What The Study Did: The implementation of swab screening program for COVID-19 cancer patients prior to each cycle of anticancer therapy at a hospital in the United Arab Emirates was assessed in this study.
Authors: Humaid O. Al-Shamsi, M.D., of the Burjeel Oncology-Burjeel Medical City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.5745)
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What The Study Did: The association between patient demographic characteristics and socioeconomic status and engagement in telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic is examined in this observational study.
Authors: Samantha Tam, M.D., M.P.H., of the Henry Ford Health System and Henry Ford Cancer Institute in Detroit, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.3052)
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What The Study Did: Changes in rates and risk factors over more than a decade in the U.S. for hospitalizations for a vision-threatening eye infection related to intravenous (IV) drug use were investigated in this study.
Authors: David M. Hinkle, M.D., of the West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.4741)
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What The Study Did: Researchers compared the rate of death for patients diagnosed with breast, colorectal or lung cancer and living in states that expanded Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with states that didn’t..
Authors: Miranda B. Lam, M.D., M.B.A., of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.24366)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined whether the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with changes in non-COVID health care use among a large population of individuals with employer-sponsored insurance, specifically preventive services (e.g., pediatric vaccinations), elective services (e.g., orthopedic surgery) and nonelective services (e.g., labor and delivery care) in March and April 2020 compared with the same months in 2018 and 2019.
Authors: Christopher M. Whaley, Ph.D., of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.24984)
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What The Study Did: National health record data were used to examine whether the rate of positive tests for variants of the BRCA gene that increase the risk for certain cancers changed among older women in the United States between 2008 and 2018.
Authors: Fangjian Guo, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.24358)
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What The Study Did: Prepandemic data were used to estimate how many adults at increased risk of severe COVID-19 held essential jobs and couldn’t work at home or lived in households with such workers.
Authors: Thomas M. Selden, Ph.D., of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6249)
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Darpun D. Sachdev, MD, Population Health Division, San Francisco Department of Public Health, 356 Seventh St, San Francisco, CA 94103 (darpun.sachdev@sfdph.org).
What The Study Did: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care spending in the U.S. has important implications for payers, clinicians, hospitals, health care systems and patients, and has been the subject of much debate.
Authors: J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5333)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined the association between nursing home crowding and COVID-19 across the entire nursing home system of Ontario, Canada, during the first months of the pandemic.pandemic.
Authors: Kevin A. Brown, Ph.D., of the University of Toronto and Nathan M. Stall, M.D., of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6466)
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What The Study Did: Researchers compared the effect and reach of studies about therapies for COVID-19 posted on the medRxiv preprint server, subsequent publications in medical journals of some of these studies, and journal articles that were not posted on either medRxiv or another preprint server.
Authors: Neil W. Schluger, M.D., of the New York Medical College, in Valhalla, New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6629)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether loosening of state firearm restrictions in Missouri were associated with changes in rates of suicide by firearms among young people ages 14 to 24.
Authors: Apurva Bhatt, M.D., of the University of Missouri-Kansas City/Center for Behavioral Medicine in Kansas City, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.24303)
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What The Study Did: Rates and characteristics of needle stick and other sharps injuries among resident physicians and other staff at a large health care center were examined in this study.
Authors: John G. Zampella, M.D., of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.4112)
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What The Study Did: This study used the Medicare COVID-19 Nursing Home Database, a federally mandated weekly survey of all Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities, to examine facility-reported test result turnaround time.
Authors: Michael L. Barnett, M.D., M.S., of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7330)
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Darpun D. Sachdev, MD, Population Health Division, San Francisco Department of Public Health, 356 Seventh St, San Francisco, CA 94103 (darpun.sachdev@sfdph.org).
What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated case investigation and contact tracing outcomes in San Francisco during shelter-in-place restrictions in that California city because of COVID-19.
Authors: Darpun D. Sachdev, M.D., of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5670)
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What The Study Did: This observational study estimates the 10-year risk for disease progression, surgery, metastasis, and cause-specific and all-cause mortality among African American men with low-risk prostate cancer managed with active surveillance.
Authors: Brent S. Rose, M.D., of the VHA San Diego Health Care System and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.17020)
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What The Study Did: This observational study examined how well sociodemographic features, laboratory value and comorbidities of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Eastern Massachusetts might predict a course of severe illness.
Authors: Roy H. Perlis, M.D., M.Sc., of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an associate editor at JAMA Network Open, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23934)
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What The Study Did: Whether quality of diet was associated with overall survival among patients beginning treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer was examined in this study.
Authors: Erin Van Blarigan, Sc.D., of the University of California in San Francisco, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23500)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association between sleep disorders and symptoms of burnout among faculty and staff in a large teaching hospital system.
