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The incubation period for the Omicron variant may be shorter than for Delta and the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, Nebraska researchers reported yesterday, based on an analysis of the first known Omicron cluster in the United States. The team reported its findings yesterday in an early online edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The pandemic also widened pre-existing racial and ethnic disparities in non-COVID hospitalizations among Medicare patients.
The new guidance comes at a turbulent time with surging case numbers, unmet testing demand, and uncertainties about Omicron.
Full vaccination against COVID-19 was associated with reduced risk of breakthrough infection, but risk of breakthrough infection was much higher among fully vaccinated people with immune dysfunction than those without, US researchers reported today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Some states report massive case increases, leading to work disruptions, flight cancellations, and overrun testing capacity.
Surges in Europe drove record highs in France and Italy, with Australia also reporting record daily cases.
A retrospective study of a large cohort of US pregnancies during the COVID-19 pandemic found that infection with SARS-CoV-2 was associated with increased risks for poor pregnancy outcomes, an international team of researchers reported today in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
United States flu activity jumped again the week ending Dec 18, with eight states reporting high or very high activity and the first two pediatric flu deaths reported for the season, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its regular update.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 22
A team of pediatricians in Massachusetts has developed a new metric for capturing the range of antibiotic prescribing among pediatricians for common clinical scenarios.
Metabolic syndrome, a chronic low-grade inflammatory state, was tied to acute respiratory distress.
Data from South Africa and the UK show that illnesses may be less severe with the new variant.
A 30-pill regimen reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 88%, company data show.
People unvaccinated against COVID-19 were at up to four times the risk of infection, finds a JAMA Network Open study based on tests taken at US retail pharmacies, most of them after the emergence of the Delta (B1617.2) variant.
Thirty-eight Americans came back from surgeries in Mexico with carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
WHO director says there's no doubt socializing over the holidays will lead to more cases, overwhelmed healthcare systems, and deaths.
The authors say use of poorer data is understandable early in a pandemic, but standards should be raised later.
Biden has instructed the government to distribute 500 million free at-home tests.
A study of 107 French teens hospitalized with the COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) shows that none had been fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, and only 7 had received one dose.
The variant is in at least 45 states and is causing a surge in the Northeast, including in New York City.
