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Nearly half of Florida's ICUs are almost full, and more than 20% are completely full.
A small study by Italian researchers found that more than 87% of patients who had recovered from acute COVID-19 still had at least one symptom 2 months after illness onset.
The study, published yesterday in a research letter to JAMA, assessed 143 patients treated for acute COVID-19 at a hospital in Rome in April and May. Patients were assessed a mean 60.3 days after onset of the first symptom.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 7
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding $892,000 to Spanish biotechnology company Vaxdyn to develop a vaccine to prevent infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said there were 303 additional cases of cyclosporiasis in a multistate outbreak linked to bagged salads sold at major grocery stores.
The CDC said 509 people in eight states have been sickened. Thirty-three people have been hospitalized, but there have been no deaths.
The WHO posts a brief on transmission and launches a review panel.
Prison cases are 5.5 times higher—and death rates 3 times higher—than in the general population.
"Be mindful of what happens when you open up and throw caution to the wind," Tony Fauci says.
In household contacts, 14% who got a placebo developed flu, compared with 2% in the baloxavir group.
The AMR Action Fund will invest nearly $1 billion in smaller biotech firms.
In yet another study demonstrating racial disparities in the pandemic, a University of Chicago analysis has found that black people are twice as likely as whites to test positive for COVID-19.
Task force coordinator Birx says harder-hit states should re-enter phase 1 of reopening.
Cases increased 20% in the Americas over the past week, and in Africa, cases in 22 countries have more than doubled over the past month.
In 62% of 911 emergency dispatches, the patient did not report COVID symptoms.
At least 246 COVID-19 cases have been tied to reopened nightclubs in Seoul, South Korea, after the Apr 30 to May 5 Golden Week holiday, with 61% among contacts of nightclub revelers, according to a research letter published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Tests have confirmed two more Ebola infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, and both are patients from Mbandaka, the provincial capital, the country's multisector Ebola technical committee (CMRE) said today in an update.
Also, the WHO will meet with Chinese officials to probe the source of the virus.
Hospital and ICU beds in Arizona, Texas, and Florida are filling at an alarming rate.
Around 5% in Spain, a nation hit hard earlier, had antibodies to the virus.
A retrospective cohort study of 1,687 COVID-19 patients at two New York City hospitals published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealed that 31% were obese, and obese patients were at higher risk of respiratory failure.
