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The WHO posts a brief on transmission and launches a review panel.
In yet another study demonstrating racial disparities in the pandemic, a University of Chicago analysis has found that black people are twice as likely as whites to test positive for COVID-19.
Cases increased 20% in the Americas over the past week, and in Africa, cases in 22 countries have more than doubled over the past month.
In 62% of 911 emergency dispatches, the patient did not report COVID symptoms.
Task force coordinator Birx says harder-hit states should re-enter phase 1 of reopening.
At least 246 COVID-19 cases have been tied to reopened nightclubs in Seoul, South Korea, after the Apr 30 to May 5 Golden Week holiday, with 61% among contacts of nightclub revelers, according to a research letter published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Tests have confirmed two more Ebola infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, and both are patients from Mbandaka, the provincial capital, the country's multisector Ebola technical committee (CMRE) said today in an update.
Hospital and ICU beds in Arizona, Texas, and Florida are filling at an alarming rate.
Around 5% in Spain, a nation hit hard earlier, had antibodies to the virus.
Also, the WHO will meet with Chinese officials to probe the source of the virus.
A retrospective cohort study of 1,687 COVID-19 patients at two New York City hospitals published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealed that 31% were obese, and obese patients were at higher risk of respiratory failure.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding $892,000 to Spanish biotechnology company Vaxdyn to develop a vaccine to prevent infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens.
It only took 5 days for cases to surge from 10 million to 11 million, and today the number stands at 11,520,461 cases.
Officials must revisit their approach in order to minimize COVID-19 deaths, the study author says.
Not recognizing airborne transmission has led to a false sense of security, they write.
California records the largest 1-day jump reported so far in the US during the pandemic.
Seven more Ebola cases and three more deaths have been confirmed over the past few days in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Equateur province outbreak, raising the total to 41 cases, which includes 17 deaths.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 1
Steps that many Americans took on their own appear to have helped reduce COVID-19 spread in March and April.
Florida confirms a record number, and Texas has a new order to wear masks.
