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The leading hypothesis suggests adenovirus as a cause, but COVID-19 could be a factor.
The head of the WHO warns that rising cases are creating a volatile situation.
Excess deaths from external causes were highest in Native people and Black Americans.
A study of three hospitals in New York City found that antimicrobial use in COVID-19 patients during the first year of the pandemic far exceeded the incidence of coinfections, researchers reported today in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology.
An observational study using a multinational database of 447 maternal COVID-19 deaths in Latin America reveals that over 90% were attributed to acute respiratory failure after severe infection and that 35% of the women who died were never admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), possibly due to lack of capacity.
The proportion of overweight or obese low-income kids in Ohio climbed from 38% to 45%.
In China, officials in Shanghai are tightening restrictions again in 4 districts where they had recently loosened them.
Also, the WHO provides updates on avian flu cases in a Colorado man and in a preschooler in China.
In a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers showed canine olfaction—or dog sniffing—was both highly sensitive and specific when it came to identifying patients with COVID-19, even those who were asymptomatic or presymptomatic.
A coalition of 70 organizations in Australia is joining forces to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the food and agribusiness industries.
One study finds 3-dose protection against severe BA.1 and BA.2 disease remaining above 80%.
The alliance aims to boost transparency, communication, quality, redundancy, and production.
Shanghai says its outbreak is under control, but Beijing tightens measures in a hot spot district.
UK officials, meanwhile, tally more cases and add previous COVID-19 as a possible cause.
Budget documents indicate the Biden administration could run out of COVID vaccines by Sep 1.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued a report highlighting the threat of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and the role that infection prevention and control (IPC) programs can play in reducing that threat.
Over 40% of 79 stool samples from COVID-19 patients admitted to one of four hospitals in Spain contained SARS-CoV-2 RNA but no live virus, suggesting a negligible ability to replicate in this medium and a very low likelihood of fecal-oral viral transmission, finds a study published yesterday in Scientific Reports.
Blood culture rate fell 33%, and broad-spectrum antibiotic use dropped 13% in PICUs.
Data suggest the real COVID-19 number is nearly 3 times higher than officially reported.
