innocent A. MD, MSc, PhD; van Schalkwyk, Susan C. MPhil, PhD. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Decolonizing_Global_Health_Education__Rethinking.97193.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=30d8cc14-e056-4287-9b8b-0c5d5b24359b

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 21 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 21, 2020, 03:52 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	25		1		17	7	11	0.4	14, 283

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 20-05-2020 02:30 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

25 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 20 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 25
Deaths 1
Recovered 17

Angola

Cases 52
Deaths 2
Recovered 17

Eswatini

Cases 208
Deaths 2
Recovered 87

Lesotho

Cases 1
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 71
Deaths 3
Recovered 27

Mozambique

Cases 156
Deaths 0
Recovered 48

Namibia

Cases 16
Deaths 0
Recovered 14

South Africa

Cases 17,200
Deaths 312
Recovered 7,960

Zambia

Cases 832
Deaths 7
Recovered 197

Zimbabwe

Cases 46
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Ethiopia

Cases 389
Deaths 5
Recovered 122

Kenya

Cases 1,029
Deaths 50
Recovered 366

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 167

Uganda

Cases 264
Deaths 0
Recovered 65

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 14,103 Negative Results 14,079 25 Confirmed Cases 0 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

17 Recoveries 7 Active Gender Male 17 Female 8

NEWS

Immunity, parasites, genetics and sex hormones: contributors to mild inflammatory responses in COVID-19? Samuel Munalula Munjita, Mulemba Samutela, Kunda Ndashe, Sody Mweetwa Munsaka. Lusaka, Zambia. This articles is published as part of the supplement PAMJ Special issue on COVID – 19 in Africa, commissioned by The Pan African Medical Journal. https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/series/35/2/36/full

Coronavirus in Africa: Contained or unrecorded? BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52702838?prompt

School Reopenings Are Early Tests of a New Coronavirus Normal: Live Coverage. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/world/coronavirus-news.html?type=styln-live-updates&label=global&index=1&action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#link-6a388c5b

The risk levels of everyday activities like dining out, going to the gym, and getting a haircut, according to an infectious-disease expert. https://www.businessinsider.com/riskiest-to-least-risky-activities-during-coronavirus-pandemic-ranked-2020-5?fbclid=IwAR2haB7SYvUmyKiQDuw89xXvmIVv8riNlzoncsB0B4Rj5d-5KCLdA2tQAq0

Preliminary Identification of Atovaquone, Ouabain and Mebendazole as FDA Approved Drugs Targeting SARS-CoV-2 (Version 4). https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Identification_of_FDA_Approved_Drugs_Targeting_COVID-19_Virus_by_Structure-Based_Drug_Repositioning/12003930

Covid-19: Cycle of 50 day lockdowns and 30 day relaxations could be effective, study finds. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2037?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

COVID-19: Early Vaccine Results / Psychiatric Symptoms / Prevalence in L.A. County / Neutralizing Antibody. Phase I vaccine results: A messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine has shown promise against SARS-CoV-2 in humans in a phase I study. All 45 participants in the trial seroconverted by day 15 after the first dose. Two weeks after the second dose of the 25-µg vaccine, levels of binding antibodies were similar to those observed in convalescent sera from recovered patients. The first eight participants given the vaccine all developed neutralizing antibodies (data were available for only these 8). Adverse events were rare. In a separate study, the vaccine blocked viral replication in the lungs of mice infected with SARS-CoV-2. Phase II of the study in humans is expected to begin shortly, and phase III could begin in July. https://www.jwatch.org/fw116652/2020/05/18/covid-19-early-vaccine-results-psychiatric-symptoms

Chile scientists create coronavirus ‘smell test’. Researchers in Chile develop kit to check asymptomatic coronavirus patients by testing to see if they have lost sense of smell. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/chile-scientists-create-coronavirus-smell-test-200505075607788.html

RESOURCES

Pan African Medical Journal Special issue on COVID – 19 in Africa. https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/series/35/2/

This Week at NEJM.org, May 21, 2020. http://response.nejm.org/dm?id=9F04A21D9F21EAAE8C2989012163F8C6961CAA5EB78719DF

NON-COVID INFORMATION

Decolonizing Global Health Education. Rethinking Institutional Partnerships and Approaches. Eichbaum, Quentin G. MD, PhD, MPH, MFA, MMHC; Adams, Lisa V. MD; Evert, Jessica MD; Ho, Ming-Jung MD, PhD; Semali, Innocent A. MD, MSc, PhD; van Schalkwyk, Susan C. MPhil, PhD. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Decolonizing_Global_Health_Education__Rethinking.97193.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=30d8cc14-e056-4287-9b8b-0c5d5b24359b

Is it Time to More Fully Address Teaching Religion and Spirituality in Medicine? https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-0446

US health research boss Francis Collins wins Templeton prize for science and faith. The realization that principles of faith & science are complementary has been of great comfort to me in the search for truth. I am honored to receive the #TempletonPrize2020 & humbled to be among such @TempletonPrizerecipients as Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, & Desmond Tutu.https://www.france24.com/en/20200520-us-health-research-boss-wins-templeton-prize-for-science-and-faith

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 22 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 22, 2020, 03:03 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	29	(4)	1		19	9	12	0.4	14, 855

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 22-05-2020 04:36 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

29 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 21 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 29
Deaths 1
Recovered 19

Angola

Cases 58
Deaths 3
Recovered 17

Eswatini

Cases 217
Deaths 2
Recovered 97

Lesotho

Cases 1
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Malawi

Cases 72
Deaths 3
Recovered 27

Mozambique

Cases 162
Deaths 0
Recovered 48

Namibia

Cases 18
Deaths 0
Recovered 14

South Africa

Cases 19,137
Deaths 369
Recovered 8,950

Zambia

Cases 866
Deaths 7
Recovered 302

Zimbabwe

Cases 48
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Ethiopia

Cases 398
Deaths 5
Recovered 123

Kenya

Cases 1,109
Deaths 50
Recovered 375

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 167

Uganda

Cases 274
Deaths 0
Recovered 65

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 14,855 Negative Results 14,826 29 Confirmed Cases 4 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

19 Recoveries 9 Active Gender Male 21 Female 8 Gaborone Confirmed: 18 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 13

NEWS

SARS-CoV-2 infection protects against rechallenge in rhesus macaques. SCIENCE. 20 MAY 2020. These data show that SARS-CoV-2 infection induced protective immunity against re-exposure in nonhuman primates. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/05/19/science.abc4776

The Virus Is Hitting Women in Academia Harder. Around the world, academia has long been weighted in favor of men. Now, the pandemic is threatening to widen the gender divide even further. Between March 11 and April 20, the Journal of the European Economic Association found that: The number of research papers submitted to it by female authors dropped from 11 percent in 2019 to 4 percent, while male-authored submissions rose from 58 percent to 66 percent. https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/the-pandemic-is-widening-the-gender-divide-in-academia/322526/?utm_term=OZY&utm_source=PDB_Campaigner&utm_campaign=Thursday_May_21_2020_-_1&cmp=1&utm_medium=email

Fibrinolysis Shutdown Correlates to Thromboembolic Events in Severe COVID-19 Infection. https://www.journalacs.org/article/S1072-7515(20)30400-2/abstract

To Prevent Pandemics, Bridging the Human and Animal Health Divide. Veterinarians, farmers, and zookeepers could help prevent the next pandemic, but their expertise has been overlooked.https://undark.org/2020/05/18/human-animal-medicine-pandemic/

Covid-19: Two antibody tests are “highly specific” but vary in sensitivity, evaluations find. Two tests for covid-19 antibodies developed by the drug companies Roche and Abbott are “highly specific” but were both found to have lower sensitivity than was previously reported by the companies, evaluation by Public Health England has shown. Roche and Abbott had reported that their assays had a sensitivity of 100% (the true positive rate) 14 days post-PCR confirmation. However, PHE found that they had a sensitivity of 87% and 93.9% at 14 days, respectively. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2066?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic. BMJ, 21 May 2020. The covid-19 pandemic has created profound ethical challenges in health and social care, not only for current decisions about individuals but also for longer term and population level policy decisions. Already covid-19 has generated ethical questions about the prioritisation of treatment, protective equipment, and testing; the impact of covid-19 strategies on patients with other health conditions; the approaches taken to advance care planning and resuscitation decisions1; and the crisis in care homes. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2033

Why are Africa’s coronavirus successes being overlooked? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/21/africa-coronavirus-successes-innovation-europe-us

RESOURCES

Pan African Medical Journal Special issue on COVID – 19 in Africa. https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/series/35/2/

This Week at NEJM.org, May 21, 2020. http://response.nejm.org/dm?id=9F04A21D9F21EAAE8C2989012163F8C6961CAA5EB78719DF

NON-COVID INFORMATION Oral fluconazole use in the first trimester and risk of congenital malformations: population based cohort study. BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1494 (Published 20 May 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1494. Conclusions Oral fluconazole use in the first trimester was not associated with oral clefts or conotruncal malformations, but an association with musculoskeletal malformations was found, corresponding to a small adjusted risk difference of about 12 incidents per 10 000 exposed pregnancies overall.https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1494?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Tracking an organism’s development, cell by cell . Mouse model uses CRISPR technology and ‘barcodes’ to trace cell types over time, helping researchers understand development, aging, and disease. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/bch-tao051420.php

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 23 May 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 23, 2020, 04:06 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	30	(1)	1		19	10	13	0.4	16,100

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 23-05-2020 05:32 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

30 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 23 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Country	Botswana
Cases	30
Deaths	1
Recoveries	19
Tests	13,294

Malawi

Cases 82
Deaths 3
Recovered 28

South Africa

Cases 20,125
Deaths 397
Recovered 10,104

Eswatini

Cases 225
Deaths 2
Recovered 119

Zambia

Cases 920
Deaths 7
Recovered 336

Botswana

Cases 30
Deaths 1
Recovered 19

Namibia

Cases 19
Deaths 0
Recovered 13

Mozambique

Cases 164
Deaths 0
Recovered 48

Zimbabwe

Cases 51
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Angola

Cases 60
Deaths 3
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Kenya

Cases 1,161
Deaths 50
Recovered 380

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 167

Uganda

Cases 289
Deaths 0
Recovered 66

Ethiopia

Cases 433
Deaths 5
Recovered 128

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 14,855 Negative Results 14,826 29 Confirmed Cases 4 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

19 Recoveries 9 Active Gender Male 21 Female 8 Gaborone Confirmed: 18 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 13

NEWS

Peer-reviewed data shows remdesivir for COVID-19 improves time to recovery. The report notes that patients who received remdesivir had a shorter time to recovery than those who received placebo. The study defined recovery as being discharged from the hospital or being medically stable enough to be discharged from the hospital. The median time to recovery was 11 days for patients treated with remdesivir compared with 15 days for those who received placebo. The findings are statistically significant and are based on an analysis of 1059 participants (538 who received remdesivir and 521 who received placebo). Clinicians tracked patients’ clinical status daily using an eight-point ordinal scale ranging from fully recovered to death. Investigators also compared clinical status between the study arms on day 15 and found that the odds of improvement in the ordinal scale were higher in the remdesivir arm than in the placebo arm. Trial results also suggested a survival benefit, with a 14-day mortality rate of 7.1% for the group receiving remdesivir versus 11.9% for the placebo group; however, the difference in mortality was not statistically significant.https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/peer-reviewed-data-shows-remdesivir-covid-19-improves-time-recovery?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis.2 22 May 2020. We were unable to confirm a benefit of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, when used alone or with a macrolide, on in-hospital outcomes for COVID-19. Each of these drug regimens was associated with decreased in-hospital survival and an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias when used for treatment of COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext

ANALYSIS: What does the law say about face masks in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya? https://africacheck.org/2020/05/22/analysis-what-does-the-law-say-about-face-masks-in-south-africa-nigeria-and-kenya/

Food insecurity will be the sting in the tail of COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30228-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in human breastmilk. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31181-8/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

What we’ll need to find the true COVID-19 death toll 25 May 2020.

The U.S. could reach 100,000 coronavirus deaths by Memorial Day, but that may be far lower than the true number to date. Here’s why. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/05/what-we-need-to-find-true-coronavirus-death-toll/#close

At least 80 million children under one at risk of diseases such as diphtheria, measles and polio as COVID-19 disrupts routine vaccination efforts, warn Gavi, WHO and UNICEF. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/22-05-2020-at-least-80-million-children-under-one-at-risk-of-diseases-such-as-diphtheria-measles-and-polio-as-covid-19-disrupts-routine-vaccination-efforts-warn-gavi-who-and-unicef

Translating Science on COVID-19 to Improve Clinical Care and Support the Public Health Response. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766600?guestAccessKey=c4efe01b-0463-4543-beab-156f8e769727&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3363598864&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=89226927

Nasal Gene Expression of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 in Children and Adults. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766524?fbclid=IwAR3W8voEMEFSwXM7a8zGMk37C9kl1PeZH6c4q1Wqd9wNraL1uExfOigaU4s

RESOURCES

NON-COVID NEWS

A new global health pattern: longer life for the poor, with more ailments. University of Birmingham scholars report–The number of older people in lower income countries is growing. These countries’ health systems are not designed to care for people with chronic conditions.https://theconversation.com/a-new-global-health-pattern-longer-life-for-the-poor-with-more-ailments-138373

How Virtual Training Is Set to Change Nursing Education. Sixty-five percent of nursing education programs already were using virtual simulation and other adaptive digital learning methods to enhance onsite learning and to ensure students are practice-ready, according to information services company Wolters Kluwer. https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2020/05/how-virtual-training-set-change-nursing-education

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 25, 2020, 04:10 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	35	(5)	1		19	15	15	0.4	16,100

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 25-05-2020 04:32 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

35 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 23 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 30
Deaths 1
Recovered 19

Malawi

Cases 83
Deaths 4
Recovered 33

South Africa

Cases 21,343
Deaths 407
Recovered 10,104

Eswatini

Cases 238
Deaths 2
Recovered 119

Zambia

Cases 920
Deaths 7
Recovered 336

Namibia

Cases 21
Deaths 0
Recovered 13

Mozambique

Cases 194
Deaths 0
Recovered 51

Zimbabwe

Cases 56
Deaths 4
Recovered 23

Angola

Cases 61
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Kenya

Cases 1,214
Deaths 51
Recovered 383

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 312
Deaths 0
Recovered 66

Ethiopia

Cases 582
Deaths 5
Recovered 152

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 17,631 Negative Results 17,596 35 Confirmed Cases 5 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

19 Recoveries 15 Active Gender Male 27 Female 8 Transmission Types 15 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 24 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 13

NEWS

Virus ‘does not spread easily’ from contaminated surfaces or animals, revised CDC website states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/21/virus-does-not-spread-easily-contaminated-surfaces-or-animals-revised-cdc-website-states/

In the developing world, the coronavirus is killing far more young people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronavirus-brazil-killing-young-developing-world/2020/05/22/f76d83e8-99e9-11ea-ad79-eef7cd734641_story.html

Covid-19 care before, during, and beyond the hospital. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2035?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

How the coronavirus spreads in those everyday places we visit. Has examples from around the world. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/05/23/your-guide-how/?fbclid=IwAR0Mwp1AmJzEQHaHGznUjcrViH0lsN7e70iMBCOffJnu-qrs6T2Bb2nCT8c

Placentas from COVID-19-positive pregnant women show injury. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-placentas-covid-positive-pregnant-women-injury.html?fbclid=IwAR2l0VTQZLJqdXoBPQO9tpi-ixuYwz0aRhVRcS6xcgexYCpz6VUeOJcWvew

RESOURCES

How COVID-19 Spreads. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html

NON-COVID NEWS

When You Can’t Send Students to the Campus Library. https://www.chronicle.com/article/When-You-Can-t-Send-Students/248784?fbclid=IwAR3c2dLMXkA5-mR3niEacybBtfWJu-7P2IKp78MlMKzgd3YnCmBlM3CNkyE

SURGERY IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES– Identifying New Frontiers for Social Media Engagement in Global Surgery: An Observational Study. Social media platforms may provide a scalable tool that can augment engagement between global surgeons, with remaining opportunity to foster global collaboration, community engagement, education and awareness. https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s00268-020-05553-8?sharing_token=ROHtLzIKff2Ul7lZawVTs_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY4st0Wue9ybO1zFTiMtx70SKE9LSzyCWTc4z2X2okBZbngJpTzsTmztNAglincRkFBTu2clFh7UdGkvnH5Liopk1GHVp7WYKgT-FrT-rklM5CfRMFhy3a8WOZHZPQMzIkg%3D

Improving Diagnosis Through Education. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Improving_Diagnosis_Through_Education.97323.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=d0940c49-6f52-4fd6-8977-c5894fdca4fb

12 Unsettling Lessons Learned Trying To Make Healthcare Better. https://www.forbes.com/sites/sachinjain/2020/05/23/12-unsettling-lessons-learned-trying-to-make-healthcare-better/#29b26bf061ea

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 25 May 2020— African Librarians Week 24-30th May 2020 TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 26, 2020, 03:35 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	35	(5)	1		19	15	15	0.4	17,631

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 26-05-2020 04:32 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

35 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 25 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Southern

Botswana

Cases 35
Deaths 1
Recovered 19

Kenya

Cases 1,214
Deaths 51
Recovered 383

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 326
Deaths 0
Recovered 66

Ethiopia

Cases 655
Deaths 5
Recovered 159

Malawi

Cases 101
Deaths 4
Recovered 33

South Africa

Cases 22,583
Deaths 429
Recovered 11,100

Eswatini

Cases 250
Deaths 2
Recovered 156

Zambia

Cases 920
Deaths 7
Recovered 336

Namibia

Cases 21
Deaths 0
Recovered 13

Mozambique

Cases 194
Deaths 0
Recovered 51

Zimbabwe

Cases 56
Deaths 4
Recovered 25

Angola

Cases 69
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 17,631 Negative Results 17,596 35 Confirmed Cases 5 New confirmed cases 1 Deaths

19 Recoveries 15 Active Gender Male 27 Female 8 Transmission Types 15 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 24 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 13

NEWS

How youth and technology can drive Africa’s COVID-19 response. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/covid-19-and-young-people-in-sub-saharan-africa/

Botswana threatened by regional transmissions. https://news.thevoicebw.com/botswana-threatened-by-regional-transmissions/

Cloth Masks May Prevent Transmission of COVID-19: An Evidence-Based, Risk-Based Approach. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2567

World leaders adopt resolution to study WHO’s response to covid-19. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2044

Mitigating the psychological effects of social isolation during the covid-19 pandemic. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1904

RESOURCES

TODAY, TUESDAY 26 MAY–—6P CAT The Disruption Of Covid-19 On Medical Training In Surgery And Anesthesia In Sub Saharan Africa, And Innovations For The Future. SIGN UP–https://ughe.org/virtualgrandrounds/

Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2306

How COVID-19 Spreads. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2033

NON-COVID NEWS

No Face-to-Face Lectures at the University of Cambridge Until Summer 2021. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/25/live-updates-latest-news-coronavirus-and-higher-education

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 27 May 2020— African Librarians Week 24-30th May 2020 TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 27, 2020, 03:01 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	35		1		20	14	15	0.4	17,631

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 27-05-2020 04:32 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

35 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 26 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 35
Deaths 1
Recovered 19

Malawi

Cases 101
Deaths 4
Recovered 37

South Africa

Cases 23,615
Deaths 481
Recovered 11,917

Eswatini

Cases 256
Deaths 2
Recovered 158

Zambia

Cases 920
Deaths 7
Recovered 336

Namibia

Cases 21
Deaths 0
Recovered 14

Mozambique

Cases 209
Deaths 1
Recovered 71

Zimbabwe

Cases 56
Deaths 4
Recovered 25

Angola

Cases 70
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Kenya

Cases 1,286
Deaths 52
Recovered 402

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 222
Deaths 0
Recovered 69

Ethiopia

Cases 655
Deaths 5
Recovered 159

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 17,631 Negative Results 17,596 35 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

20 Recoveries 7 Active 7 Transferred out Gender Male 27 Female 8 Transmission Types 15 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 24 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 14

NEWS

PRESIDENTIAL (COVID-19) TASK FORCE—26 MAY 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ykfpZRNjTeBF2Ou8FJjzjXRIZPcZBEZT/view?fbclid=IwAR23IyD1x_tl8AvPM5Vtu-DsausKKc6-K7S9DY1DoLi5OeSn42g5sfYXtk8

Scope, quality, and inclusivity of clinical guidelines produced early in the covid-19 pandemic: rapid review. Guidelines available early in the covid-19 pandemic had methodological weaknesses and neglected vulnerable groups such as older people. A framework for development of clinical guidelines during public health emergencies is needed to ensure rigorous methods and the inclusion of vulnerable populations. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1936?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Poor Countries Weigh Easing Lockdowns as Coronavirus Cases Continue to Rise. Many developing countries are easing restrictions on their economies while new infections and deaths are growing.https://www.wsj.com/articles/poor-countries-weigh-easing-lockdowns-as-coronavirus-cases-continue-to-rise-11590422400?shareToken=st148c58146a1742d7bd30e514c0cd371c&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

Antibody tests for Covid-19 wrong half the time, CDC says. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/antibody-tests-for-covid-19-wrong-half-the-time-cdc-says/ar-BB14DD2E?ocid=spartanntp

How to Discover Antiviral Drugs Quickly. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2007042?fbclid=IwAR2EDu7IXSB_ohGN4vZWw2Jb1dypxvltSgwhwGCU-_x3N8Gz2EBJrBfpRfE

BR (Botswana Railway) allays COVID-19 fear. Drivers follow covid-19 prevention protocol. https://news.thevoicebw.com/br-allays-covid-19-fear/

Nursing during COVID-19. an interview with a nurse at Sidilega Private Hospital. https://news.thevoicebw.com/nursing-during-covid-19/

HCQ breakthrough: ICMR finds it’s effective in preventing coronavirus, expands its use. Three studies from hospitals in India find that hydroxychloroquine reduces chances of contracting Covid, so ICMR allows more frontline workers to take it as a preventive drug. https://theprint.in/health/hcq-breakthrough-icmr-finds-its-effective-in-preventing-coronavirus-expands-its-use/427583/?fbclid=IwAR2eEmw9s83IV4N4G0ovNmVt_ItJW8rv1nkKOXuupQHuNl5SkSYt-tseaoE

Physician Moms Group: the support network that’s needed more than ever during the covid-19 pandemic. It started as a Facebook group, but Physician Moms Group is now a major support network for doctors all over the world—especially during the coronavirus pandemic @stokelreports on Twitter. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1499?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

Researchers and science engagement practitioners from the following countries are eligible to apply: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and in the context of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Nigeria and South Africa. For the research strand and applicable only to Nigeria and South Africa, only ARUA member universities will be eligible to participate. For the two strands on science engagement, practitioners across all the countries, including Nigeria and South Africa may apply.

Applications from women applicants, people living with disabilities and first responders to COVID-19, as principal investigators are encouraged. In addition, diversity, including sex and gender differences, exist across all COVID-19 dimensions. Research and science engagement proposals must demonstrate considerations of diversity, including sex as a biological variable and gender as a socio-cultural factor in research projects and in science engagement approaches

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2306

How COVID-19 Spreads. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2033

FREE Webinar, 3pm GMT, June 2nd: “Leadership & Management in Surgical Healthcare in Low Resource Settings”, with guest speaker Juan Carlos Negrette, MBA. University of Utah hosting. https://mailchi.mp/aecf1132241b/surgmgmt

How everyday household items can cause major health damage. https://www.mdlinx.com/article/the-overlooked-health-risks-of-household-cleaners/MbVYQXEscYGAuEayu0eFJ?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ajm_49916

NON-COVID NEWS

No Face-to-Face Lectures at the University of Cambridge Until Summer 2021. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/05/25/live-updates-latest-news-coronavirus-and-higher-education

We’re Reopening Notre Dame. It’s Worth the Risk. Informed by the best medical advice we can find, we believe we can keep our campus environment healthy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/notre-dame-university-coronavirus.html

In Collecting Indigenous Feces, A Slew of Sticky Ethics.

As researchers sample the world’s feces, they must grapple with the social and ethical implications of their work. https://undark.org/2020/04/06/microbiome-feces-indigenous-ethics/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 28 May 2020— African Librarians Week 24-30th May 2020 TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 28, 2020, 02:56 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	35		1		20	14	15	0.4	17,991

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 28-05-2020 04:32 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

35 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 27 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 35
Deaths 1
Recovered 20

Malawi

Cases 101
Deaths 4
Recovered 37

South Africa

Cases 24,264
Deaths 524
Recovered 12,741

Eswatini

Cases 261
Deaths 2
Recovered 164

Zambia

Cases 920
Deaths 7
Recovered 336

Namibia

Cases 21
Deaths 0
Recovered 14

Mozambique

Cases 213
Deaths 1
Recovered 71

Zimbabwe

Cases 56
Deaths 4
Recovered 25

Angola

Cases 71
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Kenya

Cases 1,348
Deaths 52
Recovered 405

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 253
Deaths 0
Recovered 69

Ethiopia

Cases 701
Deaths 6
Recovered 167

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 17,991 Negative Results 17,956 35 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

NEWS

Draft landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines. 27 May. https://www.who.int/who-documents-detail/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines

COVID-19 Prevention: Face shield safer, more effective than masks against coronavirus, say experts. https://www.timesnownews.com/health/article/covid-19-prevention-face-shield-safer-more-effective-than-masks-against-coronavirus-say-experts/597682

The dynamics of humoral immune responses following SARS-CoV-2 infection and the potential for reinfection. Collates the available scientific evidence in a number of key areas, including how long immunity to coronaviruses lasts and the prospect of antibody testing. https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.001439

Public disclosure of COVID-19 cases is more effective than lockdowns. South Korea is a standout in the current battle against COVID-19, largely due to its widespread testing and contact tracing; however, key to its innovation is publicly disclosing detailed information on the individuals who test positive for COVID-19. These measures prove more effective at reducing deaths among than comprehensive stay-home orders, according to new research from University of California San Diego, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Chicago. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/public-disclosure-of-covid-19-cases-is-more-effective-than-lockdowns/6pHVdNxp5Ms5RrTePEIVnc?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=05-26-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_49917

No Benefit for Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Severe COVID-19. Treatment with the HIV combination drug lopinavir-ritonavir did not accelerate recovery or improve mortality rates among hospitalized patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a trial in the New England Journal of Medicine reported. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766416?guestAccessKey=853ee0b1-2171-4717-a804-327d23d0b22e&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3372283800&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=89469491

France bans use of hydroxychloroquine to cure coronavirus . The French health ministry is banning the use of the hydroxychloroquine as a cure to coronovirus, according to a decree published Wednesday morning. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-bans-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-to-cure-coronavirus/ar-BB14ECAQ?ocid=spartanntp

WHO says the Americas are new COVID-19 epicenter as deaths surge in Latin America. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-says-the-americas-are-new-covid-19-epicenter-as-deaths-surge-in-latin-america/ar-BB14CXtY?ocid=spartanntp

RESOURCES

Call for Letters to the Editor From Trainees: Courage, Connection, and COVID-19. Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for our Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, and fellows on the topic of courage, connection, and COVID-19. Deadline 1 June. http://academicmedicineblog.org/call-for-letters-to-the-editor-from-trainees-courage-connection-and-covid-19/

COVID-19 Resources Compiled by NEST for Use in Hospital-Based Newborn Care. https://www.nest360.org/covid-19-resources

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2306

How COVID-19 Spreads. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Conversations on COVID-19 – Week Eleven: The broader health and health systems impacts of COVID-19 in LMICs. Time: Fridays at 1pm Irish/UK Time (12pm GMT). https://globalhealth.ie/weekly-webinar-series/

A Conversation about Global Health Innovation with Agnes Binagwaho (June 1– 1500 Botswana–9:00-10:00am Eastern Time). Global Health Idea Lab Registration. https://slate.uniteforsight.org/register/global-health-idea-reg

Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2033

NON-COVID NEWS

BIG DEAL IN US– USMLE Suspending Step 2 Clinical Skills Examination FOR medical students. https://www.usmle.org/announcements/

Effect of Doxycycline on Aneurysm Growth Among Patients With Small Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms. A Randomized Clinical Trial. Doxycycline did not significantly reduce growth of small abdominal aortic aneurysms after 2 years. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2766422

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 29 May 2020— African Librarians Week 24-30th May 2020 TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: May 29, 2020, 02:52 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	35		1		20	14	15	0.4	17,991

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 29-05-2020 04:32 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

35 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 28 May 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

Botswana

Cases 35
Deaths 1
Recovered 20

Malawi

Cases 101
Deaths 4
Recovered 37

South Africa

Cases 25,937
Deaths 552
Recovered 13,451

Eswatini

Cases 272
Deaths 2
Recovered 168

Zambia

Cases 1,057
Deaths 7
Recovered 779

Namibia

Cases 22
Deaths 0
Recovered 14

Mozambique

Cases 227
Deaths 1
Recovered 71

Zimbabwe

Cases 132
Deaths 4
Recovered 25

Angola

Cases 73
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 0

Kenya

Cases 1,471
Deaths 55
Recovered 408

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 281
Deaths 0
Recovered 70

Ethiopia

Cases 731
Deaths 6
Recovered 181

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 17,991 Negative Results 17,956 35 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

NEWS

Digital Health Equity as a Necessity in the 21st Century Cures Act Era. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766776?guestAccessKey=b6e3e438-3b25-4609-aaaf-3fcf8fc924ff&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3378582328&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=89632518

Covid-19: WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trial to review links with increased mortality risk. The study, published in the Lancet, included more than 96 000 patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 in six continents from December 2019 to April 2020. Compared with those who did not receive the drugs, people treated with chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine (with or without a macrolide) showed an increased risk of dying in hospital and de novo ventricular arrhythmia. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2126?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Science. 27 May. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/05/27/science.abc6197.full?fbclid=IwAR1tzv7hsMJ2l8-Bqez4xui9ztCrJx8u7TOj_s8-TuwRty0nXhI8go8-ekA

Children are being sidelined by covid-19. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2061

How countries are using genomics to help avoid a second coronavirus wave. Nature. Scientists in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and other places are using sequence data to track new infections as lockdowns ease. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01573-5

In Africa, a Drive to End Malnutrition Meets Covid-19. A way has been found to enrich the unfortified flour that Tanzanians eat as a staple. But the pandemic is getting in the way. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/opinion/coronavirus-africa-malnutrition.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Resources Compiled by NEST for Use in Hospital-Based Newborn Care. https://www.nest360.org/covid-19-resources

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2306

How COVID-19 Spreads. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Conversations on COVID-19 – Week Eleven: The broader health and health systems impacts of COVID-19 in LMICs. Time: Fridays at 1pm Irish/UK Time (12pm GMT). https://globalhealth.ie/weekly-webinar-series/

Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2033

NON-COVID NEWS

BIG DEAL IN US– USMLE Suspending Step 2 Clinical Skills Examination FOR medical students. https://www.usmle.org/announcements/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 1 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 1, 2020, 04:45 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	35		1		20	14	15	0.4	20,186

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 01-06-2020 06:32 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

35 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 1 June 2020 https://au.int/en/covid19

(Not available this morning)

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 20,186 Negative Results 20,151 38 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

21 Recoveries 9 Active 7 Transferred out Gender Male 30 Female 8 Transmission Types 15 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 27 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Massive hydroxychloroquine study raising health concerns about the drug under scrutiny from scientists. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/massive-hydroxychloroquine-study-raising-health-concerns-about-the-drug-under-scrutiny-from-scientists/ar-BB14MxZw?ocid=spartandhp

Alex Armitage: We need a #HealthyRecovery from covid-19. May 26, 2020

13 million health professionals from 90 countries have written this week to the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies, calling for an economic recovery from covid-19 that prioritises human and planetary health. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/26/alex-armitage-we-need-a-healthyrecovery-from-covid-19/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Senegal’s Noteworthy COVID-19 Response and What It Means for African-Bred Solutions. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/senegals-noteworthy-covid-19-response-what-means-baobab-consulting/?trackingId=ejyOAvzbTsKEZw02KdE5Pw%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR349NrCwZIVmwQxlll77pnU91d22ANNnt9Y_9X-nDuseT430CsRT36yVtk

Prevalence of ‘silent’ COVID-19 infection may be much higher than thought. MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events|May 28, 2020. The prevalence of ‘silent’ symptomless COVID-19 infection may be much higher than thought, reveals a study charting the enforced isolation of cruise ship passengers during the current pandemic, and published online in the journal Thorax. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/prevalence-of-silent-covid-19-infection-may-be-much-higher-than-thought/7fjjCMZa1eCHfSHpxMXvc7?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=05-28-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_49926

Covid-19: ensuring equality of access to testing for ethnic minorities. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2122?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Covid-19 in humanitarian settings: addressing ethics to reduce moral distress https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/28/covid-19-in-humanitarian-settings-addressing-ethics-to-reduce-moral-distress/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Conversations on COVID-19 – Week Eleven: The broader health and health systems impacts of COVID-19 in LMICs. Time: Fridays at 1pm Irish/UK Time (12pm GMT). https://globalhealth.ie/weekly-webinar-series/

Virtual Seminar Series – Global Plastic Surgery –This seminar will feature a discussion on Global Plastic Surgery led by Dr. Michael S. Golinko and Dr. Peter Nthumba (Kijabe Hospital, Kenya) on Tuesday, June 2nd at 12:00PM CST. This seminar will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Jun 2, 2020 12:00 PM in US; 7 pm Botswana. Register: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvde-hqTwjH9YxzvUwE9ach2RgteZXTLei

Academic Medicine COVID-19 Collection
Academic Medicine has created an online collection of all our published content related to COVID-19. Content in this collection is free, regardless of subscription status. Please check back regularly, as the collection will be updated frequently as new articles are published. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollectionId=68&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

NON-COVID NEWS

By cutting ties with the World Health Organization, Trump endangers global public health. https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/31/cutting-ties-with-world-health-organization-endangers-global-public-health/

Police violence and the built harm of structural racism Comment| Lancet P258-259, July 28, 2018. Rhea W Boyd. Police killing black Americans is one of the oldest forms of structural racism in the USA. The act traces its roots to slavery.

Yet it remains a tool for social control that violates black bodily autonomy, engenders racial inequality in access to public services, and re-inscribes the predominant racial order any time police indiscriminately and extrajudicially take a black life.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31374-6/fulltext

The African Fact-Checking Awards. https://africacheck.org/how-to-fact-check/the-african-fact-checking-awards/

World No Tobacco Day 31 May 2020. WHO. https://www.who.int/news-room/campaigns/world-no-tobacco-day/world-no-tobacco-day-2020

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 2 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 2, 2020, 02#1GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	35		1		20	17	15	0.4	21,716

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 02-06-2020 03:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

38 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 1 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 35
Deaths 1
Recovered 20

Malawi

Cases 284
Deaths 4
Recovered 42

South Africa

Cases 32,683
Deaths 683
Recovered 16,809

Eswatini

Cases 285
Deaths 2
Recovered 189

Zambia

Cases 1,057
Deaths 7
Recovered 779

Namibia

Cases 24
Deaths 0
Recovered 14

Mozambique

Cases 254
Deaths 2
Recovered 91

Zimbabwe

Cases 178
Deaths 4
Recovered 29

Angola

Cases 86
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 1

Kenya

Cases 1,962
Deaths 64
Recovered 474

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 417
Deaths 0
Recovered 72

Ethiopia

Cases 1,172
Deaths 11
Recovered 209

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 20,186 Negative Results 20,151 38 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

NEWS

Over 70% of surgeries in SA will be cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19 – how will we catch up? By Bruce Biccard & Lydia Cairncross• 31 May 2020. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-05-31-over-70-of-surgeries-in-sa-will-be-cancelled-or-postponed-due-to-covid-19-how-will-we-catch-up/

Opinion: A reminder during COVID-19 — Africa is not a monolith. https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-a-reminder-during-covid-19-africa-is-not-a-monolith-97300

Coronavirus: South Africans cheer as alcohol goes back on sale. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52874767

Botswana to lift alcohol ban. Botswana has finally announced intentions to allow alcohol sales after a 2 months ban, as part of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Addressing the nation on Saturday evening President Mokgweetsi Masisi said his administration plans to lift the alcohol ban. https://sadcnews.org/2020/06/01/botswana-to-lift-alcohol-ban/

Virus still potent says WHO, after claim by Italian doctor. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/virus-still-potent-says-who-after-claim-by-italian-doctor/ar-BB14Th3I?ocid=spartanntp

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Conversations on COVID-19 – Week Eleven: The broader health and health systems impacts of COVID-19 in LMICs. Time: Fridays at 1pm Irish/UK Time (12pm GMT). https://globalhealth.ie/weekly-webinar-series/

NON-COVID NEWS

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 3 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 3, 2020, 03:30 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	40		1		23	16	17	0.4	21,716

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 03-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

40 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 2 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 35
Deaths 1
Recovered 20

Kenya

Cases 2,093
Deaths 71
Recovered 499

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 489
Deaths 0
Recovered 79

Ethiopia

Cases 1,344
Deaths 14
Recovered 231

Malawi

Cases 336
Deaths 4
Recovered 42

South Africa

Cases 34,357
Deaths 705
Recovered 17,291

Eswatini

Cases 293
Deaths 3
Recovered 194

Zambia

Cases 1,089
Deaths 7
Recovered 912

Namibia

Cases 25
Deaths 0
Recovered 14

Mozambique

Cases 254
Deaths 2
Recovered 97

Zimbabwe

Cases 203
Deaths 4
Recovered 29

Angola

Cases 86
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 1

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 21,716 Negative Results 21,678 40 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

23 Recoveries 4 Active 12 Transferred out Gender Male 32 Female 8 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 29 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 17

NEWS

Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673620311429?via%3Dihub

Editorial—COVID-19 in Africa: no room for complacency. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067362031237X

Expression of concern: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis. Lancet. https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673620312903.pdf

Original paper in question: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis.2 22 May 2020. We were unable to confirm a benefit of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, when used alone or with a macrolide, on in-hospital outcomes for COVID-19. Each of these drug regimens was associated with decreased in-hospital survival and an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias when used for treatment of COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext

Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything. https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-which-explains-everything-2c4032481ab2

RESOURCES

Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10238. Pages 1669-1738, e98-e100 (30 May–5 June 2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-lancet/vol/395/issue/10238

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Conversations on COVID-19 – Week Eleven: The broader health and health systems impacts of COVID-19 in LMICs. Time: Fridays at 1pm Irish/UK Time (12pm GMT). https://globalhealth.ie/weekly-webinar-series/

NON-COVID NEWS

Barriers to Effective Transfusion Practices in Limited-Resource Settings: From Infrastructure to Cultural Beliefs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-020-05461-x?utm_source=toc

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 4 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 4, 2020, 02:23 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	40		1		23	16	17	0.4	23,337

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 04-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

40 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 3 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 40
Deaths 1
Recovered 23

Malawi

Cases 358
Deaths 4
Recovered 42

South Africa

Cases 35,812
Deaths 755
Recovered 18,313

Eswatini

Cases 294
Deaths 3
Recovered 198

Zambia

Cases 1,089
Deaths 7
Recovered 912

Namibia

Cases 25
Deaths 0
Recovered 16

Mozambique

Cases 307
Deaths 2
Recovered 98

Zimbabwe

Cases 206
Deaths 4
Recovered 29

Angola

Cases 86
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 2
Deaths 0
Recovered 1

Kenya

Cases 2,216
Deaths 74
Recovered 553

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 507
Deaths 0
Recovered 82

Ethiopia

Cases 1,486
Deaths 17
Recovered 246

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 21,716 Negative Results 21,678 40 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

23 Recoveries 4 Active 12 Transferred out Gender Male 32 Female 8 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 29 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 17

NEWS

**Covid-19: Physical distancing of at least one metre is linked to large reduction in infection. BMJ 2020. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2211**

Universal Masking in the Covid-19 Era. We therefore strongly support the calls of public health agencies for all people to wear masks when circumstances compel them to be within 6 ft of others for sustained periods. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2020836?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Malaria Drug Promoted by Trump Did Not Prevent Covid Infections, Study Finds.

