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Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with congenital heart defects (CHDs) were more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), require invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), and die than those without CHDs in the first 11 months of the pandemic, suggests a study published today in Circulation.
The CDC says 90% of Americans are in areas with low or medium levels of COVID-19.
Death rates were 22% to 25% lower despite a 41% ICU rate, compared with 18% in other hospitals.
An analysis of data on bloodstream infections (BSIs) from countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region shows a high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the region and limited capacity to prevent the emergence and spread of resistant pathogens, WHO researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The estimated effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine against infection in US adolescents was 91%, with 93% protection against symptomatic illness and 85% against asymptomatic disease amid the Delta SARS-CoV-2 surge in Connecticut, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The gap between the groups did not close during the Delta and Omicron surges, a new study finds.
Experts call on nations to cut antimicrobial discharge from manufacturers, farms, hospitals, and other sources.
US officials announce the transfer of technology to a global effort to speed and share pandemic tools.
A third dose with any of 3 COVID-19 vaccines boosted effectiveness substantially.
From March 2020 to September 2021, women were more likely than men to lose their jobs, forego work to care for others, and report increasing violence, and women and girls were more likely than men and boys to drop out of school for reasons other than school closures, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week published new technical guidance to help countries implement national action plans (NAPs) for antimicrobial resistance in the human health sector.
The study involved 24,915 US patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest, 24% of whom had COVID-19.
Surges continue to intensify in locations such as Hong Kong, where Omicron is still very active.
Test to treat will allow patients who test positive to be treated with free antiviral pills on the spot.
A retrospective study of 17 COVID-19 survivors with lingering symptoms reveals that 10 (59%) had nerve damage, which the researchers said could have been triggered by potentially treatable infection-related immune dysfunction.
An AHRQ quality improvement program frames antibiotic use as a patient safety issue.
Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's or other types of dementia died at higher rates.
Also, new data show moderate COVID vaccine protection in young kids against serious illness.
A study yesterday in JAMA Network Open tracked excess mortality caused by both influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in the United States from 1999 to 2018 and found that RSV caused more deaths in infants, while both viruses caused substantial mortality in elderly Americans.
