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Global officials are assessing how the variant will affect the arc of the pandemic.
Heads of vaccine firms say they can quickly retool existing vaccines to address the variant if needed.
One study suggests the shots saved about 470,000 people 60 years and older in Europe.
A new report from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) shows sales of veterinary antimicrobials have fallen by more than 40% since 2011.
During a meeting tomorrow at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), scientists will present data from the largest multi-institutional international study to date on brain complications of COVID-19 and share that 1 in 100 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 will likely develop complications of the central nervous system like stroke, hemorrhage, and other potentially fatal complications.
The US joins a growing list of nations that have banned flights from South Africa and related destinations.
Amid uncertainty about the meaning of the changes, intensive efforts are underway to gauge how the they might impact tests, treatments, and vaccine efficacy.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 24
The number of people flying in the US is double what it was for the same time last year.
The researchers call some types of emotional distress experienced by healthcare workers "moral injury."
"While Europe is again the epicenter of the pandemic, no country or region is out of the woods."
SARS-CoV-2 antibody concentrations predict COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, with higher levels correlating with greater protection, according to an ongoing US phase 3 clinical trial yesterday in Science.
A large study of patients in Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals shows a significant increase in the use of ceftazidime-avibactam for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) infections, US researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Also, company data show the Pfizer vaccine 100% effective against COVID-19 in children ages 12 through 15.
Younger Black women died at a 4.2 times higher rate than White women their age.
COVID-19 deaths in the WHO European region have doubled since late September.
A new nationwide study in France involving people 75 years or older found no increase in acute myocardial infarction, stroke, or pulmonary embolism 14 days following each Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine dose. The data was published as a research letter yesterday in JAMA.
Use of an antibiotic spectrum index (ASI) helped identify patterns of empiric antibiotic prescribing at three neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and could help guide stewardship efforts, US researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The risk of stillbirth was quadruple with the Delta variant compared with uninfected women, and maternal death rates quintupled after Delta.
More than 30 states report sustained rises in new cases as Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving.