The first carefully controlled trial of hydroxychloroquine given to people exposed to the coronavirus did not show any benefit. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-trump.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR07Fn73px1L1DZsXBItu2xoGDph4JZFdgT-xD1eQvMU-wLRiLzWdLz1oK8 Here is link to article—hope it opens https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638

Should governments continue lockdown to slow the spread of covid-19? https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1924

A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19—Potentially Hopeful Signals. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766940

Swabs Collected by Patients or Health Care Workers for SARS-CoV-2 Testing. Our study shows the clinical usefulness of tongue, nasal, or mid-turbinate samples collected by patients as compared with nasopharyngeal samples collected by health care workers for the diagnosis of Covid-19. Adoption of techniques for sampling by patients can reduce PPE use and provide a more comfortable patient experience. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2016321?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

CDC—US–Global COVID-19 Pandemic Notice

Warning – Level 3, Avoid Nonessential Travel

Warning – Level 3, Avoid Nonessential Travel—Widespread Ongoing Transmission

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/coronavirus-global

RESOURCES

Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10238. Pages 1669-1738, e98-e100 (30 May–5 June 2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-lancet/vol/395/issue/10238

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Conversations on COVID-19 – Week Eleven: The broader health and health systems impacts of COVID-19 in LMICs. Time: Fridays at 1pm Irish/UK Time (12pm GMT). https://globalhealth.ie/weekly-webinar-series/

NON-COVID NEWS

Deimplementation of the Choosing Wisely Recommendations for Low-Value Breast Cancer Surgery. A Systematic Review. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2766662?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=060320#.Xtgqk89GvRA.twitter

Sex Disparities in the Global Burden of Surgical Disease. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-020-05484-4?utm_source=toc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=toc_268_44_7&utm_content=etoc_springer_20200603

Barriers to Effective Transfusion Practices in Limited-Resource Settings: From Infrastructure to Cultural Beliefs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-020-05461-x?utm_source=toc

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 5 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 5, 2020, 03:09 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	40		1		23	16	17	0.4	24,006

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 05-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

40 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 4 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 40
Deaths 1
Recovered 23

Malawi

Cases 369
Deaths 4
Recovered 51

South Africa

Cases 37,525
Deaths 792
Recovered 19,682

Eswatini

Cases 295
Deaths 3
Recovered 201

Zambia

Cases 1,089
Deaths 7
Recovered 912

Namibia

Cases 25
Deaths 0
Recovered 16

Mozambique

Cases 316
Deaths 2
Recovered 109

Zimbabwe

Cases 222
Deaths 4
Recovered 29

Angola

Cases 86
Deaths 4
Recovered 18

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Kenya

Cases 2,340
Deaths 78
Recovered 592

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 522
Deaths 0
Recovered 82

Ethiopia

Cases 1,636
Deaths 18
Recovered 250

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 21,716 Negative Results 21,678 40 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

23 Recoveries 4 Active 12 Transferred out Gender Male 32 Female 8 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 29 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 17

NEWS

Challenge Trials—Could Deliberate Coronavirus Exposure Hasten Vaccine Development? The group is signing up volunteers willing to enroll in randomized, placebo-controlled trials of candidate COVID-19 vaccines. These wouldn’t be conventional clinical trials, though. After getting either the investigational vaccine or the placebo, volunteers would deliberately be exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) instead of waiting for the virus to find them in the community.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767024?guestAccessKey=18724e36-e6bd-4607-ab6b-6329a5acffb9&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3395959129&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=90133845

Correlation Between N95 Extended Use and Reuse and Fit Failure in an Emergency Department. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767023?guestAccessKey=1e2440cf-b99f-49f8-9c3e-260075f453fd&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3395959125&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=90133844

Thinking of Risk in the Era of COVID-19. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767022?guestAccessKey=7f2c8a32-1826-410b-9e09-b32dfe0b32e5&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3395959117&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=90133843

Mouse model mimics SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans. A mouse model of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reproduces features observed in human patients, researchers report. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200527123332.htm

Sweden chose a looser lockdown. The scientist behind the strategy now says the death toll is too high. At 43 deaths per 100,000, Sweden’s death rate is among the highest globally and far exceeds that of neighbouring Denmark and Norway, which imposed much tougher lockdowns at the outset of the pandemic. https://fortune.com/2020/06/03/sweden-chose-a-looser-lockdown-the-scientist-behind-the-strategy-now-says-the-death-toll-is-too-high/?fbclid=IwAR3WDOgV2Br2U8A63KEDbeQfi0dnTiJbz_lFoudqZbSG-RmK5gnKreD1qgU

COVID-19 shows the world needs physicians who can look beyond medical charts. The experience of COVID-19 has been a case study in why medical students need exposure to more, not less, social justice issues. There is a reason why medical schools globally are adopting these principles of social medicine, and why students encounter patients before they graduate. https://theconversation.com/covid-19-shows-the-world-needs-physicians-who-can-look-beyond-medical-charts-138460?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton

Covid-19: It’s too soon to lift lockdown. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2202

RESOURCES

Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10238. Pages 1669-1738, e98-e100 (30 May–5 June 2020). https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-lancet/vol/395/issue/10238

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

Conversations on COVID-19 – Week Eleven: The broader health and health systems impacts of COVID-19 in LMICs. Time: Fridays at 1pm Irish/UK Time (12pm GMT). https://globalhealth.ie/weekly-webinar-series/

NON-COVID NEWS

Evaluating the credibility of anchor based estimates of minimal important differences for patient reported outcomes: instrument development and reliability study. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1714?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

More countries report on antibiotic resistance but results are “worrying,” says WHO. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2217?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

OPINION PIECE: Silenced Voices in Global Health. The field has come a long way from its colonial past, but global health still falls short of being diverse and inclusive. https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/silenced-voices-global-health

Global Surgery Pro–Con Debate: A Pathway to Bilateral Academic Success or the Bold New Face of Colonialism? Global surgery, especially academic global surgery, is of tremendous interest to many surgeons. Classically, it entails personnel from high-income countries going to low- and middle-income countries and engaging in educational activities as well as procedures. Academic medical personnel have included students, residents, and attendings. The pervasive notion is that this is a win–win situation for the volunteers and the hosts, that is, a pathway to bilateral academic success. However, a critical examination demonstrates that it can easily become the bold new face of colonialism of a low- and middle-income country by a high-income country. https://www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S0022-4804(20)30208-0/pdf Let me know if you want full text—I will try to get it.

What Trump’s threat to de-fund the WHO means for the United States and the world. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/04/what-trumps-threat-to-de-fund-the-who-means-for-the-united-states-and-the-world/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 6 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 6, 2020, 07:37 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	40		1		23	16	17	0.4	24,006

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 06-06-2020 08:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

40 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 6 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 40
Deaths 1
Recovered 23

Angola

Cases 86
Deaths 4
Recovered 21

Eswatini

Cases 305
Deaths 3
Recovered 221

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Malawi

Cases 409
Deaths 4
Recovered 55

Mozambique

Cases 354
Deaths 2
Recovered 119

Namibia

Cases 25
Deaths 0
Recovered 16

South Africa

Cases 43,434
Deaths 908
Recovered 23,088

Zambia

Cases 1,089
Deaths 7
Recovered 912

Zimbabwe

Cases 265
Deaths 4
Recovered 33

Ethiopia

Cases 1,805
Deaths 19
Recovered 262

Kenya

Cases 2,474
Deaths 79
Recovered 643

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 557
Deaths 0
Recovered 82

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 24,006 Negative Results 23,966 40 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

23 Recoveries 4 Active 12 Transferred out Gender Male 32 Female 8 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 29 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 17

NEWS

False Negative Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Challenges and Implications. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2015897?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

TBI Response to the Rollout of Africa CDC PACT. The Tony Blair Institute congratulates Dr Nkengasong and the Africa CDC for launching the Partnership to Accelerate Testing in Africa (PACT) and their leadership, which has been critical to the Covid-19 response right across Africa. https://institute.global/advisory/tbi-response-rollout-africa-cdc-pact

Summary of international recommendations in 23 languages for patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30278-3/fulltext

There is no stopping covid-19 without stopping racism. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/05/there-is-no-stopping-covid-19-without-stopping-racism/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

RESOURCES

Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10239. Recent issue https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

NON-COVID NEWS

OPINION PIECE: Silenced Voices in Global Health. The field has come a long way from its colonial past, but global health still falls short of being diverse and inclusive. https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/silenced-voices-global-health

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 8 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 8, 2020, 03:43 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	40		1		23	16	17	0.4	24,006

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 0-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

40 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 7 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 40
Deaths 1
Recovered 23

Angola

Cases 88
Deaths 4
Recovered 24

Eswatini

Cases 322
Deaths 3
Recovered 224

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Malawi

Cases 409
Deaths 4
Recovered 55

Mozambique

Cases 424
Deaths 2
Recovered 127

Namibia

Cases 29
Deaths 0
Recovered 16

South Africa

Cases 45,973
Deaths 952
Recovered 24,258

Zambia

Cases 1,089
Deaths 7
Recovered 912

Zimbabwe

Cases 279
Deaths 4
Recovered 33

Ethiopia

Cases 2,020
Deaths 27
Recovered 344

Kenya

Cases 2,767
Deaths 84
Recovered 752

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 616
Deaths 0
Recovered 82

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 24,006 Negative Results 23,966 40 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

23 Recoveries 4 Active 12 Transferred out Gender Male 32 Female 8 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 29 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 17

NEWS

70% of people infected with the coronavirus did not pass it to anyone, preliminary research shows. Superspreading events account for most transmission. https://www.businessinsider.com/super-spreader-events-account-for-most-coronavirus-transmission-2020-6

Could face shields replace masks in preventing COVID-19? https://www.mdlinx.com/news/could-face-shields-replace-masks-in-preventing-covid-19/5lxwHYGUpkldOsZaFYf3Rc?utm_medium=newsletter&publish_dt=06-04-2020&news_id=541&utm_content=General-Article&newsdt=060520&subspec_id=174&utm_source=DailyNL&utm_campaign=article-section

Offline: COVID-19 and the ethics of memory. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31279-4/fulltext

The Top Doctor Who Aced the Coronavirus Test. Dr. Bonnie Henry kept the disease in check in British Columbia without harsh enforcement methods. Now, she is leading the way out of lockdown. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/world/canada/bonnie-henry-british-columbia-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare

America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic. Businesses are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn’t done with us. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/06/america-giving-up-on-pandemic/612796/

RESOURCES

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

Webinar 1: Three country perspectives on training and partnerships for quality PPFP services

Wednesday 10^th June, 10.00 London / 12.00 Dar es Salaam / 14.30 Colombo / 14.45 Kathmandu Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9037304290119211787

Webinar 2: Three country perspectives on improving access to quality PPFP services. Wednesday 17^th June, 10.00 London / 12.00 Nairobi / 14.30 New Delhi / 15.00 Dhaka Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2259330775833917963

Webinar 3: Global perspectives on the cost effectiveness of Postpartum Family Planning Wednesday 24^th June, 12.30 London / 14.30 Nairobi / 17.00 New Delhi / 17.30 Dhaka Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1610181309818382603

Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10239. Recent issue https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

NON-COVID NEWS

Being heard, not, “seldom heard”: democratising research with diverse communities during the covid-19 pandemic. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/02/being-heard-not-seldom-heard-democratising-research-with-diverse-communities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 9 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 9, 2020, 03:48 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	42	(2)	1		24	17	18	0.4	26,238

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 09-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

42 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 8 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 40
Deaths 1
Recovered 23

Ethiopia

Cases 2,020
Deaths 27
Recovered 344

Kenya

Cases 2,767
Deaths 84
Recovered 752

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 616
Deaths 0
Recovered 82

Angola

Cases 91
Deaths 4
Recovered 24

Eswatini

Cases 333
Deaths 3
Recovered 225

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Malawi

Cases 438
Deaths 4
Recovered 55

Mozambique

Cases 424
Deaths 2
Recovered 127

Namibia

Cases 29
Deaths 0
Recovered 16

South Africa

Cases 48,285
Deaths 998
Recovered 24,364

Zambia

Cases 1,089
Deaths 7
Recovered 912

Zimbabwe

Cases 279
Deaths 4
Recovered 33

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 24,006 Negative Results 23,966 42 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 1 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 18 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 25 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Botswana Bus operators Association and Gaborone Taxi Association have decided to halt operation starting from tomorrow amid COVID-19 restrictions. https://news.thevoicebw.com/botswana-bus-operators-association-and-gaborone-taxi-association-have-decided-to-halt-operation-starting-from-tomorrow-amid-covid-19-restrictions/

Caring for Children with Cancer in Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis: Implications and Opportunities Jeremy S. Slone, Nmazuo Ozuah & Peter Wasswa. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08880018.2020.1772913?scroll=top&needAccess=true

SARS-CoV-2–Related Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome in Children. Different or Shared Etiology and Pathophysiology as Kawasaki Disease? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767205

Pension Funds feels the pinch of COVID 19. The chairperson of Botswana Pensions Society, Mr Peter Hikhwa says Pension funds all over the world are feeling the pinch as the COVID 19 pandemic continues to ravage the global economy. http://www.dailynews.gov.bw/news-details.php?nid=56539

First Reported Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Companion Animals — New York, March–April 2020. Human-to-animal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 can occasionally occur. Animals are not known to play a substantial role in spreading COVID-19, but persons with COVID-19 should avoid contact with animals. Companion animals that test positive for SARS-CoV-2 should be monitored and separated from persons and other animals until they recover. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6923e3.htm?s_cid=mm6923e3_w

Structural racism in society and the covid-19 “stress test”. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/08/structural-racism-in-society-and-the-covid-19-stress-test/#disqus_thread

Tessa Richards: Will covid-19 change conferences for the better? BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/05/tessa-richards-todays-rapidly-convened-virtual-events-are-pointing-the-way-to-a-greener-more-inclusive-future/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

When 511 Epidemiologists Expect to Fly, Hug and Do 18 Other Everyday Activities Again. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/08/upshot/when-epidemiologists-will-do-everyday-things-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

RESOURCES

Racism in medicine. BMJ SPECIAL ISSUE. https://www.bmj.com/racism-in-medicine

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

Webinar 1: Three country perspectives on training and partnerships for quality PPFP services

Wednesday 10^th June, 10.00 London / 12.00 Dar es Salaam / 14.30 Colombo / 14.45 Kathmandu Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9037304290119211787

Webinar 2: Three country perspectives on improving access to quality PPFP services. Wednesday 17^th June, 10.00 London / 12.00 Nairobi / 14.30 New Delhi / 15.00 Dhaka Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2259330775833917963

Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10239. Recent issue https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

NON-COVID NEWS

Seen on Twitter from a UK medical educator Justine Ina Davies: Calling Global Health MSC students. Can you tell me if you think that paying fees to have your course taught as recorded lectures is good value? If you have to have lectures delivered remotely, would you prefer these to be live and interactive? I am interested to know.

A Revolution in Science Publishing, or Business as Usual? “Open access” was supposed to change scientific publishing. Critics worry the model is being corrupted by money anyway. https://undark.org/2020/03/30/science-publishing-open-acess/

Opinion: The Sum of What? On Gender, Visibility, and Wikipedia

I tallied how often women were cited in Wikipedia’s top math and literature pages. The results weren’t pretty. https://undark.org/2020/01/02/wikipedia-footnote-gender-imbalance/

For Experts Who Study Coronaviruses, a Grim Vindication

They warned that the next great pandemic would be a coronavirus, but research funding went to studying other threats. he now prophetic words could be found buried at the end of a research paper published in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews in October of 2007: “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic animals in southern China, is a time bomb.” https://undark.org/2020/06/08/for-experts-who-study-coronaviruses-a-grim-vindication/

Investing in the health of girls and women: a best buy for sustainable development. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1175

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 10 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 10, 2020, 04:10 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	42	(2)	1		24	17	18	0.4	26,238

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 10-06-2020 06:07 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

42 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 9 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 40
Deaths 1
Recovered 23

Malawi

Cases 443
Deaths 4
Recovered 55

Zimbabwe

Cases 287
Deaths 4
Recovered 46

Angola

Cases 92
Deaths 4
Recovered 24

Mozambique

Cases 433
Deaths 2
Recovered 131

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

South Africa

Cases 50,879
Deaths 1,080
Recovered 26,099

Namibia

Cases 31
Deaths 0
Recovered 16

Eswatini

Cases 340
Deaths 3
Recovered 229

Zambia

Cases 1,200
Deaths 10
Recovered 988

Uganda

Cases 657
Deaths 0
Recovered 118

Ethiopia

Cases 2,336
Deaths 32
Recovered 379

Kenya

Cases 2,989
Deaths 88
Recovered 873

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 24,006 Negative Results 23,966 42 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 1 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 18 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 25 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

As Countries Reopen, Many Avoid a Second Wave of Covid-19 Cases—So Far . Successes at limiting new infections in Europe and Asia suggest ways to hold the pandemic in check. https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-countries-reopen-many-avoid-a-second-wave-of-covid-19-casesso-far-11591638007

Emergency COVID-19 measures prevented more than 500 million infections, study finds. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/06/08/emergency-covid-19-measures-prevented-more-than-500-million-infections-study-finds/

Covid-19: Doctors launch judicial review over PPE failures. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2301?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Rammya Mathew: We must not be guided by bad science on covid-19. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2241?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

WHO butchers asymptomatic COVID comments. Here’s what they meant. Symptomless spread is no doubt happening. But talking about it is hard. An expert with the World Health Organization on Monday made brief comments about asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 that sparked a firestorm of confusion, backlash, and criticism. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/who-butchers-asymptomatic-covid-comments-heres-what-they-meant/?fbclid=IwAR0blxf6tG5sI9ZHbXittGwLsd7FtbBuES2p2MEqF2Mun1zW1ckKQHvaqhs

RESOURCES

Cancer in the context of COVID-19: Summary of emerging evidence (12)

Compiled by Chukwudi Nnaji and Jennifer Moodley Date: 09 June 2020– CRI website

The CRI presents a selection of emerging research articles and clinical practice guidelines related to cancer and COVID-19, with a summary of their key findings/recommendations (links to the articles are embedded as hyperlinks in the titles). This is the 12^th of our weekly compilation, which we plan to update and disseminate as the pandemic evolves globally and nationally.

This week, we highlight the latest research and news related to oncology services in COVID-19 outbreak contexts globally, with a focus on Africa and other low- and middle-income countries. We hope that insights from these pieces of evidence will help guide how we rethink cancer prevention, treatment and care in the context of the ongoing pandemic, in view of its unprecedented implications for patients, healthcare providers and the community in general. We are keen to include research and guidelines from African and other low- and middle-income settings and will profile these as they become available. Previous weeks’ editions can be found on the CRI website, as well as on our Twitter page (@UctCri).

Racism in medicine. BMJ SPECIAL ISSUE. https://www.bmj.com/racism-in-medicine

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

Webinar 1: Three country perspectives on training and partnerships for quality PPFP services

Wednesday 10^th June, 10.00 London / 12.00 Dar es Salaam / 14.30 Colombo / 14.45 Kathmandu Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9037304290119211787

Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10239. Recent issue https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

The One Surgery Index – Collections. Many full-text articles in this collective literature search is free to download and share, in the hope of enlightening and inspiring global surgical research collaboration. https://research.one.surgery/osi-collections/

NON-COVID NEWS

Journal of a plague year. Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year is one of the best single accounts of an epidemic written in English. Published anonymously in 1722 as a contribution to public debates about the prospect of plague reaching Britain from the French port of Marseilles, it takes the form of the literary memoir by “H.F.” during London’s “great plague” of 1665. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31243-5/fulltext?utm_campaign=perspectives20&utm_content=131224017&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Systemic racism: science must listen, learn and change. Nature commits to working to end anti-Black practices in research. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01678-x?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Nature

Time to look in the mirror. Science. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2020/06/08/science.abd1896.full.pdf

Understanding Brain Death. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765666?guestAccessKey=ef371e4b-4492-401a-9da0-62f23b649ade&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3390220245&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=89972699

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 11 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 11, 2020, 03:50 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	48	(6)	1		24	23	20	0.4	26,238

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 11-06-2020 05:13 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

48 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 10 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 42
Deaths 1
Recovered 24

Kenya

Cases 3,094
Deaths 89
Recovered 1,048

Ethiopia

Cases 2,506
Deaths 35
Recovered 401

Uganda

Cases 665
Deaths 0
Recovered 119

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

South Africa

Cases 52,991
Deaths 1,162
Recovered 29,006

Zambia

Cases 1,235
Deaths 10
Recovered 1,020

Malawi

Cases 455
Deaths 4
Recovered 55

Mozambique

Cases 472
Deaths 2
Recovered 138

Eswatini

Cases 371
Deaths 3
Recovered 232

Zimbabwe

Cases 314
Deaths 4
Recovered 46

Angola

Cases 96
Deaths 4
Recovered 38

Namibia

Cases 31
Deaths 0
Recovered 17

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 24,006 Negative Results 23,966 42 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 1 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 18 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 25 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

From Mmegi@MmegiOnline Twitter: SIX NEW COVID-19 CASES Botswana has recorded six imported cases of coronavirus and they have since been transferred back to their home countries. So there is still one patient with the virus in the country – BW Covid-19 Task Force Team #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirusBotswana

Use of personal protective equipment against coronavirus disease 2019 by healthcare professionals in Wuhan, China: cross sectional study. Before a safe and effective vaccine becomes available, healthcare professionals remain susceptible to covid-19. Despite being at high risk of exposure, study participants were appropriately protected and did not contract infection or develop protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2. Healthcare systems must give priority to the procurement and distribution of personal protective equipment, and provide adequate training to healthcare professionals in its use. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2195?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Existing Drugs Might Treat COVID-19. Drugs already marketed for conditions including schizophrenia might have potential as treatments for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a Nature study suggests. [A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2286-9) ]https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766844?guestAccessKey=468cf633-36d7-43d2-a32a-cb17fd8feaed&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3407707289&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=90460127

How to avoid the virus as the world reopens. A guide to where the biggest risks lie as lockdowns ease. https://www.ft.com/content/2418ff87-1d41-41b5-b638-38f5164a2e94

U.S. Response to COVID-19 is Worse than China’s. 100 Times Worse. https://time.com/5850680/u-s-response-covid-19-worse-than-chinas/

Project sanitize Maun helps town fight COVID-19. https://news.thevoicebw.com/project-sanitize-maun-helps-town-fight-covid-19/

RESOURCES

Cancer in the context of COVID-19: Summary of emerging evidence (12)

Compiled by Chukwudi Nnaji and Jennifer Moodley Date: 09 June 2020– CRI website

Racism in medicine. BMJ SPECIAL ISSUE. https://www.bmj.com/racism-in-medicine

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

Webinar 1: Three country perspectives on training and partnerships for quality PPFP services

Wednesday 10^th June, 10.00 London / 12.00 Dar es Salaam / 14.30 Colombo / 14.45 Kathmandu Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9037304290119211787

Lancet. Volume 395, Issue 10239. Recent issue https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

COVID-19 Africa Rapid Grant Fund.

Opening Date: Monday, 18 May, 2020

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020

This call covers three strands: i) research, ii) science engagement: call to science and health journalists and communicators, and iii) science engagement: call to science advisers.

https://www.nrf.ac.za/division/funding/covid-19-africa-rapid-grant-fund

NON-COVID NEWS

As Uganda Takes Control of the HIV Epidemic, U.S. Shifts Funding.

Uganda has fought HIV/AIDS for decades, but changes to its biggest funding source come at a decisive time in the battle. https://undark.org/2020/06/10/uganda-takes-control-of-hiv-epidemic/

Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30114-8/fulltext?utm_campaign=gbd20&utm_content=131253073&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 12 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 12, 2020, 02:45 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	48	(6)	1		24	23	20	0.4	26,238

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 12-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

48 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 11 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 48
Deaths 1
Recovered 24

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 31
Deaths 0
Recovered 17

Angola

Cases 113
Deaths 4
Recovered 40

Eswatini

Cases 398
Deaths 3
Recovered 236

Zambia

Cases 1,252
Deaths 10
Recovered 1,069

Zimbabwe

Cases 320
Deaths 4
Recovered 49

Mozambique

Cases 472
Deaths 2
Recovered 138

Malawi

Cases 455
Deaths 4
Recovered 55

South Africa

Cases 55,421
Deaths 1,210
Recovered 31,505

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 679
Deaths 0
Recovered 120

Kenya

Cases 3,215
Deaths 92
Recovered 1,092

Ethiopia

Cases 2,670
Deaths 40
Recovered 434

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,238 Negative Results 26,196 42 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 1 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 18 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 25 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Why South Africa’s coronavirus outbreak could be a ‘catalyst for transformation’

The nation’s long experience with fighting HIV and TB has yielded both promise and setbacks in its battle against COVID-19. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/south-africa-coronavirus-outbreak-catalyst-transformation-hiv-tuberculosis/

NOT PEER REVIEWED: 23Andme reports people with type O blood less likely to get COVID-19. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/23andme-reports-people-with-type-o-blood-less-likely-to-get-covid-19/5BSVYnGGWaWH5rvN1L9ivD?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=06-10-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_49969

Rheumatoid arthritis drug shows promise against COVID-19, study finds. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/rheumatoid-arthritis-drug-shows-promise-against-covid-19-study-finds/4oLwNajFmXrgo1Rkg9rmuv?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=06-10-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_49969

FROM TWITTER: Botswana Government@BWGovernment Jun 10 SALE OF TOBACCO REMAINS SUSPENDED As we continue this fight we must also be aware that during the State of Public Health Emergency declared by the President of Botswana, use and sale of tobacco and Tobacco Products remain suspended. This decision was taken to protect people from the severity of Covid-19; protection from notable habits of smokers such as sharing of tobacco products such as cigarettes, and smoking pipes. Furthermore, evidence shows that young people are induced early on in their lives into using tobacco. The theme for this year therefore is ´Protecting Youth from Industry Manipulation and Preventing them from Tobacco and Nicotine Use´

RESOURCES

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We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

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NON-COVID NEWS

Preserve junior faculty in biomedical sciences during and after the pandemic. COVID-19 has disrupted scientific productivity in unquantifiable ways. Unquestionably, the biggest disruption has been felt by junior faculty. However, these bright young minds do not have to be sacrificed. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0943-z

Science Has a Racism Problem. Cell. We are the editors of a science journal, committed to publishing and disseminating exciting work across the biological sciences. We are 13 scientists. Not one of us is Black. Underrepresentation of Black scientists goes beyond our team—to our authors, reviewers, and advisory board. And we are not alone. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30740-6?rss=yes

Stolen Breaths. NEJM. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2021072?query=main_nav_lg

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 13 June 2020— TRACKING See articles below in NEWS: The new cases brought the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the southern African country to 60 since the first case was reported in March. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/13/c_139135041.htm

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 13, 2020, 04:00GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	48	(6)	1		24	23	20	0.4	26,238

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 13-06-2020 05:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

48 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 12 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 48
Deaths 1
Recovered 24

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 31
Deaths 0
Recovered 17

Angola

Cases 118
Deaths 5
Recovered 41

Eswatini

Cases 509
Deaths 3
Recovered 238

Zambia

Cases 1,321
Deaths 10
Recovered 1,104

Zimbabwe

Cases 332
Deaths 4
Recovered 51

Mozambique

Cases 489
Deaths 2
Recovered 145

Malawi

Cases 481
Deaths 4
Recovered 65

South Africa

Cases 58,568
Deaths 1,210
Recovered 31,505

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 686
Deaths 0
Recovered 161

Kenya

Cases 3,305
Deaths 96
Recovered 1,164

Ethiopia

Cases 2,915
Deaths 47
Recovered 451

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,238 Negative Results 26,196 42 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 1 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 25 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

12 June: Botswana coronavirus: Gaborone hospital, bank closed over exposure. A bank and hospital in the capital Gaborone have been temporarily closed over what government says is possible COVID-19 exposure. A statement signed by coordinator of the presidential task force, Kereng Masupu said the Gaborone Private Hospital and Stanbic Bank branch at Fairgrounds were to remain shut till further notice. https://www.africanews.com/2020/06/12/botswana-president-in-self-isolation-after-namibia-trip/

Botswana capital on lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge. Health officials announced in a public address on Friday evening that the city will go under lockdown from midnight on Friday until further notice after an earlier announcement of 12 new cases.

Director of Public Health Malaki Tshipayagae said among the 12 new cases, four were imported cases reported at border posts while eight are local transmissions.

He said they will be starting contact tracing and testing of people who visited affected areas immediately, and to enable the process to go smoothly, a period of extreme social distancing will be observed in the capital city and its immediate surroundings.

A local private hospital and a bank have been identified and shut down as areas where positive individuals had passed through.

Tshipayagae said during the lockdown period, only essential service employees will be allowed to return to work while movement permits will be required for people to travel in the city. The new cases brought the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the southern African country to 60 since the first case was reported in March.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/13/c_139135041.htm

Botswana Reinstates Strict Coronavirus Lockdown in Capital City

GABORONE — Botswana brought back a strict coronavirus lockdown in its capital city, Gaborone, and surrounding areas after the southern African country recorded 12 new cases of the virus, a senior health official said late on Friday. “We are still to determine whether the hospital cases are local transmissions,” Tshipayagae said. “From midnight today the greater Gaborone area will revert to extreme social distancing until further notice, where only essential services will be allowed to operate.” https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/12/world/africa/12reuters-health-coronavirus-botswana.html

Challenges to medical education at a time of physical distancing. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31368-4/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Have deaths from COVID-19 in Europe plateaued due to herd immunity? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31357-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

New-Onset Diabetes in Covid-19. There is a bidirectional relationship between Covid-19 and diabetes. On the one hand, diabetes is associated with an increased risk of severe Covid-19. On the other hand, new-onset diabetes and severe metabolic complications of preexisting diabetes, including diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolarity for which exceptionally high doses of insulin are warranted, have been observed in patients with Covid-19 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2018688?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Natural History of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection. In this cohort, the majority of asymptomatically infected persons remained asymptomatic throughout the course of the infection. The time to the resolution of infection increased with increasing age.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2013020?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

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We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

Webinar 1: Three country perspectives on training and partnerships for quality PPFP services

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BuildingNewBridgesTogether: Strengthening Ethics in Higher Education after COVID-19. International Conference. VIRTUAL. https://www.globethics.net/-/event-updates-international-and-regional-conferences-in-june

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OTHER NEWS

Factors Associated With Surgical Mortality and Complications Among Patients With and Without Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy. Whenever possible, surgery should be postponed in patients with COVID-19 because it is an additional surgical risk factor that overweighs traditional ones. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2767370?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jamasurg&utm_campaign=article_alert&utm_content=automated_rss

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 15 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 15, 2020, 03:11 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	60	(12)	1		24	35	26	0.4	26,800

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 15-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

60 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 14 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	60
Deaths	1
Recoveries	24
Tests	26,801
CFR	1.67
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	2.55
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	14 Jun 2020

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 32
Deaths 0
Recovered 17

Angola

Cases 138
Deaths 6
Recovered 61

Eswatini

Cases 486
Deaths 3
Recovered 247

Zambia

Cases 1,357
Deaths 10
Recovered 1,114

Zimbabwe

Cases 356
Deaths 4
Recovered 54

Mozambique

Cases 583
Deaths 3
Recovered 151

Malawi

Cases 529
Deaths 5
Recovered 68

South Africa

Cases 65,736
Deaths 1,423
Recovered 36,850

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 696
Deaths 0
Recovered 240

Kenya

Cases 3,594
Deaths 100
Recovered 1,221

Ethiopia

Cases 3,345
Deaths 57
Recovered 545

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 60 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 13 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 43 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Botswana reinstates strict coronavirus lockdown in capital city. GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana brought back a strict coronavirus lockdown in its capital city, Gaborone, and surrounding areas after the southern African country recorded 12 new cases of the virus, a senior health official said late on Friday. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/botswana-reinstates-strict-coronavirus-lockdown-in-capital-city/ar-BB15qlVF

COVID-19 vaccines for all? Gavi says it has an “initial goal” of raising $2 billion to make possible the manufacture of the first 20 million doses. But supplying vaccine for all developing countries will clearly require a much bigger investment. Gavi has so far been tight lipped about the details of how exactly the fund will work and what it will ultimately cost. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31354-4/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=131710581&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Keeping governments accountable: the COVID-19 Assessment Scorecard (COVID-SCORE). Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0950-0

Health ministry (India) recommends remdesivir for moderate cases, HCQ for early course of COVID-19. https://nagalandpage.com/health-ministry-recommends-remdesivir-for-moderate-cases-hcq-for-early-course-of-covid-19/

Protocol https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/ClinicalManagementProtocolforCOVID19.pdf

This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice. Pre exposure Hydroxychloroquine use is associated with reduced COVID19 risk in healthcare workers. Medical College Kolkata. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.09.20116806v1

The “virtual wards” supporting patients with covid-19 in the community. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2119?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

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We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

Webinar 1: Three country perspectives on training and partnerships for quality PPFP services

Wednesday 10^th June, 10.00 London / 12.00 Dar es Salaam / 14.30 Colombo / 14.45 Kathmandu Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9037304290119211787

BuildingNewBridgesTogether: Strengthening Ethics in Higher Education after COVID-19. International Conference. VIRTUAL. https://www.globethics.net/-/event-updates-international-and-regional-conferences-in-june

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OTHER NEWS

Accountability for medical participation in torture. Why do health professionals get away with participation in torture and what should be done? My review of Steve Miles’ book, The Torture Doctors. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31325-8/fulltext#.XuOkIIkQaGQ.twitter

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 16 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 16, 2020, 03:05 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	60	(12)	1		24	35	26	0.4	26,800

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 16-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

60 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 15 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	60
Deaths	1
Recoveries	24
Tests	26,801
CFR	1.67
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	2.55
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	15 Jun 2020

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 32
Deaths 0
Recovered 17

Angola

Cases 140
Deaths 6
Recovered 61

Eswatini

Cases 490
Deaths 4
Recovered 249

Zambia

Cases 1,382
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,142

Zimbabwe

Cases 383
Deaths 4
Recovered 54

Mozambique

Cases 583
Deaths 3
Recovered 151

Malawi

Cases 547
Deaths 6
Recovered 69

South Africa

Cases 70,038
Deaths 1,480
Recovered 38,531

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 705
Deaths 0
Recovered 299

Kenya

Cases 3,727
Deaths 104
Recovered 1,286

Ethiopia

Cases 3,521
Deaths 60
Recovered 620

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 60 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 13 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 43 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

From Facebook: 15 June 2020–BWgovernment· 9 hrs · LOCKDOWN LIFTED!
#LetsDefeatCOVID19Together #AReFenyengCOVID19Mmogo https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/

Covid-19: Africa’s case numbers are rising rapidly, WHO warns. South Africa is the most affected, accounting for 25% of Africa’s total cases and 1210 deaths, with the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces especially affected. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2394

Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30264-3/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=131798046&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-1277614400

Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all? Science. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread-virus-all

COVID-19 threatens the entire nervous system. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/covid-19-threatens-the-entire-nervous-system/6CRiDUrodrQhPFXLvC7hn?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=06-12-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_49983

Implementation of an Elastomeric Mask Program as a Strategy to Eliminate Disposable N95 Mask Use and Resterilization: Results from a Large Academic Medical Center. https://www.journalacs.org/article/S1072-7515(20)30471-3/fulltext

Slowing the Coronavirus Is Speeding the Spread of Other Diseases

Many mass immunization efforts worldwide were halted this spring to prevent spread of the virus at crowded inoculation sites. The consequences have been alarming. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/health/coronavirus-vaccines-measles.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20200615&instance_id=19394&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=26464847&segment_id=30915&user_id=9289a6e403a2eb689aa4ab4c407596cc

The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals

Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/health/virus-journals.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20200615&instance_id=19394&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=26464847&segment_id=30915&user_id=9289a6e403a2eb689aa4ab4c407596cc

Covid-19 studies based on flawed Surgisphere data force medical journals to review processes. It was the Lancet that under the same editor, Richard Horton, published a fraudulent study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine with autism. In 2010, 12 years after the paper was first published, the Lancet retracted the paper. The author of the paper, Dr Andrew Wakefield, was also banned from practising medicine in the UK due to his fraudulent work. The latest retraction from the journal has left researchers and the public questioning whether the peer review process and editorial policies are rigorous enough. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/12/covid-19-studies-based-on-flawed-surgisphere-data-force-medical-journals-to-review-processes

Expecting Students to Play It Safe if Colleges Reopen Is a Fantasy.

Safety plans border on delusional and could lead to outbreaks of Covid-19 among students, faculty and staff. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/opinion/coronavirus-college-safe.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Perspectives on Nurse and Midwife Leadership During COVID-19. https://nursesandmidwiveslead.org/nurse-and-midwife-success-stories-during-covid-19/

A Seat at the Table: African Leadership in a Post-Covid-19 World. https://www.csis.org/analysis/seat-table-african-leadership-post-covid-19-world

RESOURCES

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

OTHER NEWS

Safety and immunogenicity of a mosquito saliva peptide-based vaccine: a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, phase 1 trial. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31048-5/fulltext?utm_content=131631186&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 17 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 17, 2020, 03:22 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	60		1		24	35	26	0.4	26,800

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 17-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

60 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 16 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	60
Deaths	1
Recoveries	24
Tests	26,801
CFR	1.67
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	2.55
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	16 Jun 2020

Angola

Cases 142
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Eswatini

Cases 506
Deaths 4
Recovered 249

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Malawi

Cases 555
Deaths 6
Recovered 69

Mozambique

Cases 609
Deaths 3
Recovered 157

Namibia

Cases 34
Deaths 0
Recovered 18

South Africa

Cases 73,553
Deaths 1,568
Recovered 39,867

Zambia

Cases 1,405
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,142

Zimbabwe

Cases 387
Deaths 4
Recovered 54

Ethiopia

Cases 3,630
Deaths 61
Recovered 738

Kenya

Cases 3,860
Deaths 105
Recovered 1,328

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 724
Deaths 0
Recovered 351

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 60 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 13 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 43 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Covid-19: Low dose steroid cuts death in ventilated patients by one third, trial finds. Low dose dexamethasone reduces deaths in patients hospitalised with covid-19 who need ventilation, according to preliminary results from the RECOVERY trial. The drug was also found to reduce deaths by one fifth in other hospitalised patients receiving oxygen only, but no benefit was seen among covid-19 patients who did not need respiratory support. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2422?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Botswana lifts coronavirus lockdown, reopens schools

Officials urge citizens to continue to observe precautionary measures. ”All completing classes (standard 7, form 3, and form 5) in public schools within the Greater Gaborone zone” will resume on June 17, Private schools will make their own arrangements on school reopening,” the statement said late Monday. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/latest-on-coronavirus-outbreak/botswana-lifts-coronavirus-lockdown-reopens-schools/1878591

Community Use Of Face Masks And COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural Experiment Of State Mandates In The US. There is a significant decline in daily COVID-19 growth rate after mandating facial covers in public, with the effect increasing over time after signing the order. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818

Gilead’s closed-door deal sets precedent for COVID-19 drug access. NAIROBI — Amid global conversations to ensure equitable access to future drugs and vaccines for COVID-19, Gilead Sciences, Inc. made its own side room deal. Over the past month, the U.S.-based company made an agreement with generic pharmaceutical companies in Egypt, India, and Pakistan to allow them to produce its drug remdesivir, an injectable antiviral medication, and currently the most promising drug for the treatment of the coronavirus. The deal allows these generic manufacturers to distribute the drug in 127 countries (includes Botswana and RSA). https://www.devex.com/news/gilead-s-closed-door-deal-sets-precedent-for-covid-19-drug-access-97214

Coronavirus Accelerates Across Africa The virus was slow to start in many African countries, but epidemiologists say the number of confirmed cases on the continent is now rising fast. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/africa/coronavirus-africa.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

Can Covid Catalyze an Educational Transformation? Competency-Based Advancement in a Crisis. The next logical step in this evolution is a transition from time-based to competency-based, time-variable (CB-TV) GME, in which each physician graduates from residency (or fellowship) to unsupervised practice when — and only when — the necessary competencies are achieved. Canada has launched a nationwide transition to CB-TV GME across all specialties, after completing pioneering pilot work in orthopedics.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2018570?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

COVID-19 and ethnicity: who will research results apply to? The toll of COVID-19 is not equal. Evidence globally shows a greater COVID-19 burden with older age, male sex, obesity, comorbidities, and poverty. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(20)31380-5.pdf

Study Finds 1 in 5 People Worldwide at Risk of Severe Covid-19

Roughly 1.7 billion people have at least one of the underlying health conditions that can worsen cases of the coronavirus, a new analysis shows. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/health/coronavirus-underlying-conditions.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

RESOURCES

Free book–NEJM Catalyst eBook: The Clinician Role in Health Care Delivery and Innovation. A Powerful Voice for Transforming Care. https://store.nejm.org/signup/ebook2020?promo=OCFEDL05&query=marcom&utm_source=nejmlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebook2020&cid=DM93736_&bid=216364600

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

OTHER NEWS

State of the World’s Nursing Report – 2020. The State of the world’s nursing 2020 report provides the latest, most up-to-date evidence on and policy options for the global nursing workforce. It also presents a compelling case for considerable – yet feasible – investment in nursing education, jobs, and leadership. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/nursing-report-2020

Association of Author Gender With Sex Bias in Surgical Research. Sex bias in surgical research is prevalent among male and female authors; however, female authors included proportionally more female participants in their studies compared with male authors. Notably, studies that addressed sex bias were rewarded by the scientific community with increased citations of their published work. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2676727?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jamasurg&utm_term=3378409672&utm_campaign=content_marketing&linkId=89626798

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 17 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 17, 2020, 03:22 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	60		1		24	35	26	0.4	26,800

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 17-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

60 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 16 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	60
Deaths	1
Recoveries	24
Tests	26,801
CFR	1.67
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	2.55
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	16 Jun 2020

Angola

Cases 142
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Eswatini

Cases 506
Deaths 4
Recovered 249

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Malawi

Cases 555
Deaths 6
Recovered 69

Mozambique

Cases 609
Deaths 3
Recovered 157

Namibia

Cases 34
Deaths 0
Recovered 18

South Africa

Cases 73,553
Deaths 1,568
Recovered 39,867

Zambia

Cases 1,405
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,142

Zimbabwe

Cases 387
Deaths 4
Recovered 54

Ethiopia

Cases 3,630
Deaths 61
Recovered 738

Kenya

Cases 3,860
Deaths 105
Recovered 1,328

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 724
Deaths 0
Recovered 351

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 60 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 13 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 43 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Botswana lifts coronavirus lockdown, reopens schools

Officials urge citizens to continue to observe precautionary measures. ”All completing classes (standard 7, form 3, and form 5) in public schools within the Greater Gaborone zone” will resume on June 17, Private schools will make their own arrangements on school reopening,” the statement said late Monday. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/latest-on-coronavirus-outbreak/botswana-lifts-coronavirus-lockdown-reopens-schools/1878591

Coronavirus Accelerates Across Africa The virus was slow to start in many African countries, but epidemiologists say the number of confirmed cases on the continent is now rising fast. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/africa/coronavirus-africa.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

Study Finds 1 in 5 People Worldwide at Risk of Severe Covid-19

RESOURCES

Free book–NEJM Catalyst eBook: The Clinician Role in Health Care Delivery and Innovation. A Powerful Voice for Transforming Care. https://store.nejm.org/signup/ebook2020?promo=OCFEDL05&query=marcom&utm_source=nejmlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebook2020&cid=DM93736_&bid=216364600

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

OTHER NEWS

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 17 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 17, 2020, 03:22 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	60		1		24	35	26	0.4	26,800

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 17-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

60 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 16 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	60
Deaths	1
Recoveries	24
Tests	26,801
CFR	1.67
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	2.55
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	16 Jun 2020

Angola

Cases 142
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Eswatini

Cases 506
Deaths 4
Recovered 249

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Malawi

Cases 555
Deaths 6
Recovered 69

Mozambique

Cases 609
Deaths 3
Recovered 157

Namibia

Cases 34
Deaths 0
Recovered 18

South Africa

Cases 73,553
Deaths 1,568
Recovered 39,867

Zambia

Cases 1,405
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,142

Zimbabwe

Cases 387
Deaths 4
Recovered 54

Ethiopia

Cases 3,630
Deaths 61
Recovered 738

Kenya

Cases 3,860
Deaths 105
Recovered 1,328

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 724
Deaths 0
Recovered 351

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 60 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 13 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 43 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Botswana lifts coronavirus lockdown, reopens schools

Officials urge citizens to continue to observe precautionary measures. ”All completing classes (standard 7, form 3, and form 5) in public schools within the Greater Gaborone zone” will resume on June 17, Private schools will make their own arrangements on school reopening,” the statement said late Monday. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/latest-on-coronavirus-outbreak/botswana-lifts-coronavirus-lockdown-reopens-schools/1878591

