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People who test positive for COVID-19 should watch for blood oxygen below 92% and fast, shallow breathing, the data suggest.
India's COVID-19 deaths are still at record highs, with black fungus cases rising.
Also, the CDC is probing a few dozen cases of myocarditis in young adult and teen vaccine recipients, but experts say the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh the risks.
Implementation of a test that provides rapid bacterial identification and susceptibility results from positive blood cultures shortened the time to optimal antibiotic therapy and reduced unnecessary antibiotic exposure in hospitalized patients with bacteremia, researchers reported late last week in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Increased age and underlying medical conditions were associated with a greater likelihood for more severe COVID-19 infections in pregnant women, according to a study late last week in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The study shines a light on racial and socioeconomic disparities—counties with a larger proportion of Black residents were hit harder.
In approving the Rome Declaration, the G20 nations agree on principles for ending the pandemic.
Experts outline pre-COVID-19 problems and spell out key steps to take.
Also, new studies highlight testing, masking, and ventilation strategies in US schools implemented for safe in-person learning.
While one in four Washington, DC, child care facilities reported at least one COVID-19 case from July to December 2020, only 5.8% had COVID-19 facility-associated outbreaks, according to yesterday's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. A facility-associated outbreak was defined as two or more lab-confirmed cases at a child care site within 14 days.
In a first-of-its-kind study, a team of US researchers reported this week in Clinical Infectious Diseases that nearly all of more than 400 deceased organ donors received at least one antibiotic dose during their terminal hospitalization, a finding that study authors say highlights the need for antibiotic stewardship in this population.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Europe's COVID-19 cases have dropped 60% in the past month, but progress is fragile.
"The CDC got the science right, but the policy and communication was really wrong."
The country continues to grapple with mask policies, and Emergent testifies at Congress about its J&J vaccine gaffe.
Patients in Malaysia hospitalized with pneumonia in 2017 and 2018 tested positive for the first human-infecting canine coronavirus.
Excess deaths substantially exceeded reported deaths from COVID-19 in many countries.
Antibiotic prescribing for young children in Israel sharply declined following implementation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), Israeli researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
One in seven US adult COVID-19 patients developed at least one new illness requiring medical care after recovery from their infection in 2020, finds an observational study yesterday in BMJ.
Argentina reports record deaths as activity continues to flare in places like Brazil, areas of Central America, and some Caribbean islands.
