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A comprehensive review of data submitted by more than 15,000 US nursing homes revealed that about 20% faced a staff shortage or severe shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) in early July, months into the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study in Health Affairs yesterday.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Aug 20
Cases in the Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reached 100, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, with cases nearly doubling in the past 5 weeks.
HHS rescinds FDA approval for COVID tests under an executive order from President Trump.
France, Germany, and Spain report their highest daily COVID-19 case counts since easing out of lockdowns.
The findings have implications for schools, daycares, and similar settings.
University of California researchers studying the breast milk of 18 women with COVID-19 found coronavirus RNA—but not live virus—in 1 of 64 samples, suggesting that babies aren't likely to be infected through that route.
Implementation of a pharmacist-led antibiotic time-out (ATO) at an academic medical center was feasible and well-accepted, but did not change overall antibiotic use, researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Only 1 in 7 US parents say their children will return full time to in-person instruction for the 2020-21 school year.
Surveillance will include more bacterial pathogens, animal species, and environment testing.
"Going back to school depends on the local epidemiology, the local transmission, the local profile of schools..."
Antibodies ranged from very high levels in 2 patients to undetectable levels in 10.
The inclusion of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) and order set within the electronic medical record, in combination with the use of local urine antibiograms, was associated with improved antibiotic prescribing for acute cystitis at a veterans' health system in North Carolina, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security today released an ethical framework for how to allocate and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine once it's been approved but is in limited supply.
US nursing homes saw an almost 80% increase in cases since the week of Jun 21.
When underlying medical and other risk conditions are factored out, death rates are similar between blacks and whites.
The head of the WHO warns about "vaccine nationalism" and previews a basic strategy for deploying vaccine.
A review of 18 US and international public health and governmental websites with COVID-19 information for the public—including those of the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—has found that all exceeded the recommended reading level and used sentence structures and technical terminology that would hinder understanding.
One more Ebola illness and one more death from the virus have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
The new developments push the outbreak total to 89 cases and 37 deaths.
For the fourth day in a row, South Korea reports a triple-digit increase in cases.
