COVID-19/Coronavirus

Advisory courtesy of the CDC On April 26, 2020, clinicians in the United Kingdom (UK) recognized increased reports of previously healthy children presenting with a severe inflammatory syndrome with Kawasaki disease-like features.1 The cases occurred in children testing positive for current or recent infection by SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, based on reverse-transcriptase...

By American Heart Association News New York City cardiologist Dr. Samer Kottiech became a “hardcore COVID expert” the hard way. He developed symptoms he didn’t immediately recognize as COVID-19: redness and pain on the small toes of his left foot and his index finger. Chills and severe muscle aches presented two days later, followed by...

By American Heart Association News The first thing to know about the possible links between COVID-19 and stroke is simple, say doctors: We just don’t know. “We have very serious worries that there’s a connection,” said Dr. Patrick D. Lyden, professor of neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “But I want to make...

On Friday May 1 Gilead’s investigational antiviral drug Remdesivir received emergency use authorization for the treatment of COVID-19. Gilead’s CEO Dan O’day indicated “We intend to get that to patients in the early part of this next week,” while on CBS’ “Face of the Nation”. He went on to state that Gilead has donated 1.5...

View this Q&A below from University of Chicago Medicine experts Dr. Michael O’Connor and Dr. Thomas Spiegel as they touch on the latest on COVID-19 treatments and outcomes. Source: University of Chicago Medicine

This week, former first lady Michelle Obama offered Chicago healthcare workers words of gratitude and encouragement via an audio message shared by the University of Chicago Medicine.  Obama was the first Executive Director of Community and External Affairs and then Vice President, Community and External Affairs – leading the team which built the foundation for...

A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of adults hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has begun, with the first participants now enrolled in Tennessee. The Outcomes Related to COVID-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine among In-patients with symptomatic Disease study, or ORCHID Study, is being conducted by the Prevention...

Early statistics and multiple news sources indicate that the coronavirus is infecting and killing African Americans at disproportionate rates. Yesterday (April 8, 2020) The New York Times reported that “African-Americans account for more than half of those who have tested positive and 72 percent of virus-related fatalities in Chicago, even though they make up a...

Dr. Ilan Shapiro is the Medical Director of Health Education and Wellness at AltaMed servicing 300K patients in LA County. We reached out to Dr. Shapiro to share his experience providing culturally sensitive care to his patients and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. MDNewsline: Before the COVID-19 pandemic became widespread throughout the U.S. it...