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Delaying antibiotics for uncomplicated respiratory tract infections did not result in longer or more severe symptoms.
Presymptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 cases contributed at least 50% of transmissions during New York City's first COVID surge, according to a study published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A second fatal Ebola case was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in a person from North Kivu province, where the first case was recently reported in the wife of an Ebola survivor, according to media reports that cited a joint statement from the DRC and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Also, the WHO says overall cases and deaths are falling, but more nations are reporting variant viruses.
Nursing homes with more than 40% non-white residents had COVID-19 death rates 3.3 times higher.
New CDC data show the fit of face masks may significantly reduce COVID-19 spread.
Telemedicine visits in Brazil performed under rigorous adherence to antibiotic stewardship guidelines were associated with appropriate antibiotic prescribing for patients with low-risk conditions, Brazilian and Australian researchers reported yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Hospitalized adults with COVID-19 are 3.5 times more likely to die than adults with the flu, reports a study today in CMAJ. The study also found that those with COVID were 1.5 times more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and have 1.5 times longer hospital stays.
In another sign that a former hot spot is recovering, New York City restaurants can soon resume indoor dining.
"Learn the lesson of Tuskegee and do everything in our power to ensure African Americans get the vaccine."
Experts say virus introduction through an intermediary host species is the most likely of 4 scenarios they presented.
Few preschoolers attending 22 daycare centers in France last spring had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in their blood.
One in eight US patients hospitalized with a complicated urinary tract infection (cUTI) have a pathogen with resistance to three or more routinely used antibiotic classes, researchers reported yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.
A study today in mBio offers support to continue breastfeeding infants even when mothers have mild to moderate COVID-19 infections. The study showed breastmilk samples did not contain SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) RNA, but the authors suggest risk of transmission via breast skin to baby should be evaluated.
An official says the pause is needed to collect more data, especially on vaccine impact on severe disease.
The B117 SARS-CoV-2 variant will dominate other strains in the coming weeks, study authors say.
"We are committed to wearing masks still for the 100 days of the presidency," CDC Director Walensky says.
A study today in Nature Medicine showed Pfizer's mRNA vaccine, the first vaccine approved in the United States for use against COVID-19, neutralized three variants of the virus, including the B117 strain first identified in the United Kingdom, and two new variants first confirmed in South Africa.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yesterday announced a new Ebola case, its first since September, which involves a woman who died from her infection in Butembo, one of the main hot spots in the country's 10th outbreak that was centered in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
For men with COVID-19, the risk of dying from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest rose 4.5-fold.