Authors: Matthew D. Weaver, Ph.D., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23256)
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What The Study Did: This decision analytical model uses a web-based application and data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program to quantitatively integrate mortality estimates and to examine the impact of cancer treatment delay among adults with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Matthew J. Schipper, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.5403)
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What The Article Says: This Viewpoint examines the potential benefits that delaying low-risk thyroid surgical procedures may provide for patients as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter treatment timelines.
Authors: Brooke Nickel, M.I.P.H., Ph.D., of the University of Sydney in Australia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.3878)
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What The Study Did: A mathematical model of COVID-19 transmission with construction workers was used to assess the association between construction work during the COVID-19 pandemic and hospitalization rates for construction workers and the surrounding community.
Authors: Lauren Ancel Meyers, Ph.D., of the University of Texas at Austin, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26373)
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What The Study Did: Private equity-owned nursing homes performed comparably with for-profit and nonprofit nursing homes based on COVID-19 cases and deaths and deaths by any cause in this observational study.
Authors: Mark Aaron Unruh, Ph.D., of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26702)
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What The Study Did: This study compared change in growth of the primary care workforce in urban and rural counties in the United States from 2009 to 2017.
Authors: Donglan Zhang, Ph.D., of the University of Georgia in Athens, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22914)
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What The Study Did: Researchers looked at changes in wait list and posttransplant outcomes after the U.S. changed the heart allocation policy for transplant patients in 2018.
Authors: Arman Kilic, M.D., of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.4909)
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What The Study Did: This article summarizes findings on the approach for return to play in athletes in various age groups who have recovered from COVID-19.
Authors: Aaron L. Baggish, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.5890)
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What The Study Did: This randomized clinical trial compared the change in pain severity among adults with chronic low back pain who received electroacupuncture or a placebo treatment.
Authors: Jiang-Ti Kong, M.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22787)
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What The Study Did: Whether the number of cases at hospitals of common medical emergencies such as heart attack and appendicitis have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic was investigated in this study.
Authors: Melanie Hayden Gephart, M.D., M.A.S., of the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3982)
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What The Study Did: Researchers looked at the frequency of hospitalization for all non–COVID-19-related conditions in a New York health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Saul Blecker, M.D., M.H.S., of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3978)
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What The Article Says: The difficulties associated with mourning in the time of COVID-19 are discussed in this essay.
Author: Amrapali Maitra, M.D., Ph.D., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5635)
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What The Article Says: This Patient Page offers breastfeeding and pumping milk guidelines for mothers who have tested positive for COVID-19, who have been exposed to COVID-19 or work in a setting with increased risk of exposure to the virus.
Authors: Sandra E. Sullivan, M.D., I.B.C.L.C., and Lindsay A. Thompson, M.D., M.S., of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, are the authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3341)
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What The Study Did: The levels of severity of depressive symptoms among at-risk individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK were examined in this study.
Authors: Eleonora Iob, M.Sc., of University College London, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26064)
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What The Study Did: This study examined the seropositive prevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China, by sex and age group.
Authors: Yongman Lv, M.D., of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25717)
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What The Study Did: University students in France who experienced quarantine during COVID-19 were surveyed to assess how common were mental health issues and to identify factors associated with these disorders.
Authors: Fabien D’Hondt, Ph.D., of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille in Lille, France, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25591)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether state-imposed stay-at-home orders and the proportion of African American population in a state were associated with the state-level COVID-19 cases from March to May 2020.
Authors: Bisakha Sen, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26010)
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What The Viewpoint Says: The financial risks and challenges for independent oncology practices in the COVID-19 era and possible solutions to promote their stability and survival are discussed in this Viewpoint.
Authors: Zachary A. K. Frosch, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.4753)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated differences in health care use and survival between Medicare patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementia living in rural compared with urban areas.
Authors: Momotazur Rahman, Ph.D., of the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22111)
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What The Study Did: Researchers in this randomized clinical trial compared the effect of early administration of tocilizumab with standard therapy in preventing clinical worsening in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia.
Authors: Carlo Salvarani, M.D., of Unita Operativa di Reumatologia in Reggio Emilia, Italy, is the corresponding author.
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What The Study Did: This randomized clinical trial assessed whether tocilizumab improves outcomes of patients hospitalized with moderate-to-severe COVID-19 pneumonia compared to usual care.
Authors: Olivier Hermine, M.D., Ph.D., of the Université de Paris, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6820)
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What The Study Did: Whether treatment with tocilizumab in the first two days after being admitted to an intensive care unit was associated with a reduced risk of death among critically ill patients with COVID-19 was investigated in this study.
Authors: David E. Leaf, M.D., M.M.Sc., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6252)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined the sociodemographic characteristics of patients associated with racial/ethnic differences in COVID-19 outcomes.
Authors: Bhramar Mukherjee, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25197)
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What The Viewpoint Says: The need for collaborative care among health care professionals to meet mental health demands in the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed in this Viewpoint.
