A 39-year-old unvaccinated Franklin County woman has died after a recent measles diagnosis. Nationally, numbers continue to increase and the US has passed 4,000 cases.
|Videos|May 15, 2020
Contagion Live News Network: The VIRUS Global COVID-19 Registry
Author(s)Grant M. Gallagher
A summary of Contagion's top stories for May 15, 2020.
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Hello and thank you for joining Contagion. I’m assistant editor Grant Gallagher, here with a review of our recent coverage.
A new first-of-its-kind global registry aimed at sharing real-time information on hospital care and ICU admissions could expand the scope of SARS-CoV-2 research. And investigators behind the project are asking any treatment center with interest to participate.
Mayo Clinic and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) partnered to
The registry has gathered information on more than 5000 patients from 81 clinical sites since its initial launch on March 31. The healthcare sites in the registry span 8 countries thus far. The
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