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Officials warn of a funding gap on efforts to speed the development of drugs, vaccines, and tests.
As many as 1 in 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients may experience a pneumothorax.
About 62% of Americans worry that political pressure will rush vaccine approval.
Results of a nationwide survey today show that 40.9% of Americans have avoided medical care because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, including 12.0% who avoided emergency care and 31.5% who avoided routine care. The results are published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The authors say their findings confirm seroprevalence studies in hard-hit areas.
There is no reason to withhold well-indicated use of the drugs during the pandemic, the authors say.
The pause is standard whenever an unexplained illness occurs.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) yesterday released new guidelines for the treatment of three common antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
A new study in Transboundary and Emerging Disease calculated the case-fatality rate (CFR) of COVID-19 infections in 53 countries or regions that experienced a second wave—or resurgence—of coronavirus activity, and found a significantly lower death rate among all confirmed cases than in the first wave.
This is the first study to compare the CFR in the first and second waves of the pandemic.
India now has the world's second-highest case count, behind the US.
Links between use of the antibiotics and increased risk of aortic bulging or rupture may not be as strong as previously reported.
Study finds no difference in rates of hospitalization, ICU admission, or mechanical ventilation.
Also, a new analysis shows COVID-19 rates are highest in US agricultural counties.
Two more Ebola cases were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, raising the total to 112, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today in a Twitter update.
A new study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology shows that 46% of hospitalized adults with severe COVID-19 suffer from acute kidney injury (AKI), and AKI was associated with a 50% mortality rate.
Three studies show that parent and child well-being has taken a serious hit during the pandemic.
Two thirds of Americans say they will not get a vaccine as soon as it's available.
The WHO says 78 countries have confirmed their participation in the COVAX vaccine initiative.
An intervention to reduce antibiotic treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) at a Toronto hospital was safe and associated with reduced exposure to unnecessary antibiotics, Canadian researchers reported this week in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
