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Germany, France, Italy, and Poland are all reporting a surge in cases.
A new MMWR report details limited COVID spread in childcare centers.
Studies highlight high COVID rates, the role of mass testing, and intake screening.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Aug 20
Cases in the Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reached 100, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, with cases nearly doubling in the past 5 weeks.
A comprehensive review of data submitted by more than 15,000 US nursing homes revealed that about 20% faced a staff shortage or severe shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) in early July, months into the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study in Health Affairs yesterday.
France, Germany, and Spain report their highest daily COVID-19 case counts since easing out of lockdowns.
The findings have implications for schools, daycares, and similar settings.
HHS rescinds FDA approval for COVID tests under an executive order from President Trump.
University of California researchers studying the breast milk of 18 women with COVID-19 found coronavirus RNA—but not live virus—in 1 of 64 samples, suggesting that babies aren't likely to be infected through that route.
Implementation of a pharmacist-led antibiotic time-out (ATO) at an academic medical center was feasible and well-accepted, but did not change overall antibiotic use, researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
"Going back to school depends on the local epidemiology, the local transmission, the local profile of schools..."
Antibodies ranged from very high levels in 2 patients to undetectable levels in 10.
Only 1 in 7 US parents say their children will return full time to in-person instruction for the 2020-21 school year.
Surveillance will include more bacterial pathogens, animal species, and environment testing.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security today released an ethical framework for how to allocate and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine once it's been approved but is in limited supply.
The inclusion of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) and order set within the electronic medical record, in combination with the use of local urine antibiograms, was associated with improved antibiotic prescribing for acute cystitis at a veterans' health system in North Carolina, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
When underlying medical and other risk conditions are factored out, death rates are similar between blacks and whites.
The head of the WHO warns about "vaccine nationalism" and previews a basic strategy for deploying vaccine.
US nursing homes saw an almost 80% increase in cases since the week of Jun 21.
