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An intensive COVID-19 prevention and surveillance system that the National Football League (NFL) put in place this season identified certain types of risky in-club transmission, which helped officials revise its high-risk contact definition and improve its protocols.
Anthony Fauci, MD, however, says he's concerned about new variant viruses.
Twelve health departments said less than 32% of contacts were notified within 24 hours.
A new UK study says the B117 variant might be more deadly than older strains.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Five barriers to better antibiotic decision-making at hospital discharge emerged after John Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers interviewed healthcare workers and discharged patients.
As the pandemic has made hand sanitizer ubiquitous, perhaps it was inevitable that clinicians would report sanitizer-related eye injuries in children.
Biden says states will be reimbursed by FEMA if they use the National Guard for pandemic response.
Fixed-dose combinations account for 22.5% of total antibiotic consumption in 75 countries.
The ECDC raises the risk of spread of new variants to very high as the UK struggles with the B117 strain.
Bamlanivimab paired with etesevimab was more effective than bamlanivimab alone.
New data published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) show routine vaccine uptake among kindergarteners across the United States during the 2019-20 school year was high, approximately 95%—but the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring that number down.
Six of 11 deceased patients—all but one of whom had COVID-19—had SARS-CoV-2 RNA in their corneas, but live virus was not detected, according to a study published today in JAMA Ophthalmology.
A 1% increase in a county's income inequality is associated with a 3% rise in COVID-19 deaths.
The WHO says further investigation is under way into two new variants recently detected in Brazil.
"The severity of your disease doesn't seem to predict how you're going to respond down the road."
Biden is also sending Anthony Fauci, MD to speak at the WHO's executive board meeting.
Twenty-eight–day in-hospital mortality rates decreased from 29.9% to 19.7% for adult COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) patients over the first wave of the pandemic, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine study published yesterday.
The report aims to strengthen COVID-19 response now as well as prepare for future pandemics.
Truly revolutionary flu vaccines and equitable distribution are key goals.