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One study finds a lower risk of cardiovascular dysfunction, and the other shows no lessening in disease severity.
Respiratory virus detections and ambulatory antibiotic prescribing rates for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) fell dramatically during the pandemic compared with previous years, a finding that could have implications for future antibiotic stewardship and public health strategies, researchers from the University of Wisconsin reported today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
In Brooklyn, New York, communities with higher rates of poverty and minorities may have less access to COVID-19 vaccination sites, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter late last week.
Russian authorities say 89% of Moscow's cases are due to the Delta variant.
Most poll respondents said they were resuming prepandemic activities, including visiting family and dining in bars and restaurants.
Mobile vaccination clinics and scheduling, as well as varied educational resources, may improve vaccination equity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that it's investigating a cluster of tuberculosis (TB) infections in patients who've recently undergone spinal surgery that used a single lot of a bone repair product.
Nearly 40% of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in an integrated healthcare system in Denver were longer than necessary, researchers reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The latest epidemiological analyis showed a 11-day doubling time, and lab studies yielded new details on vaccine protection against Delta.
Some African countries that have vaccine are having challenges deploying it, even some that are experiencing surges.
Though US COVID-19 cases have dropped sharply, progress is uneven, with some regions vulnerable to further surges.
Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) were isolated in more than a quarter of South Korean patients with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia and microbial culture results, with corticosteroid use identified as a significant risk factor, researchers reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Black COVID-19 patients were more likely to die or be discharged to hospice after 30 days of hospitalization compared with White patients, according to a study today in JAMA Network Open. The researchers add, though, that the largest factor was the overall mortality and hospice rates of the hospitals where patients were treated.
Also, the WHO adds a variant of interest first detected in Peru last August, which it labeled Lambda.
In other developments, the CDC adds Delta as a variant of concern and issues its first guidance on "long COVID."
The findings are from the UK Recovery trial, which was large enough to gauge a true effect on death in hospitalized patients.
GAO's latest report looks at the VA's three main supply chain, COVID-related adaptations.
An analysis of data from 211 Connecticut nursing homes found that facilities that cared for mainly racial and ethnic minority residents had higher levels of COVID-19 illnesses and deaths. A team based at the University of Rochester in New York reported their findings today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
US lawmakers today re-introduced a bill to reinvigorate the antibiotic development market.
