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Also, Africa is struggling to meet its end-of-September vaccination coverage goal of 10%.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A survey across 73 countries assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) highlights reduced availability of nursing, medical, and public health staff for AMR efforts. The study was published today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) against the Delta (B1617.2) variant was 65% in those fully vaccinated, according to a population-based study in Norway. The results, published in Eurosurveillance yesterday, looked at 4,204,859 infected adults without previous COVID-19 from mid-April to mid-August.
The ECDC says a third dose should already be considered in the immune-compromised.
After years of decline, US hospitals saw significant increases in HAIs.
The odds of long COVID-19 fall by more than half after two doses of vaccine.
"A transparent, thorough, and objective review of the data by the FDA is critical."
The rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib was shown to reduce mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a randomized, controlled trial published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine yesterday. Baricitinib acts as a Janus kinases inhibitor and is under emergency use authorization to treat severe COVID-19 by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Also, global health experts call on world leaders to hold a UN summit on ending the pandemic.
Even those who had mild COVID-19 are at increased risk for major declines in kidney function.
August was the fourth-worst month of the pandemic for new COVID-19 cases.
Admission screening for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) at a Vietnamese children's hospital was associated with reduced CRE acquisition, hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), duration of hospital stay, and costs, according to a study published this week in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Pre-hospital antiplatelet therapy, most commonly aspirin, was associated with significantly lower in-hospital mortality rates for COVID-19 patients, according to a study this week in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.
Parents are split on whether mask mandates belong in schools, and colleges grapple with vaccine mandates.
Wealthy nations have shipped less than 10% of the requested 1 billion doses by September.
Residents of states that lifted eviction bans were at an 83% higher risk for COVID-19 after 12 weeks.
After two doses of an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, nearly 90% of immunocompromised patients had an antibody response, but it was about as third as strong as those with healthy immune systems, according to data published in the Annals of Internal Medicine yesterday.
Severity and the type of symptoms experienced appear to be the biggest factors in accepting a delayed antibiotic prescription for a respiratory tract infection (RTI), according to a UK survey published yesterday in PLOS Medicine.
CDC advisers vote unanimously to recommend the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for people ages 16 and up.
