Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Minority Recruitment for COVID-19 Trials Is Low While Disease Burden Is High
More than 350,000 people said they were interested in volunteering for a COVID-19 vaccine trial in the United States, and only 10% of those who signed up are Black and Hispanic. Actual trial enrollment among two companies with large COVID-19 vaccine trials in the U.S. includes only one in five volunteers who are Black and Hispanic.
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COVID-19 Misinformation Affects Everyone in Research Community
Clinical trial recruitment for COVID-19 studies faces a new challenge: Rampant misinformation. Since COVID-19 was declared a national emergency and pandemic, fake news, false cures, ill-informed posts, and conspiracy theories have dominated the social media space. One of the challenges from an IRB perspective involves informed consent and public trust in the shadows of the misinformation world.
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Vaccine Trials Should Follow the Four Ethical Principles
All human research, including COVID-19 vaccine trials, should be guided by the four ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. When researchers, data safety monitoring boards, or the Food and Drug Administration decide to stop a clinical trial or expedite approval or use of an investigational product, these principles still apply.
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A COVID-19 Vaccine at ‘Warp Speed’ Raises Myriad Ethical Questions
The United States is at a challenging and possibly dangerous crossroad as the desire for speedy development of a COVID-19 vaccine might be pushing political concerns ahead of safety, efficacy, and the regulatory process, bioethicists and researchers say.
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CDC Backs Down on Testing Controversy
After widespread criticism from the medical community, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped a controversial recommendation that de-emphasized the importance of testing asymptomatic contacts of COVID-19 cases.
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COVID-19 Prevention May Equal Flu Prevention
Masking, physical distancing, and other measures implemented to slow the pandemic appear to be dramatically reducing influenza outbreaks.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
IL-6 Inhibition and Liver Failure; Can Chopsticks Make You Sick?
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Possible Aerosol Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in an Apartment Building
Although not definitive, evidence is consistent with aerosol spread of SARS-CoV-2 in an apartment building as a result of transport through the drainage system to apartments directly above.
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Antibiotic Use in COVID-19 Patients
Fifty-seven percent of patients with COVID-19 infection treated at 38 hospitals in Michigan received early empiric antibiotics, although only 3.5% of patients had documented community-onset bacterial co-infection.
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Repeat SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Whole genome sequencing confirmed that repeat infection with SARS-CoV-2 is possible, something that has consequences for vaccine use and for public health.