Open AccessPerspectives on Topical Medical Research in the COVID-19 Era
Author(s) -
Michael McAleer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sci
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2413-4155
DOI - 10.3390/sci2030068
Subject(s) - biostatistics , covid-19 , alternative medicine , medicine , public health , nothing , family medicine , medical research , geriatrics , medical education , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , pathology , psychiatry , outbreak , philosophy , epistemology
The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 disease has wreaked havoc on the world community in terms of every imaginable parameter. The research output on COVID-19 has been nothing short of phenomenal, especially in the medical and biomedical sciences, where the search for a potential vaccine is being conducted in earnest. Much of the advanced research has been distributed in the leading medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), where the latest research is distributed on a daily basis. The purpose of this paper is to provide some perspectives on 44 interesting and highly topical research papers that have been published in JAMA, at the time of writing, within the past two weeks. The diverse topics include public health, general medicine, internal medicine, oncology, paediatrics, geriatrics, and biostatistics.