Coronavirus Accelerates Across Africa The virus was slow to start in many African countries, but epidemiologists say the number of confirmed cases on the continent is now rising fast. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/africa/coronavirus-africa.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

Study Finds 1 in 5 People Worldwide at Risk of Severe Covid-19

RESOURCES

Free book–NEJM Catalyst eBook: The Clinician Role in Health Care Delivery and Innovation. A Powerful Voice for Transforming Care. https://store.nejm.org/signup/ebook2020?promo=OCFEDL05&query=marcom&utm_source=nejmlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebook2020&cid=DM93736_&bid=216364600

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

OTHER NEWS

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 17 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 17, 2020, 03:22 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	60		1		24	35	26	0.4	26,800

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 17-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

60 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 16 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	60
Deaths	1
Recoveries	24
Tests	26,801
CFR	1.67
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	2.55
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	16 Jun 2020

Angola

Cases 142
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Eswatini

Cases 506
Deaths 4
Recovered 249

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Malawi

Cases 555
Deaths 6
Recovered 69

Mozambique

Cases 609
Deaths 3
Recovered 157

Namibia

Cases 34
Deaths 0
Recovered 18

South Africa

Cases 73,553
Deaths 1,568
Recovered 39,867

Zambia

Cases 1,405
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,142

Zimbabwe

Cases 387
Deaths 4
Recovered 54

Ethiopia

Cases 3,630
Deaths 61
Recovered 738

Kenya

Cases 3,860
Deaths 105
Recovered 1,328

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 724
Deaths 0
Recovered 351

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 60 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 13 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 43 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Botswana lifts coronavirus lockdown, reopens schools

Officials urge citizens to continue to observe precautionary measures. ”All completing classes (standard 7, form 3, and form 5) in public schools within the Greater Gaborone zone” will resume on June 17, Private schools will make their own arrangements on school reopening,” the statement said late Monday. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/latest-on-coronavirus-outbreak/botswana-lifts-coronavirus-lockdown-reopens-schools/1878591

Coronavirus Accelerates Across Africa The virus was slow to start in many African countries, but epidemiologists say the number of confirmed cases on the continent is now rising fast. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/africa/coronavirus-africa.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

Study Finds 1 in 5 People Worldwide at Risk of Severe Covid-19

RESOURCES

Free book–NEJM Catalyst eBook: The Clinician Role in Health Care Delivery and Innovation. A Powerful Voice for Transforming Care. https://store.nejm.org/signup/ebook2020?promo=OCFEDL05&query=marcom&utm_source=nejmlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebook2020&cid=DM93736_&bid=216364600

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

OTHER NEWS

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 17 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 17, 2020, 03:22 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	60		1		24	35	26	0.4	26,800

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 17-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

60 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 16 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	60
Deaths	1
Recoveries	24
Tests	26,801
CFR	1.67
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	2.55
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	16 Jun 2020

Angola

Cases 142
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Eswatini

Cases 506
Deaths 4
Recovered 249

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Malawi

Cases 555
Deaths 6
Recovered 69

Mozambique

Cases 609
Deaths 3
Recovered 157

Namibia

Cases 34
Deaths 0
Recovered 18

South Africa

Cases 73,553
Deaths 1,568
Recovered 39,867

Zambia

Cases 1,405
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,142

Zimbabwe

Cases 387
Deaths 4
Recovered 54

Ethiopia

Cases 3,630
Deaths 61
Recovered 738

Kenya

Cases 3,860
Deaths 105
Recovered 1,328

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Uganda

Cases 724
Deaths 0
Recovered 351

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 60 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

24 Recoveries 13 Active 16 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 43 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 15

NEWS

Botswana lifts coronavirus lockdown, reopens schools

Officials urge citizens to continue to observe precautionary measures. ”All completing classes (standard 7, form 3, and form 5) in public schools within the Greater Gaborone zone” will resume on June 17, Private schools will make their own arrangements on school reopening,” the statement said late Monday. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/latest-on-coronavirus-outbreak/botswana-lifts-coronavirus-lockdown-reopens-schools/1878591

Coronavirus Accelerates Across Africa The virus was slow to start in many African countries, but epidemiologists say the number of confirmed cases on the continent is now rising fast. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/africa/coronavirus-africa.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

Study Finds 1 in 5 People Worldwide at Risk of Severe Covid-19

RESOURCES

Free book–NEJM Catalyst eBook: The Clinician Role in Health Care Delivery and Innovation. A Powerful Voice for Transforming Care. https://store.nejm.org/signup/ebook2020?promo=OCFEDL05&query=marcom&utm_source=nejmlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebook2020&cid=DM93736_&bid=216364600

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

OTHER NEWS

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 18 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 18, 2020, 03:05 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	79	(19)	1		25	53	34	0.4	26,800

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 18-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

79 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 17 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	60
Deaths	1
Recoveries	24
Tests	26,801
CFR	1.67
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	2.55
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	17 Jun 2020

Angola

Cases 148
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

South Africa

Cases 76,334
Deaths 1,625
Recovered 42,063

Malawi

Cases 564
Deaths 6
Recovered 73

Zimbabwe

Cases 391
Deaths 4
Recovered 62

Zambia

Cases 1,405
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,142

Eswatini

Cases 520
Deaths 4
Recovered 259

Mozambique

Cases 651
Deaths 4
Recovered 169

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 34
Deaths 0
Recovered 18

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Kenya

Cases 4,044
Deaths 107
Recovered 1,353

Ethiopia

Cases 3,759
Deaths 63
Recovered 849

Uganda

Cases 732
Deaths 0
Recovered 409

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 79 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 62 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

Botswana president calls for global partnerships in responding to COVID-19. In his opening remarks during the United Nations (UN) Global Compact Leaders virtual summit, Masisi said it is clear that there is need to work together as the international community, governments, private sector and the civil society through innovative partnerships. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/17/c_139146347.htm

WHO moves to update COVID-19 guidance after “great news” in drug study. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-moves-to-update-covid-19-guidance-after-great-news-in-drug-study/ar-BB15ASLT?ocid=spartanntp

Who’s to blame? These three scientists are at the heart of the Surgisphere COVID-19 scandal. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/whos-blame-these-three-scientists-are-heart-surgisphere-covid-19-scandal?fbclid=IwAR2930ICNCHRLUX14-yJ34WmksNxzTQ5RveJwc3TSIsABvAJTNlWmwUTshc

Covid-19: Researchers question policy of closing schools after finding under 20s have low susceptibility to virus. Children and young people under 20 are half as susceptible to covid-19 and far less likely to experience clinical symptoms than older age groups, a study published in Nature Medicine shows. The results suggest that interventions targeting children, such as school closures, are therefore likely to have limited impact in controlling spreads of covid-19.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2439?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Data fog: Why some countries’ coronavirus numbers do not add up. Reported numbers of confirmed cases have become fodder for the political gristmill. Here is what non-politicians think. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/data-fog-countries-coronavirus-numbers-add-200607065953544.html

Routine vaccination during covid-19 pandemic response. Routine vaccination of pregnant women and children must remain a priority during the covid-19 pandemic response. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2392?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

RESOURCES

Free book–NEJM Catalyst eBook: The Clinician Role in Health Care Delivery and Innovation. A Powerful Voice for Transforming Care. https://store.nejm.org/signup/ebook2020?promo=OCFEDL05&query=marcom&utm_source=nejmlist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebook2020&cid=DM93736_&bid=216364600

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

OTHER NEWS

Sustainable Development Starts with Children. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sustainable-development-climate-change-children-by-helen-clark-2020-06

High Road, Low Road: Professionalism, Trust, and Medical Education. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2020/06000/High_Road,_Low_Road__Professionalism,_Trust,_and.1.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=50584bd9-78e2-4665-9de8-b1ecd88dbc36

Hidden in Plain Sight — Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms. Weighing the two sides, the accompanying Perspective article concluded that though the concept of race was “fraught with sensitivities and fueled by past abuses and the potential for future abuses,” race-based medicine still had potential: “it seems unwise to abandon the practice of recording race when we have barely begun to understand the architecture of the human genome.”https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2004740?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 19 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 19, 2020, 02:30 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	79	(19)	1		25	53	34	0.4	33.176

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 19-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

79 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 17 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 79
Deaths 1
Recovered 25

Angola

Cases 155
Deaths 7
Recovered 64

South Africa

Cases 80,412
Deaths 1,674
Recovered 44,331

Malawi

Cases 572
Deaths 6
Recovered 73

Zimbabwe

Cases 401
Deaths 4
Recovered 63

Zambia

Cases 1,416
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,144

Eswatini

Cases 563
Deaths 4
Recovered 262

Mozambique

Cases 662
Deaths 4
Recovered 175

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 39
Deaths 0
Recovered 19

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Kenya

Cases 4,257
Deaths 117
Recovered 1,459

Ethiopia

Cases 3,954
Deaths 65
Recovered 934

Uganda

Cases 741
Deaths 0
Recovered 486

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 79 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 62 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

Publishing in the time of COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30260-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

A wake-up call: COVID-19 and its impact on children’s health and wellbeing. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30238-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

UK public health bodies reviewing vitamin D’s effects on coronavirus

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/uk-ministers-order-urgent-vitamin-d-coronavirus-review

Flushing the Toilet May Fling Coronavirus Aerosols All Over

A new study shows how turbulence from a toilet bowl can create a large plume that is potentially infectious to a bathroom’s next visitor. And researchers have found viable virus particles in patients’ feces, as well as traces of viral RNA on toilet bowls and sinks in their hospital isolation rooms, although experiments in the lab have suggested that material may be less likely to be infectious compared with virus that is coughed out. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/health/coronavirus-toilets-flushing.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=648922060&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage

COVID-19 Reveals Urgent Need to Strengthen the World Health Organization. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767148?guestAccessKey=911e2af0-9161-46a8-85a7-d2f6d676f56f&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3426382985&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=91009073

Botswana lifts lockdown on capital city Gaborone. Botswana has lifted the lockdown on its capital, Gaborone, after most of the latest reported cases of coronavirus turned negative. The southern Africa country emerged from an extreme lockdown on 21 May, but restrictions were reinstated in the capital last Friday after new cases were reported. The health ministry said 10 out of 16 suspected new cases had tested negative. The remaining six cases are awaiting confirmatory results, according director of health services Malaki Tshipayagae. The cases were detected at a private hospital and the government laboratory. https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c77jz3mdqypt/botswana

COVID-19: Blood Type / Mavrilimumab / Prone Position. https://www.jwatch.org/fw116746/2020/06/17/covid-19-blood-type-mavrilimumab-prone-position

RESOURCES

We would like to invite you to a three-part webinar series on ‘PPIUD – A Global Opportunity to reduce unmet need in low to middle income countries’. FIGO-International Federation of Gyn/Obs. Currently 214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy have an unmet need for family planning. Contraception alone can reduce maternal mortality by one third, without mentioning the associated reduction in infant and child mortality, and the wider benefits to society as a whole. Since 2013, FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative has institutionalised the provision of PPIUD services into routine maternity care across six countries. https://www.figo.org/events/upcoming-figo-global-webinar

OTHER NEWS

June 21, 2020 Annular Solar Eclipse—Gaborone, Botswana

Partial solar eclipse visible (4.74% coverage of Sun)

Magnitude: 0.1178

Duration:1 hour, 9 minutes, 2 seconds

Partial begins: Sun below horizon

Sunrise: Jun 21 at 7:00:04 am

Maximum: Jun 21 at 7:02:39 am

Partial ends: Jun 21 at 7:20:22 am

Times shown in local time (CAT)

Forecast:

Sunny. Chilly.

This day was cloudy 36% of the time (since 2000)

The aid sector must do more to tackle its white supremacy problem

Racism is embedded in structures and power dynamics, so we should logically conclude that we are not immune. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/15/the-aid-sector-must-do-more-to-tackle-its-white-supremacy-problem

Poaching Forces Botswana to Dehorn, Translocate Rhinos. https://www.voanews.com/africa/poaching-forces-botswana-dehorn-translocate-rhinos

A Guide to Research Paradigms Relevant to Medical Education—2012 but interesting –AM Last Page

https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2012/04000/AM_Last_Page__A_Guide_to_Research_Paradigms.32.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=d5af0351-be51-41de-918e-d595719cc010

https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/_layouts/15/oaks.journals/ImageView.aspx?k=academicmedicine:2012:04000:00032&i=F1-32&year=2012&issue=04000&article=00032&type=Fulltext&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=d5af0351-be51-41de-918e-d595719cc010

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 20 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 20, 2020, 03:34 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	89	(10)	1		25	63	34	0.4	33.176

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 20-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

89 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 19 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	33,919
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.78
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	19 Jun 2020

Angola

Cases 166
Deaths 8
Recovered 64

South Africa

Cases 83,890
Deaths 1,737
Recovered 44,920

Malawi

Cases 592
Deaths 8
Recovered 74

Zimbabwe

Cases 463
Deaths 4
Recovered 63

Zambia

Cases 1,416
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,144

Eswatini

Cases 586
Deaths 4
Recovered 267

Mozambique

Cases 668
Deaths 4
Recovered 177

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 40
Deaths 0
Recovered 19

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Kenya

Cases 4,374
Deaths 119
Recovered 1,550

Ethiopia

Cases 4,070
Deaths 72
Recovered 1,027

Uganda

Cases 755
Deaths 0
Recovered 492

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 79 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 62 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

Covid-19: Health and care workers will be “highest priority” for vaccination, says JCVI. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2477?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Global governance for COVID-19 vaccines. Since the early days of the pandemic, medical protectionism has emerged as nations scrambled for their own stocks of personal protective equipment and ventilators. COVID-19 vaccines could be the next example. Already there is a danger of a vaccine bidding war, with governments competing for a limited number of doses, well before a vaccine even reaches the market. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31405-7/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

You May Have Antibodies After Coronavirus Infection. But Not for Long.

Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/health/coronavirus-antibodies.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20200619&instance_id=19488&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=26464847&segment_id=31311&user_id=9289a6e403a2eb689aa4ab4c407596cc

Challenges for the female academic during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31412-4/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

RESOURCES

Delivering High-Quality Instruction Online in Response to COVID-19 is a faculty-focused playbook intended to improve course design, teaching, and learning in online environments. With special attention to the needs of instructors teaching online for the first time, the guide offers strategies for getting started and improving over time.https://www.everylearnereverywhere.org/facultyplaybook?fbclid=IwAR1fowRU8pBplrTCeX5UpgWppbCvVV9emcP7dZFFkYnmSMeCiCtbtyq-V60

OTHER NEWS

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, from Botswana, is the first woman to be elected as WHO Regional Director for Africa. https://www.afro.who.int/regional-director/biography

Climate crisis threatens future of global sport, says report

Study says heatwaves, fires and floods, and rising sea levels pose major threat over coming years. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/20/climate-crisis-threatens-future-of-global-sport-says-report

June 21, 2020 Annular Solar Eclipse—Gaborone, Botswana

Partial solar eclipse visible (4.74% coverage of Sun)

Magnitude: 0.1178

Duration:1 hour, 9 minutes, 2 seconds

Partial begins: Sun below horizon

Sunrise: Jun 21 at 7:00:04 am

Maximum: Jun 21 at 7:02:39 am

Partial ends: Jun 21 at 7:20:22 am

Times shown in local time (CAT)

Forecast:

Sunny. Chilly.

This day was cloudy 36% of the time (since 2000)

Brain cells can harbor and spread HIV virus to the body. NIH-funded study highlights the importance of addressing the brain in HIV cure strategies. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-cells-can-harbor-spread-hiv-virus-body

The aid sector must do more to tackle its white supremacy problem

A Guide to Research Paradigms Relevant to Medical Education—2012 but interesting –AM Last Page

COVID-19, Ethics and Equity—What Is Our Role as Surgeons? https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Citation/2020/07000/COVID_19,_Ethics_and_Equity_What_Is_Our_Role_as.7.aspx

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 22 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 22, 2020, 02:36 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	89	(10)	1		25	63	1	34	0.4	33.919

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 22-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

89 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 21 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Botswana

Cases 89
Deaths 1
Recovered 25

Angola

Cases 176
Deaths 9
Recovered 66

South Africa

Cases 92,681
Deaths 1,877
Recovered 50,326

Malawi

Cases 730
Deaths 11
Recovered 258

Zimbabwe

Cases 486
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Zambia

Cases 1,430
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,194

Eswatini

Cases 627
Deaths 5
Recovered 285

Mozambique

Cases 733
Deaths 5
Recovered 181

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 55
Deaths 0
Recovered 19

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Kenya

Cases 4,738
Deaths 123
Recovered 1,607

Ethiopia

Cases 4,532
Deaths 74
Recovered 1,213

Uganda

Cases 770
Deaths 0
Recovered 578

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 26,800 Negative Results 26,758 79 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 62 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

WHO reports largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-reports-largest-single-day-increase-in-coronavirus-cases/ar-BB15NTAC?ocid=spartanntp

Pandemic vaccines are about to face the real test. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6497/1295.

Covid-19: Public health agencies review whether vitamin D supplements could reduce risk. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2475

COVID-19 Risk Score Might Predict Critical Illness in Hospitalized Patients. https://www.jwatch.org/na51590/2020/06/16/covid-19-risk-score-might-predict-critical-illness?query=C19&cid=DM94101_NEJM_Registered_Users_and_InActive&bid=218126881

The impact of COVID-19 on medical student surgical education: Implementing extreme pandemic response measures in a widely distributed surgical clerkship experience. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7186124/

Matt Morgan: Covid-19 and the need for bold decisions. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2320?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

COVID-19: rethinking risk. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30276-X/fulltext#.Xu9eVAcx2Co.twitter

Covid-19 raises the risks of violent conflict. War and disease feed upon each other. https://www.economist.com/international/2020/06/18/covid-19-raises-the-risks-of-violent-conflict

RESOURCES

COVID-19 Series: Medical journals – Episode 24

Time Tuesday, Jun 23, 2020 12:30 PM in London

This webinar series by The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) aims to support you as we navigate the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are aiming to unite healthcare workers on the frontlines with senior decision makers leading the response in this critical fight against COVID-19.

Chaired by leading experts, these webinars aim to support you as we discuss different topics and challenges that healthcare workers, leaders and the public are facing, and how we are responding.

In this episode of the COVID-19 Series Professor Sir Simon Wessely talks to Dr Howard Bauchner, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA, and Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor-in-chief of The BMJ, about the role medical journals play in a pandemic such as COVID-19

They will be discussing how these popular journals report in a time of rapid and developing scientific evidence, balancing both clinical and public concerns alongside emerging policies and guidance.

The webinar will include plenty of opportunities for questions. All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of The RSM. Please note this webinar will be recorded and stored by The RSM and may be used in the future on various internet channels.

BMJ Quality Improvement series. All articles in the series are open access. The BMJ has published a collection of the articles in the series so far. The full collection will be published in autumn 2020. https://www.health.org.uk/funding-and-partnerships/our-partnerships/bmj-quality-improvement-series

OTHER NEWS

This Is the Least Amount of Exercise You Need to Live Longer. https://www.thehealthy.com/exercise/least-amount-exercise-to-live-longer/

The economy of wellbeing: what is it and what are the implications for health? https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1874

Why Race Matters in International Relations. Western dominance and white privilege permeate the field. It’s time to change that. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/19/why-race-matters-international-relations-ir/

Knowledge of Obstetric and Neonatal Danger Signs among Community Health Workers in the Rongo Sub-County of Migori County, Kenya: Results of a Community-based Cross-Sectional Survey. https://www.ajrh.info/index.php/ajrh/article/view/2074

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 23 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 23, 2020, 03:32 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	89	(10)	1		25	63	1	38	0.4	33.919

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 23-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

89 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 22 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Southern

Botswana

Cases 89
Deaths 1
Recovered 25

Angola

Cases 183
Deaths 9
Recovered 97

South Africa

Cases 97,302
Deaths 1,930
Recovered 51,608

Malawi

Cases 749
Deaths 11
Recovered 258

Zimbabwe

Cases 489
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Zambia

Cases 1,430
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,194

Eswatini

Cases 635
Deaths 5
Recovered 285

Mozambique

Cases 733
Deaths 5
Recovered 181

Lesotho

Cases 4
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 55
Deaths 0
Recovered 19

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Kenya

Cases 4,738
Deaths 123
Recovered 1,607

Ethiopia

Cases 4,532
Deaths 74
Recovered 1,213

Uganda

Cases 770
Deaths 0
Recovered 578

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 33,019 Negative Results 33,830 89 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 72 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

‘Heartbreaking,’ Say Global Experts, Alarmed at Signs US Has ‘Given Up’ Fight to Stop Covid-19. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/19/heartbreaking-say-global-experts-alarmed-signs-us-has-given-fight-stop-covid-19?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0kfmiWiSkgqRrkh__EkgLdS4RoGgs0W50YTC_VbFGZkKwHCMTb8a4msDE

Opinion: In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/16/2010636117?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=&utm_content=59d7532a-bf8f-4dbf-b61a-9032edbd9266&utm_campaign=General

Men’s health: COVID-19 pandemic highlights need for overdue policy action. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31303-9/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Coronavirus Coverage and the Silencing of Female Expertise.With male voices dominating the pandemic narrative, female scientists are lamenting the loss of diverse perspectives. https://undark.org/2020/06/22/coronavirus-coverage-silencing-female-expertise/

Research Shows Virus Undetectable on Five Highly Circulated Library Materials After Three Days. https://www.imls.gov/news/research-shows-virus-undetectable-five-highly-circulated-library-materials-after-three-days?fbclid=IwAR2PEihPrirXxw_K26QI4ej2Z-aVekhRQLegwZtVK2JaxLqGCEbllqwbSiw

RESOURCES

Bar chart race shows rapid rise of global COVID-19 deaths. Cochrane. https://www.cochranetoday.ca/beyond-local/bar-chart-race-shows-rapid-rise-of-global-covid-19-deaths-2412222

OTHER NEWS

New tools to help ensure a positive pregnancy experience for women. 22 June 2020. WHO provides practical steps to help countries adapt global guidance on antenatal care. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/22-06-2020-new-tools-to-help-ensure-a-positive-pregnancy-experience-for-women

Faced with today’s crisis, what would Gandhi do? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31413-6/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Should I Submit My Work to Academic Medicine or to MedEdPORTAL? https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Documents/AM-MEP%20Decision%20Tree%20Final.pdf?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=0cc9135b-1803-435e-afab-4ce94ffb0529

A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/06/17/1920498117.full.pdf

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 24 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 24, 2020, 03:01 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	89		1		25	63	1	38	0.4	33.919

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 24-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

89 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 23 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	33,919
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.78
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	23 Jun 2020

Angola

Cases 186
Deaths 10
Recovered 77

South Africa

Cases 101,590
Deaths 1,991
Recovered 53,444

Malawi

Cases 803
Deaths 11
Recovered 258

Zimbabwe

Cases 512
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Zambia

Cases 1,430
Deaths 11
Recovered 1,194

Eswatini

Cases 643
Deaths 6
Recovered 291

Mozambique

Cases 737
Deaths 5
Recovered 181

Lesotho

Cases 12
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 63
Deaths 0
Recovered 21

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Kenya

Cases 4,797
Deaths 125
Recovered 1,680

Ethiopia

Cases 4,848
Deaths 75
Recovered 1,412

Uganda

Cases 797
Deaths 0
Recovered 699

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 33,019 Negative Results 33,830 89 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 72 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

COVID-19 Across Africa: Epidemiologic Heterogeneity and Necessity of Contextually Relevant Transmission Models and Intervention Strategies. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2628

Coronavirus live news: Saudi Arabia closes borders to hajj attendees as global Covid-19 cases pass 9m. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/23/coronavirus-live-news-update-saudi-arabia-closes-borders-hajj-global-covid-19-cases-pass-9m-latest-updates

Covid-19 has changed everything from crime to policy. Legal systems must keep up. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/commentisfree/2020/jun/23/covid-19-has-changed-everything-from-to-policy-legal-systems-must-keep-up

African countries unite to create ‘one stop shop’ to lower cost of Covid-19 tests and PPE . Online marketplace for medical supplies will allow continent to buy in bulk and lower costs, says South Africa’s president. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/22/the-power-of-volume-africa-unites-to-lower-cost-of-covid-19-tests-and-ppe

Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31417-3/fulltext

Pakistan Covid-19 doctors witness black market deals in blood plasma

Patients are looking for cure as healthcare system is on brink of collapse, say doctors. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/23/pakistan-covid-19-doctors-witness-black-market-deals-in-blood-plasma

Effectiveness of isolation, testing, contact tracing, and physical distancing on reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in different settings: a mathematical modelling study. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30457-6/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=131947558&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-2375643853

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TODAY AND TOMORROW AFRICA’S LEADERSHIP ROLE IN COVID-19 VACCINE DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS. VIRTUAL CONFERENCE | 24-25 JUNE 2020 https://africacdc.org/event/africas-leadership-role-in-covid-19-vaccine-development-and-access/

You are warmly invited to attend our #BuildingNewBridgesTogether: Strengthening Ethics in Higher Education after COVID-19 International Conference this coming Thursday, 25 June 2020 from 15:00 to 18:00 (3pm to 6pm) Central European Time (CET).We are pleased to bring you a diverse and inter-generational line up of 20 experts, leaders, teachers and students from the four corners of the globe as speakers, including our own Globethics.net President and Founder Christoph Stückelberger and Executive Director Obiora Ike. The conference programme with information about speakers and about the journey to the conference during the online pre-conference programme from 17-24 June 2020 can be found on our website at ww.globethics.net/building-new-bridges-together. https://outlook.office.com/mail/inbox/id/AAMkADkzN2IzNzA4LTU2ZDAtNGQ4My04YmVhLTEwZjg3ZDlmNTM2NwBGAAAAAAC8WMpHWuWOS57LQryZCLW3BwANMwsi6utOTb58IHOQliyvAAAATEIBAADyO5zJQCD4Q6tRqr2CWd5rAACgRGelAAA%3D

Bar chart race shows rapid rise of global COVID-19 deaths. Cochrane. https://www.cochranetoday.ca/beyond-local/bar-chart-race-shows-rapid-rise-of-global-covid-19-deaths-2412222

OTHER NEWS

Harnessing the power of health taxes. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1436?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Lagos distributes free phones to pupils to bridge digital divide

Closure of Nigeria’s schools during lockdown has hit access to learning for poorer children. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/24/lagos-distributes-free-phones-to-pupils-to-bridge-digital-divide

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 25 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 25, 2020, 03:49 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	92	(3)	1		25	66	1	39	0.4	36,868

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 25-06-2020 05:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

92 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 24 June 2020 https://au.int/en/blockdatas/covid19/block-data-covid-19

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	33,919
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.78
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population	2,354,627
Date	24 Jun 2020

Tanzania

Cases 509
Deaths 21
Recovered 178

Kenya

Cases 5,206
Deaths 130
Recovered 1,823

Ethiopia

Cases 5,034
Deaths 78
Recovered 1,486

Uganda

Cases 805
Deaths 0
Recovered 717

Angola

Cases 189
Deaths 10
Recovered 77

South Africa

Cases 106,108
Deaths 2,102
Recovered 55,045

Malawi

Cases 848
Deaths 11
Recovered 259

Zimbabwe

Cases 525
Deaths 6
Recovered 64

Zambia

Cases 1,477
Deaths 18
Recovered 1,213

Eswatini

Cases 674
Deaths 7
Recovered 319

Mozambique

Cases 757
Deaths 5
Recovered 206

Lesotho

Cases 17
Deaths 0
Recovered 2

Namibia

Cases 72
Deaths 0
Recovered 21

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 33,019 Negative Results 33,830 89 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 72 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

Botswana coronavirus: successful mandatory cross border testing. https://www.africanews.com/2020/06/23/botswana-president-in-self-isolation-after-namibia-trip/

Zambia coronavirus: 1,489 cases; drivers, air travellers ‘import’ new cases. https://www.africanews.com/2020/06/24/zambia-shuts-border-with-tanzania-over-virus-spread-fears/

China to run human coronavirus vaccine trial in UAE. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-vaccine/china-to-run-human-coronavirus-vaccine-trial-in-uae-idUSKBN23U2H8

The colliding epidemics of COVID-19, Ebola, and measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30281-3/fulltext

In Poor Countries, Many Covid-19 Patients Are Desperate for Oxygen. Aid agencies are scrambling to get oxygen equipment to low-income countries where the coronavirus is rapidly spreading. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/health/coronavirus-oxygen-africa.html?smid=tw-nythealth&smtyp=cur

RESOURCES

TODAY AFRICA’S LEADERSHIP ROLE IN COVID-19 VACCINE DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS. VIRTUAL CONFERENCE | 24-25 JUNE 2020 https://africacdc.org/event/africas-leadership-role-in-covid-19-vaccine-development-and-access/

The ACS Division of Education is pleased to announce that a new article has been posted to the Resources in Surgical Education (RISE) website. The article, titled Navigating the Educational Upheaval Due to COVID-19, written by Paul J. Schenarts, MD, FACS, can be accessed by clicking the https://www.facs.org/education/division-of-education/publications/rise link and selecting “Articles” which appears in the left navigation pane. https://www.facs.org/education/division-of-education/publications/rise

OTHER NEWS

It’s time to rethink the global university. The pandemic has disrupted higher education international activities and the financial models on which universities increasingly depend. But the previous model was already problematic, contributing to global warming and benefitting rich universities more than poor. The University of Cape Town (UCT) is hosting a series of virtual events that will seize the moment to rethink global collaborations for a sustainable and equitable planet. https://www.news.uct.ac.za/news/research-office/-article/2020-06-19-its-time-to-rethink-the-global-university

Inter-Agency statement on violence against women and girls in the context of COVID-19, UN WOMEN. https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/statement-inter-agency-statement-on-violence-against-women-and-girls–in-the-context-of-covid-19

The Lancet Commission on dengue and other Aedes-transmitted viral diseases. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31375-1/fulltext?utm_campaign=comment20&utm_content=132678356&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 26 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 26, 2020, 03:09 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	92		1		25	66	1	39	0.4	36,868

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 26-06-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

92 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 25 June 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/ Website changed—multiple countries accessed individually not as an area

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	36,868
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.71
Deaths_100k	0.04
Date	25 Jun 2020

Country	South Africa
Region	Southern
Cases	111,796
Deaths	2,205
Recoveries	56,874
Tests	1,416,894
CFR	1.97
Epidemic Phase	3
Cases_100k	192.42
Deaths_100k	3.80
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	90
Deaths	0
Recoveries	21
Tests	7,925
CFR	0.00
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.46
Deaths_100k	0.00

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 33,919 Negative Results 33,830 89 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 72 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

Covid-19: Timing is critical for antibody tests, finds Cochrane review. The review of 54 studies found that antibody tests carried one week after a patient first developed symptoms detected only 30% of people who had covid-19. Accuracy increased in to 72% at two weeks and to 94% in the third week. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2584?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

COVID-19 in children and adolescents in Europe: a multinational, multicentre cohort study. COVID-19 is generally a mild disease in children, including infants. However, a small proportion develop severe disease requiring ICU admission and prolonged ventilation, although fatal outcome is overall rare. The data also reflect the current uncertainties regarding specific treatment options, highlighting that additional data on antiviral and immunomodulatory drugs are urgently needed. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)301772/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=132800378&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Botswana: BUAN (Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources ) Adopts to New Normal. https://allafrica.com/stories/202006250571.html

Protectionist Policies and Withdrawal From Global Coordinating Bodies Undermine Efforts to Fight Pandemics. https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/2767777

Decades-Old Soviet Studies Hint at Coronavirus Strategy. A married pair of virologists in Moscow tested a vaccine on their own children in the 1950s. Now, a side effect they found is sparking new hope for a defense against the coronavirus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/europe/vaccine-repurposing-polio-coronavirus.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20200625&instance_id=19695&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=26464847&segment_id=31791&user_id=9289a6e403a2eb689aa4ab4c407596cc

Breakthrough Drug for Covid-19 May Be Risky for Mild Cases

That study about dexamethasone has arrived with a big asterisk: While it appears to help severely ill patients, it harms others. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/health/coronavirus-dexamethasone.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Scientists Take Aim at Another Coronavirus Study in a Major Journal. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/health/coronavirus-retractions-studies.html Another call for retraction: https://metrics.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj13936/f/files/pnas_loe_061820_v3.pdf Dear Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, We are writing with deep concerns about a paper recently published in your journal, entitled “Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19.” The paper made 1 extraordinary claims about routes of transmission, the effectiveness of mask-wearing, and by implication, the ineffectiveness of other non-pharmaceutical interventions. While we agree that mask-wearing plays an important role in slowing the spread of COVID-19, the claims in this study were based on easily falsifiable claims and methodological design flaws. We present only a small selection of the most egregious errors here. Given the scope and severity of the issues we present, and the paper’s outsized and immediate public impact, we ask that the Editors of PNAS retract this paper immediately and reassess the Contributed Submission editorial process by which it was published. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/10/2009637117.short

Francis Collins interview: ‘Virus is very much out there’ http://usatoday.va.newsmemory.com/?publink=0bcae6b99

RESOURCES

OTHER NEWS

Academic criteria for promotion and tenure in biomedical sciences faculties: cross sectional analysis of international sample of universities. This study shows that the evaluation of scientists emphasises traditional criteria as opposed to non-traditional criteria. This may reinforce research practices that are known to be problematic while insufficiently supporting the conduct of better quality research and open science. Institutions should consider incentivising non-traditional criteria. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2081?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Criteria for academic promotion in medicine. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2253?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Botswana: E-Thuto 2020 UNPS Award Recipient. https://allafrica.com/stories/202006250559.html Botswana E-Learning Initiative Wins Prestigious UN Public Service Award. https://allafrica.com/stories/202006240048.html

Viruses do not take breaks. The world can learn from how the DRC is beating Ebola . Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/25/viruses-do-not-take-breaks-heres-what-the-world-can-learn-from-how-the-drc-beat-ebola

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 27 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 27, 2020, 03:41 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	92		1		25	66	1	39	0.4	36,868

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 27-06-2020 05:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

92 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 25 June 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/ Website changed—multiple countries accessed individually not as an area

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	36,868
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.71
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population
Date	26 Jun 2020

Country	South Africa
Region	Southern
Cases	118,375
Deaths	2,292
Recoveries	59,974
Tests	1,460,012
CFR	1.94
Epidemic Phase	3
Cases_100k	203.74
Deaths_100k	3.94
2020_Population
Date	26 Jun 2020
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	551
Deaths	6
Recoveries	128
Tests	65,111
CFR	1.09
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.18
Deaths_100k	0.03
2020_Population
Date	26 Jun 2020

Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	105
Deaths	0
Recoveries	21
Tests	7,925
CFR	0.00
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	4.04
Deaths_100k	0.00
2020_Population
Date	26 Jun 2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 33,919 Negative Results 33,830 89 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 72 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

Inside the body, the coronavirus is even more sinister than scientists had realized . https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-06-26/inside-the-body-the-coronavirus-is-even-more-sinister-than-scientists-had-realized?fbclid=IwAR1Ej2PuQLVmr26aJZAbHF4rCra5hnpCzG4gLJHv7KHFHjEdnpgNeIFl_CI

Global cases reach 9.68m as Australia braces for surge – as it happened. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/26/coronavirus-live-news-cases-rise-in-27-us-states-as-cdc-estimates-20m-americans-may-have-been-infected

Lockdown is not egalitarian: the costs fall on the global poor. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31422-7/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Generation coronavirus? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31445-8/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

More young people infected with Covid-19 as cases surge globally . Greater social contact among under-40s suggested as cause of increase, but others say it is a sign of better testing. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/26/more-young-people-infected-with-covid-19-as-cases-surge-globally

Personal Protective Equipment and Covid-19. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2021986?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

RESOURCES

OTHER NEWS

Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most. Women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have premature, underweight or stillborn babies, a look at 32 million U.S. births found. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/climate/climate-change-pregnancy-study.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=819456820&algo=identity&imp_id=414579763&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage

Association of Sedentary Behavior With Cancer Mortality in Middle-aged and Older US Adults. In this cohort study, greater sedentary time, as measured with accelerometry, appeared to be independently associated with cancer mortality risk. Replacing sedentary time with either LIPA or MVPA may be associated with a lower risk of cancer mortality. These findings suggest that the total volume of sedentary behavior is a potential cancer mortality risk factor and support the public health message that adults should sit less and move more to promote longevity. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2767093

Botswana needs $3.4 billion in stimulus, to plug budget deficits. Botswana needs a total of 40 billion pula ($3.40 billion) over the next 2-1/2 years to revive its coronavirus-hit economy and to cover expected budget deficits, estimates by the ministry of finance showed on Friday. https://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFKBN23X1MC-OZABS

Botswana: SA Oil Supply Rations Sparks Off Shortages. Botswana Oil Limited is experiencing supply challenges as its biggest supplier, South Africa, has begun rationing. https://allafrica.com/stories/202006260141.html

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 29 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 29, 2020, 03:42 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	92		1		25	66	1	39	0.4	36,868

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 29-06-2020 05:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

92 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 28 June 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/ Website changed—multiple countries accessed individually not as an area

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	36,868
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.71
Deaths_100k	0.04
Date	28 Jun

Country	South Africa
Region	Southern
Cases	131,800
Deaths	2,413
Recoveries	67,094
Tests	1,529,009
CFR	1.83
Epidemic Phase	3
Cases_100k	226.85
Deaths_100k	4.15
Date	28 Jun 2020

Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	150
Deaths	0
Recoveries	22
Tests	8,263
CFR	0.00
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	5.77
Deaths_100k	0.00
Date	28 Jun 2020

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	567
Deaths	6
Recoveries	142
Tests	66,238
CFR	1.06
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.28
Deaths_100k	0.03
2020_Population
Date	28 Jun 2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://www.gov.bw/COVID-19

Tests perfomed and Resulted 33,919 Negative Results 33,830 89 Confirmed Cases 1 Death

25 Recoveries 4 Active 49 Transferred out Gender Male 19 Female 5 Transmission Types 31 Foreign 9 Local Gaborone Confirmed: 72 Deaths: 0 Recoveries: 16

NEWS

A universal design of betacoronavirus vaccines against COVID-19, MERS and SARS. The CoV spike receptor-binding domain (RBD) is an attractive vaccine target but is undermined by limited immunogenicity. We describe a dimeric form of MERS-CoV RBD that overcomes this limitation. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30812-6

Structures of human antibodies bound to SARS-CoV-2 spike reveal common epitopes and recurrent features of antibodies. Overall, our studies structurally define a recurrent anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody class derived from VH3-53/VH3-66 and similarity to a SARS-CoV VH3-30 antibody, providing criteria for evaluating vaccine-elicited antibodies. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30757-1

Mounting clues suggest the coronavirus might trigger diabetes. Evidence from tissue studies and some people with COVID-19 shows that the virus damages insulin-producing cells. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01891-8

How the Coronavirus Short-Circuits the Immune System. In a disturbing parallel to H.I.V., the coronavirus can cause a depletion of important immune cells, recent studies found. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/health/coronavirus-immune-system.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage Here’s one related preprint: A consensus Covid-19 immune signature combines immuno-protection with discrete sepsis-like traits associated with poor prognosis. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.08.20125112v1

Can Covid Damage the Brain? “I tell the same stories repeatedly; I forget words I know.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/coronavirus-brain-damage-dementia.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Logistical challenges for potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and a call to research institutions, developers and manufacturers. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X20308422?fbclid=IwAR06P62PTNPuLTbtlRBDIv8kH2ggNs64RiTvO7UwHtWXxP3REdSEfHytTJA

New Data Reveal Just How Deadly Covid-19 Is for the Elderly. Almost 80% of deaths linked to the coronavirus in Europe were in people over 75. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-data-reveal-just-how-deadly-covid-19-is-for-the-elderly-11593250200

COVID-19 Lessons From the Disaster That Can Improve Health Professions Education. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/COVID_19__Lessons_From_the_Disaster_That_Can.97152.aspx

Managing COVID-19 in Surgical Systems. https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Fulltext/2020/07000/Managing_COVID_19_in_Surgical_Systems.2.aspx

RESOURCES

Academic Medicine COVID-19 Collection
Academic Medicine has created an online collection of all our published content related to COVID-19. Content in this collection is free, regardless of subscription status. Please check back regularly, as the collection will be updated frequently as new articles are published. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollectionId=68&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Academic Medicine’s Response to COVID-19
Curious about Academic Medicine’s response to COVID-19? Check out this recent blog post from managing editor Mary Beth DeVilbiss and editor-in-chief Laura Roberts, MD, MA, for more information. http://academicmedicineblog.org/academic-medicines-response-to-covid-19/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Resources for Medical Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
For guidance and resources from the AAMC and its partner organizations and ways to connect with the AAMC and your colleagues across the country to share best practices and lessons learned, visit this new resource hub focused on medical schools. https://www.aamc.org/coronavirus/medical-education?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

OTHER NEWS

Medical Student Perceptions of the Learning Environment in Medical School Change as Students Transition to Clinical Training in Undergraduate Medical School. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10401334.2017.1297712 Found while researching the DREEM tool.

