The COVID Hot Potato 9
This week the hottest ‘hot potato’ is the open letter in the British Medical Journal from the Presidents of Royal Colleges calling for a rapid review of preparations for a second wave of COVID-19, and a focus on areas of weakness where action is needed to prevent further loss of life.

Posted on: 25/06/2020

Submission to PAC on readying NHS and social care for COVID-19 peak
NIHR HPRU EZI submits to PAC on readying NHS and social care for COVID-19 peak

Posted on: 22/06/2020

Dexamethasone reduces death in hospitalised patients
HPRU EZI's Prof Peter Horby leads study that shows Dexamethasone reduces death in hospitalised patients with severe respiratory complications of COVID

Posted on: 17/06/2020

BMJ Best Practice Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Nicholas J Beeching, Tom E Fletcher, Robert Fowler
BMJ Best Practice, 

Characterisation of the transcriptome and proteome of SARS-CoV-2 using direct RNA sequencing and tandem mass spectrometry reveals evidence for a cell passage induced in-frame deletion in the spike glycoprotein that removes the furin-like cleavage site
Andrew D. Davidson, Maia Kavanagh Williamson, Sebastian Lewis, Deborah Shoemark, Miles W. Carroll, Kate Heesom, Maria Zambon, Joanna Ellis, Phillip A. Lewis, Julian A. Hiscox,  View ORCID ProfileDavid A. Matthews
bioRxiv, 

Amplicon based MinION sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 and metagenomic characterisation of nasopharyngeal swabs from patients with COVID-19
Shona C Moore, Rebekah Penrice-Randal, Muhannad Alruwaili, Xiaofeng Dong, Steven T Pullan, Daniel Carter, Kevin Bewley, Qin Zhao, Yani Sun, Catherine Hartley, En-min Zhou, Tom Solomon, Michael B. J. Beadsworth, James Cruise, Debby Bogaert, Derrick W T Crook, View ORCID ProfileDavid A Matthews, Andrew D. Davidson, Zana Mahmood, Waleed Aljabr, Julian Druce, Richard T Vipond, Lisa Ng, Laurent Renia, Peter Openshaw, View ORCID ProfileJ Kenneth Baillie, Miles W Carroll, Calum Semple, Lance Turtle, Julian Alexander Hiscox
medRxiv,