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Staff infection rates were higher than for students, and nearly half of the outbreaks involved staff-to-staff transmission.
A 4-year-old boy living outside of Milan with no travel history is now the earliest confirmed SARS-CoV-2 case in Italy, a team based in Italy reported in a research letter to Emerging Infectious Diseases yesterday.
Also, 63% of Americans are now willing to be immunized, up from 50% in September.
As the US COVID-19 markers head further into red zone territory, the feds press states and cities to do more to curb transmission.
Two large studies find no increase in pandemic-related stillbirths or preterm births or among UK and US women.
The peer-reviewed data mirror unpublished results noted last month by the researchers, with up to 90% protection.
A cluster-randomized controlled trial conducted in Spanish primary care settings suggests a multifaceted stewardship intervention helped reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) and was cost-effective, Spanish researchers reported yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
A large study of childcare providers in Pediatrics today found that childcare staff were not at higher risk for COVID-19 during the early months of the US pandemic.
Review of 57 studies finds that only 8 of 213 household COVID-19 clusters (3.8%) had a pediatric index case.
Only 1 of 62 newborns who nursed and roomed with an infected mom tested positive.
The world added about 1.5 million more cases over the weekend, putting the pandemic total past 67 million.
A JAMA Network Open study late last week suggests that a pattern of delayed medical care during the pandemic may be responsible for a greater incidence of a ruptured appendix related to appendicitis in children.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows some encouraging declines in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) across four US healthcare settings, including one linked to antibiotic use.
"You've got to stick with this or your health system won't be able to cope."
Strategies for a secure drug supply chain discussed at National Academies public workshop.
The latest CDC steps provide a bridge to when vaccines will be widely available.
The findings may be related to living and working conditions and other factors.
Though it's an observational study and can't prove cause and effect, it holds promise.
While younger adults with no underlying health conditions have been considered safer from COVID-19's severe outcomes, of those who were hospitalized, 22% were admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), 10% needed mechanical ventilation, and 0.6% (3 patients) died, reports a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
