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People in rural areas are currently twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as their urban peers, new data show.
Critically ill COVID-19 patients who received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at the end of 2020 had a higher mortality rate than those who received it in the first half of the year, according to a study published yesterday in The Lancet.
Results from a worldwide survey of hospitals suggests that the Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS) has helped inform stewardship activities, Belgian researchers reported this week in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Cases and deaths continue to drop globally, but infections continue at very high levels.
In a Chinese study, 45% had at least 1 persistent symptom after a year, and 16% had at least 3 symptoms.
Also, CDC data show similar side effects after a third Pfizer vaccine dose as seen after the second dose.
Seven COVID-19 symptoms can maximize detection of COVID-19 in the community, according to a large study published in PLOS Medicine yesterday that looked at data from England's REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission-1 (REACT-1) study.
An intervention based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship yielded cost savings at 10 outpatient Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) sites, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Pfizer and BioNTech say an application for emergency use authorization in kids 5 to 11 years old will likely follow.
The data show that 1.2 million fewer people have been diagnosed and treated for TB in 2021 than in 2019.
Of the women, 8.14% used cannabis in spring 2020, compared with 6.75% before the pandemic.
Vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was up to 91.5% in Israeli teens 12 to 15 years old during the Delta (B1617.2) variant outbreak, according to a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners today called for urgent action to address meningitis, while launching the first ever global strategy to battle the disease, called the Global Roadmap to Defeat Meningitis by 2030.
By 2030, the goals are to eliminate epidemics of bacterial meningitis—the deadliest form of the disease—and to reduce deaths by 70% and halve the number of cases, the WHO said in a press release.
In the past week, new daily COVID-19 cases fell 20%, deaths dropped 0.8%, and hospitalizations fell 8.9%.
Delta variant transmission is complicating plans for easing COVID-19 restrictions in some Asian nations.
Such a drop has not been seen in a single year since World War II in Western Europe.
Taking anticoagulants before contracting COVID-19 is associated with a 43% lower risk for hospital admission, and receiving anticoagulants while in the hospital is tied to a lower death rate, according to a study published late last week in EClinicalMedicine.
An analysis of US health insurance data found that post-discharge prophylactic antibiotics are commonly prescribed after mastectomy, but provide only a small reduction in surgical-site infections (SSIs), researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
"I think it's fascinating that something like telemedicine ... actually worsened those disparities."
CDC director explains her rationale for offering third doses to frontline and essential workers.
