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Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 19
Study shows that 28% of older COVID-19 emergency department patients had delirium, with a higher risk of ICU stay and death.
Experts urged individual actions to avoid protracted lockdowns and maintain hard-fought gains.
Benzathine penicillin shortages were tied to more than double the risk of congenital syphilis.
Also, US leaders encourage Americans to double down on efforts now that vaccines are on the horizon.
Public transportation usage dropped 72.7% across the United States from Feb 15 to May 17, but vulnerable populations and essential or physical workers were most likely to continue using it, according to a study published yesterday in PLOS One.
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the global response, contain important lessons that can be used to avert a future pandemic caused by antimicrobial resistance (AMR), according to a new report from the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP).
Supply chain issues could hinder vaccine rollout, and EUA data must be transparent, the report says.
The White House coronavirus task force says deaths could approach 2,000 a day in the coming weeks.
After almost 6 months, 130 cases, and 55 deaths in Equateur province, the outbreak is officially over.
The nonprofit spoke with 150 public health, policy, and scientific experts to craft a strategy for addressing drug resistance post-COVID-19.
The protection is even better than the 90% found in an initial analysis.
Duke University's aggressive pooled surveillance COVID-19 testing program enabled large-scale testing, successfully reduced transmission, and prevented major outbreaks seen on other college campuses, according to a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) study yesterday.
Nine million childhood vaccines are projected to be missed by the end of this year in the United States—a 26% decrease compared with 2019—according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) report. This decline would cause a gap between vaccination rate and that required for herd immunity of 4.8 percentage points for measles and 12.7 percentage points for pertussis (whooping cough).
Philadelphia, Ohio, Iowa, and California are among the locations where officials tightened measures to drive down their COVID-19 surges.
Of more than 5,000 hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, a third had acute kidney injury.
A study published late last week in the British Dental Journal suggests that restricted access to dental care in England during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sharp rise in dental antibiotic prescribing.
A research letter published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that patients who died of COVID-19 in the Netherlands were more than twice as likely to have scarring of their diaphragms than patients who died of other causes.
Mayors and governors across the country implement new restrictions to try to reduce the caseload.
Of 95 COVID cases reported, 90 were in the placebo group, including all 11 serious cases.