Botswana to have cultural villages Moroka hailed the plan to create cultural villages around the country because it will create jobs for the communities https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=86039&dir=2020/june/26

COVID-19 likely to drive down Botswana’s FDI [foreign direct investment] by 40 pct in 2020. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/26/c_139169023.htm

Adopting locally the lessons learned globally: a call to action for academic medical centres in the USA. Corrado Cancedda et al. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7204932/

How Medical Education Is Missing the Bull’s-eye. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1915891?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Challenges and opportunities for better nutrition science—an essay by Tim Spector and Christopher Gardner. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2470?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 30 June 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: June 30, 2020, 04:22 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	175	(83)	1		25	140	1	74	0.4	36,868

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 30-06-2020 05:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

175 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 29 June 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/ Website changed—multiple countries accessed individually not as an area

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	36,868
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.71
Deaths_100k	0.04

Country	South Africa
Region	Southern
Cases	138,134
Deaths	2,456
Recoveries	68,925
Tests	1,567,084
CFR	1.78
Epidemic Phase	3
Cases_100k	237.75
Deaths_100k	4.23
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	183
Deaths	0
Recoveries	24
Tests	8,706
CFR	0.00
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	7.04
Deaths_100k	0.00

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	567
Deaths	6
Recoveries	142
Tests	66,712
CFR	1.06
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.28
Deaths_100k	0.03

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

29/06/2020

Positive 175

Relative to population 0.0074%

Interactive Map Showing Confirmed Cases, Deaths and Number of Quarantined People by Districts

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 25

Negative 36,747

Active * 57

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 36,868

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*92 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Coronavirus Is Battering Africa’s Growing Middle Class. From Kenya to Nigeria, South Africa to Rwanda, the pandemic is decimating the livelihoods of the once-stable workers who were helping to drive Africa’s economic expansion. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/world/africa/Africa-middle-class-coronavirus.html

Covid-19: Oxford team begins vaccine trials in Brazil and South Africa to determine efficacy. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2612?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

This coronavirus mutation has taken over the world. Scientists are trying to understand why. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/06/29/coronavirus-mutation-science/?arc404=true

Religious discrimination is hindering the covid-19 response. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2280

World’s dominant strain of coronavirus ‘is 10 TIMES more infectious than the one that jumped to humans in China’ because it mutated so its vital spike protein doesn’t snap as often in the body, scientists say. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/worlds-dominant-strain-of-coronavirus-is-10-times-more-infectious-than-the-one-that-jumped-to-humans-in-china-because-it-mutated-so-its-vital-spike-protein-doesnt-snap-as-often-in-the-body-scientists-say/ar-BB167e7l?ocid=spartandhp

Not peer-reviewed yet. The D614G mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein reduces S1 shedding and increases infectivity. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.12.148726v1.full.pdf

Coronavirus live updates: WHO team to search for Covid-19 origin in China as chief says he fears ‘worst to come’. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/30/coronavirus-live-updates-news-who-team-to-search-for-covid-19-origin-in-china-as-chief-says-he-fears-worst-to-come

RESOURCES

OTHER NEWS

Gov’t considers immediate opening for US, EU tourists. “The [Tourism & Hospitality] sector could look at bringing tourists (with negative COVID-19 status) from, say Europe or North America on direct flights into Maun or Kasane, taking them directly out to bush camps, and keeping them in a ‘bubble’ with minimal interaction with other visitors and social distancing with respect to staff,” proposes the draft plan seen by Mmegi.

The proposal is seen as best suited for Botswana because of its sparse population and current success in controlling the virus. Botswana’s wildlife tourism product attracts high paying visitors from the US, Europe and Asia and it has been hardest hit by COVID-19 international travel restrictions. The country closed the borders for tourists in March to control the spread of the virus.

As of Wednesday, Botswana had recorded 121 cases of coronavirus with 92 being transit patients who were all transferred out. Out of all 29 local cases, there have been 25 recoveries and one death. There are only three active COVID-19 cases in the country. https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=86031&dir=2020/june/26

Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing? https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2382?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Sodium and health—concordance and controversy. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2440?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage Correction for vol. 369, p.https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2608

Flu virus with ‘pandemic potential’ found in China. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/flu-virus-with-pandemic-potential-found-in-china/ar-BB167fvB?ocid=spartandhp

Practice Review Exercise. In this individual or group peer-review exercise, you will have the opportunity to practice reviewing a research report manuscript that was submitted to Academic Medicine and to compare your review comments with those of the actual reviewers. As this is a practice review, we have removed author information from the paper; in a real review, you would see the authors’ names and institutions as Academic Medicine uses single-blind review. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Pages/practicereviewexercise.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=4ec651ac-8a30-499e-9903-0d89b31bdb4b

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 1 July 2020— Happy Sir Seretse Khama Day TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 1, 2020, 04:02 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	227	(52)	1		28	198	1	97	0.4	36,868

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 01-07-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

227 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 29 June 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/ Website changed—multiple countries accessed individually not as an area

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	36,868
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.71
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population
Date	29 Jun 2020
Country	South Africa
Region	Southern
Cases	138,134
Deaths	2,456
Recoveries	68,925
Tests	1,567,084
CFR	1.78
Epidemic Phase	3
Cases_100k	237.75
Deaths_100k	4.23
2020_Population
Date	29 Jun 2020
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	183
Deaths	0
Recoveries	24
Tests	8,706
CFR	0.00
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	7.04
Deaths_100k	0.00
2020_Population
Date	29 Jun 2020
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	567
Deaths	6
Recoveries	142
Tests	66,712
CFR	1.06
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.28
Deaths_100k	0.03
2020_Population
Date	29 Jun 2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

29/06/2020

Positive 227

Relative to population 0.0074%

Interactive Map Showing Confirmed Cases, Deaths and Number of Quarantined People by Districts

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 28

Negative 42,063

Active * 17

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 42,290

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*181 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Incidence and Severity of COVID-19 in HIV-Positive Persons Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy. HIV-positive patients receiving TDF/FTC have a lower risk for COVID-19 and related hospitalization than those receiving other therapies. These findings warrant further investigation in HIV preexposure prophylaxis studies and randomized trials in persons without HIV. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3689

Why N95 Should Be the Standard for All COVID-19 Inpatient Care. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2623

The Moral Imperative to Include Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials of Interventions for COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3106

Worldwide Effect of COVID-19 on Physical Activity: A Descriptive Study. In this descriptive study, we used deidentified, individual-level data from 19 January to 1 June 2020 that were collected from a convenience sample of users of the free, popular health and wellness smartphone app Argus (Azumio). https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2665

Finding Antibodies that Neutralize SARS-CoV-2. https://directorsblog.nih.gov/

Characterization of the Inflammatory Response to Severe COVID-19 Illness. https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rccm.202005-1583OC

Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767950?guestAccessKey=87a6b098-fc72-4b6d-a6d7-231552087aff&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3457060600&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=92263876

Twin epidemics of covid-19 and non-communicable disease. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2618?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Covid-19 intensifies elder abuse globally as hospitals prioritise young . Older patients turned away or left untreated, while domestic abuse is also rising, leading charity reports. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/30/covid-19-intensifies-elder-abuse-globally-as-hospitals-prioritise-young

National University Singapore Launches Large COVID-19 Prophylaxis Study Targeting Ivermectin & HCQ. https://www.trialsitenews.com/national-university-singapore-launches-large-covid-19-prophylaxis-study-targeting-ivermectin-hcq/

RESOURCES

Critical Care COVID-19 Management Protocol (updated 6-17-2020) Eastern Virginia Medical School. https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/Marik-Covid-Protocol-Summary.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3hRi8OEgi4p2CmNgU4D4HMi3bizWdoXKrwyCfmdDdy1v8DWvyUA3o4OFI

OTHER NEWS

Belgian king expresses ‘deepest regrets’ for brutal colonial rule . Letter to Democratic Republic of the Congo president hailed as historic by Belgian media. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/belgian-king-philippe-expresses-profound-regrets-for-brutal-colonial-rule

Academic Medicine and Black Lives Matter. Time for Deep Listening. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767997?guestAccessKey=3c538616-874b-4744-86d3-d1bb14c4439d&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3460030430&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=92421527

Editorial Evaluation and Peer Review During a Pandemic. How Journals Maintain Standards. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767892?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=062720#.Xve9At2DwSR.twitter

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 2 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 2, 2020, 03:30 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	227		1		28	198	1	97	0.4	42,290

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 02-07-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

227 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 29 June 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	89
Deaths	1
Recoveries	25
Tests	36,868
CFR	1.12
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.71
Deaths_100k	0.04
2020_Population
Date	29 Jun 2020
Country	South Africa
Region	Southern
Cases	138,134
Deaths	2,456
Recoveries	68,925
Tests	1,567,084
CFR	1.78
Epidemic Phase	3
Cases_100k	237.75
Deaths_100k	4.23
2020_Population
Date	29 Jun 2020
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	183
Deaths	0
Recoveries	24
Tests	8,706
CFR	0.00
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	7.04
Deaths_100k	0.00
2020_Population
Date	29 Jun 2020
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	567
Deaths	6
Recoveries	142
Tests	66,712
CFR	1.06
Epidemic Phase	2
Cases_100k	3.28
Deaths_100k	0.03
2020_Population
Date	29 Jun 2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

01/07/2020

Positive 227

Relative to population 0.0074%

Interactive Map Showing Confirmed Cases, Deaths and Number of Quarantined People by Districts

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 28

Negative 42,063

Active * 17

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 42,290

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*181 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Coronavirus autopsies: A story of 38 brains, 87 lungs and 42 hearts. What we’ve learned from the dead that could help the living. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/01/coronavirus-autopsies-findings/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Progress Towards Achieving Global Surgery Goals. An ongoing process of reappraisal and fortification will keep surgical systems in low- and middle-income countries responsive to “old threats and new challenges”. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-020-05627-7?utm_source=toc

The effect of frailty on survival in patients with COVID-19 (COPE): a multicentre, European, observational cohort study. In a large population of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, disease outcomes were better predicted by frailty than either age or comorbidity. Our results support the use of CFS to inform decision making about medical care in adult patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(20)30146-8/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=133309248&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Endotheliopathy in COVID-19-associated coagulopathy: evidence from a single-centre, cross-sectional study. Our findings show that endotheliopathy is present in COVID-19 and is likely to be associated with critical illness and death. Early identification of endotheliopathy and strategies to mitigate its progression might improve outcomes in COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(20)30216-7/fulltext

CDC says colleges should not give covid-19 tests to everybody returning to campus this fall. Here’s why. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/01/cdc-says-colleges-should-not-give-covid-19-tests-everybody-returning-campus-this-fall-heres-why/

RESOURCES

Brigham and Women’s Hospital COVID-19 Clinical Guidelines . https://covidprotocols.org/?fbclid=IwAR1EjeDmu5byiZ1GsBWSWwm6TScqBvvlE39VruN5Jnf12VnfppAyIwp6Obs

OTHER NEWS

Non-adherence in non-inferiority trials: pitfalls and recommendations. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2215?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

David Oliver: Caring about language doesn’t mean we can’t care. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2524?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

The Lancet Commission on Oral Health. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-health-care/research/epidemiology-and-public-health/research/dental-public-health/lancet-commission-oral-health

Complexity of human tooth enamel revealed at atomic level in NIH-funded study. Unprecedented details of enamel structure may point to new ways to prevent or halt cavities. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/complexity-human-tooth-enamel-revealed-atomic-level-nih-funded-study?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Pre-Procedural Covid-19 Screening of Asymptomatic Patients: A Model for Protecting Patients, Community and Staff During Expansion of Surgical Care

Testing asymptomatic patients for Covid-19 before any surgical or procedural care can help provide a safe care environment, conserve PPE, and provide data for measuring Covid-19 prevalence. https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.20.0261?query=CON&cid=DM94650_Catalyst_Non_Subscriber&bid=221788823

Botswana taps into strategic fuel reserves to ease shortages. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/botswana-taps-into-strategic-fuel-reserves-to-ease-shortages/ar-BB168XL5

Hundreds of elephants found dead in Botswana. Some 350 elephant carcasses have been spotted in Botswana’s Okavango Delta since May. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53257512

Breaking Specialty Silos: Improving Global Child Health Through Essential Surgical Care. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2/183

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 3 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 3, 2020, 03:33 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	227		1		28	198	1	97	0.4	42,290

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 03-07-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

227 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 30 June 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

Country	Botswana
Region	Southern
Cases	181
Cases/100k	8
Deaths	1
CFR	0.6
Recoveries	28
Tests	42,290
Tests/case	233.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	6/30/2020, 11:00 PM
Country	South Africa
Region	Southern
Cases	159,333
Cases/100k	274
Deaths	2,749
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	76,025
Tests	1,666,939
Tests/case	10.5
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	6/30/2020,

Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	285
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	0
CFR	0.0
Recoveries	24
Tests	9,551
Tests/case	33.5
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	6/30/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	605
Cases/100k	3
Deaths	7
CFR	1.2
Recoveries	166
Tests	68,400
Tests/case	113.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	6/30/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

03/07/2020

Positive 227

Relative to population 0.0074%

Interactive Map Showing Confirmed Cases, Deaths and Number of Quarantined People by Districts

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 28

Negative 42,063

Active * 17

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 42,290

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*181 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Accelerating Development of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines — The Role for Controlled Human Infection Models. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2020076?query=TOC&fbclid=IwAR2Y3U278gmp3GjtOhnTw6CVKTG52I2jnF1tchonEAPC_V8GW-TbPkha1Ho#.Xv3PaFyRAu4.facebook

Jennifer Doudna on how covid-19 is spurring science to accelerate. A change is under way in the respect for scientists, dissemination of research and forms of collaboration. https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2020/06/05/jennifer-doudna-on-how-covid-19-is-spurring-science-to-accelerate?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/theworldaftercovid19jenniferdoudnaonhowcovid19isspurringsciencetoacceleratebyinvitation&fbclid=IwAR3NrjcQ2vw7p5_CJy9qulrERZwcfF3nJQSvdh-2syJKwE5BizatfF4CVcY

Global report: WHO official says no large hidden toll in Africa. The World Health Organization has said it does not believe African countries are harbouring a significant number of unrecorded coronavirus infections, though it said there may be underestimates in some places. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/02/global-report-who-official-says-no-large-hidden-toll-in-africa

‘My day starts at 3am’: coronavirus fuels gruelling Harare commutes – in pictures. Lockdown measures have meant getting to work is fraught with risk for those manning essential services in Zimbabwe’s capital. Three frontline staff reveal how they are coping with erratic buses, exhaustion and danger. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/30/my-day-starts-at-3am-coronavirus-fuels-gruelling-harare-commutes-in-pictures

Diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis. Higher quality clinical studies assessing the diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19 are urgently needed. Currently, available evidence does not support the continued use of existing point of-care serological tests. https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/370/bmj.m2516.full.pdf

RESOURCES

Brigham and Women’s Hospital COVID-19https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2020076?query=TOC&fbclid=IwAR2Y3U278gmp3GjtOhnTw6CVKTG52I2jnF1tchonEAPC_V8GW-TbPkha1Ho#.Xv3PaFyRAu4.facebook Clinical Guidelines . https://covidprotocols.org/?fbclid=IwAR1EjeDmu5byiZ1GsBWSWwm6TScqBvvlE39VruN5Jnf12VnfppAyIwp6Obs

OTHER NEWS

Botswana: Lab tests to solve mystery of hundreds of dead elephants. The government said three laboratories in Canada, South Africa and Zimbabwe would be asked to “process the samples taken from the dead elephants”. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53273361

Facial recognition solves patient identification: study. Patient misidentification is an all too common cause of medical error. In low- and middle-income countries, free, open-source facial recognition software could provide an economical solution for verifying patient identity across health care settings, according to a study by Martin Were, MD, MS, and colleagues, appearing in the International Journal of Medical Informatics. At adult clinics in Western Kenya, arriving patients who agreed to the study sat for an average of 13 photographs taken using a standard camera linked to a computer. The images make up a training set for OpenFace, an open-source, deep neural network facial recognition system.https://news.vumc.org/2020/07/01/facial-recognition-solves-patient-identification-study/

Recommended physical activity and all cause and cause specific mortality in US adults: prospective cohort study. Adults who engage in leisure time aerobic and muscle strengthening activities at levels recommended by the 2018 physical activity guidelines for Americans show greatly reduced risk of all cause and cause specific mortality. These data suggest that the physical activity levels recommended in the guidelines are associated with important survival benefits.https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2031?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

I Joined Twitter to Teach. Rules of the game? I would tweet a question in the afternoon; my trainees would have until rounds the next morning to investigate the question and tweet a response back. We’d spend the first 10 minutes of rounds discussing what they found. http://academicmedicineblog.org/i-joined-twitter-to-teach/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=5112dff6-ea99-42a1-94fd-16dd6871ed61

Seen on Twitter—Not verified: BrightWinEngSub@BrightWinEngSub@winmetawin

Top 10 Countries with Most Tweets:

61.3% Male | 38.7% Female

#1 Thailand (70%)

#2 United States (18%)

#3 Philippines (3%)

#4 Botswana (1.8%)

#5 China (1.4%)

#6 Myanmar (0.8%)

#7 Indonesia (0.7%) #8 Japan (0.5%)

#9 Malaysia (0.4%)

#10 India (0.3%)

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 4 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 4, 2020, 03:32 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	277	(50)	1		29	247	1	118	0.4	45,440

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 04-07-2020 04:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

277 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 2 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

Country	Botswana
longitude	24.69
latitude	-22.34
Region	Southern
Cases	181
Deaths	1
Recoveries	28
Tests	42,290
Date	7/2/2020, 2:00 AM
Country	South Africa
longitude	25.04
latitude	-29.13
Region	Southern
Cases	168,061
Deaths	2,844
Recoveries	81,999
Tests	1,706,127
Date	7/2/2020, 2:00 AM
Country	Namibia
longitude	17.23
latitude	-22.25
Region	Southern
Cases	293
Deaths	0
Recoveries	24
Tests	9,661
Date	7/2/2020, 2:00 AM
Country	Zimbabwe
longitude	29.87
latitude	-19.02
Region	Southern
Cases	617
Deaths	7
Recoveries	173
Tests	71,236
Date	7/2/2020, 2:00 AM

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

03/07/2020

Positive 277

Relative to population 0.0118%

Interactive Map Showing Confirmed Cases, Deaths and Number of Quarantined People by Districts

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 29

Negative 45,165

Active

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 44,440

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

224 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

After COVID-19, a future for the world’s children? Children are less affected clinically by COVID-19 than adults. Nonetheless, children are impacted by the pandemic’s indirect effects, not least from separation or loss in their own families. Projections suggest that over a million preventable child deaths might occur due to decreased access to food and disruption of essential health services. Children risk missing out on growth monitoring, preventive care, and timely management of acute disease and injuries. Some children are experiencing reduced access to social service referrals while suffering from increased rates of domestic violence. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31481-1/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Offline: It’s time to convene nations to end this pandemic. All it takes are seven members of the 15-member Security Council or a majority of the members of the UN to call an Emergency UNGASS. A meeting under the auspices of the UN is the only means available to construct a global response to this pandemic. It’s hard to understand why such a global gathering has not yet taken place. It must take place. And soon.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31488-4/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Getting it right in the pandemic. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2637

Offline and left behind: how digital exclusion has impacted health during the covid-19 pandemic https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/03/offline-and-left-behind-how-digital-exclusion-has-impacted-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Intimate partner violence during covid-19—expanding our understanding of safety. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/01/intimate-partner-violence-during-covid-19-expanding-our-understanding-of-safety/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Sweden’s prime minister orders an inquiry into the failure of the country’s no-lockdown coronavirus strategy. https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-opens-inquiry-into-coronavirus-strategy-of-no-lockdown-2020-7

RESOURCES

The Lancet. COVID-19 Resource Centre. https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=133673545&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

OTHER NEWS

Investing in surgery: a value proposition for African leaders. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30482-7/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 6 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 6, 2020, 03:53 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	277	(50)	1		29	247	1	118	0.4	45,440

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 06-07-2020 05:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

277 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 4 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 227 Cases/100k 9 Deaths 1 CFR 0.4 Recoveries 28 Tests 42,290 Tests/case 186.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/4/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 196,750 Cases/100k 339 Deaths 3,199 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 93,315 Tests 1,830,161 Tests/case 9.3 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/4/2020,
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	375
Cases/100k	14
Deaths	0
CFR	0.0
Recoveries	25
Tests	10,682
Tests/case	28.5
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/4/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	716
Cases/100k	4
Deaths	8
CFR	1.1
Recoveries	181
Tests	80,089
Tests/case	111.9
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/4/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

06/07/2020

Positive 275

Relative to population 0.0118%

Interactive Map Showing Confirmed Cases, Deaths and Number of Quarantined People by Districts

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 29

Negative 45,165

Active

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 44,440

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

222 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

239 Experts With 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne.The W.H.O. has resisted mounting evidence that viral particles floating indoors are infectious, some scientists say. The agency maintains the research is still inconclusive. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-1-big-claim-the-coronavirus-is-airborne.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

The Pandemic’s Big Mystery: How Deadly Is the Coronavirus? Even with more than 500,000 dead worldwide, scientists are struggling to learn how often the virus kills. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/coronavirus-death-rate.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

WHO reports record rise in global coronavirus cases. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-reports-record-rise-in-global-coronavirus-cases/ar-BB16m3b5?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds

Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes, March-April 2020. These estimates suggest that the number of COVID-19 deaths reported in the first weeks of the pandemic captured only two-thirds of excess deaths in the US. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768086

Elegant but unproven, RNA experiments leap to the front in coronavirus vaccine race. Will they work? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/elegant-but-unproven-rna-experiments-leap-to-the-front-in-coronavirus-vaccine-race-will-they-work/ar-BB16mxzx?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds

Oxygen availability in sub-Saharan African countries: a call for data to inform service delivery. Using data available from the Democratic Republic of the Congo for 2016–17, Senegal for 2014–17, Malawi for 2013–14, and Tanzania for 2014–15, where SPA surveys have been done since 2012, we aimed to determine oxygen availability, source, and constancy of supply. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30298-9/fulltext

RESOURCES

TODAY! 6 July at 5pm. The surgical burden of disease in Africa. Join us as we host Prof Bruce Biccard and Dr Tracey Adams in discussion around how surgically-treatable conditions contribute to the burden of disease in Africa, with extra detail on the role of surgery in Women’s Health.
Completing this form will get you access to the Zoom link via the email address you provide. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFYCYIs3By27FkoiPfAC4ICz2kBwowhrri-oKLuFZXxa9a-g/viewform

The Lancet. COVID-19 Resource Centre. https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=133673545&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Free & Inexpensive Surgical/Medical Resources. https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/free-inexpensive-surgical-medical-resources/

OTHER NEWS

The Cost of Satisfaction. A National Study of Patient Satisfaction, Health Care Utilization, Expenditures, and Mortality. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1108766

George Floyd’s Killing Prompts Africans to Call for Police Reform at Home. Africans are increasingly pushing to hold police agencies to account and “decolonize” the repressive institutions they inherited from colonial rulers. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/world/africa/george-floyd-protests-police-africa.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20200705&instance_id=20032&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=26464847&segment_id=32635&user_id=9289a6e403a2eb689aa4ab4c407596cc

https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/3-28/v1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=etoc_alert_WEEKLY

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 7 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 7, 2020, 03:55 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	314	(37)	1		31	282	1	134	0.4	47,860

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 07-07-2020 05:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

314 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 5 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 227 Cases/100k 9 Deaths 1 CFR 0.4 Recoveries 28 Tests 42,290 Tests/case 186.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/5/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 196,750 Cases/100k 339 Deaths 3,199 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 93,315 Tests 1,830,161 Tests/case 9.3 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/5/2020,
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	375
Cases/100k	14
Deaths	0
CFR	0.0
Recoveries	25
Tests	10,682
Tests/case	28.5
Epidemic Phase	2
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	716
Cases/100k	4
Deaths	8
CFR	1.1
Recoveries	181
Tests	80,089
Tests/case	111.9
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/5/2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

07/07/2020

Positive 314

Relative to population 0.0134%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 29

Negative 47,546

Active 39

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 47,860

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

243 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Developing a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine at Warp Speed. In this Viewpoint, we describe the proposed mechanisms and current status of each of these leading candidates, all of which are aimed at inducing antibodies directed against the receptor-binding domain of the surface spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768155?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=070620#.XwN42mHhL6Y.twitter

COVID-19 AND THE HIV CARE CONTINUUM IN UGANDA: MINIMISING COLLATERAL DAMAGE

[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/3-28/v1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=etoc_alert_WEEKLY

David Nabarro and John Atkinson: Dealing with covid-19 means looking beyond immediate crisis response. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/03/david-nabarro-and-john-atkinson-dealing-with-covid-19-means-looking-beyond-immediate-crisis-response/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

Spain’s coronavirus antibodies study adds evidence against herd immunity. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/health/spain-coronavirus-antibody-study-lancet-intl/index.html

The Development of COVID-19 Vaccines–Safeguards Needed. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768156?guestAccessKey=a563b35f-0d03-4675-9252-ba71e6e403c9&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3471877158&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=93013209

RESOURCES

Philosophy of Science Series. ACADEMIC MEDICINE. Free access to collection. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollectionId=70&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=d77f9177-0bc4-4bb3-890d-461636c65e52

Recommended: Postmodernism and Medical Education. Like modernism, postmodernism was not a single organized and coherent undertaking—it emerged out of many loosely connected areas of activity with a common shared principle of skepticism toward the broad, unchallenged modernist assumptions that shaped the modern world (e.g., the intrinsic desirability, systematicity, and optimism of progress, and the central role of technology in bringing it about). https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2020/06000/Postmodernism_and_Medical_Education.26.aspx

Register Today for 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL!. Registration is now open for the 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL—a socially-distanced version of our in-person conference!. 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL will run from Friday, July 24 through Monday, July 27. Registration is free-of-charge and available to all. The program will feature something for everyone! We will offer a variety of compelling video presentations live and on-demand, along with an opportunity to engage in a live chat with session presenters. Register now https://www.compusystems.com/servlet/ar?evt_uid=889

Offline and left behind: how digital exclusion has impacted health during the covid-19 pandemic . https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/03/offline-and-left-behind-how-digital-exclusion-has-impacted-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

JOURNAL CLUB

Growing research in global surgery with an eye towards equity. https://bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bjs.11066

OTHER NEWS

The surprising link between coffee and bone health. https://www.mdlinx.com/article/the-surprising-link-between-coffee-and-bone-health/624YvBJ5VaYbwbQqG0RIfY/?utm_source=neurobrief_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ajm_50069 Serum Metabolome of Coffee Consumption and its Association With Bone Mineral Density: The Hong Kong Osteoporosis Study. https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/105/3/e619/5637088?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Study highlights need to improve pneumonia guidelines. KARACHI: A new study conducted by Aga Khan University (AKU) researchers has highlighted the need to improve ways to diagnose and treat pneumonia, a leading cause of death in children under five around the world.

The study — Randomised trial of amoxicillin for pneumonia in Pakistan — has recently been published in The New England Journal of Medicine

https://www.dawn.com/news/1566991/study-highlights-need-to-improve-pneumonia-guidelines

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 8 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 8, 2020, 04:09 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	314		1		31	282	1	134	0.4	47,860

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 08-07-2020 05:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

314 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 6 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 277 Cases/100k 12 Deaths 1 CFR 0.4 Recoveries 31 Tests 47,860 Tests/case 172.8 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/6/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 205,721 Cases/100k 354 Deaths 3,310 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 97,848 Tests 1,864,111 Tests/case 9.1 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/6/2020,
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	539
Cases/100k	21
Deaths	0
CFR	0.0
Recoveries	25
Tests	11,834
Tests/case	22.0
Epidemic Phase	2

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	734
Cases/100k	4
Deaths	9
CFR	1.2
Recoveries	197
Tests	80,654
Tests/case	109.9
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/6/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

08/07/2020

Positive 314

Relative to population 0.0134%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 31

Negative 47,546

Active 39

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 47,860

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

243 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

US officially notifies World Health Organization of its withdrawal . Trump administration letter comes despite virtually no international support for the move amid pandemic. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/us-officially-notifies-world-health-organization-of-its-withdrawal

Global report: South Africa cases pass 200,000 as Kenya plans ‘phased reopening’. South Africa is the worst-affected African nation; Australian state of Victoria sees spike in community transmission; US daily cases drop below 50,000. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/global-report-south-africa-cases-pass-200000-as-kenya-plans-phased-reopening

Serbia opens field hospital; S Africa mulls tougher lockdown. South African pupils from seventh and 12th grades returned to classes last month, but the government has postponed further school re-openings amid a quickening rise in confirmed infections. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/serbia-opens-field-hospital-s-africa-mulls-tougher-lockdown/ar-BB16nZD9?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds

Reckoning with mortality: global health, HIV, and the politics of data. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(20)31046-1.pdf

Clinical Validity of Serum Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. A Case–Control Study. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2889

How to Safely Reopen Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Experiences From Taiwan. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2927

The implications of silent transmission for the control of COVID-19 outbreaks. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/02/2008373117

Will covid-19 be the catalyst for a “new deal” for the health and wellbeing of women, children and adolescents? https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/02/will-covid-19-be-the-catalyst-for-a-new-deal-for-the-health-and-wellbeing-of-women-children-and-adolescents/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale. Its decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United States and Britain move to lift lockdowns. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR2TK-FbAIxisOA9sRzMq8VXoJqH2nkkV52LWgOsdABH4X5KS2xOvnDFJLs

RESOURCES

Register Today for 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL!. Registration is now open for the 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL—a socially-distanced version of our in-person conference!. 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL will run from Friday, July 24 through Monday, July 27. Registration is free-of-charge and available to all. The program will feature something for everyone! We will offer a variety of compelling video presentations live and on-demand, along with an opportunity to engage in a live chat with session presenters. Register now https://www.compusystems.com/servlet/ar?evt_uid=889

JOURNAL CLUB

Growing research in global surgery with an eye towards equity. https://bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bjs.11066

OTHER NEWS

Long-acting injectable form of HIV prevention outperforms daily pill in NIH study. Both methods highly effective at preventing HIV among men who have sex with men and transgender women. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/long-acting-injectable-form-hiv-prevention-outperforms-daily-pill-nih-study?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

FROM TWITTER: Mmegi@MmegiOnline

Fresh from quarantine to a national fuel crisis, President Mokgweetsi Masisi will address the nation on Thursday night at 7pm – Office of the President

Offline and left behind: how digital exclusion has impacted health during the covid-19 pandemic . https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/03/offline-and-left-behind-how-digital-exclusion-has-impacted-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 9 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 9, 2020, 03:49 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	314		1		31	282	1	134	0.4	47,860

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 09-07-2020 05:33 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

314 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 7 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 298 Cases/100k 12 Deaths 1 CFR 0.3 Recoveries 31 Tests 47,860 Tests/case 160.6 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/7/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 215,855 Cases/100k 372 Deaths 3,502 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 102,299 Tests 1,907,532 Tests/case 8.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/7/2020
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	593
Cases/100k	23
Deaths	0
CFR	0.0
Recoveries	25
Tests	12,167
Tests/case	20.5
Epidemic Phase	2

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	787
Cases/100k	5
Deaths	9
CFR	1.1
Recoveries	201
Tests	81,335
Tests/case	103.3
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/7/2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

08/07/2020

Positive 314

Relative to population 0.0134%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 31

Negative 47,546

Active 39

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 47,860

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

243 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Covid-19: Airborne transmission is being underestimated, warn experts. Microscopic respiratory droplets generated by talking and breathing can hover in the air for minutes or hours and drift many metres horizontally before infecting people, argue 239 experts from 32 countries, in a commentary published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2720?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Covid-19: Herd immunity is “unethical and unachievable,” say experts after report of 5% seroprevalence in Spain. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2728

Pulse oximetry in low resource settings during the COVID-19 pandemic, https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(20)30287-4.pdf

Oxygen availability in sub-Saharan African countries: a call for data to inform service delivery. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342683320_Oxygen_availability_in_sub-Saharan_African_countries_a_call_for_data_to_inform_service_delivery

School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/school-openings-across-globe-suggest-ways-keep-coronavirus-bay-despite-outbreaks

RESOURCES

Register Today for 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL!. Registration is now open for the 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL—a socially-distanced version of our in-person conference!. 2020 ACS Quality and Safety Conference VIRTUAL will run from Friday, July 24 through Monday, July 27. Registration is free-of-charge and available to all. The program will feature something for everyone! We will offer a variety of compelling video presentations live and on-demand, along with an opportunity to engage in a live chat with session presenters. Register now https://www.compusystems.com/servlet/ar?evt_uid=889

JOURNAL CLUB

Growing research in global surgery with an eye towards equity. https://bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bjs.11066

OTHER NEWS

South Africa coronavirus deaths reach record high. South Africa now has the world’s 14th highest number of Covid-19 infections globally and officials are concerned that the virus’s “doubling rate” is currently higher than all countries with more cases than South Africa. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-47639452?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=5f05e87fb2cd210661d40569%26SA%20records%20highest%20number%20of%20new%20coronavirus%20deaths%20so%20far%262020-07-08T15%3A53%3A31.325Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:9a71c6f3-3605-4d60-91d0-ea66438c55d7&pinned_post_asset_id=5f05e87fb2cd210661d40569&pinned_post_type=share

FROM TWITTER: Mmegi@MmegiOnline

Fresh from quarantine to a national fuel crisis, President Mokgweetsi Masisi will address the nation on Thursday night at 7pm – Office of the President

Kenya calls for help in fight against rising sexual abuse by foreigners . Anti-trafficking organisations say widespread trust in white outsiders makes children an easy target for abusers from the west. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/08/kenya-calls-for-help-in-fight-against-rising-sexual-abuse-by-foreigners

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 10 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 10, 2020, 03:39 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	314		1		31	282	1	133	0.4	47,860

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 10-07-2020 04:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

314 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 8 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 298 Cases/100k 12 Deaths 1 CFR 0.3 Recoveries 31 Tests 47,860 Tests/case 160.6 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/8/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 224,665 Cases/100k 387 Deaths 3,602 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 106,842 Tests 1,944,399 Tests/case 8.7 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/8/2020,
Country	Namibia
Region	Southern
Cases	615
Cases/100k	24
Deaths	0
CFR	0.0
Recoveries	25
Tests	12,624
Tests/case	20.5
Epidemic Phase	2

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	885
Cases/100k	5
Deaths	9
CFR	1.0
Recoveries	206
Tests	82,077
Tests/case	92.7
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/8/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

09/07/2020

Positive 314

Relative to population 0.0134%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 31

Negative 47,546

Active 39

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 47,860

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

243 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

South Africa warns of coronavirus ‘storm’ as outbreak accelerates across continent . New Covid-19 cases in Africa up 24% in a week after months in which it appeared to have been spared the worst. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/09/south-africa-warns-of-coronavirus-storm-as-outbreak-accelerates-across-continent

Persistent Symptoms in Patients After Acute COVID-19. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768351?guestAccessKey=692a5e20-fdc4-45b2-bdd4-b78dfc4dcd5f&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=070920

Study of 17 Million Identifies Crucial Risk Factors for Coronavirus Deaths. The largest study yet confirms that race, ethnicity, age and gender can raise a person’s chances of dying from Covid-19. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/health/coronavirus-risk-factors.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

The Coronavirus Can Be Airborne Indoors, W.H.O. Says. The agency also explained more directly that people without symptoms may spread the virus. The acknowledgments should have come sooner, some experts said. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/health/virus-aerosols-who.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nythealth

Covid-19: Indian doctors criticise directive to expedite vaccine trials. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2742

Food and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that handling food or consuming food is associated with COVID-19. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/food-and-COVID-19.html

How Rwanda is beating the U.S. in the fight against the coronavirus. https://fortune.com/2020/07/08/us-coronavirus-rwanda-beating-covid-19-efforts/

Remdesivir inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in human lung cells and chimeric SARS-CoV expressing the SARS-CoV-2 RNA polymerase in mice. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124720309219

Zimbabwe health minister facing coronavirus corruption charge sacked . Obadiah Moyo has been charged with criminal abuse of office over the alleged awarding of a $60m contract for Covid-19 supplies. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/09/zimbabwe-health-minister-facing-coronavirus-corruption-charge-sacked

RESOURCES

International collaborations: how can we shift the power towards Africa? 13 July 2020 / 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST) http://www.uct.ac.za/unleashing-the-new-global-university

The second event will focus on whether or not the disruption to the current higher education model can bring about a shift in the centre of gravity in international collaborations and help us to reimagine a different approach that empowers African institutions to take the lead in collaborative projects and partnerships both within and outside the continent.

Host: Mamokgethi Phakeng, vice-chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Participants:

Rifat Atun, professor in global health systems, Harvard University, USA
Kelly Chibale, professor in organic chemistry, director of H3D, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Catherine Odora Hoppers, professor extraordinarius, UNISA and professor in development education, Gulu University, Uganda
Kevin Marsh, director of the Africa Oxford Initiative, University of Oxford and senior adviser at the African Academy of Sciences, Kenya

Moderator: Salome Maswime, obstetrician and gynaecologist, professor in global surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Conversation #3
Monday 27 Jul 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
Undergraduate student mobility: are virtual experiences a realistic substitute?

Conversation #4
Monday 24 Aug 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
Postgraduate researchers: can we rethink the international experience?

Conversation #5
Monday 7 Sep 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
How does changing the medium change the way of doing things?

Prof. Biccard on UCT—The Surgical Burden of Disease in Africa. 6 July 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvBsr8p_Ed0&feature=youtu.be

OTHER NEWS

Association of Statin Use With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in US Veterans 75 Years and Older, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767861?guestAccessKey=7a8a12c4-a317-4138-b0e8-2bc89aba0c8d&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3474549469&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=93148509

How can we encourage more female medical students to participate in peer-to-peer teaching of physical exams? https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/08/how-can-we-encourage-more-female-medical-students-to-participate-in-peer-to-peer-teaching-of-physical-exams/

Closing the door on parachutes and parasites. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30239-0/fulltext

Toward a complete estimate of physical and psychosocial morbidity from prolonged obstructed labour: a modelling study based on clinician survey. https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/7/e002520

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 11 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 11, 2020, 03:29 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	314		1		31	282	1	133	0.4	47,860

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 11-07-2020 05:02 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

314 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 9 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 298 Cases/100k 12 Deaths 1 CFR 0.3 Recoveries 31 Tests 47,860 Tests/case 160.6 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/9/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 238,339 Cases/100k 410 Deaths 3,720 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 113,061 Tests 2,000,569 Tests/case 8.4 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/9/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 615 Cases/100k 24 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 25 Tests 12,624 Tests/case 20.5 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/9/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	926
Cases/100k	5
Deaths	12
CFR	1.3
Recoveries	306
Tests	86,212
Tests/case	93.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/9/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

10/07/2020

Positive 314

Relative to population 0.0134%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 31

Negative 47,546

Active

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 47,860

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

243 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Covid-19: Symptoms are common after acute phase of disease, Italian study shows. Almost nine out of 10 patients discharged from a Rome hospital after recovery from covid-19 were still experiencing at least one symptom two months later, a study shows. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2804?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

COVID-19: the worst may be yet to come. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31517-8/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=134253253&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

The Lancet COVID-19 Commission. The Lancet COVID-19 Commission has been created to help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the pandemic. The Commissioners join this effort in the shared belief that effective solutions can be found on the basis of global cooperation, social justice, sustainable development, and good governance that builds on public trust. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31494-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Pandemic peak SARS-CoV-2 infection and seroconversion rates in London frontline health-care workers. 87 (44%) of 200 HCWs had evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection at any timepoint, detected either by serology or RT-PCR. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31484-7/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Retraction and republication: cardiac toxicity of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31528-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

RESOURCES

International collaborations: how can we shift the power towards Africa? 13 July 2020 / 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST) http://www.uct.ac.za/unleashing-the-new-global-university

Host: Mamokgethi Phakeng, vice-chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Participants:

Rifat Atun, professor in global health systems, Harvard University, USA
Kelly Chibale, professor in organic chemistry, director of H3D, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Catherine Odora Hoppers, professor extraordinarius, UNISA and professor in development education, Gulu University, Uganda
Kevin Marsh, director of the Africa Oxford Initiative, University of Oxford and senior adviser at the African Academy of Sciences, Kenya

Moderator: Salome Maswime, obstetrician and gynaecologist, professor in global surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Conversation #3
Monday 27 Jul 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
Undergraduate student mobility: are virtual experiences a realistic substitute?

Conversation #4
Monday 24 Aug 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
Postgraduate researchers: can we rethink the international experience?

Conversation #5
Monday 7 Sep 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
How does changing the medium change the way of doing things?

Prof. Biccard on UCT—The Surgical Burden of Disease in Africa. 6 July 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvBsr8p_Ed0&feature=youtu.be

OTHER NEWS

A Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Strategy to Prevent Serious Fall Injuries. A multifactorial intervention, administered by nurses, did not result in a significantly lower rate of a first adjudicated serious fall injury than enhanced usual care. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002183?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Médecins Sans Frontières is ‘institutionally racist’, say 1,000 insiders . Medical charity accused of shoring up colonialism and white supremacy in its work. Signatories include Javid Abdelmoneim, chair of the board of MSF UK, Agnes Musonda, president of the board in southern Africa, and Florian Westphal, managing director of MSF Germany. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/10/medecins-sans-frontieres-institutionally-racist-medical-charity-colonialism-white-supremacy-msf

Experts protest Trump’s withdrawal from WHO. Some 750 experts in global public health, US constitutional law, and international law and relations have called for leaders in the US Senate and the House of Representatives to prevent the US president, Donald Trump, from withdrawing from the World Health Organization.https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2802?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 13 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 13, 2020, 03:26 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	399	(85)	1		38	360	1	170	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 13-07-2020 05:09 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

399 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 11 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/ No new data for Botswana or Zimbabwe

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 298 Cases/100k 12 Deaths 1 CFR 0.3 Recoveries 31 Tests 47,860 Tests/case 160.6 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/9/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 264,184 Cases/100k 455 Deaths 3,971 CFR 1.5 Recoveries 127,715 Tests 2,108,570 Tests/case 8.0 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/11/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 785 Cases/100k 30 Deaths 1 CFR 0.1 Recoveries 26 Tests 13,999 Tests/case 17.8 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/11/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	926
Cases/100k	5
Deaths	12
CFR	1.3
Recoveries	306
Tests	86,212
Tests/case	93.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/9/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

12/07/2020

Positive 399

Relative to population 0.0134%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 38

Negative 50,980

Active

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

318 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Coronavirus live news: WHO reports record global cases as South Africa reinstates alcohol ban. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/13/coronavirus-live-news-who-reports-record-global-cases-as-south-africa-reinstates-alcohol-ban

The Guardian view on Covid-19 worldwide: on the march . Editorial. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/12/the-guardian-view-on-covid-19-worldwide-on-the-march

Working memory capacity predicts individual differences in social-distancing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/09/2008868117

Leaving Airplane Middle Seats Empty Could Cut Coronavirus Risk Almost In Half, A Study Says. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/07/11/leaving-airplane-middle-seats-empty-could-cut-coronavirus-risk-almost-in-half-a-study-says/#191ad85d1a0c

Africa could have COVID-19 vaccine in first quarter if human trials work: South Africa trial lead. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-vaccine-idUSKBN24A2DX

ANALYSIS: ‘Close to a million’ smokers quit under South Africa’s Covid-19 rules? Limits to lockdown research. https://africacheck.org/2020/07/10/analysis-close-to-a-million-smokers-quit-under-south-africas-covid-19-rules-limits-to-lockdown-research/

RESOURCES

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Centre. https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

The Value of RDA for COVID-19. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) published its final version of the RDA COVID-19 Recommendations and Guidelines for Data Sharing. https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-recommendations-and-guidelines-data-sharing-covid-19

International collaborations: how can we shift the power towards Africa? TODAY 13 July 2020 / 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST) http://www.uct.ac.za/unleashing-the-new-global-university

Host: Mamokgethi Phakeng, vice-chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Participants:

Rifat Atun, professor in global health systems, Harvard University, USA
Kelly Chibale, professor in organic chemistry, director of H3D, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Catherine Odora Hoppers, professor extraordinarius, UNISA and professor in development education, Gulu University, Uganda
Kevin Marsh, director of the Africa Oxford Initiative, University of Oxford and senior adviser at the African Academy of Sciences, Kenya

Moderator: Salome Maswime, obstetrician and gynaecologist, professor in global surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Conversation #3
Monday 27 Jul 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
Undergraduate student mobility: are virtual experiences a realistic substitute?

