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Infection rate dropped 5% for every 1 ng/mL increase in Black patients with a vitamin D level of at least 30 ng/mL.
"The inequitable distribution of vaccines is not just a moral outrage. It's also economically and epidemiologically self-defeating."
Compared with the 2014 to 2019 flu seasons, COVID-19's effect in March and April 2020 resulted in a dramatically higher rate of deaths, mechanical ventilation procedures, and hospitalizations at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine late last week.
A coalition of groups funding antibiotic research and development today released new guidance for developers of antibacterial products to integrate stewardship and access into their plans.
For middle schools and high schools in areas with high community spread, 6 feet is still recommended.
About 56% of antibiotic use was unsupported, with the rate at 79% for pneumonia.
More than a dozen countries restarted immunizations with the vaccine, but others did not.
Hospitals were under serious strain during the 2017-18 flu season, yet no pandemic planning resulted.
For every 3 people who would have died from the previous dominant strains of SARS-CoV-2, 5 will die if they are infected with the B117 variant of concern (VOC), according to a UK study yesterday in Eurosurveillance.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A coalition of more than 50 organizations is calling on Congress to boost US investments in efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and develop new antibiotics.
Animal health officials in Wisconsin announced yesterday that they have completed depopulation of a white-tail deer herd at a Burnett County breeding farm where chronic wasting disease (CWD) was found in a buck in October 2020.
"This is a time for optimism, but not a time for relaxation," Biden says.
People commonly experience fatigue, cognitive conditions, or shortness of breath, says a new study.
The estimated protection against reinfection was about 80%, but for seniors it was only 47%.
Both the EMA and the UK's drug regulatory agency weigh in and say the data vouch for effectiveness and safety.
An audit of an electronic medical record–integrated antimicrobial stewardship intervention in an Australian intensive care unit (ICU) demonstrated long-term benefits and sustainability, Australian researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
COVID-19 vaccination coverage in less socioeconomically vulnerable US counties was 1.9 percentage points higher than that in the most susceptible counties in the first 2.5 months of vaccine rollout, a study yesterday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) finds.
Brazil's activity intensified after Carnival, and, unlike its first surge, spikes aren't contained to a few main hot spots.
Researchers who tracked B117 variant spread in the UK found that the virus quickly found its way into nursing homes.
Hot spots include the Upper Midwest, Northeast, and Middle Atlantic and may reflect variant spread.
