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EMS workers are scrambling to adapt treatment protocols and conduct training on their use.
The announcement paves the way for increased funds for tests, vaccines, and treatments.
Only one-fifth say they plan to have their preschooler vaccinated within 3 months.
Three quarters of a group of nonhospitalized men and women newly diagnosed as having COVID-19 continued to have positive rapid antigen test (RAT) results—and over one-third still had viable virus on culture—6 days later, according to a study led by Brigham and Women's researchers.
A study of data from a large pediatric primary care network found a quick decline in telehealth antibiotic prescribing following a peak during the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported today in Pediatrics.
Infection rate fell from 20% to 7% after 4 doses in one study, and 3 doses increased protection by a third in 2 other studies.
Sexual contact is the likely transmission event for 92% of patients, and 98% of cases involve men who have sex with men.
Also, the Biden administration releases 2 new reports on long COVID.
In findings that are consistent with previous studies, a systematic review and analysis of 22 studies revealed a high rate of antibiotic use among COVID-19 patients during the first year and a half of the pandemic, despite a low prevalence of bacterial coinfection, researchers reported this week in PLOS One.
Dynamic restrictions on nonessential foreign travel into Canada helped slow COVID-19 variant introductions in early 2020 and 2021, allowing the government more time to scale up vaccination, testing, and contact tracing programs, according to a study published yesterday in eLife.
A FEMA administrator and a CDC director of HIV prevention now lead the federal monkeypox response.
A total of 33% of young kids and 39% of those 11 to 17 had high Problematic Media Use Measure scores.
A non-restrictive antibiotic stewardship intervention was associated with reduced fluoroquinolone prescribing at two community hospitals in Los Angeles, researchers reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
More than half of high-risk SARS-CoV-2 Omicron inpatients or outpatients given the monoclonal antibody sotrovimab rapidly developed viral spike-protein mutations linked to treatment resistance, according to a study from the Netherlands published yesterday in JAMA.
The authors said it's not clear if reduced severity stemmed from vaccination or from Omicron characteristics.
Also, Alaska reports its first case, leaving only 3 states without known illnesses.
A US surveillance study found 10% of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections were community-associated.
Rebound has also been seen in untreated people and in those who took molnupiravir, and the bottom line is treatments cut severe outcomes.
Nursing homes in US states with COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers saw a 7 percentage-point increase in staff vaccine uptake over homes in non-mandate states during a 5-month period in 2021, with no worsening of worker shortages, finds a study published late last week in JAMA Health Forum.
Officials from the two hot spots declared the emergencies to help free up more resources and streamline the monkeypox response.
