COVID-19 infection among health care workers: A hospital based study from Indian state of Meghalaya.

Background: COVID-19 can infect any individual, but the group most susceptible is the Health Care Workers (HCWs) who are directly involved in COVID-19 patient care. Despite adhering to the recommended personal prospective equipment, a disproportionately large number of cases of COVID-19 were reported among the HCWs.

Aims And Objectives: To study the burden of COVID-19 infection among the HCWs and to study the probable factors associated with increased risk of COVID-19 infection among HCWs.

Dermatological manifestation can be an early sign in Covid-19: Report of three cases with a novel manifestation masquerading Steven Johnson syndrome.

Various dermatological manifestations have been observed in patients with Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection ranging from maculopapular rashes, urticaria, chickenpox-type lesions, chilblain-like, distal-limb ischemia, and livedo racemosa. While most of these cutaneous findings are self-resolving, they may aid in the timely diagnosis of this infection. We are reporting three patients presenting with dermatological features resembling (i) varicella zoster, (ii) herpes labialis, and (iii) Steven Johnson Syndrome (SJS) who were subsequently diagnosed with Covid-19 infection.

Uncommon cause of persistent hypoxia in a patient with obstructive sleep apnea.

We report a case of hypothyroidism, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with persistent daytime hypoxemia. Cause of hypoxemia was two arteriovenous (AV) malformations in the lower lobe of the lung. We must be alert to other causes of hypoxemia in patients of OSA with persistent daytime hypoxemia.