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Hospitalized American Indian and Alaska Native COVID-19 patients died at a significantly higher rate than their Black and White peers early in the pandemic, despite being younger and having lower rates of underlying illnesses, shows a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The WHO updates its strategic pandemic plan and calls for better genomic surveillance of pathogens.
Also, Biden warns that a lack of funds means booster shots may not be free in the fall.
So far this year flocks in 23 states have been infected with highly pathogenic avian flu, leading to the loss of about 16 million birds.
The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), based in Geneva, Switzerland, this week announced the formation of a new sister organization in the United States.
Among 91 COVID-19 pneumonia survivors in Austria, 54% had lung abnormalities on computed tomography (CT) imaging 1 year after symptom onset, suggests an observational study yesterday in Radiology.
The CDC also recommends an additional booster dose for at-risk groups.
Black patients had higher rates of hospital or ICU stay, ventilation, and death.
Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, and New York report new outbreaks.
Results of a new survey of 436 Americans with long COVID reveal that the condition is significantly associated with poorer long-term health status, worse quality of life, and psychological distress. The results were published yesterday in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
Also, Colorado, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania reported their first detections in waterfowl.
Also, President Biden's FY 2023 budget includes $10.7 billion in discretionary funds for the CDC.
Adult COVID-19 patients also infected with the flu are 4 times more likely to need mechanical ventilation and 2.4 times more likely to die.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) modeling study used data from 59 US case investigation and contact tracing (CICT) programs to estimate that the programs prevented 1.11 to 1.36 million COVID-19 cases, and 27,000 to 34,000 hospitalizations over 60 days in winter 2020-21, well before the Delta and Omicron variant surges.
One study author calls the results reassuring and hopes they increase vaccine uptake.
Areas seeing declines include Hong Kong, where cases are at their lowest level in a month.
Iowa, New York, and South Dakota report more high-path outbreaks in poultry.
Also, the elderly, Black Americans, and those with less education were less likely to use free at-home COVID-19 tests.
Middle-aged women taking more antibiotics had small decreases in cognitive test scores later in life.
The highly transmissible Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants caused triple and 10 times the rate of COVID-19 infections in pregnant women compared with other strains, with most cases among unvaccinated mothers and their newborns, finds a prospective study yesterday in JAMA.
