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Two extensively drug-resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae identified in two patients at an Italian hospital in May appear to be a dangerous variant of a strain that caused an outbreak in Tuscany in 2018 and 2019, Italian scientists reported yesterday in Eurosurveillance.
CDC Director Redfeld says the next few months will be "the most difficult in the public health history of this country."
Neither remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, nor interferon-beta-1a—prevented death or other serious outcomes.
The vast majority of Europeans remain susceptible to surges in cases, a WHO official says.
About 30% of both pediatric and adult household contacts tested positive for COVID-19.
A year after the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Boende, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 22.5% of healthcare workers (HCWs) had Ebola virus (EBOV) antibodies in their blood, even though only 15.1% reported contact with suspected, probable, or confirmed Ebola virus patients, according to a study today in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
A Sri Lankan analysis of global COVID-19 intervention measures showed that increased testing had the greatest impact on transmission: a 10-fold increase in the ratio of tests to new cases (TCR) reduced a country's average transmission by 9%. The study authors suggest that intense testing combined with isolation may be the most effective and least costly strategy for controlling COVID-19.
The CDC advises 10 days of quarantine with no symptoms and 7 days if no symptoms and a negative test.
The UK becomes the first country in the world to approve a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
An outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii happened after some control steps were altered.
Telephone consultations could be the reason why antibiotic prescribing at general practices in the United Kingdom was higher than expected during the first COVID-19 lockdown, researchers with the University of Nottingham reported yesterday in the Lancet Infectious Diseases.
A New England Journal of Medicine study yesterday of cancer patients with COVID-19 demonstrated viral RNA shedding for up to 78 days and live virus for up to 61 days, suggesting extended infectiousness in patients whose immune system is suppressed.
The pandemic has pushed the number of people needing humanitarian assistance up 40%, a record high.
The number of Americans currently hospitalized for COVID-19 reaches 96,039, up from 93,219 the day before.
The report calls for increased transparency on vaccine and treatment development and meeting states' needs for scarce medical supplies.
The experts also raised the possibility that, for the next phase, essential workers could be placed ahead of seniors and those with underlying conditions as a way to prioritize people of color, who have higher risk.
"World Malaria Report 2020" notes 229 million cases and 409,000 deaths last year, with young kids especially hit hard.
CARB-X today announced two new funding awards for German scientists working on therapies for difficult-to-treat bacterial infections.
A study in Clinical Infectious Diseases yesterday found that 1% of US blood donations late last year and in early 2020 contained SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, suggesting that the virus was present in the United States earlier than previously thought.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was first recognized in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and the initial US case was identified on Jan 19.
Shortages are supplemented but not fixed with traveling nurses, other steps.