Conversation #4
Monday 24 Aug 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
Postgraduate researchers: can we rethink the international experience?

Conversation #5
Monday 7 Sep 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
How does changing the medium change the way of doing things?

Africa Medical Supplies Platform. The Africa Medical Supplies Platform is a not-for-profit initiative launched by the African Union as an immediate, integrated and practical response to the Covid-19 pandemic. ARE YOU A MANUFACTURER OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT? We are looking for certified manufacturers able to supply African Union Member States with critical medical equipment. https://amsp.africa/

Opinion: Covid-19 and Medicine’s Misguided Romance With Machines, The history of a controversial syndrome linked to Covid-19 shows the risks of letting technology dictate treatment. https://undark.org/2020/07/09/covid-19-medicine-and-machines/

OTHER NEWS

What Does 1GB of Mobile Data Cost in Every Country? Botswana in top 5 most expensive, USD $13.87. India has world’s lowest at .09 US. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-of-mobile-data-worldwide/

The Cigarette: A Political History—The Past, Present, and Future of US Tobacco. Any focus on disease that ignores the cigarette or the cigarette industry is like pretending an interest in malaria without attention to mosquitoes or swamps. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767840?guestAccessKey=6e10692f-3fdb-470e-bc2e-9fc12b10c618&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3474549562&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=93148526

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 14 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 14, 2020, 03:39 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	399	(85)	1		38	360	1	170	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 14-07-2020 05:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

399 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 12 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 422 Cases/100k 18 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 38 Tests 51,379 Tests/case 121.8 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/12/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 276,242 Cases/100k 475 Deaths 4,079 CFR 1.5 Recoveries 134,874 Tests 2,154,391 Tests/case 7.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/12/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 785 Cases/100k 30 Deaths 1 CFR 0.1 Recoveries 26 Tests 13,999 Tests/case 17.8 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/12/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	985
Cases/100k	6
Deaths	18
CFR	1.8
Recoveries	328
Tests	88,984
Tests/case	90.3
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/12/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

14/07/2020

Positive 399

Relative to population 0.0170%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 38

Negative 50,980

Active 42

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

318 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 13 JULY 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_18V2Y2davk_E1y6gMfCnQFpiSH-Z6Rm/view

WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 13 July 2020. https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19—13-july-2020

Potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study. COVID-19 has the potential to cause substantial disruptions to health services, due to cases overburdening the health system or response measures limiting usual programmatic activities. We aimed to quantify the extent to which disruptions to services for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low-income and middle-income countries with high burdens of these diseases could lead to additional loss of life over the next 5 years. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30288-6/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=134493673&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Cities — try to predict superspreading hotspots for COVID-19. Tracking how people move around urban areas can pinpoint where disease might transmit fastest and farthest. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02072-3?fbclid=IwAR0sBBZEdksWA1V1AV7Z2i-2unZL4J2ivRA93pFGd-hpi8JtM3vRBbEh4Lg

Coronavirus live news: global Covid-19 cases pass 13m as WHO warns against ‘shortcuts’. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/14/coronavirus-live-news-update-global-covid-19-cases-pass-13m-latest-updates

South Africa: ‘No legal consequences’ for individuals not wearing a mask. https://africacheck.org/2020/05/22/analysis-what-does-the-law-say-about-face-masks-in-south-africa-nigeria-and-kenya/

Vaccines, convalescent plasma, and monoclonal antibodies for covid-19. We have good reason to be cautious about these high profile options. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2722?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

A race is on to make enough small glass vials to deliver coronavirus vaccine around the world. A shortage of specialized containers could cripple the global response to covid https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/13/coronavirus-vaccine-corning-glass/

RESOURCES

Women in Medicine and Science . This collection, developed in collaboration with the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Group on Women in Medicine and Science, features articles and reports published in Academic Medicine that are focused on the careers, advancement, mentoring, and leadership of women at medical schools. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollectionId=34&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=7aab24cc-92e6-4693-bcf6-48e6bd88ea38

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Centre. https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

http://www.uct.ac.za/unleashing-the-new-global-university

Conversation #3
Monday 27 Jul 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
Undergraduate student mobility: are virtual experiences a realistic substitute?

Conversation #4
Monday 24 Aug 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
Postgraduate researchers: can we rethink the international experience?

Conversation #5
Monday 7 Sep 2020, 17:30–18:30 (CAT/SAST)
How does changing the medium change the way of doing things?

Africa Medical Supplies Platform. The Africa Medical Supplies Platform is a not-for-profit initiative launched by the African Union as an immediate, integrated and practical response to the Covid-19 pandemic. ARE YOU A MANUFACTURER OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT? We are looking for certified manufacturers able to supply African Union Member States with critical medical equipment. https://amsp.africa/

Opinion: Covid-19 and Medicine’s Misguided Romance With Machines, The history of a controversial syndrome linked to Covid-19 shows the risks of letting technology dictate treatment. https://undark.org/2020/07/09/covid-19-medicine-and-machines/

OTHER NEWS

How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds

The plague marked the end of the Middle Ages and the start of a great cultural renewal. Could the coronavirus, for all its destruction, offer a similar opportunity for radical change? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/how-pandemics-wreak-havoc-and-open-minds?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned

What Does 1GB of Mobile Data Cost in Every Country? Botswana in top 5 most expensive, USD $13.87. India has world’s lowest at .09 US.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-of-mobile-data-worldwide/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 15 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 15, 2020, 03:37 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	399		1		38	360	1	170	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 15-07-2020 05:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

399 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 13 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 422 Cases/100k 18 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 38 Tests 51,379 Tests/case 121.8 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/13/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 287,796 Cases/100k 495 Deaths 4,172 CFR 1.4 Recoveries 138,241 Tests 2,194,624 Tests/case 7.6 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/13/2020
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 864 Cases/100k 33 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 29 Tests 15,439 Tests/case 17.9 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/13/2020
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,034
Cases/100k	6
Deaths	19
CFR	1.8
Recoveries	343
Tests	91,103
Tests/case	88.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/13/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

14/07/2020

Positive 399

Relative to population 0.0170%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 38

Negative 50,980

Active 42

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

318 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Experimental COVID-19 vaccine safe, generates immune response. NIH-sponsored Phase 1 trial tested mRNA vaccine. An investigational vaccine, mRNA-1273, designed to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was generally well tolerated and prompted neutralizing antibody activity in healthy adults, according to interim results published online today in The New England Journal of Medicine https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/experimental-covid-19-vaccine-safe-generates-immune-response

Covid-19: What do we know about “long covid”? “Long covid” is a term being used to describe illness in people who have either recovered from covid-19 but are still report lasting effects of the infection or have had the usual symptoms for far longer than would be expected https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2815?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: clinical, radiological and laboratory findings. https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/doi/10.1093/brain/awaa240/5868408

OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2521-4

Baby boy infected with coronavirus in womb

French study is believed to be first such confirmed case but doctors say infant has made good recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/14/baby-boy-infected-with-coronavirus-in-womb

Covid-19: an opportunity to reduce unnecessary healthcare. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2752?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

CDC Revises Covid-19 Risks During Pregnancy as Research Lags. Experts say a new CDC study on Covid-19 in pregnancy has startling data gaps that endanger pregnant women and babies. https://undark.org/2020/07/14/cdc-covid-19-risks-during-pregnancy/

Need some good news about covid-19? Here are six reasons for optimism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/14/need-some-good-news-about-covid-19-here-are-six-reasons-optimism/

RESOURCES

JOURNAL CLUB

Archives of Failures in Global Health. Global health seeks to solve big problems. We’re bound to fail. Although failures can help us learn, we rarely seem to publish or discuss failed products and strategies in global health. This blog post aims to crowd source and compile a list of failures in global health. https://naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/51659-archive-of-failures-in-global-health

OTHER NEWS

Restoring the Story and Creating a Valuable Clinical Note. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-0934

The role of the University of Cape Town, South Africa in the training and retention of surgeons in Sub-Saharan Africa. https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(20)30424-4/pdf

Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. Our findings suggest that continued trends in female educational attainment and access to contraception will hasten declines in fertility and slow population growth. A sustained TFR lower than the replacement level in many countries, including China and India, would have economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical consequences. Policy options to adapt to continued low fertility, while sustaining and enhancing female reproductive health, will be crucial in the years to come. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30677-2/fulltext?utm_campaign=gbd20&utm_content=134628392&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

To Succeed In Global Health, We Need To Find The Outliers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2020/07/13/to-succeed-in-global-health-we-need-to-find-the-outliers/#7f7e0d71104c

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 16 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 16, 2020, 04:15 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	399		1		38	360	1	170	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 16-07-2020 05:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

399 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 14 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 422 Cases/100k 18 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 38 Tests 51,379 Tests/case 121.8 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/14/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 298,292 Cases/100k 513 Deaths 4,346 CFR 1.5 Recoveries 146,279 Tests 2,232,738 Tests/case 7.5 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/14/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 864 Cases/100k 33 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 29 Tests 15,439 Tests/case 17.9 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/14/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,064
Cases/100k	6
Deaths	20
CFR	1.9
Recoveries	343
Tests	93,248
Tests/case	87.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/14/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151 From Yesterday—could not access today

14/07/2020

Positive 399

Relative to population 0.0170%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 38

Negative 50,980

Active 42

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

318 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Coronavirus live news: Fauci says US must ‘stop nonsense’; South Africa cases top 300,000. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/16/coronavirus-live-news-fauci-says-us-must-stop-nonsense-south-africa-cases-top-300000

An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483?query=TOC

Association Between Universal Masking in a Health Care System and SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Among Health Care Workers. Universal masking at MGB was associated with a significantly lower rate of SARS-CoV-2 positivity among HCWs. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768533?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=071520#.Xw9eSzcMKek.twitter

Rapid implementation of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing to investigate cases of health-care associated COVID-19: a prospective genomic surveillance study. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30562-4/fulltext

Systems and implementation science should be part of the COVID-19 response in low resource settings. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01696-6

Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition. The University of Oxford candidate, led by Sarah Gilbert, might be through human trials in September. AstraZeneca has lined up agreements to produce 2 billion doses. Could this be the one? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/oxford-s-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-coronavirus-front-runner

Hydroxychloroquine as Postexposure Prophylaxis for Covid-19. Letters to the editors. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2023617?query=TOC

COVID-19 outbreak and decreased hospitalisation of pregnant women in labour. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30319-3/fulltext

Dexamethasone for COVID-19: data needed from randomised clinical trials in Africa. Dexamethasone has substantial potential to prevent death as this treatment could be easily deployed in an African setting. Nevertheless, the medical and scientific community should be wary of assuming that evidence for steroids generated in Europe also applies to African populations and robust African data are urgently needed. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30318-1/fulltext

COVID-19 infectivity proﬁle correction. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.06602.pdf

Coronavirus crisis may get ‘worse and worse and worse,’ warns WHO. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/coronavirus-crisis-may-get-worse-and-worse-and-worse-warns-who/4ZF9hjt1e4IciEC6x354zl?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-14-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50125

RESOURCES

In Her Words: 7 Issues, 7 Days. A weeklong look at the biases women face. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/programs/womens-issues . Day 1 A World Made for Men. https://www.nytimes.com/programs/womens-issues/day-1

JOURNAL CLUB

Archives of Failures in Global Health. Global health seeks to solve big problems. We’re bound to fail. Although failures can help us learn, we rarely seem to publish or discuss failed products and strategies in global health. This blog post aims to crowd source and compile a list of failures in global health. https://naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/51659-archive-of-failures-in-global-health

OTHER NEWS

How to Review a Manuscript from an Editor’s Perspective? https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11605-020-04567-w?sharing_token=txj6gIHNfdz6WunYNhqsjPe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY60p-QlkItYa-Q4z-t3rcu64F6vEQkFsV2LZm_sjTLKRi_B7v6NCFAimhW35Gh2EdPV73xNcTAL363E0prPRJk40ei7ZgkYoMp32GhlgpnW2OufavAjDciKtQsZZNG8jE8%3D

A World Made for MenA World Made for Men

Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=%5BService%5D&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=36BFF554-C62B-11EA-8044-52E24744363C&at_custom3=BBC+Science+News

Professional Identity Formation. A Role for Patients as Mentors. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Professional_Identity_Formation__A_Role_for.97135.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Resuscitating the Socratic Method. Student and Faculty Perspectives on Posing Probing Questions During Clinical Teaching. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Resuscitating_the_Socratic_Method__Student_and.97122.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Benchmarking Accomplishments of Leaders in American Surgery and Justification for Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion. Compares leaders of surgical associations who are predominantly older white men with women’s and Black surgeon’s groups leaders.

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/9000/Benchmarking_Accomplishments_of_Leaders_in.94390.aspx

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 17 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 17, 2020, 04:00 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	522	[123]	1		48	473	1	220	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 17-07-2020 05:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

522 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 15 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 416 Cases/100k 17 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 38 Tests 51,379 Tests/case 123.5 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/15/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 311,049 Cases/100k 535 Deaths 4,453 CFR 1.4 Recoveries 160,693 Tests 2,278,127 Tests/case 7.3 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/15/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,032 Cases/100k 40 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 31 Tests 16,305 Tests/case 15.8 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/15/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,089
Cases/100k	6
Deaths	20
CFR	1.8
Recoveries	395
Tests	95,860
Tests/case	88.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/15/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana https://covid19portal.gov.bw/data-dashboard?v=202005211151

17/07/2020

Positive 522

Relative to population 0.0222%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 48

Negative 50,980

Active 147*

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*326 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Coronavirus Drug and Treatment Tracker. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-drugs-treatments.html

Coronavirus vaccine: Oxford team aim to start lab-controlled human trials. Jenner Institute at Oxford looks to recruit healthy volunteers for controversial ‘challenge trial’. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/16/coronavirus-vaccine-oxford-team-volunteers-lab-controlled-human-challenge-trial

Russian state-sponsored hackers target Covid-19 vaccine researchers. UK National Cyber Security Centre says drug firms and research groups being targeted by group known as APT29. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/16/russian-state-sponsored-hackers-target-covid-19-vaccine-researchers

Covid-19 and Disparities in Nutrition and Obesity. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2021264?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Improving Clinical Trial Enrollment — In the Covid-19 Era and Beyond. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2019989?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

In Coronavirus Vaccine Race, China Strays From the Official Paths. Beijing is offering several vaccine candidates to employees of state-owned companies and the armed forces, while also conducting clinical trials in other countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/business/china-vaccine-coronavirus.html

Hallmark of severe COVID-19 patients identified. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/hallmark-of-severe-covid-19-patients-identified/6utL0u4xtDqsbS9LPHoPnD?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-15-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50129

RESOURCES

African Academy of Sciences. Mentoring Africa’s Rising Research Leaders: Models, Experiences and Lessons. Wed, Jul 29, 2020 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM SAST. Come explore with other mentors, mentees and mentoring coordinators, what it takes to build a critical mass of young science leaders on the African continent through mentoring. https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4674279423737751823

Africa’s Varied COVID Landscapes. By the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, July 13, 2020. The Africa Center is an academic institution within the U.S. Department of Defense established and funded by Congress for the study of security issues relating to Africa and serving as a forum for bilateral and multilateral research, communication, training, and exchange of ideas involving military and civilian participants. https://africacenter.org/spotlight/africa-varied-covid-landscapes/

NEJM Catalyst Collection. Covid-19: Managing the Surge. Exclusive content from NEJM Catalyst on the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. https://store.nejm.org/signup/covid19response?query=CON&cid=DM95251_Catalyst_Non_Subscriber&bid=225787938

JOURNAL CLUB

Archives of Failures in Global Health. Global health seeks to solve big problems. We’re bound to fail. Although failures can help us learn, we rarely seem to publish or discuss failed products and strategies in global health. This blog post aims to crowd source and compile a list of failures in global health. https://naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/51659-archive-of-failures-in-global-health

OTHER NEWS

Higher plant protein intake associated with lower mortality. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/higher-plant-protein-intake-associated-with-lower-mortality/2w7wYojYugosvPMBjwmWNX?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-15-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50129

A World Made for MenA World Made for Men

Professional Identity Formation. A Role for Patients as Mentors. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Professional_Identity_Formation__A_Role_for.97135.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Resuscitating the Socratic Method. Student and Faculty Perspectives on Posing Probing Questions During Clinical Teaching. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Resuscitating_the_Socratic_Method__Student_and.97122.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Benchmarking Accomplishments of Leaders in American Surgery and Justification for Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion. Compares leaders of surgical associations who are predominantly older white men with women’s and Black surgeon’s groups leaders.

https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/9000/Benchmarking_Accomplishments_of_Leaders_in.94390.aspx

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 18 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 18, 2020, 05:14 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	522		1		48	473	1	220	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 18-07-2020 06:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

522 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 16 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 416 Cases/100k 17 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 38 Tests 51,379 Tests/case 123.5 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/16/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 324,221 Cases/100k 558 Deaths 4,669 CFR 1.4 Recoveries 165,591 Tests 2,324,923 Tests/case 7.2 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/16/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,032 Cases/100k 40 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 31 Tests 16,305 Tests/case 15.8 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/16/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,362
Cases/100k	8
Deaths	23
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	425
Tests	97,508
Tests/case	71.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/16/2020,

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17/07/2020

Positive 522

Relative to population 0.0222%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 48

Negative 50,980

Active 147*

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*326 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

How Africa has tackled covid-19. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2830

COVID-19: Africa needs unprecedented attention to strengthen community health systems. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31532-4/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Strengthening the global effort on COVID-19 research. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31598-1/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Assessing national performance in response to COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31601-9/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Offline: COVID-19 and the dangers of Sinophobia. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31600-7/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Researchers identify genetic factors that may influence COVID-19 susceptibility. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/researchers-identify-genetic-factors-that-may-influence-covid-19-susceptibility/7FXOFwuge4R12KWg2IM7EL?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-15-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50133

COVID-19: Patients improve after immune-suppressant treatment. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/covid-19-patients-improve-after-immune-suppressant-treatment/48PLP9OS8s9iFNS7Aq69HN?ipost_environment=m3usainc&utm_medium=email&iqs=9z2z7gs7vsn364fvvqulptg003j1r9200vdsvmqb6lo&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+7%2F16%2F2020+Evening

Hydroxychloroquine in Nonhospitalized Adults With Early COVID-19. A Randomized Trial. Hydroxychloroquine did not substantially reduce symptom severity in outpatients with early, mild COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-4207

The Saga of Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: A Cautionary Tale. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5041

RESOURCES

OTHER NEWS

The role of medical students in student activism: decolonising the medical curriculum. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/17/the-role-of-medical-students-in-student-activism-decolonising-the-medical-curriculum/

Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African

American venture capital and private equity is dominating Africa, but it’s mostly funding other white foreign founders as black entrepreneurs struggle to raise financing. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/17/african-businesses-black-entrepreneurs-us-investors

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 20 July 2020— HAPPY BOTSWANA PRESIDENTS DAY TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 20, 2020, 04:22 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	522		1		48	473	1	220	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 20-07-2020 05:22 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

522 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 18 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 416 Cases/100k 17 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 38 Tests 51,379 Tests/case 123.5 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/18/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 350,879 Cases/100k 604 Deaths 4,948 CFR 1.4 Recoveries 182,230 Tests 2,422,741 Tests/case 6.9 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/18/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,203 Cases/100k 46 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 32 Tests 17,041 Tests/case 14.2 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/18/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,478
Cases/100k	9
Deaths	25
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	439
Tests	100,376
Tests/case	67.9
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/18/2020,

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17/07/2020

Positive 522

Relative to population 0.0222%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 48

Negative 50,980

Active 147*

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*326 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 — Preliminary Report. In patients hospitalized with Covid-19, the use of dexamethasone resulted in lower 28-day mortality among those who were receiving either invasive mechanical ventilation or oxygen alone at randomization but not among those receiving no respiratory support.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2021436?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries. Physical distancing interventions were associated with reductions in the incidence of covid-19 globally. No evidence was found of an additional effect of public transport closure when the other four physical distancing measures were in place. Earlier implementation of lockdown was associated with a larger reduction in the incidence of covid-19. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2743?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Vaccine alliance says 75 countries keen to join ‘COVAX’ access facility. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine/vaccine-alliance-says-75-countries-keen-to-join-covax-access-facility-idUSKCN24G24R

Routine childhood immunisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a benefit–risk analysis of health benefits versus excess risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In a new risk-benefit analysis, researchers estimate that for every one excess death due to #COVID19 acquired during routine vaccination clinic visits, 84 deaths in children could be prevented by sustaining routine childhood #immunisation in Africa https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30308-9/fulltext

Research in the Context of a Pandemic, H. Clifford Lane, M.D., and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2024638?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

A mask cuts your COVID-19 risk by 65%, experts say. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/experts-a-mask-cuts-your-coronavirus-risk-by-65

Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds. The study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea suggests that school reopenings will trigger more outbreaks. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-children-schools.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20200719&instance_id=20441&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=26464847&segment_id=33783&user_id=9289a6e403a2eb689aa4ab4c407596cc

Israeli doctor reinfected with coronavirus 3 months after recovering. This is the second case at Sheba Medical Center in which a patient recovered from the virus and was subsequently reinfected. https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-doctor-reinfected-with-coronavirus-3-months-after-recovering-635550

Kimchi protects against COVID-19, a study says. Fermented cabbage helps decrease levels of ACE2, an enzyme in the cell membrane mostly found in lungs that is used by COVID-19 as an entry point into the body. Consuming high levels of fermented cabbage brings down the number of ACE2, making it more difficult for the virus to enter the body. High in antioxidants, fermented cabbage is also good for boosting immunity. https://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20200717/2122953/1/Kimchi-protects-against-COVID-19-a-study-says?fbclid=IwAR3cgrdBi6rx2JbdxHwMsPMXDN5-0KLMD9W5zCu-c5hPeT6O8rOlP-ZeMXQ

COVID-19, Asthma, and Inhaled Corticosteroids: Another Beneficial Effect of Inhaled Corticosteroids? In conclusion, the crucial findings from Peters and colleagues support the recommendation that in patients with asthma using ICS, this treatment should be continued since ICS are the cornerstone of asthma management, reducing exacerbations and asthma mortality, and are associated with decreased expression of ACE2, the receptor of SARS-CoV-2, in induced sputum. To what extent up- or downregulation of ACE2 expression in sputum, airways, or lungs has clinical consequences on infectivity or outcomes of COVID-19 needs to be elucidated. In subjects without asthma (or exacerbation-prone COPD), ICS should not be started since ICS use does not seem to influence ACE2 expression in lung tissue. However, we eagerly await the results of randomized controlled trials assessing the efficacy and safety of ICS in treating COVID-19 in patients with and without chronic airway diseases (see https://clinicaltrials.gov). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328335/

RESOURCES

Please join Prof @Tuliodna, Durban—U of Kwazulu-Natal, on the 22nd of July 2020 for a webinar on “SARS-CoV-2 introduction and spread in Africa” organized by @AfricaCDC in partnership with @H3ABioNet To register: http://tiny.cc/q55fsz #COVID19 Genomic Surveillance in #Africa https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CC7uiQS-QD6_r1Qca_01UQ

OTHER NEWS

Why people don’t get emergency medical care in time: a study in South Africa. Guest : Prof Justine Ina Davies | Professor of Global Health, Institute for Applied Research at University of Birmingham| https://omny.fm/shows/the-midday-report-capetalk/why-people-don-t-get-emergency-medical-care-in-tim

Assessing Quantitative Comparisons of Health and Social Care Between Countries. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768598?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=071920#.XxQT2AGBGJA.twitter

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Tuesday, 21 July 2020— HAPPY BOTSWANA PRESIDENT’S DAY TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 21, 2020, 03:56 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	522		1		48	473	1	222	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 21-07-2020 06:00 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

522 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 19 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 522 Cases/100k 22 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 48 Tests 56,541 Tests/case 108.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/19/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 364,328 Cases/100k 627 Deaths 5,033 CFR 1.4 Recoveries 191,059 Tests 2,471,747 Tests/case 6.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/19/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,344 Cases/100k 52 Deaths 4 CFR 0.3 Recoveries 42 Tests 17,994 Tests/case 13.4 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/19/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,611
Cases/100k	9
Deaths	25
CFR	1.6
Recoveries	472
Tests	101,375
Tests/case	62.9
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/19/2020

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17/07/2020

Positive 522

Relative to population 0.0222%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 48

Negative 50,980

Active 147*

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*326 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Safety and immunogenicity of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: a preliminary report of a phase 1/2, single-blind, randomised controlled trial. ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 showed an acceptable safety profile, and homologous boosting increased antibody responses. These results, together with the induction of both humoral and cellular immune responses, support large-scale evaluation of this candidate vaccine in an ongoing phase 3 programme. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31604-4/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Presidential Task Force Bulletin, Issue 78, 20 July 2020. Children Test Positive for Covid-19. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_qkoKUVOZIFbBTtkyXfAfSev7FgQq8Jp/view?fbclid=IwAR2D6ScWB2h_ZSOZGKBWNYfwdCvsglXHkGCoEApuzxGq62MtETY9XzLzDm4

Update Alert: Masks for Prevention of Respiratory Virus Infections, Including SARS-CoV-2, in Health Care and Community Settings. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-0948

Coronavirus live news: EU agrees Covid-19 recovery plan, WHO warns over Africa spread. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/21/coronavirus-live-news-trump-backs-face-masks-as-patriotic-eu-set-to-agree-stimulus

How to Identify Flawed Research Before It Becomes Dangerous. Scientists and journalists need to establish a service to review research that’s publicized before it is peer reviewed. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/opinion/coronavirus-preprints.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

RESOURCES

Please join Prof @Tuliodna, Durban—U of Kwazulu-Natal, on the 22nd of July 2020 for a webinar on “SARS-CoV-2 introduction and spread in Africa” organized by @AfricaCDC in partnership with @H3ABioNet To register: http://tiny.cc/q55fsz #COVID19 Genomic Surveillance in #Africahttps://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CC7uiQS-QD6_r1Qca_01UQ

OTHER NEWS

How (not) to write about global health. There has been much talk recently in BMJ Global Health, in other journals, and on social media platforms, about equity in global health research. But there has been little guidance on how to write about global health in a way that advances equity and justice. Inspired by a famous satirical article by the Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina, I present some guidelines for how (not) to write about global health https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/7/e003164.full

‘Junk food is the new tobacco’: experts call for restrictions to tackle obesity. Scientists and health campaigners want bans on outlets near schools and an advertising watershed. https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/19/junk-food-is-the-new-tobacco-experts-call-for-restrictions-to-tackle-obesity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&__twitter_impression=true

Africa can become a renewable energy superpower – if climate deniers are kept at bay. Nigel Lawson’s thinktank is pushing dirty energy on the continent with the greatest capacity for creating clean fuel. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/20/africa-can-become-a-renewable-energy-superpower-if-climate-deniers-are-kept-at-bay

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Wednesday, 22 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 22, 2020, 02:54 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	522		1		48	473	1	222	0.4	51,379

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 22-07-2020 04:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

522 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 20 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 522 Cases/100k 22 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 48 Tests 56,541 Tests/case 108.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/20/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 373,628 Cases/100k 643 Deaths 5,173 CFR 1.4 Recoveries 194,865 Tests 2,505,646 Tests/case 6.7 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/20/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,366 Cases/100k 53 Deaths 7 CFR 0.5 Recoveries 57 Tests 18,454 Tests/case 13.5 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/20/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,713
Cases/100k	10
Deaths	26
CFR	1.5
Recoveries	472
Tests	103,291
Tests/case	60.3
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/20/2020,

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17/07/2020

Positive 522

Relative to population 0.0222%

Fatalities 1

Recoveries 48

Negative 50,980

Active 147*

Suspected 259

Confirmed tests 51,379

Facility quarantined 620

Home quarantined 208

*326 patients who tested positive have been voluntarily repatriated to their respective countries.

NEWS

Experimental coronavirus vaccine is safe and produces immune response. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/experimental-coronavirus-vaccine-safe-produces-immune-response?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Three Coronavirus Vaccine Developers Report Promising Initial Results. Early trials showed a good immune response in vaccinated subjects, but one researcher sounded a note of caution: “There is still a long way to go.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/world/covid-coronavirus-vaccine.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

A Practical Decontamination Framework for COVID-19 Front-line Workers Returning Home. https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Fulltext/2020/08000/A_Practical_Decontamination_Framework_for_COVID_19.35.aspx/?cid=eTOC%20Issues.2020-annalsofsurgery-00000658-202008000-00000&rid=E_0000000000804228&TargetID=&EjpToken=h82_ulqgM5l-Trw24fOc1wmuOcEiQkAOv8QXiYbWqhu0qEtLpbXrskSBn40oou2pp6RsFUbNuBuvpF8&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0Rka1pXRXhaak00WW1RdyIsInQiOiJTWktkbVNZNlh1aDVaT29CM3JwSHY1ZXFYSzNPeWdaVjhQcjRWUWNFOVIrSXZNVFlxK3FKeGVsZXBBYStSeXc0aGJQUVNZNGNoR0pMQlZiQ3A2cUZsMFBGUnVzY1c0elhuVERMSnZHdE0yQVNKMXUydCtMT014NXlTTlZ3OHJNSnQ0QWtPaGFIZHphdGgyQjBMUW1pVnc9PSJ9

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53469839

Rapid Decay of Anti–SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Persons with Mild Covid-19. Our findings raise concern that humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2 may not be long lasting in persons with mild illness, who compose the majority of persons with Covid-19. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025179?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

RESOURCES

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

JOURNAL CLUB

OTHER NEWS

How can African medical researchers use social media to their advantage?-Pearls and pitfalls. https://www.clinical-medicine.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/3/128/full/

Illustrating your research: design basics for junior clinicians and scientists. Eight steps to creating eye-catching scientific graphics, including manuscript figures, scientific poster presentations, and slides for oral presentations https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2254

New funds proposed to prevent pandemics. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31592-0/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=135140890&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Botswana: COVID-19 Impacts On Mining, Tourism. https://africanelephantjournal.com/botswana-covid-19-impacts-on-mining-tourism/

From 2018—but interesting–The Ethical Quandary of Human Infection Studies. How much risk and compensation is acceptable when scientists infect volunteers in poor countries with diseases? https://undark.org/2018/11/19/ethical-quandry-human-infection/

Communicating Science in the Time of a Pandemic. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768397?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=072020#.XxV7bi_H5as.twitter

We know enough about the problems in research to start demanding solutions. The problems include, but are not restricted to, failure to publish all research findings, inadequate sharing of study methodologies, and inconsistent disclosure of conflicts of interest. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/21/we-know-enough-about-the-problems-in-research-to-start-demanding-solutions/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Institutes at NIH

Exercise-induced protein may reverse age-related cognitive decline. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/exercise-induced-protein-may-reverse-age-related-cognitive-decline?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Strengthening Data Systems to Save Lives. The Global Fund and Zenysis Technologies, a U.S.-based big data integration and software startup, have teamed up with the ministries of health of Rwanda and Zambia to develop an innovative platform that aims to harness the power of quality data to strengthen health programs and save lives. https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/blog/2020-07-21-strengthening-data-systems-to-save-lives/

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Thursday, 23 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 23, 2020, 02:48 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	522		1		48	473	1	222	0.4	56,541

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 23-07-2020 04:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

522 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 21 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 522 Cases/100k 22 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 48 Tests 56,541 Tests/case 108.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/21/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 381,798 Cases/100k 657 Deaths 5,368 CFR 1.4 Recoveries 208,144 Tests 2,536,921 Tests/case 6.6 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/21/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,366 Cases/100k 53 Deaths 7 CFR 0.5 Recoveries 57 Tests 18,454 Tests/case 13.5 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/21/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,820
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	26
CFR	1.4
Recoveries	488
Tests	105,121
Tests/case	57.8
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/21/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 80. 22 July 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-QlmhM6BUOdwPRaGQUY8bipf5TQlCDYu/view?fbclid=IwAR3-Z3M3fjN5u9M1rQic9Prm4jKUjVdmyqPZZWK5KCA7KqEdehXT1PMHZco

NEWS

Traditional healers use of personal protective equipment: a qualitative study in rural South Africa. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32669101/

Ebola prepared these countries for coronavirus — but now even they are floundering In Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the hard-won lessons of a deadly pandemic cannot entirely compensate for poverty and weak health systems. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02173-z?s=09

Chloroquine does not inhibit infection of human lung cells with SARS-CoV-2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2575-3?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Nature

Pooling Data From Individual Clinical Trials in the COVID-19 Era. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768851?guestAccessKey=063a12f7-9f39-4304-b320-fdfb085edb84&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3515093366&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=94726033

New COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response. Launching today, the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic. The goal is to ensure that laws protect the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities and that they adhere to international human rights standards. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/22-07-2020-new-covid-19-law-lab-to-provide-vital-legal-information-and-support-for-the-global-covid-19-response

Structural Racism, Social Risk Factors, and Covid-19 — A Dangerous Convergence for Black Americans. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2023616?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

RESOURCES

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

JOURNAL CLUB

How can African medical researchers use social media to their advantage?-Pearls and pitfalls. https://www.clinical-medicine.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/3/128/full/

OTHER NEWS

In Social Insects, Researchers Find Hints for Controlling Disease. Can the ability of some social insects to contain pathogens help human societies battling pandemics of their own? https://undark.org/2020/07/22/social-insects-control-disease/

Illustrating your research: design basics for junior clinicians and scientists. Eight steps to creating eye-catching scientific graphics, including manuscript figures, scientific poster presentations, and slides for oral presentations https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2254

Mmei JSS turns fortunes amidst COVID-19. https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=86321&dir=2020/july/17

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Friday, 24 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 24, 2020, 03:40 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	592	[70]	1		48	543	1	251	0.4	56,541

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 24-07-2020 04:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

592 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 22 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 522 Cases/100k 22 Deaths 1 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 48 Tests 56,541 Tests/case 108.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/22/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 394,948 Cases/100k 680 Deaths 5,940 CFR 1.5 Recoveries 229,175 Tests 2,585,474 Tests/case 6.5 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/22/2020
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,402 Cases/100k 54 Deaths 7 CFR 0.5 Recoveries 64 Tests 19,260 Tests/case 13.7 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/22/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	1,820
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	26
CFR	1.4
Recoveries	488
Tests	105,121
Tests/case	57.8
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/21/2020,

https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/photos/a.617504571665538/3174786739270629/?type=3&theater

NEWS

South Africa records 60% rise in excess deaths, suggesting high Covid-19 toll. With more than 10,000 cases reported daily, nation becomes worst-hit country in Africa. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/23/south-africa-sees-60-spike-in-excess-deaths-suggesting-high-covid-19-toll

Neonatal management and outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observation cohort study. Our data suggest that perinatal transmission of COVID-19 is unlikely to occur if correct hygiene precautions are undertaken, and that allowing neonates to room in with their mothers and direct breastfeeding are safe procedures when paired with effective parental education of infant protective strategies. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30235-2/fulltext

Coronavirus-infected cells sprout filaments that may spread the virus. Tiny projections may serve as highways to new cells to infect. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-coronavirus-infected-cells-sprout-filaments-spread-virus

Researchers develop new tools to rapidly test activity of anti-coronavirus antibodies. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/researchers-develop-new-tools-to-rapidly-test-activity-of-anti-coronavirus-antibodies/3OklJvcS9jAAgbbjhG3RrD?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-21-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50144

BCG vaccine protection from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Nevertheless, a significant association and effect was still detected for several comparisons controlling for social conditions and stage of the epidemic by country). For example, type of BCG policy (i.e., current, interrupted, and never) had a significant effect on COVID-19 deaths per million with a stronger policy being associated with lower COVD-19 mortality. Additionally, countries with current vaccination had lower deaths as compared with countries with lack of or interrupted BCG vaccination. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/07/2008410117

Can You Get Covid-19 Coronavirus Twice? Here Is An Update On Immunity. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/07/19/can-you-get-covid-19-coronavirus-twice-here-is-an-update-on-reinfection/#7a1707837cbf

Should You Be Wearing a Face Shield? “You will be protecting others with the face mask while protecting yourself with the face shield.” https://nymag.com/strategist/article/should-you-be-wearing-a-face-shield.html

The Work of Philanthropy in Responding to COVID-19 and Addressing Inequality. A New Foundation. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768893?guestAccessKey=d6ab9209-a030-46ee-bf8a-7bc771e83402&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3517703191&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=94840628

RESOURCES

COVID 19 response: Protecting gains made against tuberculosis (TB). Thursday, July 30, 2020. 8:00-9:00am EDT. Converts to: 2pm Pretoria; 3pm Addis Ababa; 7pm Bangkok https://www.fhi360.org/events/covid-19-response-webinar-series/covid-19-response-protecting-gains-made-against-tuberculosis

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

JOURNAL CLUB

How can African medical researchers use social media to their advantage?-Pearls and pitfalls. https://www.clinical-medicine.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/3/128/full/

OTHER NEWS

Time to Get Serious About Research Fraud. Only a small fraction of research misconduct ever comes to light. Independent investigative bodies could remedy that. https://undark.org/2020/07/23/cracking-down-on-research-fraud/

Breast Cancer Risk–Reducing Medications. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768467?guestAccessKey=8717a749-209a-422f-ad1d-2759a1465129&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3512420058&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=94597644

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Saturday, 25 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 25, 2020, 03:28 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	686	[94]	1		52	633	1	291	0.4	62,296

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 25-07-2020 04:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

686 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 23 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 682 Cases/100k 28 Deaths 1 CFR 0.1 Recoveries 52 Tests 62,296 Tests/case 91.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/23/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 408,052 Cases/100k 702 Deaths 6,093 CFR 1.5 Recoveries 236,260 Tests 2,632,106 Tests/case 6.5 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/23/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,522 Cases/100k 59 Deaths 7 CFR 0.5 Recoveries 69 Tests 19,782 Tests/case 13.0 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/23/2020
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	2,124
Cases/100k	12
Deaths	28
CFR	1.3
Recoveries	510
Tests	110,560
Tests/case	52.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/23/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 82, 24 July 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aFfrR078l7IvRE2tDEI8mzwotaMvo1Ft/view?fbclid=IwAR3dxFte9UWnCNrH1x-WcvfeuHSWkjWf4kCRu2jMOlc7699DDhIMhBml1qM

https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/photos/a.617504571665538/3174786739270629/?type=3&theater

NEWS

Dramatic interventions in the tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31641-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Covid-19 Patients No Longer Need Tests to End Isolation. Under new guidelines from the C.D.C., recovering coronavirus patients should be free to resume normal activity after 10 days, if they have no fever or other symptoms. Instead, patients may be judged to have recovered if 10 days have passed since they first felt ill; they no longer have any symptoms, such as shortness of breath or diarrhea; and they have not had a fever for 24 hours without taking fever-reducing medicine. The new recommendations are not rules but guidelines intended for patients, doctors and health policymakers. The revisions should help relieve the burden on the country’s testing system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/health/coronavirus-isolation-testing.html

Molecular Underpinnings of Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768925?guestAccessKey=c297ebcd-e626-4d12-9605-33d4ca327fe9&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3520670269&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=94942838

As Covid-19 Vaccine Race Heats Up, Other Interventions Flounder https://undark.org/2020/07/24/abstracts-coronavirus-vaccine/

Trusting evidence over anecdote: Clinical decision making in the era of covid-19. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/23/trusting-evidence-over-anecdote-clinical-decision-making-in-the-era-of-covid-19/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Researchers to investigate if Fitbit devices can be used to help detect COVID-19. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/researchers-to-investigate-if-fitbit-devices-can-be-used-to-help-detect-covid-19/25327

A Vaccine Reality Check. So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/covid-19-vaccine-reality-check/614566/?fbclid=IwAR1ehnG4Jry5k_fvMSfCb-DCIs7obMKyM4AatR2PU8G-waMRf1rMjW2Ckw8

RESOURCES

World Health Statistics 2020. A visual summary. https://www.who.int/data/gho/whs-2020-visual-summary

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

OTHER NEWS

No antimicrobial resistance research agenda without tuberculosis. This insufficiency of emphasis is despite the global public health threat that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis poses, and the potential for knowledge sharing given the experience accumulated over decades. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30309-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Coffee, Caffeine, and Health. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1816604?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Smartphone Device Aims to Globalize Jaundice Screening. https://discover.vumc.org/2020/07/smartphones-to-globalize-jaundice-screening-access/

NIHR-funded research paper is BMJ UK Research Paper of the Year 2020. The research led by Professor Marian Knight, from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, found that using a single dose of antibiotic to prevent infections after assisted vaginal births would reduce antibiotic use by 17% and halve the rate of infection. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-funded-research-paper-is-bmj-uk-research-paper-of-the-year-2020/25329

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest —Monday, 27 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 27, 2020, 02:51 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	686		1		52	633	1	291	0.4	62,296

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 27-07-2020 03:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

686 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 25 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 682 Cases/100k 28 Deaths 1 CFR 0.1 Recoveries 52 Tests 62,296 Tests/case 91.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/25/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 434,200 Cases/100k 747 Deaths 6,655 CFR 1.5 Recoveries 263,054 Tests 2,730,812 Tests/case 6.3 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/25/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,775 Cases/100k 68 Deaths 8 CFR 0.5 Recoveries 75 Tests 21,806 Tests/case 12.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/25/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	2,434
Cases/100k	14
Deaths	34
CFR	1.4
Recoveries	518
Tests	118,276
Tests/case	48.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/25/2020,

https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/photos/a.617504571665538/3174786739270629/?type=3&theater

NEWS

Lives, Livelihoods and Policy — Ranking Emerging Markets. All countries are battling the same virus, yet the downturns across emerging and frontier economies look very different: Taiwan, Botswana, South Korea and Thailand are doing best in Bloomberg Economics’ ranking of 75 economies based on confirmed deaths from Covid-19, the level of activity compared with the pre-virus normal and the policy space available to counter the damage. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-19/lives-livelihoods-and-policy-ranking-emerging-markets-map