Authors: Andrew D. Carlo, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3216)
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What The Study Did: In this survey study of U.S. adults, vaccine-related attributes and political characteristics were associated with self-reported preferences for choosing a hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine and self- reported willingness to receive vaccination. These results may help inform public health campaigns to address vaccine hesitancy when a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.
Authors: Douglas L. Kriner, Ph.D., of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25594)
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What The Article Says: COVID-19 presents a new and urgent opportunity to focus political will, federal investments, and global community on the vital imperative of suicide prevention. Suicide prevention in the COVID-19 era requires addressing not only pandemic-specific suicide risk factors, but also prepandemic risk factors.
Authors: Christine Moutier, M.D., of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3746)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection rates in a large multistate sample of U.S. skilled nursing facilities and variation in case counts by SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in the counties where facilities are located.
Authors: Elizabeth M. White, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., of the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5664)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the differences by race/ethnicity in rates of different types of breast cancer among 200,000 women in the United States.
Authors: Jing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., and Yi Fang, M.D., Ph.D., of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20303)
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What The Study Did: Down syndrome experts reviewed the medical literature to develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the care of adults with Down syndrome.
Authors: Amy Y. Tsou, M.D., M.Sc., of the Evidence-Based Practice Center in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.17024)
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What The Viewpoint Says: How COVID-19 vaccines can be distributed strategically, ethically and legally is considered in this article given conflicts between consensus public health recommendations to prioritize allocation to disadvantaged racial and ethnic minorities and laws discouraging explicit consideration of race in policy decisions.
Authors: Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., of Georgetown University in Washington, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20571)
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What The Article Says: This review synthesizes the literature regarding tracheostomy and laryngectomy management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: José Vergara, B.Sc., S.L.P., of the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.3720)
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What The Study Did: Testimonials posted on a social media site were analyzed to examine whether individuals are using the cannabis-derived chemical compound cannabidiol (CBD) in an attempt to treat diagnosable conditions that have evidence-based therapies.
Authors: John W. Ayers, Ph.D., M.A., of the University of California, San Diego, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20977)
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What The Study Did: New evidence on preventing and treating HIV infection in adults was reviewed to update practice recommendations from the International Antiviral (formerly AIDS) Society–USA.
Authors: Michael S. Saag, M.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.17025)
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What The Study Did: National survey data were used to look at how common electronic cigarette use is among U.S. adults, if they were current or former smokers and used e-cigarettes to help quit smoking.
Authors: Margaret Mayer, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20694)
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What The Study Did: COVID-19 deaths and excess all-cause mortality in the U.S. are compared with 18 countries with diverse COVID-19 responses in this study.
Authors: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20717)
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What The Study Did: This study updates a previous report of the estimated number of excess deaths in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic through August 1 and describes causes of those deaths and relationships with lifting of coronavirus restrictions.
Authors: Steven H. Woolf, M.D., MP.H., of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19545)
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What The Article Says: This devastating pandemic has affected nearly ev- ery aspect of daily life. While nations struggle to man- age the initial waves of the death and disruption asso- ciated with the pandemic, accumulating evidence indicates another “second wave” is building: rising rates of mental health and substance use disorders.
Authors: Charles R. Marmar, M.D., of the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19632)
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What The Article Says: This Viewpoint aggregates mortality, morbidity, mental health conditions, and direct economic losses to estimate the total cost of the pandemic in the U.S. on the optimistic assumption that it will be substantially contained by the fall of 2021.
Authors: David M. Cutler, Ph.D., of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19759)
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What The Article Says: Ways the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded existing health, human rights and economic disparities in communities of color are discussed in this Viewpoint, which also proposes a program of restorative justice in response, comprising investments in education and housing, reforms in lending practices and criminal justice, and more.
Authors: Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19567)
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What The Study Did: The association between the COVID-19 pandemic and health care-related data collection is examined in this Viewpoint article.
Authors: Makoto Mori, M.D., of the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5542)
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What The Study Did: The risk of mother-to-newborn transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection was examined in this study.
Authors: Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, M.D., M.Sc., and Melissa S. Stockwell, M.D., M.P.H., of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4298)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined the association between use of e-cigarettes and self-reported wheezing among adolescents ages 12 to 17.
Authors: Alayna P. Tackett, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20671)
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What The Study Did: National survey data were used to examine how rates of alcohol abstinence and marijuana abstinence, the use of both, and use disorders changed among young adults in the United States between 2002 and 2018.
Authors: Sean Esteban McCabe, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3352)
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What The Study Did: This study combined the results of 68 studies with 200,000 patients to estimate the subsequent risk of ischemic stroke (when a blood vessel to the brain is blocked usually by a blood clot) after a transient ischemic attack (TIA)and how that risk has changed over time.
Authors: Ramin Zand, M.D., M.P.H., of Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.3627)
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