60.
Arjun S Yadaw, Yan-chak Li, etc,,
Clinical features of COVID-19 mortality: development and validation of a clinical prediction model, 2020.10.01,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30217-X .
In this study, an accurate and parsimonious COVID-19 mortality prediction model based on three features might have utility in clinical settings to guide the management and prognostication of patients affected by this disease. External validation of this prediction model in other populations is needed.
59.
Minghuan Wang, Chen Xia, Lu Huang, Prof Shabei Xu, Chuan Qin, Jun Liu,
Deep learning-based triage and analysis of lesion burden for COVID-19: a retrospective study with external validation, 2020.10.01,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30199-0 .
The research group developed and externally validated a deep learning algorithm for triaging patients with suspected COVID-19 at fever clinics. Given its high accuracy across populations with varied COVID-19 prevalence, integration of this system into the standard clinical workflow could expedite identification of chest CT scans with imaging indications of COVID-19.
58.
Prof Gill Livingston, Hossein Rostamipour, Paul Gallagher, Chris Kalafatis, Abhishek Shastri, Lauren Huzzey,
Prevalence, management, and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infections in older people and those with dementia in mental health wards in London, UK: a retrospective observational study, 2020.10.05 ,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30434-X .
This study shows that patients in psychiatric inpatient settings who were admitted without known SARS-CoV-2 infection had a high risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 compared with those in the community and had a higher proportion of deaths from COVID-19 than in the community. Implementation of the long-standing policy of parity of esteem for mental health and planning for future COVID-19 waves in psychiatric hospitals is urgent.
57.
Alexandria Macmadu, Justin Berk, Eliana Kaplowitz, Marquisele Mercedes, Josiah D Rich, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein,
COVID-19 and mass incarceration: a call for urgent action, 2020.10.09,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30231-0 .
This article outlines the outsized effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who are incarcerated and Black communities and then elucidates the inextricable links between health, race, and incarceration. It also points out that decarceration is urgently needed to mitigate the outbreaks and to reduce the racial health disparities.
Bibio56: Nathan J Brendish, Stephen Poole, Vasanth V Naidu, Christopher T Mansbridge, Nicholas J Norton, Helen Wheeler, Clinical impact of molecular point-of-care testing for suspected COVID-19 in hospital (COV-19POC): a prospective, interventional, non-randomised, controlled study, October 08, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30454-9, this article shows that point-of-care testing is associated with large reductions in time to results and could lead to improvements in infection control measures and patient flow compared with centralised laboratory PCR testing.
56.
Sienho Yee,
To Deal with a New Coronavirus Pandemic: Making Sense of the Lack of Any State Practice in Pursuing State Responsibility for Alleged Malfeasances in a Pandemic—Lex Specialis or Lex Generalis at Work? 2020.08.23,
https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmaa022 .
There has never been any State practice in pursuing State responsibility for alleged malfeasances in pandemics. What effect does this absence of practice have on the framework of applicable law regarding this pursuit of State responsibility? How can we make sense of this absence in the context of global public health?One way would be to see the absence as reflecting a lex specialis providing for no State responsibility for any alleged malfeasances; another as reflecting States’ assessment that there is no or slight chance of success even under a lex generalis not excluding potential responsibility.
55.
Vesna Pusic,
Fear, Hate, and Competence: Could COVID-19 Be a Turning Point? 2020.08.27,
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/2018/ii/202008/t20200827_800218873.html .
COVID-19 has shown that the world cannot successfully confront a major crisis without investing a modicum of fundamental trust and accountability in international relations.
54.
11. Diane Desierto,
Beyond the State: Our Shared Duties to Cooperate to Realize Human Rights during the Evolving Risks of a Global Pandemic, 2020.08.20,
https://www.ejiltalk.org/beyond-the-state-our-shared-duties-to-cooperate-to-realize-human-rights-during-the-evolving-risks-of-a-global-pandemic/ .
In this post, the author argues that the duties of international cooperation under international human rights law are not just left up to States, but also to private sectors, groups, individuals who are all supposed to be both subjects and addressees of the right to development under the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development and the Draft Convention on the Right to Development.
53.
Francesca Bellazzi, Konrad v Boyneburgk,
COVID-19 calls for virtue ethics, 2020.07.07,
https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa056 .
The global spread of COVID-19 has led to the imposition of severely restrictive measures by governments in the Western hemisphere. Someone feels there is a contrast between these measures and citizens’ freedom. This paper argues that this contrast is a false perception. By providing a philosophical analysis that is able to answer these questions, the aim of the paper is to illustrate an ethical framework that enables the individual to rationally cooperate with current restrictions because it is morally justified given the circumstances.
52.
Qiao Liu,
COVID-19 in Civil or Commercial Disputes: First Responses from Chinese Courts, 2020.08.30,
https://doi.org/10.1093/cjcl/cxaa023 .
This comment highlights the major civil or commercial (mostly contract) law provisions in 24 judicial documents newly released by the Supreme People’s Court or High People’s Courts in China in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 and assesses the significance of key changes to the pre-pandemic law.
51.
Mia R K Hartmann, Rasmus Koss Hartmann,
Frontline Innovation in Times of Crisis: Learning from the Corona Virus Pandemic, 2020.07.30,
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paaa044 .
The current COVID-19 pandemic brings about dramatic challenges for frontline police officers and their organizations. The author argues that this will likely have two implications for frontline learning and innovation. At this moment of unusually widespread and transparent frontline innovation, this paper proposes an approach to capturing and diffusing this frontline innovation. By taking seriously the unique dynamics of frontline innovation, such an approach is likely to capture valuable innovations that might otherwise rapidly dissipate and be lost.
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