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In other developments, the CDC adds Delta as a variant of concern and issues its first guidance on "long COVID."
An analysis of data from 211 Connecticut nursing homes found that facilities that cared for mainly racial and ethnic minority residents had higher levels of COVID-19 illnesses and deaths. A team based at the University of Rochester in New York reported their findings today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
US lawmakers today re-introduced a bill to reinvigorate the antibiotic development market.
Blood analysis reveals SARS-CoV-2 antibodies as early as Jan 7, 2020, indicating infection the prior month.
Also, new data show that young pregnant women and Hispanic and Black women are less likely to be vaccinated.
"While we're highlighting urgency, we're also showing opportunities and glimmers of hope," says report author.
Officials warn that Africa is at risk due to continued virus circulation and low vaccine uptake.
Though downstream disruptions affected naloxone access, upstream supply has been solid.
Germany recently reported a human variant H1N1 (H1N1v) case involving a 17-year-old boy who works on a pig farm, according to a recent weekly communicable disease update from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
From January to August 2020, 17% more US assisted living residents died compared with the same months in 2019, and excess deaths hit 24% in the hardest-hit states, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter yesterday.
The vaccine showed 100% protection against severe illness and 93% against variants of concern.
In other global developments, the WHO welcomes vaccine donations from the G7 meeting.
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.
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.
COVID-19 surges continue in South America, now the hardest-hit continent, and Africa is seeing a host of vaccine issues.
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.
