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Black respondents were 3.5 percentage points more likely than whites to report COVID-19 infection.
Cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spike in at least 10 US states.
In the face of the increasing spread of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in the United States, tick surveillance and control efforts across the country are inconsistent and hampered by lack of infrastructure and financial support, according to a new survey of professionals in the field.
A genomic analysis of hundreds of European patients who had severe cases of COVID-19 pointed to two gene clusters—one of them related to blood type—that seemed to be associated with severe disease, according to a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Ten (28%) of 35 infected patients died, of whom 2 were asymptomatic.
Also, blacks in Atlanta have a much higher hospitalization rate than whites.
The prevalence of antibiotic prescribing in primary care was 52%—and 30% is recommended.
"We need more therapeutics that can be used to tackle the virus."
In a study with implications for COVID-19 transmission, mild coughing can expel small saliva droplets through and around a face mask and travel as far as 1 meter (3.3 feet), according to a study published yesterday in Physics of Fluids.
A change in the wording of antibiotic duration orders for neonatal sepsis led to a substantial decrease in the number of infants who received extra unnecessary antibiotic orders, pharmacists at a hospital in British Columbia reported today in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Underlying conditions place 22% of people at increased risk for severe COVID-19 and 4% at high risk.
Of the total, 3.8 million COVID-19 cases have been reported in the Americas, where the pandemic is accelerating.
Also, NIAID Director Fauci says speeding a vaccine through trials is not compromising safety.
Unpublished data from a large randomized controlled trial in the United Kingdom indicate that dexamethasone, a cheap, widely available steroid, reduces deaths in hospitalized COVID-19 patients requiring respiratory support.
About 1 in 15 US parents (6.1%) is hesitant about childhood vaccines, while 1 in 4 (26%) are unsure about flu vaccines.
The agency says the drugs "are unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19 for the authorized uses."
For the past 2 weeks, more than 100,000 new global cases have been reported almost every day.
Data on passengers on the Diamond Princess reflect differences between symptomatic and symptomatic cases.
"What I'm afraid I see happening is people are kind of over it. This is old news; we're going to move on."
Officials reported five more illnesses and three more deaths in a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to figures reported today by the country's multisectoral Ebola response committee (CMRE).
The new developments raise the outbreak total to 17 cases, 14 of them confirmed and 3 listed as probable. The new deaths raise the fatality count to 11.
