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About 1.7 million Americans get vaccinated each day, and states receive 11 million doses a week.
Six people who attended a funeral had Ebola-like symptoms, and 2 died.
The results of a National Institutes of Health-funded phase 2 study indicate the new tuberculosis (TB) drugs delamanid and bedaquiline, when combined, have only a modest effect on the electrical activity of the heart, US, South African, and Peruvian researchers reported last week in the Lancet Infectious Diseases.
B117, a SARS-CoV-2 variant believed to have increased infectivity, is linked to high viral loads in COVID-19 patients in the United Kingdom, while a small number of patients with extremely high viral loads could have largely driven the second wave of the pandemic in Houston, according to two new studies in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
An open-label study found the two supplements did not reduce symptom duration in outpatients.
Study authors are testing to verify the strain is not more infectious or faster growing than other strains.
In another encouraging trend, deaths have fallen for the second week in a row.
Also, Walgreen's, Rite Aid, CVS, and other pharmacies start distributing COVID-19 vaccines.
A single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was immunogenic in 92% of recipients, with no difference in immunogenic response between men and women but a decreasing response among older recipients, researchers from Israel's Bar-Ilan University reported yesterday in Eurosurveillance.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A revised antimicrobial prophylaxis protocol for patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was associated with reduced broad-spectrum antimicrobial use in those patients, without increased risk of infection or poor outcomes, researchers from the Mayo Clinic reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
"Right now, it’s a thin line between the hope of a vaccine and a false sense of security," a European official says.
Delaying antibiotics for uncomplicated respiratory tract infections did not result in longer or more severe symptoms.
Those fully vaccinated and exposed to a case no longer need a 14-day quarantine.
Patients given the monoclonal antibody were less likely to die or need a ventilator.
A second fatal Ebola case was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in a person from North Kivu province, where the first case was recently reported in the wife of an Ebola survivor, according to media reports that cited a joint statement from the DRC and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Presymptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 cases contributed at least 50% of transmissions during New York City's first COVID surge, according to a study published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Nursing homes with more than 40% non-white residents had COVID-19 death rates 3.3 times higher.
New CDC data show the fit of face masks may significantly reduce COVID-19 spread.
Also, the WHO says overall cases and deaths are falling, but more nations are reporting variant viruses.
