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A second study shows how hard Omicron has hit kids, especially the unvaccinated.
A steady drop in US cases includes a substantial decline in children's infections, but in parts of Eastern Europe, cases have doubled in the past 2 weeks.
The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) last week announced a new program to improve surveillance and prescribing of antimicrobials in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) .
A large proportion of US COVID-19 patients were left with thousands of dollars of hospital bills after many health insurers stopped issuing cost-sharing waivers in early 2021, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
Signs of vagus nerve dysfunction in long COVID patients include difficulty breathing and problems swallowing.
New daily cases fell 42% in the past week, deaths fell 6%, and hospitalizations fell 19%, while Americans are split on mask mandates.
Confirmation of the H5N1 strain comes after the virus was detected last week at an Indiana turkey farm.
Isolation beds at public hospitals have reached 90% capacity in Hong Kong, with 2,000 new cases reported.
People who received a different brand of COVID-19 vaccine booster than they did in the primary series had lower rates of infection than those who received the same brand, according to a study in Singapore published late last week in JAMA.
An active laboratory- and population-based surveillance study conducted at five US sites found a high incidence of infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E), researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Patients may not know about the drugs or don't want them.
Rural counties with low COVID-19 vaccination rates had 2.4 times the risk of infection.
Also, protection against serious Omicron illness drops by 4 months after a third dose but is still high, new data show.
Prioritizing higher-volume prescribers for focused stewardship could have a big impact, study authors say.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
An analysis conducted at hospitals in Michigan found that the more antibiotic stewardship strategies a hospital reported, the lower its overuse of antibiotics at discharge, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A new study on outcomes among infants whose mothers received the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine in pregnancy showed that no detrimental outcomes were associated with maternal vaccination, including preterm birth, small birth weight for gestational age (SGA), congenital malformations, and infant death.
It was published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
Division 1 student athletes had about half the risk of testing positive in 2020-21.
Upon approval, 10 million Pfizer vaccine doses will be ready to ship on Feb 21 and Feb 25.
A study in Qatar estimates that previous COVID-19 infection imparts 56% protection against future symptomatic infection caused by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, down from about 90% for other SARS-CoV-2 strains.
The study, published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), was led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar in Doha.
