CrescentCare Public Updates
Dr. Nicholas Van Sickels, Chief Medical Officer of CrescentCare (a New Orleans Health Center) and special guests provide information, insight, and answers to questions from the public regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.
CrescentCare Public Updates
Episode 31: Science Thursday with Dr. Jose, 07/30/20
July 30, 2020
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Dr. Nicholas Van Sickels
Questions:
- Updates on Numbers
- Updates on Models
- Things That Caught My Eye This Week: Hajj
- Updates on all the things:
- Vaccine News
- A new therapeutic
- Saliva tests
- Update on the sunbelt phase of the epidemic—things are dire, but there are signs it might be slightly slowing down
- Update on India
- A pre print study released this week has something interesting to say about asymptomatic transmission
- Testing remains quite difficult
- There is evidence COVID causes longer lasting cardiac consequences (German studies)
- There’s another viral video. I suppose we have to talk about it.
- How do you tell when something is a bunch of lies?
- Moving during pandemic…ie how I’m moving because there is no right way and it’s not low risk
Links:
- WaPo, Hajj 2020
- Yale, Press Release on Apilimod Phase II Trial
- CU Boulder, Press Release on Saliva Test
- Bloomberg, India Epidemic
- Pre-Print (NON PEER REVIEWED) study on asymptomatic transmission
- NYTimes, Testing Shortage
- CNN, Surges in Countries that had COVID Under Control
- STAT, Pair of German Studies of Cardiac Findings in COVID Patients