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US travel restrictions now include flights arriving from the UK and Ireland.
The declaration allows the president to exercise emergency powers and tap into $50 billion for relief efforts; Trump also announced a new public-private partnership to address the test shortage.
The alert comes after 6 patients were infected with diarrhea-causing E coli following FMT.
Italy reports 2,547 new infections and 250 more deaths, boosting its totals to 17,770 cases and 1,255 deaths.
US levels of clinic visits for influenza-like illness (ILI), after falling for 3 straight weeks, rose slightly last week, but the increase might be related to concerns over COVID-19, according to the latest FluView report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the flu season continues to take a toll on children.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Doctors in Italy face grim decisions about whom to save.
Several states limit the size of gatherings, and dozens of sports teams are affected by cancellations.
Researchers detected COVID-19 viral RNA and live virus in specimens other than from the throat and sputum.
A paper today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes a small cluster of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae detected at an Arizona nursing home.
Analysis of six European studies on the 2019/2020 influenza season indicate the interim vaccine effectiveness (VE) against laboratory-confirmed influenza in the primary care setting ranged from 29% to 61% and from 35% to 60% in hospitalized older adults. The results appeared today in Eurosurveillance.
President Trump declares a ban on flights from Europe and calls for worker tax relief.
Sacramento County is focusing on mitigating risk in those at highest risk.
"Describing the situation as a pandemic does not change WHO's assessment."
"We will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now": Fauci.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday announced a deadly Listeria outbreak today linked to enoki mushrooms distributed by Sun Hong Foods, Inc.
Governor Cuomo announces the country's first containment zone, in New Rochelle, New York.
Advanced age, signs of sepsis, and blood clotting issues were all risk factors for in-hospital death.
Three groups announce $125 million to speed treatment development, and CEPI announces $4.4 million more to support 2 vaccine projects.
Florida Health officials confirmed a case of locally acquired dengue in the Florida Keys, according to the Associated Press (AP), and said the patient is doing well. The Keys saw outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease in 2009 and 2010.
