CIDRAP newsletters options
A new review of 15 studies analyzed by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows COVID-19 vaccination is protective against developing symptoms of long COVID, or symptoms lasting longer than 4 weeks after the initial infection.
The Indiana Board of Animal Health (IBAH) said today that initial tests at a third turkey farm in the state are positive for H5 avian flu. The new detection marks the United States' fifth recent outbreak in poultry. Further testing is under way to assess if the virus is the same highly pathogenic H5N1 strain that struck the first Indiana farm.
The BA.2 Omicron subvariant now says makes up about 21% of sequenced global cases, the WHO says.
Remote trials had 49% racial minority participation, compared with 14% in a clinic-based study.
New cases have dropped 40%, hospitalizations are down 28%, and deaths have decreased by 9%.
Of respondents, 95% say the pandemic revealed drug supply chain vulnerabilities.
A new study comparing excess years of life lost (YLL) during the first year of COVID-19 in parts of England and Wales shows that economically deprived areas suffered three times as many deaths as affluent regions, and young adults (15 to 44 years old) were 11 times more likely to die from the virus in poorer parts of the United Kingdom. The study is published in PLOS Medicine.
A steady drop in US cases includes a substantial decline in children's infections, but in parts of Eastern Europe, cases have doubled in the past 2 weeks.
A second study shows how hard Omicron has hit kids, especially the unvaccinated.
A large proportion of US COVID-19 patients were left with thousands of dollars of hospital bills after many health insurers stopped issuing cost-sharing waivers in early 2021, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) last week announced a new program to improve surveillance and prescribing of antimicrobials in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) .
Signs of vagus nerve dysfunction in long COVID patients include difficulty breathing and problems swallowing.
New daily cases fell 42% in the past week, deaths fell 6%, and hospitalizations fell 19%, while Americans are split on mask mandates.
Confirmation of the H5N1 strain comes after the virus was detected last week at an Indiana turkey farm.
Isolation beds at public hospitals have reached 90% capacity in Hong Kong, with 2,000 new cases reported.
People who received a different brand of COVID-19 vaccine booster than they did in the primary series had lower rates of infection than those who received the same brand, according to a study in Singapore published late last week in JAMA.
An active laboratory- and population-based surveillance study conducted at five US sites found a high incidence of infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E), researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Prioritizing higher-volume prescribers for focused stewardship could have a big impact, study authors say.
Patients may not know about the drugs or don't want them.
Rural counties with low COVID-19 vaccination rates had 2.4 times the risk of infection.
