Diagnostic Tests for COVID-19 (JCM ed.)

New imaging and measurement approaches are revealing previously hidden aspects of microbial life, challenging long-held assumptions and creating opportunities to answer questions that were once out of reach. Marvin Whiteley, Heran Darwin and Jeffrey Moffitt talk about how technol ...  Show more

It starts out with a couple of stomach twinges, maybe a little nausea, maybe some sharp pains, and then… before you know it, you are running to the closest toilet with which you become very, very familiar. Cyclospora causes frequent watery diarrhea with sometime "explosive" bowel ...  Show more

How reliable are at-home COVID-19 tests? Are there shortcomings to “testing out” of vaccine mandates? IDSA members Dial Hewlett, MD, FIDSA of the Westchester County Health Department and Nira Pollock, MD, FIDSA of Boston Children’s Hospital join us to discuss the latest on COVID- ...  Show more

Editor in Chief Fred Rivara and Deputy Editor Steve Fihn discuss research published in JAMA Network Open in December 2020 Related Articles: Clinical Characteristics and Disease Severity Among Infants With SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Comparison of 2 Triage Sco ...  Show more

How virologist Dr. Nada Melhem, from AUB's Faculty of Health Sciences, has been tackling the challenges of COVID-19 and whether she thinks we’ll have a vaccine soon to begin a return to normal life.Interview recorded in September 2020 before phase three trails of COVID-19 vaccine ...  Show more

Infectious disease experts Adam Lauring, MD, PhD, and Carlos del Rio, MD, join JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, for a discussion of the newly emerged Omicron variant, the potential for a 2021-2022 "twindemic" with flu, and the latest COVID-19 clinical updates. Rec ...