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A coalition of animal welfare, public health, environmental, and consumer organizations is speaking out against use of the One Health Certified (OHC) label on chicken and turkey products, claiming the standards behind the label don't protect against overuse of medically important antibiotics in food-producing animals.
COVID-19 patients diagnosed as having schizophrenia spectrum disorder—but not those with mood or anxiety disorders—were linked to an increased risk of death, according to an observational cohort study published today in JAMA Psychiatry.
Of 1.2 million students, 10.5% had psychological distress, with high school seniors especially affected.
In other developments, Belgium, the Philippines, and Brazil see signs of B117 variant spread, and the WHO updates its clinical guidance.
Also, President Biden sets a new goal of 1.5 million vaccine doses administered each day.
While 10.1% of first responders and public service personnel in New York City reported positive COVID test results, 22.5% had COVID-19–specific antibodies in their blood, with even higher rates in prison staff and emergency medical technicians (EMTs), according to an Emerging Infectious Diseases study yesterday.
A Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreak in Kenya that began in the middle of November has led to 21 infections, 9 of them fatal, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said yesterday in its weekly outbreaks and health emergencies report.
All regions saw decreases in adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions, but especially the Midwest.
Also, Moderna says its vaccine likely protects against B117 and B1351 variants.
New reports touch on the pandemic's economic toll and on the benefits vaccine equity could have.
Antibiotics were widely prescribed to hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Dijon University Hospital in France during the first wave of the pandemic but did not have any impact on outcome, French researchers reported yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
An intensive COVID-19 prevention and surveillance system that the National Football League (NFL) put in place this season identified certain types of risky in-club transmission, which helped officials revise its high-risk contact definition and improve its protocols.
Anthony Fauci, MD, however, says he's concerned about new variant viruses.
Twelve health departments said less than 32% of contacts were notified within 24 hours.
A new UK study says the B117 variant might be more deadly than older strains.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Five barriers to better antibiotic decision-making at hospital discharge emerged after John Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers interviewed healthcare workers and discharged patients.
As the pandemic has made hand sanitizer ubiquitous, perhaps it was inevitable that clinicians would report sanitizer-related eye injuries in children.
Biden says states will be reimbursed by FEMA if they use the National Guard for pandemic response.
Fixed-dose combinations account for 22.5% of total antibiotic consumption in 75 countries.
