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The WHO is worried about accelerating epidemics, especially in Central and South America.
Lancet editors issue a statement acknowledging the criticism of a recent study.
One study found that obese patients were likely to require mechanical ventilation.
The proportion of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions issued by US physicians' offices and emergency departments (EDs) decreased minimally from 2010 through 2015, driven mainly by a decrease in unnecessary prescriptions for children, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Physical distancing, enhanced screening, and quarantining of people with confirmed or suspected COVID-19—without a lockdown—reduced the spread of the novel coronavirus outside of a hard-hit South Korean province by up to 34%, results of a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggest.
Deaths have topped 40,000 in US nursing homes or long-term care facilities, a new analysis suggests.
The index patient is a 27-year-old woman who died in a Wangata hospital on May 18, and a teen girl also died.
About 250,000 of 732,000 recent global cases were in Latin America.
The effects of continued distance learning will likely be worse among students already at risk, the authors say.
First-year medical residents in Shanghai—500 miles away from the Chinese COVID-19 epicenter of Wuhan—had a steep decline in mood, increased depression and anxiety, and twice the level of fear of workplace violence in the first month of the pandemic, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
Drug maker Shionogi & Co. of Osaka, Japan, announced yesterday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company's supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) and granted Priority Review designation for the use of cefiderocol to treat adults with nosocomial pneumonia.
Among all patients studied across 24 nations, 51.2% had pulmonary complications and 38.0% died.
Also, a new poll reveals further political divisions about reopening the economy.
The cases are in Equateur province, the same area hit by an Ebola outbreak in 2018.
The WHO issues new COVID-19-related guidance on noncommunicable disease and mass gatherings.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that a record number of countries are now monitoring and reporting data on antibiotic resistance but warned that the data reveal worrisome trends.
A multicenter study published yesterday in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease shows that 60% of asymptomatic (symptom-free) COVID-19 patients in Sichuan province, China, were diagnosed as having pneumonia on their first computed tomography (CT) scan.
Also, the US Supreme Court turns down a California church's request to ease the state's restrictions.
Trump's announcement draws strong condemnation from public health experts.
"We are deeply aware that no one can fight COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 on their own. The industry is all in."