The first Phase 3 coronavirus vaccine trial in the US is expected to begin next week. Here’s how the vaccine works. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/health/moderna-vaccine-barney-graham-gupta/index.html

Rapid COVID-19 test detects neutralising antibodies with high specificity and sensitivity. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/rapid-covid-19-test-detects-neutralising-antibodies-with-high-specificity-and-sensitivity/Olen Steinhauer1hfZAgpI7rqABSDOuxks8r?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-24-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50156

SARS-CoV-2 can disrupt endocrine system via ACE2. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/sars-cov-2-can-disrupt-endocrine-system-via-ace2/722rXNM9JoxtMZGn0CaDeB?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-24-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50156

Pathophysiology, Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)A Review. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768391?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=072420#.XxtZWmvKWNs.twitter

Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition. The University of Oxford candidate, led by Sarah Gilbert, might be through human trials in September. AstraZeneca has lined up agreements to produce 2 billion doses. Could this be the one? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/oxford-s-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-coronavirus-front-runner

Social Distancing among Medical Students during the 2019 Coronavirus Disease Pandemic in China: Disease Awareness, Anxiety Disorder, Depression, and Behavioral Activities. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/14/5047

Bulletin 9: SADC Regional Response to COVID-19. 24 July 2020

https://www.sadc.int/news-events/news/bulletin-9-sadc-regional-response-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR0cfkrIaHWBk5tmG4HSoqcPj8KyKbenyCBWBNQWEZfBGp2pqMGISBR4A7M

Particle sizes of infectious aerosols: implications for infection control. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext

RESOURCES

LANCET COVID RESOURSE CENTER https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus?dgcid=kr_pop-up_tlcoronavirus20

ACADEMIC MEDICINE COVID-19 and Medical Education. 47 ARTICLES. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollectionId=68&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

ACADEMIC MEDICINE Resources for Medical Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
For guidance and resources from the AAMC and its partner organizations and ways to connect with the AAMC and your colleagues across the country to share best practices and lessons learned, visit this new resource hub focused on medical schools. https://www.aamc.org/coronavirus/medical-education?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

World Health Statistics 2020. A visual summary. https://www.who.int/data/gho/whs-2020-visual-summary

Advocacy and Policy: Scope of Practice for Nurses and Midwives in Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Care. This webinar will feature perspectives on policy, advocacy, and scope of practice from nurses and midwives on the frontlines of care. Time–Jul 28, 2020. 5PM CAT. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WN6ZhkL3RmCfkz5UwyGNoQ

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

OTHER NEWS

Consensus Group Methodology in Health Professions Education Research.The Nominal Group Technique. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Citation/9000/Consensus_Group_Methodology_in_Health_Professions.97096.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Vitamin D Supplements for Prevention of Tuberculosis, Vitamin D supplementation did not result in a lower risk of tuberculosis infection, tuberculosis disease, or acute respiratory infection than placebo among vitamin D–deficient schoolchildren in Mongolia. https://www.nejm.org/do/10.1056/NEJMdo005815/full/?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Potential Elimination of Active Taenia solium Transmission in Africa. In this study in Zambia, a combination approach including treatment in pigs and humans showed that substantial control of the disease may be possible in sub-Saharan Africa. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1909955?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Placebos in chronic pain: evidence, theory, ethics, and use in clinical practice. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m1668?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Effects of food supplementation on cognitive function, cerebral blood flow, and nutritional status in young children at risk of undernutrition: randomized controlled trial. Childhood undernutrition is associated with long term impairment in cognition. Contrary to current understanding, supplementary feeding for 23 weeks could improve executive function, brain health, and nutritional status in vulnerable young children living in low income countries. Further research is needed to optimize nutritional prescriptions for regenerative improvements in cognitive function, and to test effectiveness in other vulnerable groups. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2397Comment–Healthier nutrition supplements may improve brain health among young children. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/23/healthier-nutrition-supplements-may-improve-brain-health-among-young-children/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

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UB COVID-19 Information Diges Tuesday, 28 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 28, 2020, 03:05 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	739	[53]	2		63	674	1	314	0.8	66,744

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 28-07-2020 04:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

739 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 25 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 682 Cases/100k 28 Deaths 1 CFR 0.1 Recoveries 52 Tests 62,296 Tests/case 91.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/25/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 434,200 Cases/100k 747 Deaths 6,655 CFR 1.5 Recoveries 263,054 Tests 2,730,812 Tests/case 6.3 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/25/2020,
	Country Namibia Region Southern Cases 1,775 Cases/100k 68 Deaths 8 CFR 0.5 Recoveries 75 Tests 21,806 Tests/case 12.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/25/2020,
Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	2,434
Cases/100k	14
Deaths	34
CFR	1.4
Recoveries	518
Tests	118,276
Tests/case	48.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/25/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 83, 27 July 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s8iwcjXt3NyWcrYqDmEDS8p9u4VUcGL6/view?fbclid=IwAR14e9zWhovbyjbvZnbyoHIMquWUV4C9mtIZdqN53a–6HK4DqxiuIHbYJc

NEWS

Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Investigational Vaccine for COVID-19 Begins. Multi-Site Trial to Test Candidate Developed by Moderna and NIH. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/phase-3-clinical-trial-investigational-vaccine-covid-19-begins?fbclid=IwAR1R-p_UymBq4eVu2g9kqLLb6xkYIGsG8BY0UMOY-TvHyH6mJl2j53tw294

‘It’s over, I am going to die’: how Uganda’s coronavirus curfew is claiming lives. Evelyn Namulondo and Eric Mutasiga were killed by officers enforcing Covid-19 movement restrictions – and their families want justice. It was 15 May and the 30-year-old was in a hospital bed in Jinja, Uganda, two days after being shot by unidentified men apparently trying to enforce Uganda’s 7pm to 6am coronavirus curfew. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/27/its-over-i-am-going-to-die-how-ugandas-coronavirus-curfew-is-claiming-lives

Our Genes May Explain Severity of COVID-19 and Other Infections. Researchers are examining the power of subtle genetic weaknesses in the immune system to affect the severity of infectious diseases, including COVID-19. https://www.quantamagazine.org/our-genes-may-explain-severity-of-covid-19-and-other-infections-20200727/

Covid-19 infections leave an impact on the heart, raising concerns about lasting damage. Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the heart, raising the specter of long-term damage after people recover, even if their illness was not severe enough to require hospitalization.https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-lasting-heart-damage/

You Can Stop Cleaning Your Mail Now. People are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security. Surface transmission—from touching doorknobs, mail, food-delivery packages, and subways poles—seems quite rare. (Quite rare isn’t the same as impossible: The scientists I spoke with constantly repeated the phrase “people should still wash their hands.”) The difference may be a simple matter of time. In the hours that can elapse between, say, Person 1 coughing on her hand and using it to push open a door and Person 2 touching the same door and rubbing his eye, the virus particles from the initial cough may have sufficiently deteriorated. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hygiene-theater/614599/

Managing uncertainty in the covid-19 era. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/22/managing-uncertainty-in-the-covid-19-era/

RESOURCES

LANCET COVID RESOURSE CENTER https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus?dgcid=kr_pop-up_tlcoronavirus20

ACADEMIC MEDICINE COVID-19 and Medical Education. 47 ARTICLES. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollectionId=68&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

ACADEMIC MEDICINE Resources for Medical Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
For guidance and resources from the AAMC and its partner organizations and ways to connect with the AAMC and your colleagues across the country to share best practices and lessons learned, visit this new resource hub focused on medical schools. https://www.aamc.org/coronavirus/medical-education?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

World Health Statistics 2020. A visual summary. https://www.who.int/data/gho/whs-2020-visual-summary

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

OTHER NEWS

Global burden and trends in premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer: a population-based study. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(20)30215-1.pdf

Coffee, Caffeine, and Health. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1816604?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

World Hepatitis Day: fast-tracking the elimination of hepatitis B among mothers and children. WHO recommends that all infants receive a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine as soon as possible after birth – preferably within 24 hours – followed by at least 2 additional doses.https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/27-07-2020-world-hepatitis-day-fast-tracking-the-elimination-of-hepatitis-b-among-mothers-and-children

Association of Nonoperative Management Using Antibiotic Therapy vs Laparoscopic Appendectomy With Treatment Success and Disability Days in Children With Uncomplicated Appendicitis. Among children with uncomplicated appendicitis, an initial nonoperative management strategy with antibiotics was successful for most children and, compared with urgent surgery, was associated with significantly fewer disability days at 1 year. However, the prespecified thresholds for success rate of nonoperative management and disability days were not met, and there were substantial missing data.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768929?guestAccessKey=86f32e42-cff6-4e52-b473-391526da4f79&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3527032504&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=95188270

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Diges Wednesday, 29 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 29, 2020, 02:57 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	739		2		63	674	1	314	0.8	66,744

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 29-07-2020 04:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

739 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 27 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 739 Cases/100k 31 Deaths 2 CFR 0.3 Recoveries 63 Tests 66,744 Tests/case 90.3 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/27/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 459,761 Cases/100k 791 Deaths 7,257 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 287,313 Tests 2,830,635 Tests/case 6.2 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/27/2020
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	1,917
	Cases/100k	74
	Deaths	8
	CFR	0.4
	Recoveries	104
	Tests	24,325
	Tests/case	12.7
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	7/27/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	2,817
Cases/100k	16
Deaths	40
CFR	1.4
Recoveries	604
Tests	124,194
Tests/case	44.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/27/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 84, 28 July 2020. Botswana records 2^nd death. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1btrYIruMER3r8CrMxPd7hErt–f3g-p5/view?fbclid=IwAR1tISXW-bTayqY94zfMZDddZWQggxHPjxniqfk-7wJbj5rfRaEmXXXrmMk

NEWS

Nisreen A Alwan: What exactly is mild covid 19? https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/28/nisreen-a-alwan-what-exactly-is-mild-covid-19/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

COVID-19 vaccine affordability and accessibility. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31540-3/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=135732152&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Botswana Registers Second Covid-19 Death. https://allafrica.com/stories/202007280081.html

Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2024671?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social

Experimental COVID-19 vaccine protects upper and lower airways in nonhuman primates. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/experimental-covid-19-vaccine-protects-upper-lower-airways-nonhuman-primates?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

More Than 1 in 3 US Adults Use Disinfectants Unsafely. 19% used bleach on food such as fruit or vegetables and 18% reported using household cleaning products on their skin. Ten percent reported misting their body with a cleaning or disinfectant spray. Six percent reported inhaling vapors from cleaning or disinfectant products, and 4% said they drank or gargled with diluted bleach, soapy water, or other cleaning or disinfectant solutions. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768822?guestAccessKey=9294e441-d13a-408f-bb9e-d13bfbd68269&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3530229043&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=95350124

Child malnutrition and COVID-19: the time to act is now. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(20)31648-2.pdf?amp=1

RESOURCES

LANCET COVID RESOURSE CENTER https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus?dgcid=kr_pop-up_tlcoronavirus20

ACADEMIC MEDICINE Resources for Medical Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
For guidance and resources from the AAMC and its partner organizations and ways to connect with the AAMC and your colleagues across the country to share best practices and lessons learned, visit this new resource hub focused on medical schools. https://www.aamc.org/coronavirus/medical-education?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

World Health Statistics 2020. A visual summary. https://www.who.int/data/gho/whs-2020-visual-summary

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

OTHER NEWS

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Thursday, 30 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 30, 2020, 04:05 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804	[65]	2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 30-07-2020 05:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 28 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 804 Cases/100k 34 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 63 Tests 68,423 Tests/case 85.1 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/28/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 471,123 Cases/100k 811 Deaths 7,497 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 297,967 Tests 2,873,163 Tests/case 6.1 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/28/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	1,986
	Cases/100k	76
	Deaths	9
	CFR	0.5
	Recoveries	104
	Tests	24,852
	Tests/case	12.5
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	7/28/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	2,879
Cases/100k	17
Deaths	41
CFR	1.4
Recoveries	887
Tests	126,708
Tests/case	44.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/28/2020,

NEWS

Measles vaccination disruptions due to coronavirus put 80 million children at risk. Tens of millions of children around the world have been denied life-saving vaccines against measles in both rich and poor countries due to Covid-19 disruptions, with fears of further outbreaks this year.https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/29/measles-vaccination-disruptions-due-to-covid-19-put-80-million-children-at-risk

The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism. Only Cooperation Can End the Pandemic. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-07-27/vaccine-nationalism-pandemic?utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&utm_source=twitter_posts&utm_medium=social

Presence of Genetic Variants Among Young Men With Severe COVID-19. In a case series that included 4 young male patients with severe COVID-19 from 2 families, rare loss-of-function variants of the X-chromosomal TLR7 were identified, with immunological defects in type I and II interferon production. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768926?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=072920#.XyIC8iA_7YE.twitter

Body Mass Index and Risk for Intubation or Death in SARS-CoV-2 Infection. A Retrospective Cohort Study. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3214

Cardiac Endotheliitis and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome After COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-0882

RESOURCES

LANCET COVID RESOURSE CENTER https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus?dgcid=kr_pop-up_tlcoronavirus20

ACADEMIC MEDICINE Resources for Medical Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
For guidance and resources from the AAMC and its partner organizations and ways to connect with the AAMC and your colleagues across the country to share best practices and lessons learned, visit this new resource hub focused on medical schools. https://www.aamc.org/coronavirus/medical-education?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

World Health Statistics 2020. A visual summary. https://www.who.int/data/gho/whs-2020-visual-summary

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

Up Close and Policy: Obstetric Fistula – Changes in Global Health Policy. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-and-policy-obstetric-fistula-changes-in-global-health-policy-tickets-113328085354?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

OTHER NEWS

NIH-funded project creates an encyclopedia detailing the inner workings of the human and mouse genomes. ENCODE Project’s third phase offers new insights into the organization and regulation of our genes and genome. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-funded-project-creates-encyclopedia-detailing-inner-workings-human-mouse-genomes?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Friday, 31 July 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: July 31, 2020, 03:51 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 31-07-2020 04:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

1 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 29 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 804 Cases/100k 34 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 63 Tests 68,423 Tests/case 85.1 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/29/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 471,123 Cases/100k 811 Deaths 7,497 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 297,967 Tests 2,873,163 Tests/case 6.1 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/29/2020
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	1,986
	Cases/100k	76
	Deaths	9
	CFR	0.5
	Recoveries	104
	Tests	24,852
	Tests/case	12.5
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	7/29/2020

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	2,879
Cases/100k	17
Deaths	41
CFR	1.4
Recoveries	887
Tests	126,708
Tests/case	44.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/29/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 85, 29 July 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16hETURV1cOXvBqowsm3DywKmUZliod-F/view?fbclid=IwAR2n5hLpxTLLMxlbHJP2ynKQMKAy1hazl63uVp-Jh9Glab3_47jsSv_5Prc

NEWS

Changes in surgical practice in 85 South African hospitals during COVID-19 hard lockdown. Hospital surgical de-escalation in response to COVID-19 has greatly reduced access to surgical care in SA, which could result in a backlog of surgical needs and an excess of morbidity and mortality. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13024/9399

Update Alert 2: Should Clinicians Use Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine Alone or in Combination With Azithromycin for the Prophylaxis or Treatment of COVID-19? Living Practice Points From the American College of Physicians. Three large, in-progress randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with strong study designs ceased enrollment for the hydroxychloroquine-only versus control comparison early due to lack of efficacy in preliminary analyses (3–5). In addition, the 2 literature updates produced no evidence to alter these conclusions. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-1007

Mayo Clinic COVID-19 expert on virus resurgence and what it will take to reduce widespread transmission. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/mayo-clinic-covid-19-expert-on-virus-resurgence-and-what-it-will-take-to-reduce-widespread/q8l8CrwgOqi6s5xX0f9DE?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-29-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50166

Could prior exposure to common cold viruses affect the severity of SARS-CoV-2 symptoms? https://www.mdlinx.com/news/could-prior-exposure-to-common-cold-viruses-affect-the-severity-of-sars-cov-2-symptoms/4m4at4axZUy0VJHFGhQPrp?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-29-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50166

Are some people already immune to COVID-19? Experts are hoping the answer may be found in kids. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/people-immune-covid-19/story?id=71969896

Children May Carry Coronavirus at High Levels, Study Finds. The results are consistent with those from a German study of 47 infected children between the ages 1 and 11, which showed that children who did not have symptoms had viral loads as high as adults’, or higher. And a recent study from France found that asymptomatic children had C.T. values similar to those of children with symptoms. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/children-may-carry-coronavirus-at-high-levels-study-finds/ar-BB17ni0e?ocid=msedgntp

Need for sustainable biobanking networks for COVID-19 and other diseases of epidemic potential https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30461-8/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email#%20

Covid-19 infections leave an impact on the heart, raising concerns about lasting damage. https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-lasting-heart-damage/?fbclid=IwAR10Uk-xidlkNMaog-qKKC9oAuFAmEHimKgvI4TwgOgwYZvaj3HwK7-syfw

RESOURCES

LANCET COVID RESOURSE CENTER https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus?dgcid=kr_pop-up_tlcoronavirus20

ACADEMIC MEDICINE Resources for Medical Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic
For guidance and resources from the AAMC and its partner organizations and ways to connect with the AAMC and your colleagues across the country to share best practices and lessons learned, visit this new resource hub focused on medical schools. https://www.aamc.org/coronavirus/medical-education?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

World Health Statistics 2020. A visual summary. https://www.who.int/data/gho/whs-2020-visual-summary

Global Health: Science and Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 30, 2020. https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/2

Up Close and Policy: Obstetric Fistula – Changes in Global Health Policy. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-and-policy-obstetric-fistula-changes-in-global-health-policy-tickets-113328085354?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

OTHER NEWS

Medieval medicine remedy could provide new treatment for modern day infections. Building on previous research done by the University of Nottingham on using medieval remedies to treat MRSA, the researchers from the School of Life Sciences at University of Warwick reconstructed a 1,000-year-old medieval remedy containing onion, garlic, wine, and bile salts, which is known as ‘Bald’s eyesalve’, and showed it to have promising antibacterial activity. The team also showed that the mixture caused low levels of damage to human cells. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/medieval-medicine-remedy-could-provide-new-treatment-for-modern-day-infections/26Qw5NopvQguJ4nKFAxdq5?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=07-28-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50166

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission. Overall, a growing body of evidence supports the nine potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia modelled by the 2017 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care: less education, hypertension, hearing impairment, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, and low social contact. We now add three more risk factors for dementia with newer, convincing evidence. These factors are excessive alcohol consumption, traumatic brain injury, and air pollution. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30367-6/fulltext

Which Countries Are The Best In Wildlife Conservation? Botswana tops the list of countries that are doing the most to protect wildlife. It has the highest conservation land ratios in Africa and more than 25 percent of its land area is reserved for parks and other reserves.

Namibia ranks second in the list. The country is so serious about wildlife conservation it’s the first nation in Africa to include laws that work towards protecting the environment in its constitution.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-countries-are-the-best-in-wildlife-conservation.html

Reducing Premature Mortality from Cardiovascular and Other Non-Communicable Diseases by One Third: Achieving Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 3.4.1. https://globalheartjournal.com/article/10.5334/gh.531/

The end, and the beginning, of global mental health. The Lancet Psychiatry‘s recent Position Paper on how mental health care should change as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic was welcomed by many, but others expressed disquiet at its lack of authors from low-income and middle-income countries. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30348-5/fulltext

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Saturday, 1 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 1, 2020, 04:47 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 01-08-2020 05:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

2 Death

Africa CDC Dashboard 30 July 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 804 Cases/100k 34 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 63 Tests 68,423 Tests/case 85.1 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 7/30/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 482,169 Cases/100k 830 Deaths 7,812 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 309,601 Tests 2,918,049 Tests/case 6.1 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 7/30/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	2,052
	Cases/100k	79
	Deaths	10
	CFR	0.5
	Recoveries	164
	Tests	25,625
	Tests/case	12.5
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	7/30/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	3,092
Cases/100k	18
Deaths	53
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	924
Tests	129,899
Tests/case	42.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	7/30/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 1 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 87, 31 July 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c2bvcUtMgIk7Kvnm7RmXFlcC8beCzcMf/view?fbclid=IwAR0cDgcCbuDkGHiQ791V6y2uK8cXxcvpiZu1HhCuC5CEvbN-2xTFmrIgpGg

NEWS

Discovery of mechanism behind HIV infections could also hold key to COVID-19. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/discovery-of-mechanism-behind-hiv-infections-could-also-hold-key-to-covid-19/1ZJxjfM1S8cqat9WdAnrf1?utm_medium=email&ipost_environment=m3usainc&iqs=9z2zao11jmdv1rlqjf2mum8d034tvoi484fa8ugusg0&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+7%2F31%2F2020+Evening+

Ventilators are not the answer in Africa. https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/2517

Re-engineering antibodies for COVID-19. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/re-engineering-antibodies-for-covid-19/3uOs0j2kkrUktoDaq1sjMC?ipost_environment=m3usainc&utm_medium=email&iqs=9z2ztv7pls7hu6g6p2ddhhvghk24q6imioacdn5slr0&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+7%2F31%2F2020+Evening+

COVID-19 has “devastating” effect on women and girls. As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates, fears are increasing about the effect of the pandemic on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and their access to care. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31679-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

COVID-19: Young Kids as Carriers / Remdesivir Recommended / Election Safety. https://www.jwatch.org/fw116886/2020/07/30/covid-19-young-kids-carriers-remdesivir-recommended

Update Alert: Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-0944

RESOURCES

African Journal of PHC and Family Medicine. A special collection of short reports on Covid19 responses in Africa https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm

OTHER NEWS

Women ‘put careers on hold’ to home school during UK Covid-19 lockdown

New research from UCL reveals impact of coronavirus pandemic on parenting, work and finances across four generations

The truth is out there, somewhere. The tidal wave of information on the internet concerning the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in difficulties in discerning truth from fiction. This so-called infodemic, defined by WHO as an “overabundance of information—some accurate and some not—that makes it harder for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when needed”, has become a major threat to public health. Infection rates will rise if people are confused about restrictions and patients may be harmed if they use unproven treatments or bogus remedies. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31678-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

From Twitter—could not find link–

Meaghan Sydlowski@m_sydlowski Excited to share findings from our@HarvardPGSSCstudy on the #safesurgery2020 surgical mentorship program in Ethiopia @AcademyHealth#annualresearchmeeting

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Monday, 3 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 3, 2020, 02:25 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 03-08-2020 04:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 1 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 804 Cases/100k 34 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 63 Tests 68,423 Tests/case 85.1 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/1/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 503,290 Cases/100k 866 Deaths 8,153 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 342,461 Tests 3,001,985 Tests/case 6.0 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/1/2020
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	2,224
	Cases/100k	86
	Deaths	11
	CFR	0.5
	Recoveries	171
	Tests	26,344
	Tests/case	11.8
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/1/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	3,659
Cases/100k	21
Deaths	69
CFR	1.9
Recoveries	1,011
Tests	132,535
Tests/case	36.2
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/1/2020,

NEWS

South Africa registers more than half a million coronavirus cases

Infections rise following easing of lockdown as government struggles to retain public trust

Weighing the Benefits and Risks of Proliferating Observational Treatment Assessments. Observational Cacophony, Randomized Harmony. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769139?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080320#.XycuKi5CvuY.twitter

Covid-19: Remdesivir probably reduces recovery time, but evidence is uncertain, panel finds. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3049

Remdesivir for severe covid-19: a clinical practice guideline. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2924?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

How does SARS-CoV-2 cause COVID-19? https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6503/510?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Twitter

Age-Related Differences in Nasopharyngeal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Levels in Patients With Mild to Moderate Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Here, we report that replication of SARS-CoV-2 in older children leads to similar levels of viral nucleic acid as adults, but significantly greater amounts of viral nucleic acid are detected in children younger than 5 years.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2768952?utm_source=undefined&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=073020&fbclid=IwAR1zIHmraLQmzBjnKUfvHRRuJlV13chi4fJntAMYFhxFpz_MLYhZ23g3m7w#.XyNyImjnx-k.email

What kind of face mask best protects against coronavirus?

Your questions answered on what type of mask to wear to cut the risk of getting Covid-19

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/01/what-kind-of-face-mask-best-protects-against-coronavirus?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Researchers around the world are developing more than 165 vaccines against the coronavirus, and 27 vaccines are in human trials. Vaccines typically require years of research and testing before reaching the clinic, but scientists are racing to produce a safe and effective vaccine by next year. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR1rbjoZVPwa3RUNjhwfry_vhzvYZd5RPj3IQnIhzctI96_ISstl_-NQpIk

RESOURCES

African Journal of PHC and Family Medicine. A special collection of short reports on Covid19 responses in Africa https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm

OTHER NEWS

Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo: anti-apartheid campaigner. Few have done as much to forge an individual identity as “Dr Goonam”, the name Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (1906–98) adopted as the first woman of colour to practise medicine in South Africa during the 1930s. She demanded women’s inclusion in political organisations representing her Indian community, and joined others in passionate opposition to the apartheid policies that oppressed them. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31595-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email#.XxroAZliWWM.twitter

Conference cancelled: The equitable flip side of the academic surgery coin. Conferences have long come with substantial barriers that have made it difficult for those who would benefit most to attend. First, as the majority of academic conferences occur in high-income countries (HICs), accessibility has prevented many, especially from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to attend meetings in HICs for which visas are often hard to obtain. Second, while some conferences have minimized trainee registration fees or customized charges depending on the country of origin, many meetings remain with considerable costs–often in high-end venues with little to no food or drinks. https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(20)30437-2/fulltext#%20

World Breastfeeding Week 2020 Message. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/31-07-2020-world-breastfeeding-week-2020-message

Burnout, A Silent Crisis In Global Health. https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2020/07/20/burnout-a-silent-crisis-in-global-health/?subId3=xid:fr1596336245288ihi#fd741964df82

WHO Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. https://www.who.int/departments/science-division/behavioural-insights/technical-advisory-group-on-behavioural-insights-and-sciences-for-health

Women Physicians and the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769140?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=073120#.XySRO83PqRc.twitter

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Tuesday, 4 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 4, 2020, 02:59 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 04-08-2020 04:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 2 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 804 Cases/100k 34 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 63 Tests 68,423 Tests/case 85.1 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/2/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 511,485 Cases/100k 880 Deaths 8,366 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 347,227 Tests 3,036,779 Tests/case 5.9 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/2/2020
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	2,294
	Cases/100k	88
	Deaths	11
	CFR	0.5
	Recoveries	187
	Tests	27,718
	Tests/case	12.1
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/2/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	3,921
Cases/100k	23
Deaths	70
CFR	1.8
Recoveries	1,016
Tests	134,209
Tests/case	34.2
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/2/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 4 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 88, 3 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P8YJns9dzT6Q98lV6TEZqWE81JsWHNJ8/view?fbclid=IwAR3p0GsVBn6PRPXXwP6dHvb7KMHVaWFgMwjyFa7xXDfYantZ-XTi5Gb2OSU

NEWS

The unanticipated costs of COVID-19 to South Africa’s quadruple disease burden. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13018/9439

Next big COVID-19 treatment may be manufactured antibodies. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-treatments-antibod-idUSKBN24Z1DY?taid=5f27fc6d9139ad0001b9c191&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Long term respiratory complications of covid-19. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3001?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Mortality in the most affected countries. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

Nearly half of COVID-19 patients at a New York City hospital developed severe kidney damage – and 82% of them had NO history of renal problems. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8588277/Nearly-half-COVID-19-patients-New-York-City-developed-severe-kidney-damage.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus&ito=social-twitter_dailymailus&ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

Jubilant Life Sciences launches generic version of remdesivir for COVID-19 treatment. In May 2020, Jubilant entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Gilead Sciences Inc that granted it the right to register, manufacture and sell the US-based firm’s investigational drug remdesivir in 127 countries, including India, the statement said. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/jubilant-life-sciences-launches-generic-version-of-remdesivir-for-covid-19-treatment-5641611.html

Finding a path to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30249-2/fulltext

Community hospital’s losing battle with COVID-19: A surgery resident’s account. https://bulletin.facs.org/2020/07/community-hospitals-losing-battle-with-covid-19-a-surgery-residents-account/?fbclid=IwAR2-zOcrUWFlZz2JMY7Z05CIMWEpLjHl5CFV8OY-170jQptzszNVzQjLFUY

RESOURCES

4 former FDA commissioners: Blood plasma might be the covid-19 treatment we need. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/03/4-former-fda-commissioners-blood-plasma-might-be-covid-19-treatment-we-need/?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-g-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Annals of Internal Medicine for Educators – 4 August 2020. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AWED202008040

African Journal of PHC and Family Medicine. A special collection of short reports on Covid19 responses in Africa https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm

South African Medical Journal August 2020. A number of COVID articles. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/issue/current/showToc

OTHER NEWS

Women Physicians and the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769140?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=073120#.XySRO83PqRc.twitter

But is it publishable? Mastering the MMed message. We suggest that research is more likely to be publishable if it is locally relevant, has a clear clinical message and is coherently presented http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13033/9408

Research in COVID-19 times: The way forward. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13020/9436

The role of family physicians in emergency and essential surgical care in the district health system in South Africa . https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/5117/6225

Four in 10 dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting risk factors, report says. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3050?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Wednesday, 5 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 5, 2020, 03:45 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 05-08-2020 05:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 3 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 804 Cases/100k 34 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 63 Tests 68,423 Tests/case 85.1 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/3/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 521,318 Cases/100k 897 Deaths 8,539 CFR 1.6 Recoveries 358,037 Tests 3,058,695 Tests/case 5.9 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/3/2020
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	2,470
	Cases/100k	95
	Deaths	12
	CFR	0.5
	Recoveries	211
	Tests	29,233
	Tests/case	11.8
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/3/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,221
Cases/100k	24
Deaths	81
CFR	1.9
Recoveries	1,238
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	15.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/3/2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 5 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 89. 4 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1coOhclCsOC7MB6NEDVJ2wtzHVU_xckNO/view

NEWS

‘We’re in for a bad and rocky ride:’ Ex-WHO doctor who helped eradicate smallpox predicts COVID-19 turmoil for years. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-re-in-for-a-bad-and-rocky-ride-ex-who-doctor-who-helped-eradicate-smallpox-predicts-covid-19-turmoil-for-years/ar-BB17wGHU?ocid=msedgntp

Convalescent Plasma Reduced Death Rate Among Covid-19 Patients, Study Data Signals. Hospitalized patients who got earlier transfusions of blood plasma rich in antibodies to the coronavirus show a lower mortality rate. https://www.wsj.com/articles/convalescent-plasma-reduced-death-rate-among-covid-19-patients-study-data-signals-11596594390?mod=e2tw

Could this COVID-19 ‘health passport’ be the future of travel and events? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/covid-19-passport-app-health-travel-covidpass-quarantine-event

Does drinking alcohol increase your risk for COVID-19? Two doctors explain. Alcohol weakens your immune system and can put you at a greater risk for COVID-19. How much is too much? https://www.cnet.com/health/does-alcohol-make-covid-19-worse/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&PostType=link&TheTime=2020-08-04T21%3A15%3A34&ServiceType=twitter&UniqueID=A2D98198-D697-11EA-AD2B-71034844363C

Scientists Uncover Biological Signatures of the Worst Covid-19 Cases. Studies of patients with severe cases of Covid-19 show the immune system lacks its usual coordinated response. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/health/coronavirus-immune-system.html?partner=IFTTT

RESOURCES

Annals of Internal Medicine for Educators – 4 August 2020. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AWED202008040

African Journal of PHC and Family Medicine. A special collection of short reports on Covid19 responses in Africa https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm

South African Medical Journal August 2020. A number of COVID articles. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/issue/current/showToc

OTHER NEWS

Revisiting the WHO Analgesic Ladder for Surgical Management of Pain. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/revisiting-who-analgesic-ladder-surgical-management-pain/2020-08?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_term=842020&utm_content=20-9999+EM+August+2020+Journal+of+Ethics+Newsletter&utm_campaign=&utm_uid=%%Party_ID%%&utm_effort=

Natural Toxins Likely Killed Hundreds Of Botswana Elephants: Govt. https://www.ibtimes.com/natural-toxins-likely-killed-hundreds-botswana-elephants-govt-3020565

But is it publishable? Mastering the MMed message. We suggest that research is more likely to be publishable if it is locally relevant, has a clear clinical message and is coherently presented http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13033/9408

Research in COVID-19 times: The way forward. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13020/9436

The role of family physicians in emergency and essential surgical care in the district health system in South Africa . https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/5117/6225

Four in 10 dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting risk factors, report says. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3050?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Thursday, 6 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 6, 2020, 03:41 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 06-08-2020 04:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 4 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 804 Cases/100k 34 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 63 Tests 68,423 Tests/case 85.1 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/4/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 521,318 Cases/100k 897 Deaths 8,884 CFR 1.7 Recoveries 363,751 Tests 3,078,202 Tests/case 5.9 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/4/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	2,540
	Cases/100k	98
	Deaths	12
	CFR	0.5
	Recoveries	556
	Tests	29,779
	Tests/case	11.7
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/4/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,221
Cases/100k	24
Deaths	81
CFR	1.9
Recoveries	1,238
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	15.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/4/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 5 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 90, 5 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oj57xePrIPH_wdovTgmQklzRxwK2vE1F/view

https://twitter.com/BWGovernment/status/1291062768553144321/photo/1

NEWS

Covid-19: Where are we on immunity and vaccines? https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3096?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Botswana Gazette. Covid Surge. 5 August 2020. https://www.thegazette.news/e-edition/#book/8

Bosetu unhappy with failure to enforce Covid-19 protocols in schools. https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=86504&dir=2020/august/04

Statement from Yale Faculty on Hydroxychloroquine and its Use in COVID-19. We write with grave concern that too many are being distracted by the ardent advocacy of our Yale colleague, Dr. Harvey Risch, to promote the assertion that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) when given with antibiotics is effective in treating COVID-19, in particular as an early therapeutic intervention for the disease. As his colleagues, we defend the right of Dr. Risch, a respected cancer epidemiologist, to voice his opinions. But he is not an expert in infectious disease epidemiology and he has not been swayed by the body of scientific evidence from rigorously conducted clinical trials, which refute the plausibility of his belief and arguments. https://medium.com/@gregggonsalves/statement-from-yale-faculty-on-hydroxychloroquine-and-its-use-in-covid-19-47d0dee7b2b0

Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine shows promising immune response, early data show. A potential Covid-19 vaccine from the biotech company Novavax showed a promising immune response in a small, early trial, but not without a high rate of mostly mild side effects.https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/04/novavaxs-covid-19-vaccine-shows-promising-immune-response-early-data-show/

Opinion: To enable UHC, close COVID-19 testing and gender gaps. Right now, only 52 countries out of 194 are reporting sex-disaggregated data on COVID-19 infections and mortality. Moreover, of countries reporting full and partial data, 14 countries report 70% or more infections in men and 5 countries report over 80% of infections in men. The foot soldiers in the COVID-19 crisis and the people who drive health systems are women: they make up 80% of nurses globally, 90% of social care workers, and 70% of the global health workforce overall, suggesting fewer women than men at the physician level. Yet women occupy only 25% of decision-making roles in global health. https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-to-enable-uhc-close-covid-19-testing-and-gender-gaps-97703

When a Contagion Comes, Women Bear a Heavy Burden. While contagions like Covid-19 might kill more men, the impact of a pandemic on women’s lives is vast and understudied. https://undark.org/2020/08/03/contagion-women-bear-heavy-burden/

Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Manuscript Submissions by Women. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/2769186?guestAccessKey=f98df018-1fd0-4746-8225-3888d2dd12f4&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jamasurg&utm_term=3553062593&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=96070152

Covid-19: WHO to send 43 experts to SA to assist with pandemic. https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/covid-19-who-to-send-43-experts-to-sa-to-assist-with-pandemic-20200805

RESOURCES

Frequently Asked Questions About COVID-19 Clinical Studies. https://www.coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org/clinical-studies-faq/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter,%20facebook,%20instagram&utm_campaign=promotion_faq_7162020

Annals of Internal Medicine for Educators – 4 August 2020. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AWED202008040

African Journal of PHC and Family Medicine. A special collection of short reports on Covid19 responses in Africa https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm

South African Medical Journal August 2020. A number of COVID articles. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/issue/current/showToc

OTHER NEWS

Revisiting the WHO Analgesic Ladder for Surgical Management of Pain. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/revisiting-who-analgesic-ladder-surgical-management-pain/2020-08?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_term=842020&utm_content=20-9999+EM+August+2020+Journal+of+Ethics+Newsletter&utm_campaign=&utm_uid=%%Party_ID%%&utm_effort=

Natural Toxins Likely Killed Hundreds Of Botswana Elephants: Govt. https://www.ibtimes.com/natural-toxins-likely-killed-hundreds-botswana-elephants-govt-3020565

Creating a “Quarantine Curriculum” to Enhance Teaching and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2020/08000/Creating_a__Quarantine_Curriculum__to_Enhance.3.aspx?sessionEnd=true

The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. Gender is everywhere in global health discourse and promises, but nowhere in action or accountability plans. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31547-6/fulltext?utm_campaign=comment20&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Friday, 7 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 7, 2020, 03:02 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 07-08-2020 04:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 5 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 909 Cases/100k 38 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 74 Tests 74,234 Tests/case 81.7 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/5/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 529,877 Cases/100k 912 Deaths 9,298 CFR 1.8 Recoveries 377,266 Tests 3,113,191 Tests/case 5.9 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/5/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	2,652
	Cases/100k	102
	Deaths	15
	CFR	0.6
	Recoveries	563
	Tests	31,172
	Tests/case	11.8
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/5/2020

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,339
Cases/100k	25
Deaths	84
CFR	1.9
Recoveries	1,264
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	14.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/5/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 7 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 91, 6 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-6MeNwnkx0X9E133DMP_knD34gc1kCHB/view?fbclid=IwAR3NMW-w6NWXZ2F-SR3so7XOoQXTey_yyLszIKYS3l94trGSdm3QtmZ7hU8

From Twitter

NEWS

Coronavirus live news: Africa passes 1 million cases; deaths in US ‘could reach 300,000’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/07/coronavirus-live-news-africa-passes-1-million-cases-checkpoints-outside-new-york-city

WHO warns against ‘vaccine nationalism’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/07/coronavirus-live-news-africa-passes-1-million-cases-checkpoints-outside-new-york-city?page=with:block-5f2c8c818f08da3d16036fff#block-5f2c8c818f08da3d16036fff

Malawi human rights groups warn of Covid deaths in packed prisons. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/06/malawi-human-rights-groups-warn-of-covid-deaths-in-packed-prisons

Australian develops effective Triple Therapy to treat COVID-19. A combination of FDA and TGA approved Ivermectin, Zinc and Doxycycline has shown positive results for COVID-19 and should be considered immediately to fight the pandemic’ says CDD Medical Director Professor Thomas Borody https://www.biospectrumasia.com/news/91/16457/australian-develops-effective-triple-therapy-to-treat-covid-19.html?fbclid=IwAR0o3Z764DTH35gF3vq0Uj0OAKWqghssiYnGLDg3IMnXPcKhNPv2xNe7tXc

Even Asymptomatic People Carry the Coronavirus in High Amounts. Researchers in South Korea found that roughly 30 percent of those infected never develop symptoms yet probably spread the virus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/health/coronavirus-asymptomatic-transmission.html

Impact of COVID-19 on maternal and child health. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30328-4/fulltext

Behavioural fatigue: a flawed idea central to a flawed pandemic response. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3093

The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away

No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/coronavirus-will-never-go-away/614860/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20200806&silverid-ref=NjQ0MDQ3NzMyNzczS0

RESOURCES

Annals of Internal Medicine for Educators – 4 August 2020. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AWED202008040

African Journal of PHC and Family Medicine. A special collection of short reports on Covid19 responses in Africa https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm

South African Medical Journal August 2020. A number of COVID articles. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/issue/current/showToc

OTHER NEWS

Johns Hopkins switches to virtual fall semester as pandemic worsens, urges students not to return to Baltimore. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/06/johns-hopkins-switches-virtual-fall-semester-pandemic-worsens-urges-students-not-return-baltimore/

Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die. Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-immunity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery/614956/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20200806&silverid-ref=NjQ0MDQ3NzMyNzczS0

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Saturday, 8 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 8, 2020, 03:31 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804*		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

*SEE AFRICA CDC BELOW FOR MORE CURRENT COUNT

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 08-08-2020 04:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 6 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 909 Cases/100k 38 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 74 Tests 74,234 Tests/case 81.7 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/6/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 538,184 Cases/100k 926 Deaths 9,604 CFR 1.8 Recoveries 387,316 Tests 3,149,807 Tests/case 5.9 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/6/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	2,652
	Cases/100k	102
	Deaths	15
	CFR	0.6
	Recoveries	563
	Tests	31,172
	Tests/case	11.8
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/6/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,395
Cases/100k	25
Deaths	97
CFR	2.2
Recoveries	1,264
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	14.4
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/6/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 8 August 2020

From Twitter

NEWS

Professor Mosepele resigns from Covid-19 task team. https://www.sundaystandard.info/professor-mosepele-resigns-from-covid-19-task-team/

Total confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa pass 1 million. World Health Organization warns figure is ‘the tip of the iceberg’ and that the true number could be much higher. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/06/total-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-in-africa-pass-1-million

SA reports 305 new COVID-19 related deaths. https://www.enca.com/news/sa-reports-305-new-covid-19-related-deaths

SeroTracker: a global SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence dashboard. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30631-9/fulltext

CAPRISA’s Director appointed to the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. Professor Salim Abdool Karim (Salim S. Abdool Karim is a South African clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist who is widely recognised for his research contributions in HIV prevention and treatment. He is Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) https://www.samrc.ac.za/people/prof-salim-abdool-karim ) is one of 28 commissioners appointed to the Lancet COVID-19 Commission ‘created to help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the pandemic’. https://www.caprisa.org/NewsAndEvents/Read/10483#.XyrK-F4s21g.twitter

RESOURCES

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. OPEN ACCESS. https://www.thelancet.com/gbd . SIGN UP FOR ALERTS. https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg

Supporting your child’s mental health as they return to school during COVID-19. How parents can help their children navigate their feelings during school reopenings. https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/supporting-your-childs-mental-health-during-covid-19-school-return

Frequently Asked Questions About COVID-19 Clinical Studies. https://www.coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org/clinical-studies-faq/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter,%20facebook,%20instagram&utm_campaign=promotion_faq_7162020

