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Also, CDC data show similar side effects after a third Pfizer vaccine dose as seen after the second dose.
Seven COVID-19 symptoms can maximize detection of COVID-19 in the community, according to a large study published in PLOS Medicine yesterday that looked at data from England's REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) study.
An intervention based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship yielded cost savings at 10 outpatient Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) sites, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The data show that 1.2 million fewer people have been diagnosed and treated for TB in 2021 than in 2019.
Of the women, 8.14% used cannabis in spring 2020, compared with 6.75% before the pandemic.
Pfizer and BioNTech say an application for emergency use authorization in kids 5 to 11 years old will likely follow.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners today called for urgent action to address meningitis, while launching the first ever global strategy to battle the disease, called the Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 2030.
By 2030, the goals are to eliminate epidemics of bacterial meningitis—the deadliest form of the disease—and to reduce deaths by 70% and halve the number of cases, the WHO said in a press release.
Vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was up to 91.5% in Israeli teens 12 to 15 years old during the Delta (B1617.2) variant outbreak, according to a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
In the past week, new daily COVID-19 cases fell 20%, deaths dropped 0.8%, and hospitalizations fell 8.9%.
Delta variant transmission is complicating plans for easing COVID-19 restrictions in some Asian nations.
Such a drop has not been seen in a single year since World War II in Western Europe.
Taking anticoagulants before contracting COVID-19 is associated with a 43% lower risk for hospital admission, and receiving anticoagulants while in the hospital is tied to a lower death rate, according to a study published late last week in EClinicalMedicine.
An analysis of US health insurance data found that post-discharge prophylactic antibiotics are commonly prescribed after mastectomy, but provide only a small reduction in surgical-site infections (SSIs), researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
CDC director explains her rationale for offering third doses to frontline and essential workers.
Demand for the treatment has been skyrocketing in US hot spots such as Florida.
"I think it's fascinating that something like telemedicine ... actually worsened those disparities."
Of 1,061 people who were hesitant about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at the end of 2020, 32% were at least partially vaccinated by spring 2021, and 37% said they were likely to be, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Network Open.
Point-of-care testing for C-reactive protein (CRP) in nursing home residents with suspected lower respiratory tract infections resulted in a large reduction in antibiotic prescribing at initial consultation, according to the results of a cluster-randomized trial published this week in BMJ.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Weekly COVID-19 testing of asymptomatic students and staff in Nebraska roughly doubled the detection rate.
