Infectious disease surveillance system descriptors: proposal for a comprehensive set separator

Published on July 13, 2020

The paper provides surveillance system descriptors for appropriate structual elements and use for each purpose.  Eurosurveillance 

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EARLY RELEASE: Characteristics of Persons Who Died with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) - United States, February 12-May 18, 2020

July 10, 2020
This report describes the race/ethnicity, underlying conditions, and age group of persons from 16 public health jurisdictions who died with coronavirus disease 2019.

Orbituary: Tomisaku Kawasaki

July 14, 2020
Paediatrician who identified what became known as Kawasaki disease. Born on Feb 7, 1925, in Tokyo, Japan, he died on June 5, 2020, in Tokyo, aged 95 years. The Lancet