COVID-19 conference Highlights: Much liked global transmission, borderless exchange of information, ideas, experiences crucially important

The most basic prevention tools – handwashing, masks, and physical distancing – have save thousands if not millions of lives, and can’t be emphasised enough, says Dr Charles Powell. Much like the international nature of the pandemic, which hasn’t had any borders for transmission, the exchange of information and ideas and experiences globally is crucial.

It has vastly improved the quality of care and approached to addressing the pandemic, he adds, and should be ramped up.

Dr Haji explains the four distinct ways in which COVID-19 patients showed complications in the nervous system and brain.

Meanwhile, here’s a look at a summary screenshot from the thrombosis section. 

Sorry everyone, we’re pretty adept with basic biology and medicine but the next section on thrombosis is going right over our heads 🙁

We’ll be sure to send you time stamps at the end of our liveblog to the recording, so you can tune in and catch up on the findings from the sections on thrombosis if it’s important to you.

Whether we stand in the abyss or move to our mutual future depends on how we collaborate and coordinate our efforts, he says. COVID-19 has aggravated some already worrying problems, including and especially racism and other forms of discrimination.

“Progress is so much faster when national interests are set aside, and commercial interests are shelved for the greater good,” Dr Kantor adds.

Health experts and researchers have seen success in treating hypoxia with the use of pulmonary shunts. High-flow oxygen therapy and continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP), which are less invasive methods, allow for more flow of oxygen with some artiificial assistance, and has shown a lot of promise in COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory symptoms. 

30-50% of cases that see hypoxia don’t need invasive methods/intubation to treat hypoxia, experts say.