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During recent meetings to recommend the flu strains to include in the Southern Hemisphere's 2021 flu season, the World Health Organization (WHO) advisory group also reviewed the latest developments with zoonotic strains and recommended two new candidate vaccine viruses for pandemic preparedness.
Hospitals in Wisconsin and North Dakota are being stretched to capacity.
Slaughterhouse workers with close camel contact had a 30% positive test rate.
Also, PAHO is concerned about a resurgence of cases in the Carribean.
Daily cases dropped from 3,506 to 867 after the measures were implemented.
A study yesterday found that US patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are more likely to be male, younger, and have fewer comorbidities and lower medication use than hospitalized flu patients.
The US ranked 9th of 19 overall but scored high on income, food, and shelter aid.
Lopinavir-ritonavir didn't shorten hospital stay or lower the risk of mechanical ventilation or death.
Also, the FDA posts its COVID-19 vaccine standards, ending a stalemate.
A diagnostic stewardship program at a large Los Angeles hospital was associated with significantly reduced inpatient urine culture orders and rates of hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A study yesterday found an 82.3% rate of neurologic symptoms among 509 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, with some symptoms associated with increased death rates.
COVID-19 has disrupted services for mental health, neurologic conditions, and substance abuse.
The patients didn't have severe symptoms such as respiratory failure.
Also, the CDC updates its COVID-19 guidance to include more on airborne spread.
A JAMA study today analyzing trends in internet searches found increased queries for anxiety, panic attack, and insomnia during the New York statewide lockdown in March, with searches for depression and suicide remaining at expected levels.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding up to $2.5 million to GangaGen Biotechnologies of Bangalore, India, to develop novel antibacterial proteins to treat hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Also, CEPI launches a lab network to do head-to-head evaluations of vaccine candidates.
"These are not trivial declines: They are large, clinically important declines."
In breaking news, President Trump is headed for Walter Reed Hospital.
Providers can do more to encourage vaccines, the CDC says.
