COVID-19 Update | 7 May 2020

GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES

• SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus co-infection
• Reporting worldwide COVID pandemic
• Grounds for hope, with Spinoza
• War or care
• Has COVID-19 subverted global health?
• Elsewhere, nationwide scale testing in Israel
• Japan pushes new drug without evidence
• Germany steps ahead for vaccine
• Lessons to be learned from the crisis in France
• The invisible pandemic in Sweden

RENAL MATTERS

• COVID and Kidney 5th episode
• COVID related AKI and PD
• Almost 30 NI kidney transplants performed amidst Covid-19 crisis

CRITICAL CARE

• Acute limb ischaemia in two young, non-atherosclerotic patients with COVID-19
• HS score is useless
• Interpreting diagnostic tests
• BCG vaccine again

PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS

• Fear thrives on cognitive bias
• Denying death
• The psychological impact of quarantine and a video

AFTER THE LOCK DOWN 

• The day after, Privileges and Immunity Certification
• Immunity passports
• Financial aid for french healthcare professionals
• Kraftwerk mourns Florian Schneider

Thanks to Michel Tsimaratos

Merci à Philippe Hugot, Bertrand Soto, Martin Christian, Eric Thervet, Alexandre Fabre, Stephane Burtey, Alkis Tsimaratos, Pierre Cochat, Labros Stefas, Nathalie Quiles et Lucas Percheron.