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The pill cut non-Omicron hospitalization or death 89% if taken early in the disease course, company data show.
UK researchers estimate that an additional 2, 1, and 6 cases of myocarditis occur per 1 million people in the week after one dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford, Pfizer/BioNTech, and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, respectively, while a positive SARS-CoV-2 test was tied to much higher odds of that and other serious heart conditions.
A national policy restricting over-the-counter (OTC) antibiotic sales in Brazil was linked with a drop in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in two pathogens that frequently cause community-acquired infections, Brazilian researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
A review of 32 clinical practice guidelines for severely ill patients shows most were of poor quality.
"No one should be in any doubt: there is a tidal wave of Omicron coming," Prime Minister Boris Johnson says.
Experts faced 4 cases with little in common, and the disease is known as the "great mimicker," another difficulty.
Only 44% of adults 65 and older had received a booster shot by Thanksgiving, yet 1 in 100 in that age-group have died.
Antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) fell in England during the first year of the pandemic, researchers reported today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week released its Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement Plan, which is designed to boost the speed, effectiveness, coordination, and communication of events for both the FDA and its investigation partners.
The plan included input from the US Department of Agriculture, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state health officials, and other stakeholders.
The latest UK data show Omicron is outpacing the Delta variant on many fronts.
Researchers detail a 9,000% increase in mask litter over 14 months in 11 countries, with hospitals using an extra 89 million masks a month.
Even with mild cases, a highly transmissible variant could still overwhelm hospitals, the CDC says.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday that it has received more than $21 million from Saudi Arabia to support implementation of national antimicrobial resistance (AMR) action plans in several low- and middle-income countries.
Programs that reward the newly vaccinated with an entry in a lottery were associated with an increase in COVID-19 vaccinations in most—but not all—US states offering the incentive and may have spurred almost 2 million people to get immunized, according to research published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Africa's COVID-19 cases rose 93% in the past week, and Omicron cases are rising in the UK.
Common missteps include failure to proclaim uncertainty, fake consensus, prioritizing health over truth, failure to own mistakes, not addressing misinformation credibly and empathetically, and politicization.
The FDA head says the move comes in time to protect families during the holidays.
One study shows much lower rates of severe illness, and the other a 90% lower death rate.
In US counties with high COVID-19 case rates, nursing homes with low staff vaccine uptake saw more infections and deaths among residents than those with high staff vaccination rates, according to a research letter yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
