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In the past, such as with 2009 H1N1 flu vaccines, they weren't equitably available.
The arm of a trial involving high-dose chloroquine had to be stopped early.
Trump muses about injecting disinfectants but later says he was using sarcasm.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 23
Today researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, noted a link between frozen produce and outbreaks of norovirus on several cruise ships sailing in Europe and North America last summer and fall. The same cruise ship company was tied to all outbreaks.
France has reported COVID-19 outbreaks at 5,340 nursing homes since Mar 1.
Study reveals a 9.7% death rate in hospital patients—24.5% in those needing mechanical ventilators.
"I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public," Bright says.
Hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, was not tied to lower mortality or less need for mechanical ventilation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday that it has concluded its investigation into a 10-state outbreak of Escherichia coli linked to contaminated clover sprouts that sickened 51 people, up 12 from the agency's Mar 19 update.
Public campaigns that use "fear-based" messaging to reduce antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) may be more effective if they also contain messages that empower patients to self-manage without antibiotics, UK researchers reported in a study published today in BMC Medicine.
Also, 2 studies explore infection dynamics in patients who show no symptoms.
"Make no mistake, we have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time," says the WHO director.
Two deaths in early February in Santa Clara County, California, can now be attributed to COVID-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today provided more details on a yellow fever outbreak in Ethiopia, which it first noted last week in a weekly report from its African regional office.
On Mar 3, the country's health officials reported the first three suspected cases in rural Gurage zone, involving a father, mother, and son in the same household. Samples from two of the three were confirmed as positive.
Broad-spectrum antibiotics are often given to patients not infected with drug-resistant bacteria.
The global total tops 2.5 million cases, including 175,812 deaths.
At-risk children may be especially affected by COVID-related school closings and other steps.
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia are reopening parts of their economies this week and next—earlier than the White House recommends.
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) vaccines in England and Germany have demonstrated safety and immune response in phase 1 trials, becoming the second and third such vaccines to do so, according to studies yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
