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Though vaccination protected against severe illness, it did not prevent rapid spread, the authors say.
Also, an expert panel says the world isn't better prepared to face a new health threat than when COVID first arrived.
UK cases grow to 9, while Spain reports 23 suspected cases and Portugal 5 confirmed, 15 suspected.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials of antibiotic treatment for children with community-acquired pneumonia provides further support for shorter treatment duration, Finnish researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Congenital and acquired heart conditions such as biventricular defects, cardiac arrest, and heart failure are associated with increased COVID-19 severity in US children, suggests a multicenter study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The FDA gives the thumbs-up to the emergency use of Pfizer COVID boosters in kids 5 through 11.
Dogs can detect scents as low as one part per trillion—far beyond any technology—and were 92% to 98% accurate for SARS-CoV-2.
Researchers looked at women who received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy or combined oral contraceptive pill.
Machine-learning models created by a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported research team can identify, with high accuracy, patients likely to have long COVID, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet Digital Health.
One study shows lower risks of infection and hospitalization in vaccinated kids 5 to 17 years old.
The data come from the medical records of all adults hospitalized in Alberta and Ontario for COVID from Jan 1, 2020, to Sep 30, 2021.
In US news, key outbreak markers continue to rise, especially in the Northeast and Midwest.
Environmental screening of single-occupancy rooms in a nursing home found high levels of circulation and persistence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), according to a study published today in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology.
A randomized, controlled trial of 400 adults hospitalized for COVID-19–related respiratory failure suggests that awake prone positioning doesn't significantly reduce the need for endotracheal intubation at 30 days, but the authors caution that the effect size was imprecise and a therapeutic benefit cannot be ruled out.
Government, rural, and smaller hospitals even outperformed previous years.
The loss of activity is equivalent to 15% of the US population becoming completely immobile for 1 day.
The nation has reported 6 COVID-19 deaths and about 350,000 people being treated for fevers.
"Maybe there's something in the microbiome that antibiotics are doing that's priming an individual..."
Indications of persistent SARS-CoV-2 shedding in hospitalized COVID-19 patients is tied to a higher risk of in-hospital delirium and death by 6 months, according to a study published this week in GeroScience.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News May 12
