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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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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The peer-reviewed data mirror unpublished results noted last month by the researchers, with up to 90% protection.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 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.
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.
Review of 57 studies finds that only 8 of 213 household COVID-19 clusters (3.8%) had a pediatric index case.
Only 1 of 62 newborns who nursed and roomed with an infected mom tested positive.
The world added about 1.5 million more cases over the weekend, putting the pandemic total past 67 million.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows some encouraging declines in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) across four US healthcare settings, including one linked to antibiotic use.
A JAMA Network Open study late last week suggests that a pattern of delayed medical care during the pandemic may be responsible for a greater incidence of a ruptured appendix related to appendicitis in children.
Strategies for a secure drug supply chain discussed at National Academies public workshop.
