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When underlying medical and other risk conditions are factored out, death rates are similar between blacks and whites.
The head of the WHO warns about "vaccine nationalism" and previews a basic strategy for deploying vaccine.
US nursing homes saw an almost 80% increase in cases since the week of Jun 21.
One more Ebola illness and one more death from the virus have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
The new developments push the outbreak total to 89 cases and 37 deaths.
A review of 18 US and international public health and governmental websites with COVID-19 information for the public—including those of the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—has found that all exceeded the recommended reading level and used sentence structures and technical terminology that would hinder understanding.
For the fourth day in a row, South Korea reports a triple-digit increase in cases.
Variables such as epidemiologic or social factors might be behind the weekly fluctuations in 6 nations.
The country has now surpassed 170,000 deaths.
A meta-analysis by Italian researchers published late last week in PLOS One shows that COVID-19 patients who have or are at risk for cardiovascular disease are more likely than others to develop cardiovascular complications and die from their infections.
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported 2 more Ebola cases in its Equateur province outbreak, lifting the total to 88, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
The number of deaths held steady at 36.
In the Americas region yesterday, Brazil reported 60,091 COVID-19 cases, followed by the US with 51,443 and Colombia with 11,286.
Nearly a third of 730 parents said they probably or definitely will choose distance learning.
Disparities were identified among racial/ethnic groups in 96% of analyzed counties.
Standard, symptom-specific international disease codes lack sensitivity and have poor negative predictive value (NPV) for characteristic COVID-19 symptoms, which could skew conclusions derived from them, a cohort study published today in JAMA Network Open shows.
An analysis of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in US nursing homes found that more than one in three were caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The southern half of the country continues to report the highest death tolls, which nationally may be higher than thought, based on new excess death estimates.
Doctors say antibiotic resistance and improper prescribing are problems, but not in their practices.
However, a top WHO official warned that calm waters doesn't mean the storm is over, and most of the world is still susceptible to the easily spreading virus.
A case report today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes three cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among workers at an Ohio food-processing facility.
