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With 754 new cases, Australia reports its highest daily total of the pandemic, and Japan hit a record of almost 24,000 new cases.
Vaccines also saved an estimated $625 billion to $1.4 trillion by early May.
Early use of convalescent plasma didn't prevent COVID-19 progression in a group of high-risk adult outpatients, concludes a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
COVID-19 restrictions in Australia were associated with a substantial decline in community dispensing of antibiotics for respiratory infections, researchers reported this week in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
"We have data that protection against moderate disease decreases over time."
Cases continue to rise, led by the Western Pacific and Americas regions.
One study finds ebbing efficacy against infection in nursing homes, while 2 show sustained protection against hospitalizations.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has received a $1.8 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to establish a clinical trial network focused on antibiotic-resistant infections.
For refugees, the biggest predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), health anxiety, depression, or disability during COVID-19 was if their pandemic experiences triggered memories of past trauma, according to survey results published today in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology.
Also, WHO airs concerns about COVID-19 spread amid interrupted vaccination efforts in Afghanistan.
Neither NFL nor NCAA football games were associated with increased community cases.
The news comes as a phase 1 trial shows that a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine elicited a greater immune response against the Beta and Delta variants.
China's CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine is tied to a slight increased risk of Bell's palsy, while the Fosun/BioNTech (Pfizer/BioNTech's parallel product in China) did not show a significantly increased risk, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Both the researchers and a related commentary conclude that COVID-19 vaccines' benefits outweigh the risks.
The Ivory Coast yesterday launched an Ebola vaccination campaign aimed at frontline health workers and other high-risk groups, part of the response into an imported Ebola case involving a woman who had just arrived from Guinea.
Vaccination is key to protect adult household members, an editorial on the study notes.
For the first time since February, the US topped 900,000 cases in a week, and more kids are hospitalized than ever before.
A WHO official says the case is concerning because it was detected in Abidjan, a city of 4 million people, but it's not linked to an earlier outbreak in Guinea.
US wildfires were associated with excess COVID-19 cases and deaths from mid-August to mid-October 2020, according to a study published late last week in Science Advances.
An analysis of hospitalized geriatric patients found that rigorous de-escalation and curtailing of antibiotics was associated with reductions in hospital readmission and mortality, US researchers reported last week in JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance.
