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Also, President Biden's FY 2023 budget includes $10.7 billion in discretionary funds for the CDC.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) modeling study used data from 59 US case investigation and contact tracing (CICT) programs to estimate that the programs prevented 1.11 to 1.36 million COVID-19 cases, and 27,000 to 34,000 hospitalizations over 60 days in winter 2020-21, well before the Delta and Omicron variant surges.
Also, the elderly, Black Americans, and those with less education were less likely to use free at-home COVID-19 tests.
Middle-aged women taking more antibiotics had small decreases in cognitive test scores later in life.
One study author calls the results reassuring and hopes they increase vaccine uptake.
Areas seeing declines include Hong Kong, where cases are at their lowest level in a month.
Iowa, New York, and South Dakota report more high-path outbreaks in poultry.
A study this week in Clinical Infectious Diseases reveals high levels of childhood antibiotic exposure in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
The highly transmissible Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants caused triple and 10 times the rate of COVID-19 infections in pregnant women compared with other strains, with most cases among unvaccinated mothers and their newborns, finds a prospective study yesterday in JAMA.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Patients were able to tolerate only about 2.5 hours per day in the position.
Aspirin appeared helpful for moderately ill but not critically ill patients.
"Just as chemicals can build up in the air, viruses can as well."
South Dakota reported three more highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks on commercial poultry farms, while Maine reported another detection in a backyard flock, according to the latest updates from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
National Football League (NFL) games played with fans in the 2020 season, with mask mandates and physical distancing in place, had no effect on COVID-19 infections in the surrounding county, suggests a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Cases are up 7% compared to the week before, but COVID-19 deaths declined.
Moderna will seek emergency use authorization of a 2-dose primary series of its vaccine.
Experts review 13 studies and advise on how to use pulse oximeters to signal when medical care is needed.
A study yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection suggests that natural infection, but not immunity acquired from COVID-19 vaccinations, is linked to the development of long COVID-19, or symptoms that persist up to a year after acute infection.
For the first time, a wild white-tailed deer has been found with chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the city limits of Grand Rapids in northern Minnesota, triggering the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to update surveillance plans across the state.
