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Also, a new study finds a 4- to 17-day incubation period, which supports current isolation and contact-tracing guidance.
Flu vaccination rates fell 4.5 percentage points (from 43.7% to 39.2%) in states with below-average COVID-19 vaccination.
Pediatric urgent care (UC) centers involved in a multisite quality improvement (QI) study saw significant reductions in inappropriate antibiotics for three target diagnoses, a team of US researchers reported yesterday in Pediatrics.
Levels of COVID-19 vaccination in 31 African countries in the first 5 months of 2022 show a significant rise in COVID-19 immunization among high-risk groups, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today at a briefing.
The goal is to make the new antibiotic cefiderocol available in up to 135 nations.
"But it doesn't change our assessment of the current transmission route."
Moderna and Pfizer vaccines gain unanimous approval for kids as young as 6 months; CDC advisers will assess them next.
A study today in JAMA Network Open comparing COVID-19 versus flu in kids 5 years old and younger finds that the novel coronavirus led to twice the rate of admissions to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) and rates of intubation one-third higher during the first 15 months of the pandemic.
In a global flu update that covers the last half of May, the World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that overall activity has declined since a March peak, but levels are rising in some temperate Southern Hemisphere countries, including Australia.
The report seeks to curb antibiotic discharge into the environment.
The move comes as the more transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants expand their reach.
The authors say viral replication may have triggered a secondary immune response in the rebound cases.
Experts meet next week to discern if the disease represents a global public health emergency.
"We're talking about an extra burden that rural counties face."
Automated text messages were as effective as direct phone calls in encouraging study participants to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a JAMA Network Open study yesterday from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,.
The VA study finds, though, that both vaccines have very good safety profiles.
FDA advisers will soon weigh approving vaccines in kids under 5 years old.
Shortages peaked in April 2020, at 2,345, up from 901 shortages 5 years earlier.
Massachusetts, which had the first US case in May, confirms 2 more infections.
A study of data from insured US children found that rotavirus vaccination was associated with reduced antibiotic prescribing for acute gastroenteritis, researchers reported last week in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
