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Preliminary data from a small study published today in Nature Medicine suggests convalescent plasma may have some efficacy in patients with severe COVID-19.
Inadequate monitoring and tracking allowed the virus to spread unchecked, two studies suggest.
Experts call the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic a "collective failure."
"A shutdown would destroy the lives and dreams of millions Americans," Trump says.
A group of experts from Stanford and Harvard universities, as well as the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, propose a new model for measuring direct, indirect, and excess deaths from COVID-19 in the United States, and they say relying solely on death certificates likely undercounts the true death toll COVID-19 has taken in the United States. Their proposal is published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The introduction of a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) in conjunction with antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) activities and infectious disease (ID) consultation at an academic tertiary medical center was associated with shortened time to optimal antibiotic therapy in patients with bloodstream infections, University of Maryland researchers reported in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
New report finds a range of vaccine confidence and skepticism worldwide.
Adults with COVID-19 were almost twice as likely to report dining at a restaurant.
India again reports a record 1-day total for anywhere in the world, with 96,551 new cases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A report this week from the British Poultry Council (BPC) shows steep reductions in antibiotic use in recent years.
Four of 26 competitive athletes (15%) who had recovered from mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 had evidence suggestive of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, according to a research letter published today in JAMA Cardiology.
Global data from 2017 show that sepsis affected 49 million people and was tied to 11 million deaths.
Officials warn of a funding gap on efforts to speed the development of drugs, vaccines, and tests.
As many as 1 in 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients may experience a pneumothorax.
About 62% of Americans worry that political pressure will rush vaccine approval.
Results of a nationwide survey today show that 40.9% of Americans have avoided medical care because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, including 12.0% who avoided emergency care and 31.5% who avoided routine care. The results are published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The pause is standard whenever an unexplained illness occurs.
The authors say their findings confirm seroprevalence studies in hard-hit areas.
There is no reason to withhold well-indicated use of the drugs during the pandemic, the authors say.
