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An international team of experts has published guidelines in CMAJ on treating COVID-19 patients that include "weak" recommendations for using corticosteroids in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and against using corticosteroids for patients without ARDS, convalescent plasma in patients with severe disease, and antiviral drugs in general.
Niger has recorded a 12.6% case-fatality rate, which approaches Italy's 13.1%.
As many as 9,000 additional deaths in the country could be attributed to COVID-19.
A study involving patients in China found a 2.4-times-higher death rate in men than in women.
A Chinese study, however, finds the drug not effective against serious disease.
Five COVID-19 patients in their 30s and 40s had large-vessel ischemic strokes from Mar 23 to Apr 7 in a New York City health system, more than five times what the system had been seeing every 2 weeks in the past year, according to a research letter published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported one more Ebola infection, raising the number of recent cases in Beni to seven.
The patient is a 39-year-old woman who had been in isolation since her daughter died from Ebola on April 20, Reuters reported yesterday. Her illness raises the outbreak total to 3,462, including 2,267 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) online dashboard.
The feds will send states enough materials to test 2% of the population.
Pandemic activity is heating up in Russia, Latin America, and India and its neighbors.
Researchers study 391 patients and 1,286 close contacts to gauge the impact of control efforts.
A new analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial that found that mass distribution of the antibiotic azithromycin to children under 5 years old was associated with reduced childhood mortality in three African countries suggests mortality reduction may be linked to effects on pneumonia, diarrhea, or HIV/AIDS mortality.
Pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19 had similar clinical illness and outcomes as nonpregnant women of reproductive age and did not pass the virus to their newborns, according to a retrospective study published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Twenty-seven (56%) of 48 nursing home residents had no symptoms when tested, but 24 of the 27 later did.
WHO officials are concerned about increasing trends in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and some Asian countries.
Meat and cheese plants across the country close in light of COVID-19 infections in employees.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week shared new details about its investigation into H7N3 avian flu outbreaks at turkey farms in North Carolina and South Carolina, one of them involving a highly pathogenic version of the virus.
Priority antibiotics with a high potential for developing resistance are commonly prescribed to older adults in Australia, particularly those with chronic respiratory conditions, but fewer than one fifth of those prescriptions are accompanied by microbiologic tests, researchers reported in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Brisk activity continues in US hot spots, and in Brazil, hospitals in several major cities are nearing collapse after surges of patients.
In the past, such as with 2009 H1N1 flu vaccines, they weren't equitably available.
The arm of a trial involving high-dose chloroquine had to be stopped early.
