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Those with compromised immune systems get COVID-19 after vaccination 3 times more often—but still rarely—a new study shows.
Merck's pill is on track to be the first approved treatment for COVID-19 infections.
Also, sequencing found hints that travelers with Omicron likely contracted the virus from different people in different locations.
Many COVID-19 survivors experience impaired circulation, abnormal breathing patterns, and chronic fatigue syndrome an average of 9 months after diagnosis, finds a small, single-center study yesterday in JACC: Heart Failure.
One study suggests the shots saved about 470,000 people 60 years and older in Europe.
Global officials are assessing how the variant will affect the arc of the pandemic.
Heads of vaccine firms say they can quickly retool existing vaccines to address the variant if needed.
During a meeting tomorrow at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), scientists will present data from the largest multi-institutional international study to date on brain complications of COVID-19 and share that 1 in 100 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 will likely develop complications of the central nervous system like stroke, hemorrhage, and other potentially fatal complications.
A new report from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) shows sales of veterinary antimicrobials have fallen by more than 40% since 2011.
The US joins a growing list of nations that have banned flights from South Africa and related destinations.
Amid uncertainty about the meaning of the changes, intensive efforts are underway to gauge how the they might impact tests, treatments, and vaccine efficacy.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 24
"While Europe is again the epicenter of the pandemic, no country or region is out of the woods."
The number of people flying in the US is double what it was for the same time last year.
The researchers call some types of emotional distress experienced by healthcare workers "moral injury."
A large study of patients in Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals shows a significant increase in the use of ceftazidime-avibactam for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) infections, US researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
SARS-CoV-2 antibody concentrations predict COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, with higher levels correlating with greater protection, according to an ongoing US phase 3 clinical trial yesterday in Science.
COVID-19 deaths in the WHO European region have doubled since late September.
Also, company data show the Pfizer vaccine 100% effective against COVID-19 in children ages 12 through 15.
Younger Black women died at a 4.2 times higher rate than White women their age.
