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Ontario has an 84-week backlog of nonurgent surgeries delayed because of COVID-19.
New guidelines say mass azithromycin should be considered in infants in sub-Saharan African countries with high childhood mortality.
AstraZeneca plans to test its vaccine in 30,000 healthy adults.
A "proactive hunting surveillance" approach of shooting and testing deer likely to harbor the causative agent of chronic wasting disease (CWD) without leading to undesirable population declines achieved a 99% CWD-free rate within 3 to 5 years, in comparison to 10 years using the typical preemptive sampling strategy, according to a Norwegian modeling study published today in Nature Communications.
In response to COVID-19, the US government sold $1.5 trillion in obligations such as bonds and spent $1.3 trillion on public health, homeland security, and economic relief by Jun 30, according to an update yesterday from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
In one study, 27% of exhaled breath samples were positive for COVID-19 viral RNA.
"If countries are serious about opening up, they must be serious about suppressing transmission and saving lives."
At least 26 states are seeing 7-day case increases of more than 5%.
US counties with large declines in cell phone activity at workplaces, transit stations, and stores and concomitant increases in home activity during COVID-19 lockdowns had lower rates of coronavirus infections 5, 10, and 15 days later, according to a study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
A new paper in Open Forum Infectious Diseases lays out some of the lessons learned from cases of antibiotic-resistant infections treated with bacteriophage therapy.
The claim comes despite the fact that no major vaccine candidate has completed clinical trials.
In one study, 57% of patients got early antibiotics, but only 3.5% had a bacterial infection.
The first COVID-19 case has been detected in northern Syria's Al Hol refugee camp.
One more Ebola infection has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, raising the overall total to 107, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
Scientists in New Delhi, India, report infections with worrisome multidrug-resistant Candida auris in 10 of 15 critically ill COVID-19 patients who also had candidemia over a span of several months, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
India has reported the world's highest daily total for about 3 weeks, but today its tally jumped by 75,000 cases.
One study finds that almost a quarter of pediatric patients had conjunctivitis, or pink eye.
CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm, however, says the rapid test should not be used for diagnosis.
Individualized prescribing feedback and education in a telemedicine practice significantly decreased antibiotic prescribing rates for upper respiratory infection (URI) and bronchitis compared with education alone, US researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