Annals of Internal Medicine for Educators – 4 August 2020. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AWED202008040

African Journal of PHC and Family Medicine. A special collection of short reports on Covid19 responses in Africa https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm

South African Medical Journal August 2020. A number of COVID articles. http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/issue/current/showToc

OTHER NEWS

Botswana diamond exports fall by two thirds on COVID-19. GABORONE, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Botswana’s rough diamond exports plunged 68% percent in the second quarter of the year, data published by the central bank showed on Friday, as the Coronavirus pandemic hit demand while global travel restrictions hurt trading. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/botswana-diamond-exports-fall-two-155515743.html

The end, and the beginning, of global mental health. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30348-5/fulltext

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Monday, 10 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 10, 2020, 03:47 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	804*		2		63	739	1	341	0.8	68,423

*SEE AFRICA CDC BELOW FOR MORE CURRENT COUNT

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 10-08-2020 05:34 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

804 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 8 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 909 Cases/100k 38 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 74 Tests 74,234 Tests/case 81.7 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/8/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 553,188 Cases/100k 952 Deaths 10,210 CFR 1.8 Recoveries 404,568 Tests 3,220,265 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/8/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	2,852
	Cases/100k	110
	Deaths	16
	CFR	0.6
	Recoveries	640
	Tests	33,151
	Tests/case	11.6
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/8/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,575
Cases/100k	26
Deaths	102
CFR	2.2
Recoveries	1,416
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	13.8
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/8/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 10 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 92, 7 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13gXwhj14881cJVewIpjELAeilCzmnJMA/view?fbclid=IwAR3Cj202d8M-nQ4MF09wE_9UgwFDz90ODdx1sim0Wjp6bXISPCauso2S_gA

From Twitter

NEWS

COVID-19 in Africa: Dampening the storm? However, more than 4 months after the first cases in Africa were detected, prevalence and mortality are still low. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6504/624

Zimbabwe Covid-19 death toll breaches 100 mark, Africa cases top million. Zimbabwe has reported 4,451 cases including 56 on Friday. https://www.zimlive.com/2020/08/08/zimbabwe-covid-19-death-toll-breaches-100-mark-africa-cases-top-million/

OPEN LETTER. The wearing of face masks in African countries under the COVID-19 crisis: luxury or necessity? AAS Open Research[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/3-36/v1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=etoc_alert_WEEKLY

Recovery after severe COVID infection poses unique challenges. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/recovery-after-severe-covid-infection-poses-unique-challenges/3eAF8SbGtB2OohoIxSgAmN?utm_medium=email&ipost_environment=m3usainc&iqs=9z2zh2n4mcm3ksu78ccqb4vf9umlod5mqm76aviinao&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+8%2F09%2F2020+Morning

Strong link found between abnormal liver tests and poor COVID-19 outcomes. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/strong-link-found-between-abnormal-liver-tests-and-poor-covid-19-outcomes/62T02X3quARxyENd5XKdnn?utm_medium=email&ipost_environment=m3usainc&iqs=9z2zbuallommhuecq2hdk863133lol5kjn0u61u5uk0&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+8%2F09%2F2020+Morning

The rush to create a covid-19 vaccine may do more harm than good. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/08/05/the-rush-to-create-a-covid-19-vaccine-may-do-more-harm-than-good/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

One more reason to wear a mask: You’ll get less sick from COVID-19. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/one-more-reason-to-wear-a-mask-youll-get-less-sick-from-covid-19/4nnRpBYcaEiQROfvhWSyVh?ipost_environment=m3usainc&utm_medium=email&iqs=9z2zbaeh7rp7kf8r0gtr6n6hg92gl3m256jpscluuj8&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+8%2F08%2F2020+Evening

Audio Interview: The Impact of Covid-19 on Patients with Other Diseases, with Arnold Epstein. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2027046?query=C19&cid=DM96666_NEJM_Registered_Users_and_InActive&bid=238109870

Scientists get ‘initial hit’ in developing drug to treat COVID-19. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/scientists-get-initial-hit-in-developing-drug-to-treat-covid-19/6Fhb0sQqwbRPxRbFiGGCm?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=08-06-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50181

WHO dispatches team of experts to South Africa as country’s COVID-19 cases hit 530k Read more: https://www.tuko.co.ke/372417-who-dispatches-team-experts-south-africa-countrys-covid-19-cases-hit-530k.html

Experts Discuss COVID-19—Remdesivir, Vaccines, and More. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769289?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080920#.XzB25DZlm30.twitter

RESOURCES

ACADEMIC MEDICINE, August 2020 – Volume 95 – Issue 8. MOST OPEN ACCESS. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/currenttoc.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. OPEN ACCESS. https://www.thelancet.com/gbd . SIGN UP FOR ALERTS. https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Sexual & Reproductive Health in Africa. Webinar hosted by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations (IUSSP). 4-day webinar from 31 August to 3 September 2020. 15:00-16:30 UTC , 15:00-16:30 Dakar | 17:00-18:30 Cape Town | Registration. https://iussp.org/en/iussp-webinar-covid-19-pandemic-and-sexual-reproductive-health-africa

OTHER NEWS

The potential public health consequences of COVID-19 on malaria in Africa. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1025-y

Precision Nutrition—the Answer to “What to Eat to Stay Healthy”. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769420?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080920#.Xy_EqFV1hn8.twitter

Improving Medical Students’ OSCE Performance in Telehealth. The Effects of a Telephone Medicine Curriculum. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Improving_Medical_Students__OSCE_Performance_in.97088.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Precision Nutrition—the Answer to “What to Eat to Stay Healthy”. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769420?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080920#.XzBliHo2U59.twitter

Coronavirus FAQ: Can An Airline Put You On A No-Fly List For Refusing To Mask Up? https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/07/900159750/coronavirus-faq-can-an-airline-put-you-on-a-no-fly-list-for-refusing-to-mask-up?utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Tuesday, 11 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 11, 2020, 04:02 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,066	[262]	2		80	984	1	452	0.8	80,163

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 11-08-2020 05:35 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,066 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 9 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 909 Cases/100k 38 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 74 Tests 74,234 Tests/case 81.7 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/9/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 559,858 Cases/100k 964 Deaths 10,408 CFR 1.9 Recoveries 411,147 Tests 3,250,583 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/9/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	3,101
	Cases/100k	119
	Deaths	19
	CFR	0.6
	Recoveries	715
	Tests	35,175
	Tests/case	11.3
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/9/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,649
Cases/100k	27
Deaths	104
CFR	2.2
Recoveries	1,437
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	13.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/9/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 11 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 93, 10 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hzT83lkJp48Wdhk92OXXZOvjuRybiDPf/view

From Twitter

NEWS

Botswana: Health Ministry Engages Over 400 Contact Tracers. https://allafrica.com/stories/202008100631.html

HIV Patients’ Privacy Compromised Over COVID-19. HIV patients find themselves having to give up their statuses to law enforcement officers and members of the public during commute, as those without travel permits are forced to produce evidence of medical appointments. https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=86576&dir=2020/august/10

Exaggerated risk of transmission of COVID-19 by fomites. None of these studies present scenarios akin to reallife situations. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473-3099(20)30561-2.pdf

Good news for lockdown rules and COVID-19 in South Africa. South Africa’s COVID-19 infections show signs of slowing across most provinces, and Ramaphosa could announce eased lockdown restrictions later this week. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/trending/363312-good-news-for-lockdown-rules-and-covid-19-in-south-africa.html

Up to 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to be made available for low- and middle-income countries as early as 2021. Geneva, 7 August 2020 – A new landmark collaboration between SII, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, Gavi and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will accelerate the manufacture and delivery of up to 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as part of the Gavi COVAX AMC, a mechanism within the COVAX Facility. https://www.gavi.org/news/media-room/100-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-available-low-and-middle-income-countries-2021

Children and the virus: As schools reopen, much remains unknown about the risk to kids and the peril they pose to others. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/children-and-the-virus-as-schools-reopen-much-remains-unknown-about-the-risk-to-kids-and-the-peril-they-pose-to-others/2020/08/09/e40f0862-d81e-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

Covid-19 travel restrictions devastate Africa’s tourism. https://www.chronicle.co.zw/covid-19-travel-restrictions-devastate-africas-tourism/

The World Records Its 20 Millionth Case of COVID-19. https://time.com/5878112/20-million-cases-covid-19/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=health_covid-19&linkId=96724042

RESOURCES

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. OPEN ACCESS. https://www.thelancet.com/gbd . SIGN UP FOR ALERTS. https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

OTHER NEWS

Six million Euros made available for conservation action to counter COVID-19 impacts. https://www.iucn.org/news/secretariat/202008/six-million-euros-made-available-conservation-action-counter-covid-19-impacts

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Wednesday, 12 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 12, 2020, 05:01 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,066	[262]	2		80	984	1	452	0.8	80,163

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 12-08-2020 06:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,066 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 10 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	ountry Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,066 Cases/100k 44 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 80 Tests 80,163 Tests/case 75.2 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/10/2020 Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 563,598 Cases/100k 970 Deaths 10,621 CFR 1.9 Recoveries 417,200 Tests 3,267,494 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/10/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	3,101
	Cases/100k	119
	Deaths	19
	CFR	0.6
	Recoveries	715
	Tests	35,175
	Tests/case	11.3
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/10/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,748
Cases/100k	27
Deaths	104
CFR	2.2
Recoveries	1,524
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	13.3
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/10/2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 12 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 94, 11 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/14LbemQx76cyRTi42WzCi7oZfHh-WjAx0/view?fbclid=IwAR0kynNfd8mOylVwmc2C3e9jEAN6-_QJQOY3sXHCmxWGVcTvLJiGPaUoF_g

From Twitter

NEWS

Coronavirus Live Updates: Russia Approves a Vaccine Before Completing TrialsRussia is the first country to approve a vaccine, and its announcement raises fears that the country is rushing for political purposes. The number of virus cases worldwide has now passed 20 million. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html

How Covid Sends Some Bodies to War With Themselves. Many Covid-19 patients may be dying from their immune response to the virus, not from the virus itself. Can science figure out how to save them? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/magazine/covid-cytokine-storms.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

The Coronavirus May Mess With Thyroid Levels, Too. Early studies suggest that the thyroid is yet another organ affected by the pandemic coronavirus. https://elemental.medium.com/the-coronavirus-may-mess-with-thyroid-levels-too-87f94e45c5c9

COVID-19: How the pandemic has impacted food security in Southern Africa. https://www.cnbcafrica.com/videos/2020/07/29/covid-19-how-the-pandemic-has-impacted-food-security-in-southern-africa/

What We Know About Aerosols and Coronavirus. Evidence suggests that the coronavirus can stay aloft in the air for hours in tiny droplets, called aerosols, infecting people as they inhale.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/08/burst/aerosols-coronavirus.html?searchResultPosition=2

Covid to displace more than a million across the Sahel, new tool predicts. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/covid-to-displace-more-than-a-million-across-the-sahel-new-tool-predicts/ar-BB17ODQn

Software hailed as a ‘game-changer’ in providing early warning for humanitarian relief efforts as virus fuels conflict. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/11/covid-to-displace-more-than-a-million-across-the-sahel-new-tool-predicts

RESOURCES

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. OPEN ACCESS. https://www.thelancet.com/gbd . SIGN UP FOR ALERTS. https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS Virtual Clinical Congress Program Expanded to Five Days: October 3–7, 2020 The ACS is pleased to offer this expanded Clinical Congress Program at no cost to all interested registrants in light of the economic impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on health care professionals. We look forward to an exciting event and to your participation.

https://www.facs.org/clincon2020/register. The Program Committee, under the leadership of Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), has created a blueprint of this five-day program, which will be available soon after all the moderators have confirmed their participation. New registration information also will be disseminated soon. Recordings of the five-day program will be available after the Virtual Clinical Congress.

OTHER NEWS

Determination of Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria. The World Brain Death Project. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769149

Coronavirus may mean Botswana’s hunting season is cancelled. First hunting season after controversial ban was lifted likely to be hit by coronavirus pandemic. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-botswana-hunting-season-cancelled-200324063714759.html

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Thursday, 13 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 13, 2020, 04:37 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,066		2		80	984	1	452	0.8	80,163

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 13-08-2020 06:29 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,066 Total confirmed cases

2 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 10 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,066 Cases/100k 44 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 80 Tests 80,163 Tests/case 75.2 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/11/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 566,109 Cases/100k 974 Deaths 10,751 CFR 1.9 Recoveries 426,125 Tests 3,278,977 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/11/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	3,229
	Cases/100k	124
	Deaths	19
	CFR	0.6
	Recoveries	715
	Tests	36,287
	Tests/case	11.2
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/11/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,818
Cases/100k	28
Deaths	104
CFR	2.2
Recoveries	1,544
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	13.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/11/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 13 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 95, 12 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cLMAgAXMTiy-gRE5up6MWgWh9KHx7Egv/view?fbclid=IwAR2LQO8N8U8t__liwCj7rgFFzud3wZJnDeg6BUN_SDc5-iu0XLkVUQ29e9E

From Twitter

NEWS

The pandemic appears to have spared Africa so far. Scientists are struggling to explain why. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/pandemic-appears-have-spared-africa-so-far-scientists-are-struggling-explain-why

Racial Disproportionality in Covid Clinical Trials https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2021971?query=TOC

Cheap, frequent COVID tests could be ‘akin to vaccine,’ professor says

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/cheap-daily-covid-tests-could-be-akin-to-vaccine/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020200812%20(1)

Malaria discovery could expedite antiviral treatment for COVID-19. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/malaria-discovery-could-expedite-antiviral-treatment-for-covid-19/5y8ISUqkwvgg0wEKRa4VSU?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=08-11-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50184

Study: Youths who vape, smoke over 5 times more likely to contract coronavirus. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/511510-study-teens-who-vape-smoke-over-5-times-more-likely-to-contract-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR0P-sYsLsdL7zxBczBKZmWF8ZgL9sTKiPrdLD_j2g-yksw37EnorOcDy6k&fbclid=IwAR3QFDd3VZ2zTsgH4qoFecGLhsnguPWx8ZyRusn5BdVaaGHm3hMVy30ewhg

Fighting for breath: how the medical oxygen industry is failing African hospitals Sub-Saharan hospitals are dependent on costly oxygen from multinational. suppliers. As Covid-19 spreads, doctors are being forced to make terrible choices. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/10/fighting-for-breath-how-the-medical-oxygen-industry-is-failing-african-hospitals?utm_term=27d49694bdd7ad071580e231dbf0019a&utm_campaign=GlobalDispatch&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=globaldispatch_email

Covid-19: Healthcare professional is referred to regulator for delaying seeing a patient because of lack of PPE. A healthcare professional is facing a fitness to practise investigation for delaying attending to a covid-19 positive patient because of inadequate personal protective equipment (PPE), in what may be the first case of its kind.https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3201?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Covid-19: SA achieves 75% recovery rate, KZN overtakes Western Cape slightly. https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/covid-19-sa-achieves-75-recovery-rate-kzn-overtakes-western-cape-slightly-20200812

This Uganda-built smartphone lets you monitor #Covid19 fever, helping detect a potential symptom of Covid-19. It is claimed to be the first of its kind in Africa https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-08-12/a-phone-that-checks-temperatures-video?sref=Yg3sQEZ2&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business

The link between blood type and COVID-19

https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2020/08/12/best-life-link-between-blood-type-covid-/

FROM TWITTER: BREAKING NEWS: Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a Covid-19 vaccine. Russia would soon start mass-producing the vaccine Russia signed deals to supply South Africa with the vaccine. https://twitter.com/Mfundoyakhe_S/status/1293182151773560832

Obesity and Mortality Among Patients Diagnosed With COVID-19: Results From an Integrated Health Care Organization . https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3742

RESOURCES

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. OPEN ACCESS. https://www.thelancet.com/gbd . SIGN UP FOR ALERTS. https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

https://www.facs.org/clincon2020/register. The Program Committee, under the leadership of Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), has created a blueprint of this five-day program, which will be available soon after all the moderators have confirmed their participation. New registration information also will be disseminated soon. Recordings of the five-day program will be available after the Virtual Clinical Congress.

OTHER NEWS

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Friday, 14 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 14, 2020, 04:14 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,214		3	1	120	1,091	1	515	1	87,280

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 14-08-2020 05:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,214 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 12 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,066 Cases/100k 44 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 80 Tests 80,163 Tests/case 75.2 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/12/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 568,919 Cases/100k 979 Deaths 11,010 CFR 1.9 Recoveries 432,029 Tests 3,295,434 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/12/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	3,406
	Cases/100k	131
	Deaths	22
	CFR	0.6
	Recoveries	835
	Tests	36,743
	Tests/case	10.8
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/12/2020

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,893
Cases/100k	28
Deaths	122
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	1,620
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	12.9
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/12/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 14 August 2020

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY – EMERGENCY POWERS (COVID-19) REGULATIONS, 2020. 13 August https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e6wgNCKKPI-OK2fZ65J9CnCRBQ0GyIOt/view?fbclid=IwAR0SXIafWrv5cMR8_FUdgVkHicF2Ce3r6FjJhuiAbVvjbgsUKFnOnjCRRyY

NEWS

Exclusive: U.S. recruits scientists abroad for COVID-19 vaccine trials, pledges access to supply. The Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine project is recruiting scientists in South Africa and Latin America to help test possible vaccines in U.S.- backed clinical trials, pledging to ease their countries’ access to any successful products, Reuters has learned. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-u-s-recruits-scientists-abroad-for-covid-19-vaccine-trials-pledges-access-to-supply/ar-BB17VsWA?ocid=msedgntp

Effect of an Inactivated Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 on Safety and Immunogenicity Outcomes. Interim Analysis of 2 Randomized Clinical Trials. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769612?guestAccessKey=0beed652-5f28-4a01-be60-396adbf0e0db&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3584380468&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=97028772

Contact Settings and Risk for Transmission in 3410 Close Contacts of Patients With COVID-19 in Guangzhou, China. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2671

Precision Public Health as a Key Tool in the COVID-19 Response. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769563?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=081320#.XzT3cXE82bo.twitter

Mortality rates are lower with higher continuity of care, review finds. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3184

Use of electronic tools for evidence-based preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the WHO African region. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30170-9/fulltext

Regulatory T Cells Tested in Patients With COVID-19 ARDS. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769243?guestAccessKey=9af7a54c-c3a6-4df7-8cd8-617be28435de&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3574798829&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=96774222

Redfield: This Fall Could Be ‘Worst’ We’ve Seen. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200812/redfield-this-fall-could-be-the-worse-weve-seen?fbclid=IwAR05YCKDulAqpEtDv6ICHifXladpk4rEczjuExAn9rJ97i2ZiljN2fAPLJ8

RESOURCES

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. OPEN ACCESS. https://www.thelancet.com/gbd . SIGN UP FOR ALERTS. https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

https://www.facs.org/clincon2020/register. The Program Committee, under the leadership of Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), has created a blueprint of this five-day program, which will be available soon after all the moderators have confirmed their participation. New registration information also will be disseminated soon. Recordings of the five-day program will be available after the Virtual Clinical Congress.

OTHER NEWS

Report says 815 million children have high blood lead levels. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31684-6/fulltext?utm_campaign=WR&utm_content=137094089&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Moral responsibility in medicine: where are the boundaries? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31643-3/fulltext

PRINT

Book Review: Why You Should Think Twice About Showering In “Clean: The New Science of Skin,” James Hamblin seeks to upend some popular wisdom about personal cleanliness. https://undark.org/2020/08/07/book-review-clean/?fbclid=IwAR1mXvvC0wMUgj1O2sXCDja6kA9NnmJN114OxOhNXfHt4zFSGBvcQGZmls4

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Friday, 14 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 14, 2020, 04:14 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,214		3	1	120	1,091	1	515	1	87,280

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 14-08-2020 05:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,214 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 12 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,066 Cases/100k 44 Deaths 2 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 80 Tests 80,163 Tests/case 75.2 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/12/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 568,919 Cases/100k 979 Deaths 11,010 CFR 1.9 Recoveries 432,029 Tests 3,295,434 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/12/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	3,406
	Cases/100k	131
	Deaths	22
	CFR	0.6
	Recoveries	835
	Tests	36,743
	Tests/case	10.8
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/12/2020

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,893
Cases/100k	28
Deaths	122
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	1,620
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	12.9
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/12/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 14 August 2020

NEWS

Exclusive: U.S. recruits scientists abroad for COVID-19 vaccine trials, pledges access to supply. The Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine project is recruiting scientists in South Africa and Latin America to help test possible vaccines in U.S.- backed clinical trials, pledging to ease their countries’ access to any successful products, Reuters has learned. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-u-s-recruits-scientists-abroad-for-covid-19-vaccine-trials-pledges-access-to-supply/ar-BB17VsWA?ocid=msedgntp

Effect of an Inactivated Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 on Safety and Immunogenicity Outcomes. Interim Analysis of 2 Randomized Clinical Trials. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769612?guestAccessKey=0beed652-5f28-4a01-be60-396adbf0e0db&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3584380468&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=97028772

Contact Settings and Risk for Transmission in 3410 Close Contacts of Patients With COVID-19 in Guangzhou, China. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2671

Precision Public Health as a Key Tool in the COVID-19 Response. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769563?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=081320#.XzT3cXE82bo.twitter

Mortality rates are lower with higher continuity of care, review finds. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3184

Regulatory T Cells Tested in Patients With COVID-19 ARDS. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769243?guestAccessKey=9af7a54c-c3a6-4df7-8cd8-617be28435de&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3574798829&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=96774222

Redfield: This Fall Could Be ‘Worst’ We’ve Seen. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200812/redfield-this-fall-could-be-the-worse-weve-seen?fbclid=IwAR05YCKDulAqpEtDv6ICHifXladpk4rEczjuExAn9rJ97i2ZiljN2fAPLJ8

RESOURCES

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. OPEN ACCESS. https://www.thelancet.com/gbd . SIGN UP FOR ALERTS. https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

https://www.facs.org/clincon2020/register. The Program Committee, under the leadership of Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), has created a blueprint of this five-day program, which will be available soon after all the moderators have confirmed their participation. New registration information also will be disseminated soon. Recordings of the five-day program will be available after the Virtual Clinical Congress.

OTHER NEWS

Moral responsibility in medicine: where are the boundaries? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31643-3/fulltext

PRINT

Book Review: Why You Should Think Twice About Showering In “Clean: The New Science of Skin,” James Hamblin seeks to upend some popular wisdom about personal cleanliness. https://undark.org/2020/08/07/book-review-clean/?fbclid=IwAR1mXvvC0wMUgj1O2sXCDja6kA9NnmJN114OxOhNXfHt4zFSGBvcQGZmls4

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Saturday, 15 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 15, 2020, 04:38 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,214		3	1	120	1,091	1	515	1	87,280

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 15-08-2020 05:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,214 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 13 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,214 Cases/100k 51 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 120 Tests 87,280 Tests/case 71.9 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/13/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 572,865 Cases/100k 986 Deaths 11,270 CFR 2.0 Recoveries 437,617 Tests 3,315,497 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/13/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	3,544
	Cases/100k	136
	Deaths	27
	CFR	0.8
	Recoveries	848
	Tests	37,797
	Tests/case	10.7
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/13/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	4,990
Cases/100k	29
Deaths	128
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	1,927
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	12.7
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/13/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 15 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 97, 14 August 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jQNKB_k79MR7em7C8lSNeBrbdg6Gdf4f/view?fbclid=IwAR2lyKwVExxtx5dwH0F_Z7KZ-jFxdE2xBNRwRGsMcH65L1O7fXNKewwFbWg

NEWS

Africa begins continent-wide study of COVID-19 antibodies. https://apnews.com/d944e5cc043a4673db198b921a9c2032?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP_Africa&utm_source=Twitter

SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing of skin for COVID-19 diagnostics: a case report. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31754-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Doctors Warn of Increase in TB, Malaria, HIV Deaths Due to COVID-19. https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/doctors-warn-increase-tb-malaria-hiv-deaths-due-covid-19?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Africa marks six months of COVID-19. https://www.afro.who.int/news/africa-marks-six-months-covid-19

Limited COVID-19 testing? Researchers in Rwanda have an idea. https://apnews.com/bcbbea9a87e5fb2c75611f4da65d4a06

COVID-19 delays South African circumcision rituals. https://www.enca.com/life/covid-19-delays-south-african-circumcision-rituals

Sex differential in COVID-19 mortality varies markedly by age. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31748-7/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

COVID-19 worsens Zimbabwe’s health crisis. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31751-7/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Antibody therapies could be a bridge to a coronavirus vaccine — but will the world benefit? Monoclonal antibodies are complex and expensive to produce, meaning poor countries might be priced out. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02360-y?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf236818845=1

Lagos’s poor lament Covid fallout: ‘we don’t see the virus, we see suffering’. Lockdown has tipped many working-class Nigerians from struggle to crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/14/lagoss-poor-lament-covid-fallout-we-dont-see-the-virus-we-see-suffering

Coronavirus Antibody: Clinical Trials of Drugs Are Taking Longer Than Expected. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-antibody-clinical-trials-of-drugs-are-taking-longer-than-expected/ar-BB17XVcL?ocid=msedgntp

US eyes controversial human challenge trials for COVID-19 vaccine. The synthetic strain would be used in studies where patients are purposely infected to test a vaccine’s efficacy. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/eyes-controversial-human-challenge-trials-covid-19-vaccine-200814122549913.html

Rural communities in Africa should not be forgotten in responses to COVID‐19. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hpm.3039

The impact of Covid-19 school closedowns in East Africa. https://www.nation.co.ke/kenya/blogs-opinion/blogs/dot9/madut/the-impact-of-covid-19-school-closedowns-in-east-africa-1919258

Vitamin D deficiency in African Americans is associated with a high risk of severe disease and mortality by SARS-CoV-2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32792611/

RESOURCES

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

Date: 26 August 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Webinar

RSVP: Click here by 11:00 on 26 August 2020

Requirements: Stable internet access. More details will be communicated to registered participants before the webinar.

Enquiries: Contact Ms Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator at Mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

https://www.facs.org/clincon2020/register. The Program Committee, under the leadership of Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), has created a blueprint of this five-day program, which will be available soon after all the moderators have confirmed their participation. New registration information also will be disseminated soon. Recordings of the five-day program will be available after the Virtual Clinical Congress.

OTHER NEWS

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Monday, 17 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 17, 2020, 03:30 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,214		3	1	120	1,091	1	515	1	87,280

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 17-08-2020 04:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,214 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 15 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,214 Cases/100k 51 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 120 Tests 87,280 Tests/case 71.9 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/15/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 583,653 Cases/100k 1,005 Deaths 11,677 CFR 2.0 Recoveries 466,941 Tests 3,378,029 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/15/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	3,907
	Cases/100k	150
	Deaths	35
	CFR	0.9
	Recoveries	2,352
	Tests	40,397
	Tests/case	10.3
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/15/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	5,176
Cases/100k	30
Deaths	130
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	2,047
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	12.2
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/15/2020

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 17 August 2020

FROM TWITTER—17 AUGUST 2020

NEWS

Botswana Lifts Lockdown in Capital Despite Worrying Rise in COVID-19 Cases. https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/botswana-lifts-lockdown-capital-despite-worrying-rise-covid-19-cases

Coronavirus Live Updates: Scientists See Signs of Lasting Immunity, Even After Mild Infections. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Even mild Covid-19 cases confer ‘durable immunity,’ new studies find. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage#link-2f7e6633

Safety and immunogenicity of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: a preliminary report of a phase 1/2, single-blind, randomised controlled trialhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673620316044

One of the Biggest COVID Risks Actually Only Affects Men, Study Finds. However, a surprising new study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine finds that obesity—once considered an equal threat to men and women alike—may only serve as an independent risk factor in the cases of men.https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/one-of-the-biggest-covid-risks-actually-only-affects-men-study-finds/ar-BB1807Ns?ocid=msedgdhp

Medical Students Are Not Essential Workers: Examining Institutional Responsibility During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2020/08000/Medical_Students_Are_Not_Essential_Workers_.26.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=acadmedjournal&utm_content=e383dd94-d292-4df5-8cce-b8fb313b4be0

Don’t just look at covid-19 fatality rates. Look at people who survive — but don’t entirely recover. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-just-look-at-covid-19-fatality-rates-look-at-people-who-survive–but-dont-entirely-recover/2020/08/14/3b3de170-de6a-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html

US Scientists Say COVID Particles Can Spread as Much as 4.8 Meters from the Infected. https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/us-scientists-say-covid-particles-can-spread-much-48-meters-infected

A molecular pore spans the double membrane of the coronavirus replication organelle. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/05/science.abd3629

Red Cross, Coca-Cola team-up to aid Kweneng West during COVID-19. https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=86635&dir=2020/august/14

Using the COVID-19 to influenza ratio to estimate early pandemic spread in Wuhan, China and Seattle, US. The spread of COVID-19 in Wuhan and Seattle was far more extensive than initially reported. The virus likely spread for months in Wuhan before the lockdown. Given that COVID-19 appears to be overwhelmingly mild in children, our high estimate for symptomatic pediatric cases in Seattle suggests that there may have been thousands more mild cases at the time. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30223-6/fulltext

Anakinra for severe forms of COVID-19: a cohort study. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanrhe/PIIS2665-9913(20)30164-8.pdf

CORRESPONDENCE: #1: https://thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(20)30271-X/fulltext… #2: https://thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(20)30272-1/fulltext… #3: https://thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(20)30273-3/fulltext… Authors’ reply: https://thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(20)30274-5/fulltext… #LancetRheumatology

Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

FDA clears saliva test for Covid-19, opening door to wider testing, https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/15/fda-clears-saliva-test-for-covid-19-opening-door-to-wider-testing/?utm_content=buffer2eee0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter_organic

RESOURCES

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

Date: 26 August 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Webinar

RSVP: Click here by 11:00 on 26 August 2020

Requirements: Stable internet access. More details will be communicated to registered participants before the webinar.

Enquiries: Contact Ms Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator at Mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

https://www.facs.org/clincon2020/register. The Program Committee, under the leadership of Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), has created a blueprint of this five-day program, which will be available soon after all the moderators have confirmed their participation. New registration information also will be disseminated soon. Recordings of the five-day program will be available after the Virtual Clinical Congress.

OTHER NEWS

Botswana elephant deaths tests inconclusive but poisoning not ruled out. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Botswana_elephant_deaths_tests_inconclusive_but_poisoning_not_ruled_out

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Tuesday, 18 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 18, 2020, 03:08 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,308	[96]	3	1	136	1,169	1	555	1	87,280

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 18-08-2020 05:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,308 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 16 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,214 Cases/100k 51 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 120 Tests 87,280 Tests/case 71.9 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/16/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 587,345 Cases/100k 1,011 Deaths 11,839 CFR 2.0 Recoveries 472,377 Tests 3,400,638 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/16/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	4,154
	Cases/100k	160
	Deaths	35
	CFR	0.8
	Recoveries	2,370
	Tests	41,146
	Tests/case	9.9
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/16/2020

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	5,261
Cases/100k	30
Deaths	132
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	2,092
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	12.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/16/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 18 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 98, 17 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pAfSn4huu33vJu2zv6fPTCpO9vDy0vPr/view

FROM TWITTER—18 AUGUST 2020

NEWS

US drug company starts Covid-19 vaccine trial in South Africa. American vaccine development company Novavax says it has begun a Phase 2b clinical trial in South Africa to evaluate the efficacy of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate. Dr Shabir Madhi, professor of Vaccinology at Wits University, will lead the clinical trial which is supported in part by a $15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the company said in a statement on Monday (17 August).https://businesstech.co.za/news/trending/426012/us-drug-company-starts-covid-19-vaccine-trial-in-south-africa/

SADC commended for reducing impact of COVID-19. https://www.theafricanconversations.com/sadc-commended-for-reducing-impact-of-covid-19/

GCC Wants 24-Hour Dispensaries. Gaborone City Council (GCC) has taken a resolution in which it wants the Ministry of Health and Wellness to open a 24-hour medical dispensary at clinics that operate into the night. City councillors’ concerns are that it does not serve a purpose for patients to consult at the clinics and only end up waiting for hours before they get their prescribed medication. https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=86666&dir=2020/august/17

COVID-19: an opportunity to improve infection prevention and control in LMICs. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30352-1/fulltext

You might be protected from coronavirus if you survived it – but only for three months, CDC guidance suggests. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8629345/You-protected-coronavirus-survived-CDC-suggests.html

The conundrum of interleukin-6 blockade in COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(20)30287-3/fulltext

A friend in California is in this study–PFIZER AND BIONTECH CHOOSE LEAD MRNA VACCINE CANDIDATE AGAINST COVID-19 AND COMMENCE PIVOTAL PHASE 2/3 GLOBAL STUDY. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-choose-lead-mrna-vaccine-candidate-0?fbclid=IwAR3bNiADVGjem5L6Zi_bziJ3yki1PTRJt7a1YjVaz76OUWBFgFNoj97o21w#.XznLB0Jid0w.twitter

How can I help shielded trainees return to work? https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3188?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

USC scientists identify the order of COVID-19’s symptoms. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/usc-scientists-identify-the-order-of-covid-19-and-8217-s-symptoms/6yQFmwiRR2NopamwQ4B1IU?publish_dt=08-14-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ajm_50211

Covid-19: breaking the chain of household transmission. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3181?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

RESOURCES

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

Date: 26 August 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Webinar

RSVP: Click here by 11:00 on 26 August 2020

Requirements: Stable internet access. More details will be communicated to registered participants before the webinar.

Enquiries: Contact Ms Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator at Mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

https://www.facs.org/clincon2020/register. The Program Committee, under the leadership of Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), has created a blueprint of this five-day program, which will be available soon after all the moderators have confirmed their participation. New registration information also will be disseminated soon. Recordings of the five-day program will be available after the Virtual Clinical Congress.

OTHER NEWS

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Wednesday, 19 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 19, 2020, 02:55 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,308		3	1	136	1,169	1	555	1	93,420

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 19-08-2020 05:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,308 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 17 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,308 Cases/100k 55 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 136 Tests 93,420 Tests/case 71.4 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/17/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 589,886 Cases/100k 1,015 Deaths 11,982 CFR 2.0 Recoveries 477,671 Tests 3,415,670 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/17/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	4,464
	Cases/100k	172
	Deaths	37
	CFR	0.8
	Recoveries	2,407
	Tests	42,945
	Tests/case	9.6
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/17/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	5,308
Cases/100k	31
Deaths	135
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	3,848
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	11.9
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/17/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 19 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 99, 18 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16AAGTsClaVbaKZCu1fE7RThpUjMYALlG/view?fbclid=IwAR21sgQC2U1M_1IkbNc2sbKnkkxn-5MQqzOV36Lm48Hd48eSBBCzs04IjAE

FROM TWITTER

NEWS

COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30651-4/fulltext?utm_campaign=tlcoronavirus20&utm_content=137555696&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292

Two existing drugs point to a potential new target against COVID-19. Both drugs, vacuolin-1 and apilimod, originally developed years ago, target a large enzyme called PIKfyve kinase. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/two-existing-drugs-point-to-a-potential-new-target-against-covid-19/4D0rEheOwPAHZgSGEskLtj?iqs=9z2z30a991qb9ovhlor7g90lkoon86ndvb3aoseooq0&utm_medium=email&ipost_environment=m3usainc&show_order=2&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+8%2F18%2F2020+Evening+Snippet

Considerations for stakeholder engagement and COVID‐19 related clinical trials’ conduct in sub‐Saharan Africa, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dewb.12283#.XzjUc92qUv0.twitter

Wits University begins its second Covid-19 vaccine trial in South Africa. https://www.wits.ac.za/covid19/covid19-news/latest/wits-university-begins-its-second-covid-19-vaccine-trial-in-south-africa.html

Flu was all but eliminated in South Africa this year. Coronavirus is to thank. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/south-africa-coronavirus-flu-season/2020/08/17/bd8aaaca-e084-11ea-82d8-5e55d47e90ca_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

Africa Launches Covid-19 Continent-Wide Antibodies Study. https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

University signs agreement to develop Covid-19 ventilator in Africa. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/14269/

South Africans cheer lifting of ban on selling alcohol and cigarettes. Crime drops during five-month measure to free hospitals for Covid patients – and not everyone welcomes relaxation. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/south-africans-cheer-lifting-of-ban-on-selling-alcohol-and-cigarettes

RESOURCES

WHO Africa Online Press Briefing On COVID-19 In Africa. Please join an online media briefing with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti and UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Mohamed Malick Fall. The briefing is on-the-record and it is an opportunity for you to ask questions about the COVID-19 in Africa. The media briefing is facilitated by APO Group. Date: Thursday 20 August Time: 11:00–12:00 Brazzaville/Niamey GMT +1 (13:00-14:00 Nairobi Time)

Speakers include:

Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa
Mohamed Malick Fall, UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa.

BMJ–Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

The Virtual Symposium Platform for the NIH Common Fund’s new Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa) program is hosting interactive panels and networking opportunities through November 2020. The Platform communicates key priorities for the newly-issued DS-I Africa funding opportunities; engages participants in robust scientific sessions that examine the state of data science across Africa; and encourages networking across disciplines, sectors and geographies. Advance registration is required to participate in interactive sessions and activities!

https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData/funding

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

Date: 26 August 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Webinar

RSVP: Click here by 11:00 on 26 August 2020

Requirements: Stable internet access. More details will be communicated to registered participants before the webinar.

Enquiries: Contact Ms Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator at Mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

https://www.facs.org/clincon2020/register. The Program Committee, under the leadership of Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, FRCSEng(Hon), has created a blueprint of this five-day program, which will be available soon after all the moderators have confirmed their participation. New registration information also will be disseminated soon. Recordings of the five-day program will be available after the Virtual Clinical Congress.

OTHER NEWS

SA likely to see boom in cults after Covid-19, warn researchers. https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/sa-likely-to-see-boom-in-cults-after-covid-19-warn-researchers-bccaf6b6-168b-4d81-95a2-640f7d290f9e

Africa: Guidelines for Protecting the Rights of Women and Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://ippfar.org/resource/africa-guidelines-protecting-rights-women-and-girls-during-covid-19-pandemic

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Friday, 21 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 21, 2020, 03:59 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,308		3	1	136	1,169	1	555	1	93,420

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 21-08-2020 05:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,308 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 19 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	ountry Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,308 Cases/100k 55 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 136 Tests 93,420 Tests/case 71.4 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/19/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 596,060 Cases/100k 1,026 Deaths 12,423 CFR 2.1 Recoveries 491,441 Tests 3,455,671 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/19/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	4,665
	Cases/100k	179
	Deaths	39
	CFR	0.8
	Recoveries	2,426
	Tests	43,990
	Tests/case	9.4
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/19/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	5,643
Cases/100k	33
Deaths	150
CFR	2.7
Recoveries	4,442
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	11.2
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Angola
Region	Southern
Cases	2,015
Cases/100k	6
Deaths	92
CFR	4.6
Recoveries	698
Tests	67,623
Tests/case	33.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	10,372
Cases/100k	57
Deaths	274
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	9,240
Tests	104,178
Tests/case	10.0
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Mozambique
Region	Southern
Cases	2,991
Cases/100k	10
Deaths	19
CFR	0.6
Recoveries	1,247
Tests	79,504
Tests/case	26.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Lesotho
Region	Southern
Cases	996
Cases/100k	43
Deaths	30
CFR	3.0
Recoveries	472
Tests	12,682
Tests/case	12.7
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Eswatini
Region	Southern
Cases	4,058
Cases/100k	290
Deaths	79
CFR	1.9
Recoveries	2,611
Tests	33,562
Tests/case	8.3
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Malawi
Region	Southern
Cases	5,240
Cases/100k	27
Deaths	164
CFR	3.1
Recoveries	2,857
Tests	40,640
Tests/case	7.8
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Central
Cases	9,757
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	247
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	8,895
Tests	52,474
Tests/case	5.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Madagascar
Region	Eastern
Cases	14,154
Cases/100k	52
Deaths	177
CFR	1.3
Recoveries	13,038
Tests	58,870
Tests/case	4.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	10,372
Cases/100k	57
Deaths	274
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	9,240
Tests	104,178
Tests/case	10.0
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/19/2020,
Country	Tanzania
Region	Eastern
Cases	509
Cases/100k	1
Deaths	21
CFR	4.1
Recoveries	178
Tests	3,880
Tests/case	7.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/19/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 21 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 100, 19 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LBvK-Jk4LjMmdm5KryhmkKk_MbhfPO2N/view

NEWS

Africa beginning to ‘bend the curve’ of coronavirus: Africa CDC. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/africa-beginning-to-bend-the-curve-of-coronavirus-africa-cdc-idUSKBN25G1O6

More infectious coronavirus mutation may be ‘a good thing,’ says disease expert. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/more-infectious-coronavirus-mutation-may-be-a-good-thing-says-disease-expert/1dPVSRorNaBn4XOp9MXCCS?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=08-19-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50214

Coronavirus on a plane: One flight’s history outlines the risk. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/coronavirus-on-a-plane-one-flights-history-outlines-the-risk/5kl7mAiaLKn2LJNLa2sK38?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=08-18-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50214

Improving handwashing habits and household air quality in Africa after COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30353-3/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Evidence grows that children may play a larger role in transmission than previously believed. Latest study is small but shows that kids’ rates of infection and viral loads may make them silent spreaders. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/20/children-coronavirus-spread-transmission/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

WHO warns young people are emerging as main spreaders of the coronavirus

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/who-warns-young-people-are-emerging-as-main-spreaders-of-the-coronavirus/2020/08/18/1822ee92-e18f-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html?hpid=hp_national-right-4-0_hse-latest-feed%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Mild COVID-19 cases can produce strong T cell response. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/mild-covid-19-cases-can-produce-strong-t-cell-response/3HWdqrApGfa84eT3wzDTGS?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=08-17-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50213

Botswana keeps its eye on SMEs safety amid pandemic. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/20/c_139306009.htm

Covid-19: Less haste, more safety. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3258?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

RESOURCES

BMJ–Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData/funding

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

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BMJ’s covid-19 hub supports health professionals and researchers with practical guidance, online CPD courses, as well as the latest news, comment, and research from BMJ. The content is free and updated daily. https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus

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OTHER NEWS

Breast cancer survival and survival gap apportionment in sub-Saharan Africa (ABC-DO): a prospective cohort study. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30261-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Pulse oximetry in low-resource settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7333981/

ADHD medications can have adverse cardiovascular effects. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/adhd-medications-can-have-adverse-cardiovascular-effects/F3MCEVTvs6xWxDXlPgNzL?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=08-18-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50213

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UB COVID-19 Information Digest Saturday, 22 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 22, 2020, 04:02 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,308		3	1	136	1,169	1	555	1	93,420

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 22-08-2020 05:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,308 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 20 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,308 Cases/100k 55 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 136 Tests 93,420 Tests/case 71.4 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/20/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 599,940 Cases/100k 1,033 Deaths 12,618 CFR 2.1 Recoveries 497,169 Tests 3,480,283 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/20/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	5,227
	Cases/100k	201
	Deaths	41
	CFR	0.8
	Recoveries	2,442
	Tests	45,744
	Tests/case	8.8
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/20/2020

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	5,745
Cases/100k	33
Deaths	151
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	4,525
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	11.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Angola
Region	Southern
Cases	2,044
Cases/100k	6
Deaths	93
CFR	4.5
Recoveries	742
Tests	67,623
Tests/case	33.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	10,627
Cases/100k	59
Deaths	277
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	9,437
Tests	105,664
Tests/case	9.9
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Mozambique
Region	Southern
Cases	3,115
Cases/100k	10
Deaths	20
CFR	0.6
Recoveries	1,380
Tests	82,264
Tests/case	26.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Lesotho
Region	Southern
Cases	1,015
Cases/100k	44
Deaths	30
CFR	3.0
Recoveries	472
Tests	13,330
Tests/case	13.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Eswatini
Region	Southern
Cases	4,110
Cases/100k	294
Deaths	81
CFR	2.0
Recoveries	2,643
Tests	33,562
Tests/case	8.2
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Malawi
Region	Southern
Cases	5,282
Cases/100k	27
Deaths	165
CFR	3.1
Recoveries	2,883
Tests	41,026
Tests/case	7.8
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Central
Cases	9,802
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	248
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	8,920
Tests	52,783
Tests/case	5.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Madagascar
Region	Eastern
Cases	14,218
Cases/100k	53
Deaths	178
CFR	1.3
Recoveries	13,206
Tests	59,444
Tests/case	4.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	10,627
Cases/100k	59
Deaths	277
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	9,437
Tests	105,664
Tests/case	9.9
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Tanzania
Region	Eastern
Cases	509
Cases/100k	1
Deaths	21
CFR	4.1
Recoveries	178
Tests	3,880
Tests/case	7.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/20/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 22 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 102, 21 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fQyfyntCxYjCeYY5vWJiBuulU8gkrhOS/view?fbclid=IwAR17ax4phTxB8rOYdgGk4PYf5JBAl12LgwhvK2uL8kIjNcoDYQ160wj0gCQ

NEWS

COVID-19 and readjusting clinical trials. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31787-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

South Africa surpasses 600,000 cases; WHO: Children over 12 should wear face masks; WHO hopes coronavirus crisis can be over in less than two years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/21/coronavirus-live-news-latin-america-deaths-near-250000-russia-to-start-mass-vaccine-trials?page=with:block-5f402f028f08f9fdc758b147#block-5f402f028f08f9fdc758b147

Effect of Remdesivir vs Standard Care on Clinical Status at 11 Days in Patients With Moderate COVID-19A Randomized Clinical Trial. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769871?guestAccessKey=5ce5a00b-1a73-4e59-84d0-40afa16337d3&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=3613922957&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=97809762

How does immunity against coronavirus work? New research shows how antibodies can block it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/how-does-immunity-against-coronavirus-work-new-research-shows-how-antibodies-can-block-it/ar-BB18dZjE

Airborne transmission of covid-19. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3206

RESOURCES

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BMJ–Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

https://commonfund.nih.gov/AfricaData/funding

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

Date: 26 August 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Webinar

RSVP: Click here by 11:00 on 26 August 2020

Requirements: Stable internet access. More details will be communicated to registered participants before the webinar.

