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Eight states in the South and West recorded rising 7-day averages for infection rates over the past 2 weeks.
Today officials from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan launched a 3-day polio vaccination campaign targeting 9.9 million children younger than 5 years, the third national campaign this year.
International medical graduate physicians, or IMG physicians, make up about 25% of the practicing physicians in the United States, but they have made up 45% of COVID-related physician deaths, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter late last week.
COVID-19 surges continue in South America, now the hardest-hit continent, and Africa is seeing a host of vaccine issues.
Preventive anticoagulation dosing for blood clots in the veins was tied to lower 60-day death rates.
The FDA says 60 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine cannot be used because of possible contamination.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week release three new documents that aim to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through a behavioral insights approach.
A surveillance study of US children during the first wave of the pandemic found that multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) was a rare complication associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, but incidence was significantly higher in non-White racial and ethnic groups, US researchers reported yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week released three new documents that aim to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through a behavioral insights approach.
Elsewhere, European officials say only 30% of the population has received 1 vaccine dose.
For every 20 percentage points of vaccinated people, positive COVID-19 tests in unvaccinated children halved.
The FDA has granted an extension on the shelf life of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, to 4.5 months.
With more nations reporting data, troubling trends emerge, especially in low-resource nations.
High doses of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in conjunction with an anticoagulant were associated with resolved vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) in three patients, according to a report yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
VITT occurs when antibodies attack protein factor 4 (PF4), leading to blood clumping and clots.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it has finalized guidelines to bring the remaining medically important antibiotics still sold over-the-counter (OTC) for use in animals under the supervision of veterinarians.
Also, President Biden is expected to announce that the US plans to donate 500 million vaccine doses globally.
The review recommends investment in innovative manufacturing and greater FDA authority.
PAHO's head notes two worlds: "One quickly returning to normal, and another where recovery remains a distant future."
The risk of severe COVID-19 or death is far greater than any posed by the vaccine, a study author says.
A study of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) living in New York City group homes has identified older age, larger residential settings, Down syndrome, and chronic kidney disease as risk factors for COVID-19 infection, with heart disease as a risk factor for related death.
