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Though flu activity in the United States remains well below expected levels for this time of year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported the first pediatric flu death of the 2020-21 season, a child who died from influenza B.
A study published yesterday in Science by researchers in Massachusetts suggests that a coronavirus outbreak linked to an international biotech conference in Boston in February is linked to more than 300,000 national and international infections with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 10
Most German respondents preferred public health messages that acknowledge scientific uncertainty.
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has said the FDA will make its approval decision shortly after today's meeting.
Distribution challenges include local logistics, equitable reach, special populations, and cold storage.
The 3,124 new deaths—a single-day record—surpass the death tolls from the 9/11 and Pearl Harbor attacks.
The campaign focuses on avoiding enclosed spaces with people not in your "pod."
Data published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) show nearly double the COVID-19 mortality rate among people of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) ethnicity compared with whites.
A paper today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) describes the first US case of Neisseria gonorrhoeae harboring a genetic element that confers resistance to a first-line antibiotic.
In vaccine developments, as advisors prepare to consider the first vaccine EUA tomorrow, questions are already swirling about which workers should be prioritized as part of essential groups.
The UK warns that those with a severe allergy history should avoid getting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Staff infection rates were higher than for students, and nearly half of the outbreaks involved staff-to-staff transmission.
A 4-year-old boy living outside of Milan with no travel history is now the earliest confirmed SARS-CoV-2 case in Italy, a team based in Italy reported in a research letter to Emerging Infectious Diseases yesterday.
Also, 63% of Americans are now willing to be immunized, up from 50% in September.
As the US COVID-19 markers head further into red zone territory, the feds press states and cities to do more to curb transmission.
Two large studies find no increase in pandemic-related stillbirths or preterm births or among UK and US women.
The peer-reviewed data mirror unpublished results noted last month by the researchers, with up to 90% protection.
A cluster-randomized controlled trial conducted in Spanish primary care settings suggests a multifaceted stewardship intervention helped reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) and was cost-effective, Spanish researchers reported yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
A large study of childcare providers in Pediatrics today found that childcare staff were not at higher risk for COVID-19 during the early months of the US pandemic.
