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Frontline healthcare workers who had PPE were still at 3 times the risk of infection.
HHS says more than 59 million COVID-19 tests have been completed in the US.
Telemedicine is booming amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but many older US adults—particularly those who are low-income, male, black or Hispanic, older than 65 years, less educated, living in rural areas, or have disabilities or poor health—are unable to access remote services, cutting them off from healthcare.
Ebola has sickened one more person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, upping the total to 73 cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today on Twitter.
No new deaths were reported, keeping the fatality count at 31.
Some hot spots in the South report record deaths as a report on an outbreak at a summer camp sheds light on spread among teens.
Modeling study suggests every-other-day testing strategy.
Some countries experiencing flare-ups report record daily cases, including Vietnam, the Philippines, and Poland.
Red onions imported from the United States are the likely source of a Salmonella Newport outbreak in Canada that has a genetic fingerprint similar to illnesses reported in the US outbreak.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 30
Children younger than 5 years with mild or moderate COVID-19 have much higher levels of coronavirus genetic material in their nose and throat than do older children and adults, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
A reset would mean such steps as temporary closures of nonessential businesses and toughening mask and distancing policies in hot spots.
Of the travel-related cases in 99 countries early in the pandemic, the 3 top source nations were Italy, China, and Iran.
The WHO releases a new resource aimed at preventing COVID-19 spread in nursing homes.
Pregnant black and Hispanic women at two Philadelphia hospitals were five times more likely than their white and Asian peers to have been exposed to COVID-19, according to a study published yesterday in Science Immunology.
A randomized phase 3 trial found that the combination of daptomycin and fosfomycin provided higher treatment success than daptomycin alone for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia and endocarditis, but the difference did not reach statistical significance, Spanish researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
With the dramatic nationwide rise in COVID-19 cases, widespread concerns about thin supplies of protective equipment remain.
One study finds that staff working at more than one nursing home had quadruple the risk of infection.
A dramatically scaled-back version of the hajj pilgrimage began in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
Younger people appear to be spreading the virus to older family members, according to a new report.
One more Ebola case has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, raising the total to 68 cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today on Twitter.
The patient is apparently from Mbandaka, the provincial capital, which is a concern, given its travel connections to Kinshasa and neighboring countries. The number of deaths held steady at 31.
