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Only 20 US state and District of Columbia COVID-19 vaccination plans included mention of a health equity committee, and only 8 specifically mentioned including minority group representatives, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter late last week.
Late last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a new Listeria outbreak connected to Tyson Foods Inc. chicken products.
So far three people have been sickened, one in Delaware and two in Texas. One patient has died from his or her infection, and all required hospitalization. The patients first started having symptoms from Apr 6 to Jun 5.
The Delta variant virus is causing cases to rise in some regions, but J&J says its vaccine is effective against it.
The pets usually have no or mild symptoms but in a few cases might have severe disease.
"In those countries whose hospitals are filling up, they need vaccines and other health tools right now."
A history of pain in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients—the disease's most common complication—is associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes in children and adults, according to a Blood Advances study yesterday. SCD-related organ comorbidities were also related to worse COVID-19 outcomes in children.
A provider-focused antibiotic stewardship intervention was associated with reduced antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) at 31 primary care practices, with no impact on prescribing for infections that require antibiotics, researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Cases in Africa rose 25% last week and are doubling every 3 weeks, and infections rose 10% in Europe.
Communities with vaccination uptake of 30% or lower will be hardest hit by the Delta variant, CDC director says.
Vaccinated people have a milder, shorter illness and lower viral loads, study finds.
COVID-19 transmission was most commonly identified in households early on in the pandemic, but interviews also show an association with healthcare settings, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The global prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) has more than tripled in the past two decades, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.
Both cases and deaths in Africa rise sharply—cases by 33% and deaths by 42%.
Black, American Indian, and Hispanic women were disproportionately affected by the declines in screening.
JAMA Cardiology reports describe cases shortly after Pfizer, Moderna shots.
Antibiotic use in European livestock is now lower than in people.
Following China's 70-year battle against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the country has been awarded a malaria-free certification. In a statement, the WHO said that the achievement is notable, given that China reported about 30 million cases each year in the 1940s.
A new meta-analysis of 58 studies shows obese men are not at increased risk of death from COVID-19 when admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), but those with a history of smoking, diabetes, or kidney disease were at increased risk.
The study, published yesterday in Anaesthesia, contradicts other published findings that have linked male sex and obesity to worse COVID-19 outcomes.
Life expectancy at birth dropped an estimated 1.3 years in 2020 and 1.8 years in early 2021 owing to COVID.
