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Moderna and Pfizer vaccines gain unanimous approval for kids as young as 6 months; CDC advisers will assess them next.
In a global flu update that covers the last half of May, the World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that overall activity has declined since a March peak, but levels are rising in some temperate Southern Hemisphere countries, including Australia.
A study today in JAMA Network Open comparing COVID-19 versus flu in kids 5 years old and younger finds that the novel coronavirus led to twice the rate of admissions to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) and rates of intubation one-third higher during the first 15 months of the pandemic.
"We're talking about an extra burden that rural counties face."
The report seeks to curb antibiotic discharge into the environment.
The move comes as the more transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants expand their reach.
The authors say viral replication may have triggered a secondary immune response in the rebound cases.
Experts meet next week to discern if the disease represents a global public health emergency.
Automated text messages were as effective as direct phone calls in encouraging study participants to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a JAMA Network Open study yesterday from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,.
The VA study finds, though, that both vaccines have very good safety profiles.
FDA advisers will soon weigh approving vaccines in kids under 5 years old.
Shortages peaked in April 2020, at 2,345, up from 901 shortages 5 years earlier.
Massachusetts, which had the first US case in May, confirms 2 more infections.
Work disruptions related to a lack of childcare in 2020 increased by one-third relative to before the pandemic—especially for caregivers of children with special healthcare needs, low-income families, and those from racial minority groups, estimates a study published today in JAMA Pediatrics.
A study of data from insured US children found that rotavirus vaccination was associated with reduced antibiotic prescribing for acute gastroenteritis, researchers reported last week in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Whether receiving the rapid test or not, more than a fourth got antibiotics.
Infants exposed to SARS-CoV-2 before birth had double the risk of neurodevelopmental issues.
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in air samples was genetically identical to human samples in a hospital outbreak.
"Monkeypox cases may present similar to some sexually transmitted infections and could be mistaken for other diagnoses."
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) announced yesterday that it is collaborating with Indian biopharmaceutical company Bugworks on a phase 1 clinical trial to assess a new class of antibiotic compounds for multidrug-resistant bacteria.
