Members Add Depth, Insights to Science Speaks COVID-19 Coverage
As IDSA and other organizations pushed Congress for immediate new funding to confront and contain the spread of COVID-19 this month, posts on the IDSA/HIVMA global Science Speaks blog explained the needs, responses and emerging information on the disease with member contributions on:
- Why national policymakers must invest now, or pay later
- Diagnosis and treatment recommendations in the 7th guidance released by China’s National Health Commission since the identification of the virus causing COVID-19
- Findings on initial autopsies, and reports of the first lung transplants resulting from COVID-19
- And facts, figures and myths on COVID-19 across Africa
And as the pace of COVID-19 developments accelerated, Science Speaks continued reports on breaking news with reports on:
- Worsening shortages of protective equipment for health workers
- A comprehensive session on the emergence, transmission and effects of the virus presented at the 2020 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
- Recognition by the World Health Organization that the spread of COVID-19 is a pandemic
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