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The authors said high vaccination levels, indoor masking, stepped-up surveillance, and enhanced air filtration kept classroom transmission at a negligible level.
In other new developments, a preprint study found a low percentage of breakthrough infections in vaccinated people, and Israel reported an apparent infection from healthcare exposure.
A scientific literature review for empiric examples of impacts from 10 climate hazards influenced by greenhouse gas emissions found that more than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens—such as dengue, pneumonia, and Zika virus—are made worse by the climate-related hazards. A team based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa reported the findings today in Nature Climate Change.
New studies continue to shed new light on the long-term impacts of COVID, including the development of cardiovasular and kidney complications in kids.
Meanwhile, the CDC published a clinical and epidemiological snapshot of US cases, revealing that 42% didn't report prodrome symptoms.
With COVID activity still high in many counties, Paxlovid prescribing is rising as another study shed light on rebound prevalence.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Polio in New York state is circulating more widely than thought, with wastewater sampling revealing traces of the virus in a second county, the New York Department of Health (NYDH) announced yesterday.
Only one-fifth say they plan to have their preschooler vaccinated within 3 months.
EMS workers are scrambling to adapt treatment protocols and conduct training on their use.
The announcement paves the way for increased funds for tests, vaccines, and treatments.
Three quarters of a group of nonhospitalized men and women newly diagnosed as having COVID-19 continued to have positive rapid antigen test (RAT) results—and over one-third still had viable virus on culture—6 days later, according to a study led by Brigham and Women's researchers.
A study of data from a large pediatric primary care network found a quick decline in telehealth antibiotic prescribing following a peak during the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported today in Pediatrics.
Also, the Biden administration releases 2 new reports on long COVID.
Infection rate fell from 20% to 7% after 4 doses in one study, and 3 doses increased protection by a third in 2 other studies.
Sexual contact is the likely transmission event for 92% of patients, and 98% of cases involve men who have sex with men.
Dynamic restrictions on nonessential foreign travel into Canada helped slow COVID-19 variant introductions in early 2020 and 2021, allowing the government more time to scale up vaccination, testing, and contact tracing programs, according to a study published yesterday in eLife.
In findings that are consistent with previous studies, a systematic review and analysis of 22 studies revealed a high rate of antibiotic use among COVID-19 patients during the first year and a half of the pandemic, despite a low prevalence of bacterial coinfection, researchers reported this week in PLOS One.
A total of 33% of young kids and 39% of those 11 to 17 had high Problematic Media Use Measure scores.
A FEMA administrator and a CDC director of HIV prevention now lead the federal monkeypox response.
