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Nine million childhood vaccines are projected to be missed by the end of this year in the United States—a 26% decrease compared with 2019—according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) report. This decline would cause a gap between vaccination rate and that required for herd immunity of 4.8 percentage points for measles and 12.7 percentage points for pertussis (whooping cough).
Duke University's aggressive pooled surveillance COVID-19 testing program enabled large-scale testing, successfully reduced transmission, and prevented major outbreaks seen on other college campuses, according to a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) study yesterday.
Philadelphia, Ohio, Iowa, and California are among the locations where officials tightened measures to drive down their COVID-19 surges.
Of more than 5,000 hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, a third had acute kidney injury.
A study published late last week in the British Dental Journal suggests that restricted access to dental care in England during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sharp rise in dental antibiotic prescribing.
A research letter published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that patients who died of COVID-19 in the Netherlands were more than twice as likely to have scarring of their diaphragms than patients who died of other causes.
Mayors and governors across the country implement new restrictions to try to reduce the caseload.
Of 95 COVID cases reported, 90 were in the placebo group, including all 11 serious cases.
The head of the WHO urges governments to do more to reduce the pressure on healthcare workers.
US outcomes were poorer early in the pandemic, even in counties with low death rates.
The Frontline Families Fund will offer phase 1 support to cover immediate costs and phase 2 funds for other needs.
A 3-month follow-up study of 142 COVID-19 survivors in China showed that 85.9% of patients had abnormalities on computed tomography (CT) chest scans and 52 (36.6%) had chronic and fibrotic changes.
While the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hoped that 50% of firearm hunters in the state's five chronic wasting disease (CWD) management zones would submit deer for voluntary testing, opening weekend saw well below 30% participation, according to a story last week in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The first 20 million vaccine doses could be available in December, officials say.
The drug, which has antiviral properties in animals, shows promise in a small randomized controlled trial.
The practice was tied to increased macrolide resistance and increased resistance to other classes.
In a preliminary study conducted on 152 patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections, no patient in a group of 80 people who took a 15-day course of fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, reported clinical deterioration, as opposed to 6 (8.3%) of 72 who took a placebo.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
An antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) intervention led by ambulatory care pharmacists was associated with improvements in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing in a family medicine residency clinic, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Hospitalizations rose in all but 4 states this week, with the steepest increases in the Midwest, and deaths jumped by nearly 23%.
