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Full approval allows more businesses, schools, and organizations to mandate vaccine use among employees and students.
Also, illness severity in close contacts and index patients appears to be linked.
Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 significantly decreased the probability of virus culture positivity in breakthrough cases versus cases in unvaccinated healthcare workers, according to a study on the non–peer-reviewed research server, medRxiv.
Early use of a procalcitonin-guided algorithm in non-critically ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia reduced antimicrobial use with no adverse effects, researchers reported last week in JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance.
A modeling study shows that risk-based vaccine allocation may be most effective.
The more transmissible Delta variant taking off in countries that are known for their COVID-19 control efforts.
The latest surge marks grim milestones and puts pressure on hospitals.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Screening of a network of urban streams in Baltimore revealed high concentrations of pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, researchers reported this week in Environmental Science & Technology.
Hospitalization and respiratory complications were more frequent in children and adolescents with COVID-19 during the early months of the pandemic than in those diagnosed as having influenza in past flu seasons, an international team of researchers reported today in Pediatrics.
Vaccines also saved an estimated $625 billion to $1.4 trillion by early May.
As the school year begins, COVID hospitalizations are rising for children.
The study found extremely high rates of resistance to ampicillin and gentamicin.
With 754 new cases, Australia reports its highest daily total of the pandemic, and Japan hit a record of almost 24,000 new cases.
Early use of convalescent plasma didn't prevent COVID-19 progression in a group of high-risk adult outpatients, concludes a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
COVID-19 restrictions in Australia were associated with a substantial decline in community dispensing of antibiotics for respiratory infections, researchers reported this week in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
One study finds ebbing efficacy against infection in nursing homes, while 2 show sustained protection against hospitalizations.
"We have data that protection against moderate disease decreases over time."
Cases continue to rise, led by the Western Pacific and Americas regions.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has received a $1.8 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to establish a clinical trial network focused on antibiotic-resistant infections.
