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More adults died of COVID-19 in Massachusetts in the first 8 weeks of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant surge than in the entire 23-week Delta period, suggests a modeling study published today in JAMA.
A study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers found that, despite changes in infection control practices, antibiotic use, and healthcare delivery during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Clostridioides difficile infection rates did not change. The findings were published yesterday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Allergic conditions were not elevated in preschoolers.
As cases climb in several nations, an expert notes, "We are much more susceptible to poxviruses."
The recommendation passed with 11 yes votes, 1 no vote, and 1 abstention.
Three quarters of US adult and pediatric patients with long COVID were never hospitalized for their infections, and 31% had no preexisting chronic conditions, concludes an observational Fair Health report released yesterday.
The New York City-based nonprofit analyzed its collection of private healthcare claims data from 78,252 long-COVID patients from Oct 1, 2021, to Jan 31, 2022.
Germany recently reported a swine-origin variant H1N1 (H1N1v) influenza infection, which was identified during routine surveillance, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a statement.
UK cases grow to 9, while Spain reports 23 suspected cases and Portugal 5 confirmed, 15 suspected.
Officials say funds are needed to get vaccines and treatments ready for potential fall and winter activity.
Though vaccination protected against severe illness, it did not prevent rapid spread, the authors say.
Also, an expert panel says the world isn't better prepared to face a new health threat than when COVID first arrived.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials of antibiotic treatment for children with community-acquired pneumonia provides further support for shorter treatment duration, Finnish researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Congenital and acquired heart conditions such as biventricular defects, cardiac arrest, and heart failure are associated with increased COVID-19 severity in US children, suggests a multicenter study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
Researchers looked at women who received prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy or combined oral contraceptive pill.
The FDA gives the thumbs-up to the emergency use of Pfizer COVID boosters in kids 5 through 11.
Dogs can detect scents as low as one part per trillion—far beyond any technology—and were 92% to 98% accurate for SARS-CoV-2.
Machine-learning models created by a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported research team can identify, with high accuracy, patients likely to have long COVID, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet Digital Health.
In US news, key outbreak markers continue to rise, especially in the Northeast and Midwest.
One study shows lower risks of infection and hospitalization in vaccinated kids 5 to 17 years old.
The data come from the medical records of all adults hospitalized in Alberta and Ontario for COVID from Jan 1, 2020, to Sep 30, 2021.
