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Over 40% of 79 stool samples from COVID-19 patients admitted to one of four hospitals in Spain contained SARS-CoV-2 RNA but no live virus, suggesting a negligible ability to replicate in this medium and a very low likelihood of fecal-oral viral transmission, finds a study published yesterday in Scientific Reports.
Neither vaccine requires extreme cold chain storage, which makes them appealing for low-resource areas.
Blood culture rate fell 33%, and broad-spectrum antibiotic use dropped 13% in PICUs.
Data suggest the real COVID-19 number is nearly 3 times higher than officially reported.
A study of more than 160,000 COVID-19 tests of South African healthcare workers concludes that two doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines are about 71% effective against hospitalization caused by Omicron 1 to 2 months after the second dose, with little waning at 5 months or longer.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported one more Ebola case in its latest outbreak in Equateur province in the country's northwest, raising the total to three, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office.
Meanwhile, the CDC reissues a mask recommendation for public transit.
The findings aren't markedly different from interim results published in February 2021.
Cases rise 31% in Africa and 13% in the Americas but fall globally.
Nearly 13% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had serious neurologic illnesses in the first year of the pandemic, suggests an international study published last week in Critical Care Explorations.
A study conducted in a hospital with high rates of antibiotic resistance in Singapore found that sequential implementation of two antimicrobial stewardship interventions was associated with reduced use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, researchers reported yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
More than 53,000 pediatric US COVID-19 cases were reported last week, a 61% increase.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 had more than twice the risk of hospitalization and ICU stay.
Patients with antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis can be treated with a 6-month, all-oral regimen, the agency says.
Cognitive impairment from severe COVID-19 is equivalent to losing 10 IQ points or 20 years of aging, and any recovery is slow at best, suggests a small study published late last week in eClinicalMedicine.
Meanwhile, US cases continue to grow, especially in the Northeast, though hospitalizations and deaths are still low.
The difference was small but meaningful at a population level, suggests a large study.
The CDC urges clinicians to consider H5N1 flu in people with symptoms who had potential exposure.
The rate of full COVID-19 vaccination among employees of a private Minnesota medical device manufacturer rose 10.4 percentage points after the company began offering $1,000 incentives for immunization, finds a study published late last week in JAMA Network Open.
A multimodal intervention at primary care practices in a large healthcare system in North Carolina was associated with significant decreases in inappropriate outpatient antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
