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US travel restrictions now include flights arriving from the UK and Ireland.
The declaration allows the president to exercise emergency powers and tap into $50 billion for relief efforts; Trump also announced a new public-private partnership to address the test shortage.
The alert comes after 6 patients were infected with diarrhea-causing E coli following FMT.
Italy reports 2,547 new infections and 250 more deaths, boosting its totals to 17,770 cases and 1,255 deaths.
US levels of clinic visits for influenza-like illness (ILI), after falling for 3 straight weeks, rose slightly last week, but the increase might be related to concerns over COVID-19, according to the latest FluView report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the flu season continues to take a toll on children.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Several states limit the size of gatherings, and dozens of sports teams are affected by cancellations.
Researchers detected COVID-19 viral RNA and live virus in specimens other than from the throat and sputum.
Doctors in Italy face grim decisions about whom to save.
A paper today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes a small cluster of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae detected at an Arizona nursing home.
Analysis of six European studies on the 2019/2020 influenza season indicate the interim vaccine effectiveness (VE) against laboratory-confirmed influenza in the primary care setting ranged from 29% to 61% and from 35% to 60% in hospitalized older adults. The results appeared today in Eurosurveillance.
President Trump declares a ban on flights from Europe and calls for worker tax relief.
Sacramento County is focusing on mitigating risk in those at highest risk.
"Describing the situation as a pandemic does not change WHO's assessment."
"We will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now": Fauci.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday announced a deadly Listeria outbreak today linked to enoki mushrooms distributed by Sun Hong Foods, Inc.
Advanced age, signs of sepsis, and blood clotting issues were all risk factors for in-hospital death.
Three groups announce $125 million to speed treatment development, and CEPI announces $4.4 million more to support 2 vaccine projects.
Governor Cuomo announces the country's first containment zone, in New Rochelle, New York.
Florida Health officials confirmed a case of locally acquired dengue in the Florida Keys, according to the Associated Press (AP), and said the patient is doing well. The Keys saw outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease in 2009 and 2010.
