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A review of 18 US and international public health and governmental websites with COVID-19 information for the public—including those of the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—has found that all exceeded the recommended reading level and used sentence structures and technical terminology that would hinder understanding.
For the fourth day in a row, South Korea reports a triple-digit increase in cases.
Variables such as epidemiologic or social factors might be behind the weekly fluctuations in 6 nations.
The country has now surpassed 170,000 deaths.
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported 2 more Ebola cases in its Equateur province outbreak, lifting the total to 88, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
The number of deaths held steady at 36.
A meta-analysis by Italian researchers published late last week in PLOS One shows that COVID-19 patients who have or are at risk for cardiovascular disease are more likely than others to develop cardiovascular complications and die from their infections.
Disparities were identified among racial/ethnic groups in 96% of analyzed counties.
In the Americas region yesterday, Brazil reported 60,091 COVID-19 cases, followed by the US with 51,443 and Colombia with 11,286.
Nearly a third of 730 parents said they probably or definitely will choose distance learning.
Standard, symptom-specific international disease codes lack sensitivity and have poor negative predictive value (NPV) for characteristic COVID-19 symptoms, which could skew conclusions derived from them, a cohort study published today in JAMA Network Open shows.
An analysis of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in US nursing homes found that more than one in three were caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
However, a top WHO official warned that calm waters doesn't mean the storm is over, and most of the world is still susceptible to the easily spreading virus.
The southern half of the country continues to report the highest death tolls, which nationally may be higher than thought, based on new excess death estimates.
Doctors say antibiotic resistance and improper prescribing are problems, but not in their practices.
A case report today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes three cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among workers at an Ohio food-processing facility.
In another development, China reported an infection in a patient who was sick 6 months ago, stoking worries about waning immunity.
The summer decline in social distancing has triggered a spike in bar and restaurant outbreaks, as colleges brace for spread on campuses when students return.
Tests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have confirmed five more Ebola cases in the Equateur province outbreak, lifting the total to 84, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
Also, three more people died from their infections, raising the fatality count to 36.
New data from a phase 1/2 clinical trial of a vaccine candidate being developed by Pfizer and German biopharmaceutical company BioNTech show the vaccine produced a robust immune response and was tolerable in healthy adults. The results appeared today in Nature.
