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In US COVID-19 developments, Hawaii is the only state with a mask mandate still in place.
In the ivermectin group, 22% became severely ill, vs 17% in the standard-care group.
An analysis of prescribing data from more than 80 countries found that global antimicrobial consumption declined prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The risk of hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and death was much lower among more than 9,000 Canadian COVID-19 patients infected with the Omicron variant than among matched Delta patients, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA.
The risk of hospitalization or death with Omicron was 41% of—and the risk of death was one-tenth of—that of Delta.
One study shows more than 90% vaccine protection post-infection, even when the shot follows infection by 18 months.
"We need to ... address these conditions now before they balloon into a much larger mental health crisis."
When firms reach FDA approval then go under, "the problem must be the market."
The University of Wisconsin and Purdue University announce the easing of mask requirements.
The Indiana Board of Animal Health (IBAH) said today that initial tests at a third turkey farm in the state are positive for H5 avian flu. The new detection marks the United States' fifth recent outbreak in poultry. Further testing is under way to assess if the virus is the same highly pathogenic H5N1 strain that struck the first Indiana farm.
A new review of 15 studies analyzed by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows COVID-19 vaccination is protective against developing symptoms of long COVID, or symptoms lasting longer than 4 weeks after the initial infection.
The BA.2 Omicron subvariant now says makes up about 21% of sequenced global cases, the WHO says.
Remote trials had 49% racial minority participation, compared with 14% in a clinic-based study.
New cases have dropped 40%, hospitalizations are down 28%, and deaths have decreased by 9%.
Of respondents, 95% say the pandemic revealed drug supply chain vulnerabilities.
A new study comparing excess years of life lost (YLL) during the first year of COVID-19 in parts of England and Wales shows that economically deprived areas suffered three times as many deaths as affluent regions, and young adults (15 to 44 years old) were 11 times more likely to die from the virus in poorer parts of the United Kingdom. The study is published in PLOS Medicine.
A second study shows how hard Omicron has hit kids, especially the unvaccinated.
A steady drop in US cases includes a substantial decline in children's infections, but in parts of Eastern Europe, cases have doubled in the past 2 weeks.
The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) last week announced a new program to improve surveillance and prescribing of antimicrobials in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) .
A large proportion of US COVID-19 patients were left with thousands of dollars of hospital bills after many health insurers stopped issuing cost-sharing waivers in early 2021, finds a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
