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The first 20 million vaccine doses could be available in December, officials say.
The drug, which has antiviral properties in animals, shows promise in a small randomized controlled trial.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
An antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) intervention led by ambulatory care pharmacists was associated with improvements in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing in a family medicine residency clinic, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
In a preliminary study conducted on 152 patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections, no patient in a group of 80 people who took a 15-day course of fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, reported clinical deterioration, as opposed to 6 (8.3%) of 72 who took a placebo.
The findings suggest the need to develop safer measures in similar settings involving young adults, such as for schools and camps.
Hospitalizations rose in all but 4 states this week, with the steepest increases in the Midwest, and deaths jumped by nearly 23%.
Of 176 patients, 32 (18%) tested positive via RT-PCR, but only 1 had infectious virus.
Also, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing another $70 million to a WHO vaccine initiative.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that worldwide measles deaths climbed 50% from 2016 to 2019, to an estimated 207,500 fatalities in 2019 alone, and cases that year rose to 869,770—the highest total in 23 years.
A meta-analysis of 50 studies and 18,728,893 US and UK patients with COVID-19 found that black people were 2.02 times more likely and Asians 1.50 times more likely to be infected with COVID-19 compared with white people. The researchers also found that Hispanic people had a 1.77 adjusted risk ratio (RR), but none of the applicable studies had been peer reviewed.
Separate reports detail shortages of rheumatoid disease treatments and of drugs in France.
Also, Iran's third surge hits record levels and Sweden orders some restrictions.
About 52% of 128 COVID patients reported fatigue 10 weeks later, regardless of disease seriousness.
Forty-seven states are seeing uncontrolled spread and 2 are trending poorly, leading several governors to impose new restrictions.
A PLOS One study yesterday showed that behavioral responses to the pandemic differ by age and change over time, with older people more likely to practice pandemic-mitigating behaviors—hygiene, quarantining, and physical distancing—and all age-groups demonstrating greater likelihood of engaging in risky behavior over time.
A study of community-level antibiotic use in patients in four low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) found frequent use of broad-spectrum antibiotics considered at risk of becoming ineffective owing to rising antibiotic resistance, an international team of researchers reported today in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
The 7-day average of daily US cases is 108,694, a 37% increase from the week before.
The death rate in less-crowded homes was less than half that of homes with shared bedrooms and bathrooms.
A study yesterday found that employment-related exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, endangers workers and their household members.
