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Amid uncertainty about the meaning of the changes, intensive efforts are underway to gauge how the they might impact tests, treatments, and vaccine efficacy.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 24
"While Europe is again the epicenter of the pandemic, no country or region is out of the woods."
The number of people flying in the US is double what it was for the same time last year.
The researchers call some types of emotional distress experienced by healthcare workers "moral injury."
A large study of patients in Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals shows a significant increase in the use of ceftazidime-avibactam for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) infections, US researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
SARS-CoV-2 antibody concentrations predict COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, with higher levels correlating with greater protection, according to an ongoing US phase 3 clinical trial yesterday in Science.
Also, company data show the Pfizer vaccine 100% effective against COVID-19 in children ages 12 through 15.
Younger Black women died at a 4.2 times higher rate than White women their age.
COVID-19 deaths in the WHO European region have doubled since late September.
A new nationwide study in France involving people 75 years or older found no increase in acute myocardial infarction, stroke, or pulmonary embolism 14 days following each Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine dose. The data was published as a research letter yesterday in JAMA.
Use of an antibiotic spectrum index (ASI) helped identify patterns of empiric antibiotic prescribing at three neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and could help guide stewardship efforts, US researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The risk of stillbirth was quadruple with the Delta variant compared with uninfected women, and maternal death rates quintupled after Delta.
More than 30 states report sustained rises in new cases as Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving.
US infants born early in the pandemic were less likely to receive routine childhood vaccinations if their mothers had perinatal care disruptions (those just before or after birth) or experienced discrimination during pregnancy, according to a prospective study today in JAMA Pediatrics.
"As a clinician deep in the clinical trenches, I am really grateful we have clarity," says one ACIP expert.
Austria is the first nation in Europe to take such dramatic steps amid the continent's fourth surge.
With antimicrobial use in livestock expected to double in 30 years, the FAO says nations' AMR capacities need bolstering.
Study estimates 12,000 excess deaths 2 weeks after ICUs reach 75% occupancy.
New data from the European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC) show a dramatic drop in community antibiotic use across Europe during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
