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Also, the Biden administration releases 2 new reports on long COVID.
Infection rate fell from 20% to 7% after 4 doses in one study, and 3 doses increased protection by a third in 2 other studies.
Dynamic restrictions on nonessential foreign travel into Canada helped slow COVID-19 variant introductions in early 2020 and 2021, allowing the government more time to scale up vaccination, testing, and contact tracing programs, according to a study published yesterday in eLife.
In findings that are consistent with previous studies, a systematic review and analysis of 22 studies revealed a high rate of antibiotic use among COVID-19 patients during the first year and a half of the pandemic, despite a low prevalence of bacterial coinfection, researchers reported this week in PLOS One.
A FEMA administrator and a CDC director of HIV prevention now lead the federal monkeypox response.
A total of 33% of young kids and 39% of those 11 to 17 had high Problematic Media Use Measure scores.
More than half of high-risk SARS-CoV-2 Omicron inpatients or outpatients given the monoclonal antibody sotrovimab rapidly developed viral spike-protein mutations linked to treatment resistance, according to a study from the Netherlands published yesterday in JAMA.
A non-restrictive antibiotic stewardship intervention was associated with reduced fluoroquinolone prescribing at two community hospitals in Los Angeles, researchers reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
A US surveillance study found 10% of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections were community-associated.
Rebound has also been seen in untreated people and in those who took molnupiravir, and the bottom line is treatments cut severe outcomes.
The authors said it's not clear if reduced severity stemmed from vaccination or from Omicron characteristics.
Also, Alaska reports its first case, leaving only 3 states without known illnesses.
Nursing homes in US states with COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers saw a 7 percentage-point increase in staff vaccine uptake over homes in non-mandate states during a 5-month period in 2021, with no worsening of worker shortages, finds a study published late last week in JAMA Health Forum.
Vaccine contracts with both Moderna and Pfizer come ahead of booster dose campaigns expected to begin in September.
Officials from the two hot spots declared the emergencies to help free up more resources and streamline the monkeypox response.
COVID-19 patients who have a stroke are more than twice as likely to die than uninfected stroke patients and are often younger and healthier, finds research presented yesterday at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS's) 19th Annual Meeting in Toronto.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 28
An analysis of urine specimens from male patients in Germany found high levels of antibiotic resistance in the most frequent causes of urinary tract infections (UTIs), researchers reported today in Eurosurveillance.
CDC today also provided a racial and symptom profile of US cases, which are quickly nearing 5,000 infections.
Though vaccine hesitancy plays a role, decreased access to vaccination sites may be another overlooked barrier, researchers suggest.
Environmental sampling indicates Burkholderia pseudomallei is endemic in the Gulf Coast region.
