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With thousands of new places to get a vaccine, 9 of 10 Americans live within 5 miles of an immunization site.
Brain abnormalities could explain the confusion and delirium of severe COVID-19.
"Big numbers can make us numb. But each one of these deaths is a tragedy for families, communities, and nations."
A study in an Atlanta school district revealed that the highest secondary COVID-19 attack rates were in indoor, high-contact sports settings (23.8%), staff meetings or lunches (18.2%), and elementary school classrooms (9.5%), and that staff were more susceptible to COVID-19 than students were.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding Phico Therapeutics of Cambridge, United Kingdom, up to $5.3 million to develop an intravenous bacteriophage drug to treat ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
In-hospital COVID death rates are declining, but the virus still poses substantial risk, including a doubled death rate in surgical patients.
Slavitt said vaccination is still the main tool to end the pandemic, and he encouraged all Americans to get the vaccine next week, when eligibility expands.
Artemisinin-based treatment remains highly effective, but resistance mutations and delayed parasite clearance were found.
Should studies show COVID-19 effectiveness, fluvoxamine's supply chain looks resilient, an expert says.
Even countries that managed earlier outbreaks well face surges, and officials say they're tracking the variant fueling India's rise.
UK researchers have uncovered the novel mechanism behind rare abnormal blood clotting seen in some AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine recipients, according to a study today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Secondary analysis of patients from a postdischarge decolonization trial of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers found that re-hospitalization for MRSA was associated with extensive exposure to non-MRSA antibiotics and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
About 43% of Republicans, 5% of Democrats, and 22% of Independents say no to the vaccine.
"This has put Brazil in a permanent state of mourning and led to the near collapse of Brazil's health system."
Only 2 of the 11 antibiotics approved since 2017 represent a novel class, and the pipeline is insufficient to counter rising resistance, experts say.
COVID-19 poses 8 to 10 times the risk of blood clots in the brain than do COVID vaccines, a preprint study finds.
A study of antibodies in 48 people in Saudi Arabia who survived their MERS-CoV infections found that some neutralizing antibodies persisted 6 years, a Saudi-led team reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The P1 SARS-CoV-2 variant, which was first identified in Brazil, may be more than twice as transmissible as non-P.1 lineages, and it may lower protective immunity from non-P1 variants 21% to 46%, according to a study published yesterday in Science.
"Exercise is medicine that everyone should take—especially in this era of COVID-19."
