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Also, the WHO says overall cases and deaths are falling, but more nations are reporting variant viruses.
Nursing homes with more than 40% non-white residents had COVID-19 death rates 3.3 times higher.
New CDC data show the fit of face masks may significantly reduce COVID-19 spread.
Hospitalized adults with COVID-19 are 3.5 times more likely to die than adults with the flu, reports a study today in CMAJ. The study also found that those with COVID were 1.5 times more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and have 1.5 times longer hospital stays.
Telemedicine visits in Brazil performed under rigorous adherence to antibiotic stewardship guidelines were associated with appropriate antibiotic prescribing for patients with low-risk conditions, Brazilian and Australian researchers reported yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Few preschoolers attending 22 daycare centers in France last spring had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in their blood.
In another sign that a former hot spot is recovering, New York City restaurants can soon resume indoor dining.
"Learn the lesson of Tuskegee and do everything in our power to ensure African Americans get the vaccine."
Experts say virus introduction through an intermediary host species is the most likely of 4 scenarios they presented.
A study today in mBio offers support to continue breastfeeding infants even when mothers have mild to moderate COVID-19 infections. The study showed breastmilk samples did not contain SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) RNA, but the authors suggest risk of transmission via breast skin to baby should be evaluated.
One in eight US patients hospitalized with a complicated urinary tract infection (cUTI) have a pathogen with resistance to three or more routinely used antibiotic classes, researchers reported yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.
An official says the pause is needed to collect more data, especially on vaccine impact on severe disease.
The B117 SARS-CoV-2 variant will dominate other strains in the coming weeks, study authors say.
"We are committed to wearing masks still for the 100 days of the presidency," CDC Director Walensky says.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yesterday announced a new Ebola case, its first since September, which involves a woman who died from her infection in Butembo, one of the main hot spots in the country's 10th outbreak that was centered in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
A study today in Nature Medicine showed Pfizer's mRNA vaccine, the first vaccine approved in the United States for use against COVID-19, neutralized three variants of the virus, including the B117 strain first identified in the United Kingdom, and two new variants first confirmed in South Africa.
For men with COVID-19, the risk of dying from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest rose 4.5-fold.
In light of the request, FDA advisors will meet on Feb 26 to weigh emergency use.
The global number of people vaccinated has now eclipsed the number infected.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A multifaceted intervention implemented in a Japanese emergency department was associated with reduced antibiotic prescribing at discharge and an increase in appropriate prescribing, Japanese researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
