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The COVID-19 pandemic, and the global response, contain important lessons that can be used to avert a future pandemic caused by antimicrobial resistance (AMR), according to a new report from the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP).
The protection is even better than the 90% found in an initial analysis.
Supply chain issues could hinder vaccine rollout, and EUA data must be transparent, the report says.
The White House coronavirus task force says deaths could approach 2,000 a day in the coming weeks.
After almost 6 months, 130 cases, and 55 deaths in Equateur province, the outbreak is officially over.
The nonprofit spoke with 150 public health, policy, and scientific experts to craft a strategy for addressing drug resistance post-COVID-19.
Nine million childhood vaccines are projected to be missed by the end of this year in the United States—a 26% decrease compared with 2019—according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) report. This decline would cause a gap between vaccination rate and that required for herd immunity of 4.8 percentage points for measles and 12.7 percentage points for pertussis (whooping cough).
Duke University's aggressive pooled surveillance COVID-19 testing program enabled large-scale testing, successfully reduced transmission, and prevented major outbreaks seen on other college campuses, according to a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) study yesterday.
Philadelphia, Ohio, Iowa, and California are among the locations where officials tightened measures to drive down their COVID-19 surges.
Of more than 5,000 hospitalized veterans with COVID-19, a third had acute kidney injury.
A study published late last week in the British Dental Journal suggests that restricted access to dental care in England during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sharp rise in dental antibiotic prescribing.
A research letter published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that patients who died of COVID-19 in the Netherlands were more than twice as likely to have scarring of their diaphragms than patients who died of other causes.
Mayors and governors across the country implement new restrictions to try to reduce the caseload.
Of 95 COVID cases reported, 90 were in the placebo group, including all 11 serious cases.
The head of the WHO urges governments to do more to reduce the pressure on healthcare workers.
US outcomes were poorer early in the pandemic, even in counties with low death rates.
The Frontline Families Fund will offer phase 1 support to cover immediate costs and phase 2 funds for other needs.
A 3-month follow-up study of 142 COVID-19 survivors in China showed that 85.9% of patients had abnormalities on computed tomography (CT) chest scans and 52 (36.6%) had chronic and fibrotic changes.
While the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hoped that 50% of firearm hunters in the state's five chronic wasting disease (CWD) management zones would submit deer for voluntary testing, opening weekend saw well below 30% participation, according to a story last week in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
The first 20 million vaccine doses could be available in December, officials say.