Enquiries: Contact Ms Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator at Mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

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OTHER NEWS

Ebola outbreak in western DR Congo hits 100 cases. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ebola-outbreak-in-western-dr-congo-hits-100-cases/ar-BB18eIej

Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31561-0/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email

Water and sanitation in a post-COVID world. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30368-5/fulltext

Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30278-3/fulltext

It Hurts Whether You Fail or Not. Failure is an intense experience for health care professionals. Even in most cases when the patient experiences no lasting harm, the professional who failed will suffer. There is no getting used to this pain. We cannot prepare for it, and often we feel alone in working through it. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2020/08000/It_Hurts_Whether_You_Fail_or_Not.39.aspx

Challenges Facing Otolaryngologists in Low- and Middle-Income Countries During theCOVID-19 Pandemic. https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0165587620304651?token=DFDBCD73E36A478741004D065B917145C2D5ABD166FAF9D7DBAE9AFC956491111579BBDCC0326861CC16629BF09EBFF0

We Asked the Experts: Global Surgery—Seeing Beyond the Silo. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-020-05747-0

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Monday, 24 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 24, 2020, 03:17 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,308		3	1	136	1,169	1	555	1	93,420

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 24-08-2020 04:27 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,308 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 22 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,308 Cases/100k 55 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 136 Tests 93,420 Tests/case 71.4 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/22/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 607,045 Cases/100k 1,045 Deaths 12,987 CFR 2.1 Recoveries 504,127 Tests 3,535,067 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/22/2020
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	5,538
	Cases/100k	213
	Deaths	46
	CFR	0.8
	Recoveries	2,460
	Tests	48,808
	Tests/case	8.8
	Epidemic Phase	2
	Date	8/22/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	5,893
Cases/100k	34
Deaths	153
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	4,629
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	10.7
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/22/2020,
Country	Angola
Region	Southern
Cases	2,044
Cases/100k	6
Deaths	93
CFR	4.5
Recoveries	742
Tests	67,623
Tests/case	33.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/20/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,082
Cases/100k	61
Deaths	280
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	10,062
Tests	107,964
Tests/case	9.7
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/22/2020,
Country	Mozambique
Region	Southern
Cases	3,395
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	20
CFR	0.6
Recoveries	1,503
Tests	86,549
Tests/case	25.5
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/22/2020,
Country	Lesotho
Region	Southern
Cases	1,015
Cases/100k	44
Deaths	30
CFR	3.0
Recoveries	472
Tests	13,330
Tests/case	13.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/22/2020
Country	Eswatini
Region	Southern
Cases	4,189
Cases/100k	299
Deaths	83
CFR	2.0
Recoveries	2,762
Tests	33,562
Tests/case	8.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/22/2020,
Country	Malawi
Region	Southern
Cases	5,414
Cases/100k	27
Deaths	168
CFR	3.1
Recoveries	3,012
Tests	42,015
Tests/case	7.8
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/22/2020,
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Central
Cases	9,830
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	251
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	8,934
Tests	53,459
Tests/case	5.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/22/2020,
Country	Madagascar
Region	Eastern
Cases	14,327
Cases/100k	53
Deaths	178
CFR	1.2
Recoveries	13,355
Tests	60,161
Tests/case	4.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/22/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,082
Cases/100k	61
Deaths	280
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	10,062
Tests	107,964
Tests/case	9.7
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/22/2020,
Country	Tanzania
Region	Eastern
Cases	509
Cases/100k	1
Deaths	21
CFR	4.1
Recoveries	178
Tests	3,880
Tests/case	7.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/22/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 24 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 102, 21 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fQyfyntCxYjCeYY5vWJiBuulU8gkrhOS/view?fbclid=IwAR17ax4phTxB8rOYdgGk4PYf5JBAl12LgwhvK2uL8kIjNcoDYQ160wj0gCQ

NEWS

Histopathological findings and viral tropism in UK patients with severe fatal COVID-19: a post-mortem study. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30115-4/fulltext

Apples and oranges: international comparisons of COVID-19 observational studies in ICUs. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30368-4/fulltext

Addressing Postpandemic Clinician Mental Health. A Narrative Review and Conceptual Framework. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-4199

Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness Among Teachers and Adults Living With School-Aged Children. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5413

Face coverings for covid-19: from medical intervention to social practice. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3021

Inflammation: the key factor that explains vulnerability to severe COVID. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/inflammation-the-key-factor-that-explains-vulnerability-to-severe-covid/1VDTAqey0jzUDz04yM7rIV?utm_medium=email&publish_dt=08-21-2020&utm_source=alert&utm_campaign=ajm_50222

Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19. Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/long-haulers-covid-19-recognition-support-groups-symptoms/615382/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20200821&silverid-ref=NjQ0MDQ3NzMyNzczS0

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spreads more indoors at low humidity. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/coronavirus-sars-cov-2-spreads-more-indoors-at-low-humidity/7HiQR9pHrvkGz3QsbFwMKh?iqs=9z2z3d6q8jaru2qu3icnq8rtj46hm1tijvhic37v4cg&utm_medium=email&ipost_environment=m3usainc&show_order=3&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+8%2F21%2F2020+Evening+Snippet

Critical drug shortages caused by COVID-19. https://www.mdlinx.com/article/critical-drug-shortages-caused-by-covid-19/1yrBAMojw6N6vw7s1czB7c

The challenges of informative wastewater sampling for SARS-CoV-2 must be met: lessons from polio eradication. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30100-2/fulltext

SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Community Health Workers in India Before and After Use of Face Shields. This study found no SARS-CoV-2 infections among community health workers after the addition of face shields to their personal protective equipment. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769693

The wearing of face masks in African countries under the COVID-19 crisis: luxury or necessity? [version 1; peer review: 1 approved] https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/3-36

RESOURCES

Academic Medicine COVID-19 Collection
Academic Medicine has created an online collection of all our published content related to COVID-19. Please check back regularly, as the collection will be updated frequently as new articles are published.https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollectionId=68&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH Sep 2020; Volume 8; Number 9e1101-e1241; Open Access https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/issue/current

The Lancet Microbe https://www.thelancet.com/microbe. New Lancet journal. Read open access articles from The Lancet Microbe, which publishes research on clinically relevant microbes at all scales

BMJ–Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

NEJM Catalyst Collection Covid-19: Managing the Surge. Exclusive content from NEJM Catalyst on the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Need to register. https://store.nejm.org/signup/covid19response?query=C19&cid=DM97469_NEJM_Registered_Users_and_InActive&bid=244697254

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

Date: 26 August 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Webinar

RSVP: Click here by 11:00 on 26 August 2020

Requirements: Stable internet access. More details will be communicated to registered participants before the webinar.

Enquiries: Contact Ms Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator at Mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg?utm_campaign=lancet-gbd-alerts20&utm_source=email&utm_medium=spj-edc-feature&utm_content=etoc

OTHER NEWS

Population-level emergence of bedaquiline and clofazimine resistance-associated variants among patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in southern Africa: a phenotypic and phylogenetic analysis. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30031-8/fulltext

Women in Academic Surgery. A Double-Edged Scalpel. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Women_in_Academic_Surgery__A_Double_Edged_Scalpel.97107.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Why the future of medicine and medical education are at risk. https://www.mdlinx.com/article/why-the-future-of-medicine-and-medical-education-are-at-risk/6cciu6uPJgy0jao7Qjpq1d?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ajm_50222

This common kitchen item can improve your overall health. Baking soda. https://www.mdlinx.com/article/this-common-kitchen-item-can-improve-your-overall-health/2m0l0RU4p7Q9wkYxW5AxVG?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ajm_50222

23 Questions to Guide the Writing of a Quantitative Medical Education Research Proposal. https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Citation/9000/23_Questions_to_Guide_the_Writing_of_a.97051.aspx?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=amexpress&utm_content=newsletter

Career development for infection and immunity research in Uganda: a decade of experience from the Makerere University – Uganda Virus Research Institute research and training programme [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/3-26

Community engagement in Genomics research; Challenges and lessons learnt in the AWI-Gen study at Dikgale Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) Site, South Africa [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved] https://aasopenresearch.org/articles/3-38

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Tuesday, 25 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 25, 2020, 04:07 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,562	[254]	3	1	199	1,360	1	662	1	106,284

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 25-08-2020 05:28 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,362 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 23 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,308 Cases/100k 55 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 136 Tests 93,420 Tests/case 71.4 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/23/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 609,773 Cases/100k 1,050 Deaths 13,059 CFR 2.1 Recoveries 506,470 Tests 3,553,425 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/23/2020
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	6,030
	Cases/100k	232
	Deaths	56
	CFR	0.9
	Recoveries	2,509
	Tests	50,391
	Tests/case	8.4
	Epidemic Phase	3
	Date	8/23/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	5,930
Cases/100k	34
Deaths	155
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	4,872
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	10.7
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Angola
Region	Southern
Cases	2,171
Cases/100k	7
Deaths	96
CFR	4.4
Recoveries	818
Tests	67,623
Tests/case	31.1
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,148
Cases/100k	62
Deaths	280
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	10,208
Tests	108,310
Tests/case	9.7
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020
Country	Mozambique
Region	Southern
Cases	3,440
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	21
CFR	0.6
Recoveries	1,661
Tests	87,565
Tests/case	25.5
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Lesotho
Region	Southern
Cases	1,049
Cases/100k	46
Deaths	30
CFR	2.9
Recoveries	484
Tests	14,928
Tests/case	14.2
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Eswatini
Region	Southern
Cases	4,225
Cases/100k	302
Deaths	85
CFR	2.0
Recoveries	2,898
Tests	33,562
Tests/case	7.9
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Malawi
Region	Southern
Cases	5,414
Cases/100k	27
Deaths	168
CFR	3.1
Recoveries	3,012
Tests	42,607
Tests/case	7.9
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Central
Cases	9,842
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	251
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	8,953
Tests	53,613
Tests/case	5.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Madagascar
Region	Eastern
Cases	14,402
Cases/100k	53
Deaths	178
CFR	1.2
Recoveries	13,355
Tests	60,581
Tests/case	4.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,148
Cases/100k	62
Deaths	280
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	10,208
Tests	108,310
Tests/case	9.7
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Tanzania
Region	Eastern
Cases	509
Cases/100k	1
Deaths	21
CFR	4.1
Recoveries	178
Tests	3,880
Tests/case	7.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Eastern
Cases	40,671
Cases/100k	37
Deaths	678
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	14,995
Tests	757,057
Tests/case	18.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Kenya
Region	Eastern
Cases	32,557
Cases/100k	62
Deaths	554
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	18,895
Tests	425,364
Tests/case	13.1
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 24 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 103, 24 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QyKvaqTAjnEzCUWgoEmK5tKstBgGDMZ9/view?fbclid=IwAR2QGAzEWgrgw9UVe0_CnqCq_Yhy-Wqr72EAUw83otslOiAJqb4tJLR3llk

PUBLIC NOTICE – AIR BOTSWANA CONTINUES TO SERVICE THE DOMESTIC MARKET

1. Air Botswana informs its esteemed customers and the public that its scheduled domestic operations are in service post the Greater Gaborone lockdown. As the borders remain closed for non-essential travel, the airline is currently operating both passenger and cargo flights to destinations such as Kasane, Maun and Francistown. The operation remains subject to the national COVID-19 health and safety protocols.

NEWS

China says it began public use of covid-19 vaccine a month ago, bypassing clinical trials. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-says-it-began-public-use-of-covid-19-vaccine-a-month-ago-bypassing-clinical-trials/ar-BB18j82t

It puts everyone in danger if rich countries hoard a vaccine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/it-puts-everyone-in-danger-if-rich-countries-hoard-a-vaccine/2020/08/24/b309f012-e636-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-g-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Why German researchers held a large indoor concert during the pandemic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/24/why-german-researchers-held-large-indoor-concert-during-pandemic/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_viruscrowdstudy-xxpm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Roche, Regeneron link up to develop COVID-19 antibody cocktail. https://www.mdlinx.com/news/roche-regeneron-link-up-to-develop-covid-19-antibody-cocktail/7yuv2hjF0vb8lfVzwIX5Np?iqs=9z2zku2pns4caq1fr4k3a5u9jnc1fl13l47pf9ist40&utm_medium=email&ipost_environment=m3usainc&show_order=4&utm_source=iPost&utm_campaign=All+Specialties+8%2F23%2F2020+Evening+Snippet

F.D.A. Allows Expanded Use of Plasma to Treat Coronavirus Patients. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/us/politics/fda-plasma-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Russian SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. The main concern is that the Russian vaccine has not yet been through a phase III clinical trial. Such a trial, typically involving over 10 000 volunteers and comparing the vaccine with placebo, would seek to prove vaccine efficacy as well as safety. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3270

COVID-19: Africa Should Not Miss Out On The Vaccine – President Kagame. https://www.ktpress.rw/2020/08/covid-19-africa-shouldcovid-1covid-19-africa-should-not-miss-out-on-the-vaccine-president-kagame9-africa-should-not-miss-out-on-the-vaccine-president-kagame-not-miss-out-on-the-vaccine-president-ka/

WHO alerts that vaccine may not be end to Covid-19. https://africachinapresscentre.org/2020/08/22/who-alerts-that-vaccine-may-not-be-end-to-covid-19/

RESOURCES

LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH Sep 2020; Volume 8; Number 9e1101-e1241; Open Access https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/issue/current

BMJ–Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

Date: 26 August 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Webinar

RSVP: Click here by 11:00 on 26 August 2020

Requirements: Stable internet access. More details will be communicated to registered participants before the webinar.

Enquiries: Contact Ms Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator at Mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg?utm_campaign=lancet-gbd-alerts20&utm_source=email&utm_medium=spj-edc-feature&utm_content=etoc

OTHER NEWS

Effect of a quality improvement package for intrapartum and immediate newborn care on fresh stillbirth and neonatal mortality among preterm and low-birthweight babies in Kenya and Uganda: a cluster-randomised facility-based trial. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X20302321

If you need a lifesaving reason to lose weight, the novel coronavirus provides it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/obesity-coronavirus-risk-lose-weight/2020/08/21/1de03bbc-e187-11ea-8dd2-d07812bf00f7_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_obesity-4pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Witnessing death at close range: Tales from wards. Kenya. https://www.nation.co.ke/kenya/life-and-style/lifestyle/-witnessing-death-at-close-range-tales-from-wards-1923616

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Wednesday, 26 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 26, 2020, 03:55 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,562		3		199	1,360	1	662	1	106,284

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 26-08-2020 05:28 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,362 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 24 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,308 Cases/100k 55 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 136 Tests 93,420 Tests/case 71.4 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/24/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 611,450 Cases/100k 1,052 Deaths 13,159 CFR 2.2 Recoveries 516,494 Tests 3,564,065 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/24/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	6,160
	Cases/100k	237
	Deaths	57
	CFR	0.9
	Recoveries	2,732
	Tests	53,387
	Tests/case	8.7
	Epidemic Phase	3
	Date	8/24/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	6,070
Cases/100k	35
Deaths	155
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	4,950
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	10.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Angola
Region	Southern
Cases	2,222
Cases/100k	7
Deaths	100
CFR	4.5
Recoveries	877
Tests	67,623
Tests/case	30.4
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,285
Cases/100k	62
Deaths	282
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	10,400
Tests	108,961
Tests/case	9.7
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Mozambique
Region	Southern
Cases	3,440
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	21
CFR	0.6
Recoveries	1,661
Tests	87,565
Tests/case	25.5
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Lesotho
Region	Southern
Cases	1,049
Cases/100k	46
Deaths	30
CFR	2.9
Recoveries	484
Tests	14,928
Tests/case	14.2
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Eswatini
Region	Southern
Cases	4,304
Cases/100k	307
Deaths	85
CFR	2.0
Recoveries	2,936
Tests	33,562
Tests/case	7.8
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Malawi
Region	Southern
Cases	5,419
Cases/100k	28
Deaths	169
CFR	3.1
Recoveries	3,059
Tests	42,821
Tests/case	7.9
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Central
Cases	9,891
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	251
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	8,972
Tests	53,797
Tests/case	5.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Madagascar
Region	Eastern
Cases	14,475
Cases/100k	54
Deaths	178
CFR	1.2
Recoveries	13,492
Tests	61,027
Tests/case	4.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,148
Cases/100k	62
Deaths	280
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	10,208
Tests	108,310
Tests/case	9.7
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/23/2020,
Country	Tanzania
Region	Eastern
Cases	509
Cases/100k	1
Deaths	21
CFR	4.1
Recoveries	178
Tests	3,880
Tests/case	7.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020,
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Eastern
Cases	42,143
Cases/100k	38
Deaths	692
CFR	1.6
Recoveries	15,262
Tests	775,908
Tests/case	18.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/24/2020
Country	Kenya
Country	Kenya
Region	Eastern
Cases	32,803
Cases/100k	63
Deaths	559
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	19,055
Tests	429,513
Tests/case	13.1
Epidemic Phase	3

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 26 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 104, 25 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16u3_RrAnN5xhUZfGMmQGDjwlE9CS5ylj/view?fbclid=IwAR0WaSx3f-553elr90jAyaG3oG6lNXf8oURW6ud4-78X7DRqhpD7NTetkac

NEWS

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 response: A united, continental strategy. https://blogs.worldbank.org/health/africa-centres-disease-control-and-preventions-covid-19-response-united-continental-strategy

Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: A retrospective cohort study of patients with and without COVID-19. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30262-5/fulltext

COVID-19 Surge Concerns Marina. Already, the hospital commonly known as Marina has recorded 31 new positive cases amongst 15 patients and 16 staff members. A memo by the hospital superintendent, Dr Tshepo Machacha dated August 19, 2020, stated that the rate of infection at the medical wards was alarming. https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=86766&dir=2020/august/24

Include pregnant women in research—particularly covid-19 research. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3305

Evaluation and discussion of handmade face-masks and commercial diving-equipment as personal protection in pandemic scenarios. Home-printed personal protection equipment can be a–yet less efficient–alternative against aerosol in case professional masks are not available, but legal aspects of their use and distribution have to be kept in mind in order to avoid compensation claims. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237899

Clinical trials of disease stages in COVID 19: complicated and often misinterpreted. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30365-X/fulltext

Study suggests your nose is the key entry point for the coronavirus. https://www.ajc.com/life/study-suggests-your-nose-is-the-key-entry-point-for-the-coronavirus/HGON3RM5ORGXTB7NRBEKLEQMSE/

The Science Behind Saliva-Based Rapid Diagnostic Testing. https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/blog/the-science-behind-saliva-based-rapid-diagnostic-testing-338846

Recovery From Severe COVID-19Leveraging the Lessons of Survival From Sepsis. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769290

Experts Discuss COVID-19—Remdesivir, Vaccines, and More. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769289

Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection. https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30673-2/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR1pofpI3t7hToTCbawjde4GTZtE_hy4yA8uRxue_xMv4HMjCtLOt22CZoQ#%20

RESOURCES

LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH Sep 2020; Volume 8; Number 9e1101-e1241; Open Access https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/issue/current

BMJ–Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Supporting online courses. In response to the rapidly evolving challenges posed by COVID-19, we are providing free access to our most relevant CPD online courses to update and refresh clinical knowledge for those supporting our healthcare systems. https://new-learning.bmj.com/covid-19

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to register for a webinar on Let’s ROR Together: An Introduction to the Research Organization Registry

Date: 26 August 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Venue: Webinar

RSVP: Click here by 11:00 on 26 August 2020

Requirements: Stable internet access. More details will be communicated to registered participants before the webinar.

Enquiries: Contact Ms Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi, Project Administrator at Mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za

COVID-19: State of Research in Africa and Preparedness for Future Pandemics by Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Wed, August 26, 2020

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM SAST

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/covid-19-state-of-research-in-africa-and-preparedness-for-future-pandemics-tickets-116086946181?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing

Stay informed of the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study Articles published by the Lancet family of journals―in partnership with the IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation https://info.thelancet.com/gbd-alerts-reg?utm_campaign=lancet-gbd-alerts20&utm_source=email&utm_medium=spj-edc-feature&utm_content=etoc

OTHER NEWS

Investigating the use of ultrasonography for the antenatal diagnosis of structural congenital anomalies in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review. https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000684

Africa declared free of wild polio after decades of work. Achievement comes following Nigeria vaccination drive, with last cases of wild virus recorded four years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/25/africa-to-be-declared-free-of-wild-polio-after-decades-of-work

Covid-19 is threatening Europe’s Schengen passport-free zone. The real value of the Schengen zone is not economic but political. https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/08/22/covid-19-is-threatening-europes-schengen-passport-free-zone?fsrc=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-economist-today&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2020-08-24&utm_content=article-link-3&etear=nl_today_3

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Thursday, 27 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 27, 2020, 03:55 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,633	[71]	6	[3]	224	1,403	1	692	1	109,547

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 27-08-2020 0:28 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,562 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 25 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,308 Cases/100k 55 Deaths 3 CFR 0.2 Recoveries 136 Tests 93,420 Tests/case 71.4 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/25/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 613,017 Cases/100k 1,055 Deaths 13,308 CFR 2.2 Recoveries 520,381 Tests 3,578,836 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/25/2020
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	6,431
	Cases/100k	247
	Deaths	57
	CFR	0.9
	Recoveries	2,732
	Tests	53,387
	Tests/case	8.3
	Epidemic Phase	3
	Date	8/25/2020

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	6,196
Cases/100k	36
Deaths	166
CFR	2.7
Recoveries	4,961
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	10.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020,
Country	Angola
Region	Southern
Cases	2,283
Cases/100k	7
Deaths	102
CFR	4.5
Recoveries	977
Tests	67,623
Tests/case	29.6
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/25/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,376
Cases/100k	63
Deaths	282
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	10,694
Tests	109,560
Tests/case	9.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020,
Country	Mozambique
Region	Southern
Cases	3,508
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	21
CFR	0.6
Recoveries	1,809
Tests	89,158
Tests/case	25.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020
Country	Lesotho
Region	Southern
Cases	1,051
Cases/100k	46
Deaths	31
CFR	2.9
Recoveries	526
Tests	15,023
Tests/case	14.3
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/25/2020
Country	Eswatini
Region	Southern
Cases	4,327
Cases/100k	309
Deaths	86
CFR	2.0
Recoveries	2,959
Tests	35,257
Tests/case	8.1
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020
Country	Malawi
Region	Southern
Cases	5,423
Cases/100k	28
Deaths	170
CFR	3.1
Recoveries	3,066
Tests	42,902
Tests/case	7.9
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Central
Cases	9,912
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	254
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	8,987
Tests	54,014
Tests/case	5.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020
Country	Madagascar
Region	Eastern
Cases	14,554
Cases/100k	54
Deaths	181
CFR	1.2
Recoveries	13,582
Tests	61,465
Tests/case	4.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,376
Cases/100k	63
Deaths	282
CFR	2.5
Recoveries	10,694
Tests	109,560
Tests/case	9.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020,
Country	Tanzania
Region	Eastern
Cases	509
Cases/100k	1
Deaths	21
CFR	4.1
Recoveries	178
Tests	3,880
Tests/case	7.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Eastern
Cases	43,688
Cases/100k	40
Deaths	709
CFR	1.6
Recoveries	15,796
Tests	794,686
Tests/case	18.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020
Country	Kenya
Region	Eastern
Cases	33,016
Cases/100k	63
Deaths	564
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	19,296
Tests	429,513
Tests/case	13.0
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/25/2020
From Twitter https://twitter.com/AfricaCDC/status/1298540771516264451/photo/1

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 27 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 105, 26 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rGQR9MoadxKCE-r6DOTFmWfB6MhcF1UF/view?fbclid=IwAR0JozExBN-lEuXaOOb0iPA3aWWoIlKKhCWudYkLLq35bygmidxR4c1TuSc

NEWS

Africa could be past the peak of virus pandemic: WHO. https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/08/26/20/africa-could-be-past-the-peak-of-virus-pandemic-who

Hepatitis Drugs May Be Effective COVID-19 Coronavirus Treatment. Several new papers in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, published by Oxford University Press, suggest Sofosbuvir/daclatasvir are successful treatments for COVID-19. https://scitechdaily.com/hepatitis-drugs-may-be-effective-covid-19-coronavirus-treatment/

Covid-19: Hong Kong scientists report first confirmed case of reinfection. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3340?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

The Militarisation of the COVID-19 Response in South Africa (#WitnessingCorona). As medical anthropologists well versed in the social grammar of infectious disease, the global spread of the coronavirus has pressed us to the edges of history. https://www.medizinethnologie.net/2020/08/

Mosquito spray kills Covid-19? UK military researchers reportedly claim insect repellent may help fend off virus. Scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) believe that Citriodiol, a product made using oil from the leaves and twigs of the eucalyptus citriodora tree, could help fend off Covid-19 when used in tandem with other measures such as hand washing. https://africaupdatenewspaper.com/foreign-news/mosquito-spray-kills-covid-19-uk-military-researchers-reportedly-claim-insect-repellent-may-help-fend-off-virus/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8666587/Chemical-insect-repellents-kill-coronavirus.html

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OTHER NEWS

Africa’s triumph over wild polio shows the power of regional unity. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/26/africa-triumph-over-wild-polio-shows-the-power-of-regional-unity

Maternal caffeine consumption and pregnancy outcomes: a narrative review with implications for advice to mothers and mothers-to-be.

Breast cancer survival and survival gap apportionment in sub-Saharan Africa (ABC-DO): a prospective cohort study. Large variations in breast cancer survival in sub-Saharan African countries indicate that improvements are possible. At least a third of the projected 416 000 breast cancer deaths that will occur in this region in the next decade could be prevented through achievable downstaging and improvements in treatment. Improving survival in socially disadvantaged women warrants special attention. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30261-8/fulltext

WHO and UNICEF urge reopening of schools in Africa. https://gbafrique.com/news/pages.php?news=7957&title=WHO%20and%20Unicef%20urge%20reopening%20of%20schools%20in%20Africa&title1=3

Covid-19 has wiped out a third of South Africa’s middle class – study. https://businesstech.co.za/news/wealth/428374/covid-19-has-wiped-out-a-third-of-south-africas-middle-class-study/

Africa has lost over a decade of economic growth gains due to COVID-19 – Adesina. https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2020/08/26/africa-has-lost-over-a-decade-of-economic-growth-gains-due-to-covid-19-adesina/

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

UB COVID-19 Information Digest Friday, 28 August 2020— TRACKING

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Last updated: August 28, 2020, 03:13 GMT

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2OhpWiFATgR5aenmpd2KHJ0EIi89WgIHqGEts5TuDlnTTGUU6Liq1kbp4#countries

Country	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious Cases	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests
Botswana	1,633		6		224	1,403	1	692	1	109,547

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—Johns Hopkins—used by BBC
updated: 28-08-2020 04:28 GMT https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Botswana

1,562 Total confirmed cases

3 Deaths

Africa CDC Dashboard 26 August 2020 https://africacdc.org/covid-19/

	Country Botswana Region Southern Cases 1,633 Cases/100k 68 Deaths 6 CFR 0.4 Recoveries 224 Tests 109,547 Tests/case 67.1 Epidemic Phase 2 Date 8/26/2020, Country South Africa Region Southern Cases 615,701 Cases/100k 1,060 Deaths 13,502 CFR 2.2 Recoveries 525,242 Tests 3,598,973 Tests/case 5.8 Epidemic Phase 3 Date 8/26/2020,
	Country	Namibia
	Region	Southern
	Cases	6,712
	Cases/100k	258
	Deaths	60
	CFR	0.9
	Recoveries	2,776
	Tests	55,596
	Tests/case	8.3
	Epidemic Phase	3
	Date	8/26/2020,

Country	Zimbabwe
Region	Southern
Cases	6,251
Cases/100k	36
Deaths	179
CFR	2.9
Recoveries	5,001
Tests	63,185
Tests/case	10.1
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Angola
Region	Southern
Cases	2,332
Cases/100k	7
Deaths	103
CFR	4.4
Recoveries	946
Tests	67,623
Tests/case	29.0
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Zambia
Region	Southern
Cases	11,601
Cases/100k	64
Deaths	282
CFR	2.4
Recoveries	10,840
Tests	110,960
Tests/case	9.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Mozambique
Region	Southern
Cases	3,508
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	21
CFR	0.6
Recoveries	1,809
Tests	89,158
Tests/case	25.4
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Lesotho
Region	Southern
Cases	1,051
Cases/100k	46
Deaths	31
CFR	2.9
Recoveries	526
Tests	15,023
Tests/case	14.3
Epidemic Phase	2
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Eswatini
Region	Southern
Cases	4,387
Cases/100k	313
Deaths	88
CFR	2.0
Recoveries	3,078
Tests	35,257
Tests/case	8.0
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Malawi
Region	Southern
Cases	5,474
Cases/100k	28
Deaths	173
CFR	3.2
Recoveries	3,085
Tests	43,503
Tests/case	7.9
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Central
Cases	9,915
Cases/100k	11
Deaths	255
CFR	2.6
Recoveries	9,020
Tests	55,300
Tests/case	5.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020
Country	Madagascar
Region	Eastern
Cases	14,592
Cases/100k	54
Deaths	184
CFR	1.3
Recoveries	13,686
Tests	61,675
Tests/case	4.2
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Tanzania
Region	Eastern
Cases	509
Cases/100k	1
Deaths	21
CFR	4.1
Recoveries	178
Tests	3,880
Tests/case	7.6
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Ethiopia
Region	Eastern
Cases	45,221
Cases/100k	41
Deaths	725
CFR	1.6
Recoveries	16,311
Tests	813,410
Tests/case	18.0
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020,
Country	Kenya
Region	Eastern
Cases	33,389
Cases/100k	64
Deaths	567
CFR	1.7
Recoveries	19,368
Tests	438,193
Tests/case	13.1
Epidemic Phase	3
Date	8/26/2020
From Twitter https://twitter.com/AfricaCDC/status/1298540771516264451/photo/1

Get the latest Coronavirus news, updates and advice from The Government of Botswana FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/BotswanaGovernment/ 28 August 2020

Presidential (COVID-19) Task Force Bulletin, Issue 106, 27 August 2020.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GMkWCBWJOEDP7KpfyLkMLMZX4xTOVwnR/view?fbclid=IwAR1ipmrZOn1Y0Op_rQz4ew8BkMZJnFRUAQPWyBnRdwV37NbKBqM5IOsfhQY

NEWS

COVID-19 vaccine trials should seek worthwhile efficacy. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31821-3/fulltext

Update Alert 2: Hydroxychloroquine or Chloroquine for the Treatment or Prophylaxis of COVID-19. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-1054

Update Alert 2: Masks for Prevention of Respiratory Virus Infections, Including SARS-CoV-2, in Health Care and Community Settings. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-1067

Update Alert 3: Risks and Impact of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin-Receptor Blockers on SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Adults. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-1068

‘Instant Coffee’ COVID-19 Tests Could Be the Answer to Reopening the U.S.

Cheap and quick, they could move us toward normalcy before a vaccine is widely available. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/instant-coffee-covid-19-tests-could-be-the-answer-to-reopening-the-u-s/

The coronavirus may shut down the immune system’s vital classrooms. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/coronavirus-may-shut-down-immune-system-s-vital-classrooms#

Four scenarios on how we might develop immunity to Covid-19. https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/25/four-scenarios-on-how-we-might-develop-immunity-to-covid-19/

Clinical characteristics of children and young people admitted to hospital with covid-19 in United Kingdom: prospective multicentre observational cohort study. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3249

WHO says children do spread the virus but schools aren’t a ‘main contributor’. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/27/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_mts-cv-luf%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo#link-E2HML42DZRENTDOZZXYU7BEBJM

SADC COVID 19 Response: All hands on the deck. https://www.theafricanconversations.com/sadc-covid-19-response-all-hands-on-the-deck/

Two metres or one: what is the evidence for physical distancing in covid-19? https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3223

A Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine as Postexposure Prophylaxis for Covid-19. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638?query=featured_home

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OTHER NEWS

Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30750-9/fulltext

The universal health coverage ambition faces a critical test. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31795-5/fulltext

The 6-foot social-distancing rule is based on nearly 80-year-old science. Scientists at MIT and Oxford have created a traffic-light system to use instead. https://www.businessinsider.com/6-foot-distancing-rule-is-outdated-oxford-mit-new-system-2020-8

Back issues of the COVID INFO DIGEST https://maggiesmusings688820798.com/13-april-2020-covid-19-update/

Botswana Declares Emergency on First Confirmed COVID Cases https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/botswana-declares-emergency-first-confirmed-covid-cases

Botswana reports 1st death from coronavirus–79-year-old person had underlying health issues https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/botswana-reports-1st-death-from-coronavirus/1787205

Infected but Feeling Fine: The Unwitting Coronavirus Spreaders–The C.D.C. director says new data about people who are infected but symptom-free could lead the agency to recommend broadened use of masks.

Novel Coronavirus Information Center– Elsevier’s free health and medical research on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19

From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus

Novel Coronavirus Information Center– Elsevier’s free health and medical research on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19

Medical Student Education in the Time of COVID-19 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764138

The need to prepare future physicians has never been as focused as it is now in the setting of a global emergency. The profound effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may forever change how future physicians are educated.

HIV and SARS-CoV-2: What Are the Risks?

Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions –The Lancet Microbe https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30003-3/fulltext

PLoS COVID-19 pandemic (2019-20)

Guidance for Low Resource Settings

JAMA NETWORK Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Softening the blow of the pandemic: will the International Monetary Fund and World Bank make things worse?

COVID-19 and risks to the supply and quality of tests, drugs, and vaccines

COVID19 Insights #9–Bill Rodriguez

New Coronavirus Drug Shows Promise in Animal Tests

Food Safety and COVID-19 –Aimed at patient information but interesting and helpful. JAMA. Published online April 9, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.5877

Service to Others May Be the Answer to Physician Burnout.

Service to Others May Be the Answer to Physician Burnout.

Service to Others May Be the Answer to Physician Burnout.

How Africa Can Fight the Pandemic

How Africa Can Fight the Pandemic

Coronavirus in Africa tracker–BBC

Coronavirus: Amnesty International urges decongestion of prisons in Africa. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/coronavirus/389002-coronavirus-amnesty-international-urges-decongestion-of-prisons-in-africa.html

Coronavirus: Nigerian tertiary institutions not equipped for distance learning. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/385262-coronavirus-nigerian-tertiary-institutions-not-equipped-for-distance-learning.html

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 23-04-2020 11:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 24-04-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 28-04-2020 04:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

C.D.C. Adds New Symptoms to Its List of Possible Covid-19 Signs. Chills, muscle pain, sore throat and headache are among the ailments now considered potential indicators of the disease. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/health/coronavirus-symptoms-cdc.html

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 29-04-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Decolonising COVID-19. The Lancet Global Health V. 8, ISSUE 5, e612, May 01, 2020https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30134-0/fulltext

WHO calls for healthy, safe and decent working conditions for all health workers amidst COVID-19 pandemic

World Day for Safety and Health at Work: WHO key facts & key messages to support the day. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/28-04-2020-who-calls-for-healthy-safe-and-decent-working-conditions-for-all-health-workers-amidst-covid-19-pandemic

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 30-04-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

NIH clinical trial shows Remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-shows-remdesivir-accelerates-recovery-advanced-covid-19?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 01-05-2020 04:00 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

NIH clinical trial shows Remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-shows-remdesivir-accelerates-recovery-advanced-covid-19?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 04-05-2020 05:00 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide. Eight ways in which scientists hope to provide immunity to SARS-CoV-2 . https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01221-y?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=NGMT_USG_JC01_GL_Nature

The International Journal of Public Health transitions to Open Access.

Innovation in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 06-05-2020 03:55 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Adaptations and Lessons in the Province of Bergamo. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2011599

The Value of One: What Can We Learn from Case Studies? Despite their size, researchers say studies of one person can uncover results that would be lost in a large-scale trial. https://undark.org/2020/02/04/value-of-case-studies/

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 07-05-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

The Value of One: What Can We Learn from Case Studies? Despite their size, researchers say studies of one person can uncover results that would be lost in a large-scale trial. https://undark.org/2020/02/04/value-of-case-studies/

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 08-05-2020 05:00 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Violence against women during covid-19 pandemic restrictions. BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1712 (Published 07 May 2020). https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1712

Lacking data, many African governments make policy in the dark. It is hard to help the poor if you don’t count them. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/05/09/lacking-data-many-african-governments-make-policy-in-the-dark

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 09-05-2020 05:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 11-05-2020 04:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

South Korea’s Early Coronavirus Wins Dim After Rash of New Cases

More than 50 cases have been linked to Seoul’s nightclubs and bars, which have now been ordered closed. https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-koreas-early-coronavirus-wins-dim-after-rash-of-new-cases-11589107406

Covid-19 and pregnancy. BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1672 (Published 04 May 2020). https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1672?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 12-05-2020 02:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

COVID-19: Are Africa’s diagnostic challenges blunting response effectiveness?

Surgery in The Time of Covid-19: Reflections on A Pandemic.

Covid-19: GPs can’t get results of tests carried out at drive-through centres

Coronavirus in Africa tracker—BBCupdated: 11-05-2020 19:30 GMT Last https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-4a11d568-2716-41cf-a15e-7d15079548bc

Covid-19: What is the R number? BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1891 (Published 12 May 2020) https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1891?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

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Hydroxychloroquine in patients with mainly mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019: open label, randomised controlled trial. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1849?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage

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First Doctor Dies Of Corona In Sierra Leone. Dr. Samuel B. Seisay. 17 May 2020. https://snradio.net/first-doctor-dies-of-corona-in-sierra-leone/

As testing accelerates, signs of COVID-19’s ability to spread emerge. https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2020/may/16/testing-accelerates-signs-covid-19s-ability-s/523163/

African nations join forces to procure medical equipment. Joint digital platform for purchasing will allow continent to better compete in the global market. https://www.ft.com/content/72edfd6a-8300-4944-893d-54d08954df6f?sharetype=blocked

Covid-19 Outbreak in Nigeria Is Just One of Africa’s Alarming Hot Spots

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Moderna Says Initial Covid-19 Vaccine Results Are Positive. Experimental coronavirus vaccine induced immune responses in healthy volunteers who were vaccinated in a clinical study, company says. https://www.wsj.com/articles/moderna-says-initial-covid-19-vaccine-results-are-positive-11589805115

Animal source of the coronavirus continues to elude scientists. Computational models, cell studies and animal experiments are being used to pinpoint the viral host that kicked off the pandemic. Nature. 18 May 2020. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01449-8

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Let Africa into the market for COVID-19 diagnostics. Africa is boosting its capacity to respond to COVID-19, but lack of solidarity will cost lives, warns Africa CDC head John Nkengasong. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01265-0

Cambridge University moves all lectures online until summer 2021

Covid-19 patients testing positive after recovery aren’t infectious: South Korean study. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/covid-19-patients-testing-positive-after-recovery-arent-infectious

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