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"A couple of days ago, there were 30,000 new infections. That's very troublesome."
Aerosolized SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, remained infectious for as long as 16 hours, according to a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Using nebulizers and a custom-built rotating drum, US researchers aerosolized the viruses once each in primate head-only exposure chambers or 30-liter rodent chambers in four aerobiology laboratories.
The implementation of a rapid diagnostic testing platform at a children's hospital, coupled with real-time antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) result notification, was associated with improved antibiotic management of hospitalized children with gram-positive blood culture isolates, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in New York City tripled during the start of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, cases continue to surge in Arizona, California, and Texas as US cases top 2.3 million.
Also, wide guideline variations could cause inequity in equipment allocation during a public health emergency.
The increase was led by surges in countries, such as Brazil, the United States, and India, that have large populations.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced over the weekend that it has stopped two randomized clinical trials exploring the use of the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine for treating and preventing COVID-19.
CARB-X today announced $4.6 million in funding to expand development of two topical antimicrobial products that target serious surgical and traumatic wound infections.
The study did not determine that the antibiotic caused heart-related and other deaths, and its benefits outweigh the risks, experts say.
Meanwhile, the highest court in Oklahoma rejects a request to require masks and distancing at a Trump rally in Tulsa.
Symptoms or not, more than 90% showed steep declines in antibodies within 3 months.
"We call on all countries and all people to exercise extreme vigilance."
More than 40% of Latinos in the Baltimore-Washington, DC metropolitan region who were tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were positive, a rate far higher than for any other racial/ethnic group, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported yesterday in JAMA.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A comparison of antibiotic sales data by members of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) shows that cattle and swine on US farms consume 44% more of medically important antibiotics than do humans.
Some isolates of the novel strain are resistant to both penicillin and ciprofloxacin, officials say.
The global total climbs to 8,410,682 cases and 450,835 deaths.
Black respondents were 3.5 percentage points more likely than whites to report COVID-19 infection.
Cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spike in at least 10 US states.
In the face of the increasing spread of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in the United States, tick surveillance and control efforts across the country are inconsistent and hampered by lack of infrastructure and financial support, according to a new survey of professionals in the field.
