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The need for an independent evaluation of the COVID-19 response in Spain.
2020
Spain has been hit hard by COVID-19, with more than 300 000 cases, 28 498 confirmed deaths,1 and around 44 000 excess deaths, as of Aug 4, 2020.2 More than 50 000 health workers have been infected, and nearly 20 000 deaths were in nursing homes.3 With a population of 47 million, these data place Spain among the worst affected countries. Spain is also reported to have one of the best performing health systems in the world4 and ranks 15th in the Global Health Security index.5 So how is it possible that Spain now finds itself in this position?
Covid-19: A new challenge for forensic medicine
2020
Repeated Testing in SARS-CoV-2 Infection
2020
Letter to Editor : oral lesions in a patient with Covid-19
2020
An Italian Guidance Model for the Management of Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Patients in the Primary Care Setting
2020
An outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 started in China's Hubei province at the end of 2019 has rapidly become a pandemic. In Italy, a great number of patients was managed in primary care setting and the role of general practitioners and physicians working in the first-aid emergency medical service has become of utmost importance to coordinate the network between the territory and hospitals during the pandemic. Aim of this manuscript is to provide a guidance model for the management of suspected, probable, or confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the primary care setting, from diagnosis to treatment, applying also the recommendations of the Italian Society of Ge…
Number of COVID-19 patients classified as cured: an imminent danger for the population.
2020
Caro Editor, Diversos estudos tem sido conduzidos destacando a gravidade de muitos casos da doenca pelo coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).(–) Contudo, os criterios adotados ate entao por muitos paises, como o Brasil, com respeito a evolucao para cura de pacientes assintomaticos ou com sintomas leves, podem representar riscos, devido a algumas limitacoes para o monitoramento da evolucao da infeccao. A recomendacao atual, nesses casos, preve a realizacao de testes laboratoriais confirmatorios de cura apenas para os casos graves da doenca. Os [...]
Comment on ‘Two cases of COVID‐19 presenting with a clinical picture resembling chilblains: first report from the Middle East’: pernio unrelated to C…
2020
The risk of the 'prison-emptying' effect in Italy due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2020
People who live and work or are detained inside restricted communities (including prisons) need to be considered as they are at a high risk of becoming infected with Covid-19 during this pandemic.1 InItaly, the spread of Covid-19 has provoked numerous riots within the prisons and local detention centres, and there is a consequent increase in requests for inmates to be released and detained at home