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Also, new data show that young pregnant women and Hispanic and Black women are less likely to be vaccinated.
From January to August 2020, 17% more US assisted living residents died compared with the same months in 2019, and excess deaths hit 24% in the hardest-hit states, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter yesterday.
Germany recently reported a human variant H1N1 (H1N1v) case involving a 17-year-old boy who works on a pig farm, according to a recent weekly communicable disease update from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Eight states in the South and West recorded rising 7-day averages for infection rates over the past 2 weeks.
The vaccine showed 100% protection against severe illness and 93% against variants of concern.
In other global developments, the WHO welcomes vaccine donations from the G7 meeting.
Today officials from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan launched a 3-day polio vaccination campaign targeting 9.9 million children younger than 5 years, the third national campaign this year.
International medical graduate physicians, or IMG physicians, make up about 25% of the practicing physicians in the United States, but they have made up 45% of COVID-related physician deaths, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter late last week.
COVID-19 surges continue in South America, now the hardest-hit continent, and Africa is seeing a host of vaccine issues.
Preventive anticoagulation dosing for blood clots in the veins was tied to lower 60-day death rates.
The FDA says 60 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine cannot be used because of possible contamination.
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week released three new documents that aim to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through a behavioral insights approach.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week release three new documents that aim to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through a behavioral insights approach.
A surveillance study of US children during the first wave of the pandemic found that multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) was a rare complication associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, but incidence was significantly higher in non-White racial and ethnic groups, US researchers reported yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The FDA has granted an extension on the shelf life of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, to 4.5 months.
With more nations reporting data, troubling trends emerge, especially in low-resource nations.
Elsewhere, European officials say only 30% of the population has received 1 vaccine dose.
For every 20 percentage points of vaccinated people, positive COVID-19 tests in unvaccinated children halved.
High doses of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in conjunction with an anticoagulant were associated with resolved vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) in three patients, according to a report yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
VITT occurs when antibodies attack protein factor 4 (PF4), leading to blood clumping and clots.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it has finalized guidelines to bring the remaining medically important antibiotics still sold over-the-counter (OTC) for use in animals under the supervision of veterinarians.
