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Some Asian countries, like Taiwan, continue to battle stubborn COVID spikes.
The use of rapid respiratory pathogen (RRP) testing among children with influenza-like illness (ILI) did not reduce antibiotic prescribing, according to a randomized clinical trial published late last week in JAMA Network Open.
In a population study of 13- to 18-year-old Icelandic teens, mental health worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study late last week in The Lancet Psychiatry.
One study suggests that symptoms like fatigue and depression are common, even with mild illness.
Most states will not have 70% of adults vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jul 4, an analysis finds.
Pressure grows on wealthy countries that have excess doses to start donating them.
Preventive use of bamlanivimab lowered the risk of symptomatic COVID-19 in staff and residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in the United States, according to a study yesterday in JAMA.
Nearly 80% of US patients hospitalized for COVID-19 received antibiotics from March through October 2020, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Also, the White House says it will share 25 million vaccine doses with countries in need of supply.
Only 13% had bacterial infections, but 85% received one or more antibiotics.
Tests showed COVID-19 antibodies persisted for 6 months in most dental workers.
Plus, in the United Kingdom, the Delta variant (B1617.2) is surpassing the proportion of Alpha cases (B117).
Guidelines for antibiotic initiation and discontinuation for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) in COVID-19 patients at a Chicago hospital were associated with reduced antibiotic prescribing and days of therapy (DOT), researchers reported yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.
US intensive care unit (ICU) beds increased a net 10% amid the COVID-19 pandemic, from April to July 2020, over 2019 baselines, according to a study today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The administration hopes to vaccinate at least 70% of Americans with at least one dose by July 4.
Risks were lowest for patients in clinics with more isolation rooms and mask policies for all patients.
Uganda (191% rise in cases), Colombia (40%), Malaysia (38%), and Bahrain (32%) are getting hit hard.
Prophylactic hydroxychloroquine treatment was not associated with any risk difference for COVID-19 infection, according to an International Journal of Infectious Diseases study yesterday.
More than two thirds of antibiotics prescribed for respiratory tract infections at primary care practices within an academic health system were inappropriate, with unnecessary prescribing strongly linked to respiratory infections that almost never require antibiotics, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
