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A study yesterday in the Journal of School Health finds that while 39 elementary and high school students in a Virginia public school district rode school buses while infected with SARS-CoV-2, investigators found no evidence of viral transmission to other students or adults.
The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and the country's Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Network have published a new One Health–focused report that proposes improvements to a pan-Canadian AMR governance structure and optimal models for responding to AMR.
Prescriptions for kids dropped 27.1% last year during COVID, with antibiotic prescriptions declining at twice that rate.
The rate is up from 50% for the week of Jul 3, and in some parts of the country the percentage is even higher.
The latest report looks at COVID-19 relief fund allocation, stockpiles, supply chains, and more.
Also, a new report says COVID-19 activity has driven India's excess deaths to 4 million.
While Latino people have lower rates of mortality despite their higher rates of poverty compared with White people in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic erased it, at least in Los Angeles County, according to a JAMA research letter yesterday.
Elsewhere, countries in Southeast Asia report more daily record highs, and Tunisia's surge has toppled its healthcare system.
Plus, mask recommendations are returning, with a pediatrics group calling for them for schoolchildren.
The antibiotic didn't lower the rate of symptoms by 14 days in non-hospitalized patients.
Eighty percent of survey respondents in 10 developing countries indicated a willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 65% in the United States and 30% in Russia, according to a study published late last week in Nature Medicine.
Though Delta activity is growing steadily, so far severity indicators have shown little rise.
Residents with Alzheimer's or advanced dementia are susceptible to infections with drug-resistant microbes.
"This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," CDC head says, as indoor masking returns to LA County.
New studies highlight 203 symptoms, indicators for long COVID, and the condition's rarity in children.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A multicomponent intervention implemented at nursing homes in Michigan significantly reduced the prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in residents' rooms, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial reported today in JAMA Network Open.
Half of patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 across 302 UK hospitals developed one or more health complications within 28 days or discharge, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.
Misinformation has led people to avoid effective approaches, causing avoidable illnesses and death, he says.
The drug was not tied to faster recovery, but the regimen might be why.
About 23 million kids missed their basic vaccines in 2020.
