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After a 5-week drop, global COVID-19 cases stabilized last week, though deaths continued to decline, the WHO says.
"We are only beginning to understand the toll of the pandemic on HCW well-being."
A new report from Scotland's national health service shows that three key healthcare-associated infections remained stable or declined from 2020 to 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically worsened disparities in all-cause death rates for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), Native Hawaiian, other Pacific Islander (NHOPI), and Black Americans and eroded mortality advantages for Asian and Hispanic groups, finds a study published yesterday in PNAS.
Multiple factors may be keeping these vulnerable populations from obtaining and using antibiotics appropriately.
Healthcare workers in lower-paying roles, however, were more likely to face unemployment.
The outbreak includes 1 confirmed fatal case and 8 suspected infections in people who are receiving medical care.
Boston public schools (BPS) yesterday announced the first monkeypox case in an "adult member of the BPS community," according to a letter sent to parents. The school district said the person was isolating at home, and the district was working to identify exposed individuals.
At a routine press briefing today, two White House officials fielded questions about President Joe Biden's recent off-the-cuff comment during a news program that the pandemic is over, while acknowledging that COVID is still a problem.
One of the Florida infant's 4 caretakers reported high-risk activities before the baby contracted monkeypox.
Moderna's 2-strain booster triggered stronger antibody responses that its original booster did.
The comments prompted swift and sharp criticism among some public health experts.
"We think these principles can be applied to the next respiratory viral epidemic," a committee chair said of the SHEA statement.
About 9 months after COVID-19 infection, 19% of nonhospitalized adult patients in a German cohort had fatigue, 26% had mild cognitive impairment ("brain fog"), and 1% had moderate cognitive dysfunction, according to a multicenter study.
The study, published late last week in EClinicalMedicine, also showed that the incidence and risk factors for fatigue and cognitive impairment differed by age-group.
In its weekly flu update on Sep 16, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported two more variant H1N2 (H1N2v) infections, in Michigan and Wisconsin.
After 2 years, 12% had lingering symptoms and 8% had new-onset or worsening symptoms.
Zero of 313 exposed healthcare workers got monkeypox, even though only 23% wore adequate protective equipment.
One in three unvaccinated COVID-19 survivors in a Spanish cohort had no detectable SARS-CoV-2 antibodies nearly 1 year after infection, according to a prospective study published today in BMC Medicine.
An analysis of data on patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) found that extended-spectrum antibiotic therapy was associated with increased mortality compared with standard antibiotic therapy, Japanese researchers reported yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
