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While COVID rates were comparable, 52% of kids under 4 were asymptomatic, compared with 12% of adults.
In the weeks before the boy got sick, 3 of his neighbors—a father and 2 kids—died from a similar illness but weren't tested.
Implementing a set of rules targeting antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) into a hospital-wide medication review service was associated with a dramatic decline in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, Belgian researchers reported last week in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
People with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities had a greater mortality risk during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to a study published late last week in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe.
Studies detail lower rates of routine vaccinations amid the pandemic, especially in kids.
Only 47% of teens are vaccinated, and in 9 states, less than a third of eligible teens are.
Also, surges continue in Europe, while some Asian countries see respite.
A clinical trial in the Netherlands found that an antimicrobial stewardship intervention safely reduced broad-spectrum antibiotic use in patients hospitalized with moderately severe pneumonia, Dutch researchers reported yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Female sex, middle age, two or more chronic diseases, and more severe initial illness were predictive of difficulty recovering from COVID-19 6 months after release from a hospital, finds a multicenter UK study yesterday in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
The FDA is slated to discuss the authorization during an Oct 26 meeting.
One study finds dramatically lower protection against infection—but not hospitalization or death—5 to 7 months after vaccination.
The plan aims to have 70% of each country's population vaccinated by mid-2022.
In 2017, more than 11,000 US seniors died from common antibiotic-resistant infections.
The trio of studies found that young men appear to have higher risk.
More than 140,000 US children lost a parent or other caregiver from COVID-19 during the pandemic, representing one caregiver loss for every four coronavirus deaths, suggests a modeling study today in Pediatrics.
The risk ranged from 6.8% for people with tobacco use disorder to 7.8% for those with cannabis use disorder.
Aside from quadrupling the supply of home tests, officials say access will expand to free testing at community sites, which includes pharmacies.
Allocations and purchase limits for some treatments are rolling out across the US.
"Keeping up with measures that suppress transmission are hard but even more critical now."
