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Flu vaccination rates fell 4.5 percentage points (from 43.7% to 39.2%) in states with below-average COVID-19 vaccination.
Also, a new study finds a 4- to 17-day incubation period, which supports current isolation and contact-tracing guidance.
Levels of COVID-19 vaccination in 31 African countries in the first 5 months of 2022 show a significant rise in COVID-19 immunization among high-risk groups, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today at a briefing.
Pediatric urgent care (UC) centers involved in a multisite quality improvement (QI) study saw significant reductions in inappropriate antibiotics for three target diagnoses, a team of US researchers reported yesterday in Pediatrics.
The goal is to make the new antibiotic cefiderocol available in up to 135 nations.
"But it doesn't change our assessment of the current transmission route."
Moderna and Pfizer vaccines gain unanimous approval for kids as young as 6 months; CDC advisers will assess them next.
A study today in JAMA Network Open comparing COVID-19 versus flu in kids 5 years old and younger finds that the novel coronavirus led to twice the rate of admissions to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) and rates of intubation one-third higher during the first 15 months of the pandemic.
In a global flu update that covers the last half of May, the World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that overall activity has declined since a March peak, but levels are rising in some temperate Southern Hemisphere countries, including Australia.
Experts meet next week to discern if the disease represents a global public health emergency.
"We're talking about an extra burden that rural counties face."
The report seeks to curb antibiotic discharge into the environment.
The move comes as the more transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants expand their reach.
The authors say viral replication may have triggered a secondary immune response in the rebound cases.
Automated text messages were as effective as direct phone calls in encouraging study participants to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a JAMA Network Open study yesterday from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,.
The VA study finds, though, that both vaccines have very good safety profiles.
FDA advisers will soon weigh approving vaccines in kids under 5 years old.
Shortages peaked in April 2020, at 2,345, up from 901 shortages 5 years earlier.
Massachusetts, which had the first US case in May, confirms 2 more infections.
Work disruptions related to a lack of childcare in 2020 increased by one-third relative to before the pandemic—especially for caregivers of children with special healthcare needs, low-income families, and those from racial minority groups, estimates a study published today in JAMA Pediatrics.
