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The Biden administration announced this morning that it would buy 3.2 million doses of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to soon receive authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, according to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) news release.
Parties, bath houses, saunas, and other mass-gathering sites have been implicated in transmission.
Phase 1 and 2 trials reveal inconclusive subjective results for the drug, which opens respiratory passages.
The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) and the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) yesterday released new joint recommendations for judicious antibiotic use in cats and dogs.
Americans are not happy with the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Researchers also estimate that vaccines averted 27 million infections and 1.6 million hospitalizations.
WHO data show that, among monkeypox patients with known HIV status, 41% are HIV-positive.
A study yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describes an ongoing outbreak of sexually transmitted, extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella sonnei in the United Kingdom.
The experimental cancer drug sabizabulin slashed all-cause deaths by 55.2% over placebo in high-risk hospitalized COVID-19 patients by 60 days and was tied to fewer adverse events, according to interim results of a randomized, controlled phase 3 trial published yesterday in NEJM Evidence.
In global developments, cases rose for the fourth straight week, led by the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants.
Pre-Omicron, the leading causes of death were heart disease (20.1%), cancer (17.5%), and COVID-19 (12.2%).
The Global Plan to End TB 2023-2030 calls for a global investment of $250 billion.
"Testing remains a challenge, and it's highly probable that there are a significant number of cases not being picked up."
BA.4 and BA.5—which now cause more than 70% of US cases—are 4 times more resistant to 3 vaccine doses than BA.2 is, and only 1 of 19 monoclonal antibodies tested showed efficacy against those subvariants.
A study in Ontario suggests that, compared with a third dose of mRNA COVID vaccine, a fourth dose improved protection against infection and severe outcomes among long-term care residents during the Omicron wave. The study was published today in The BMJ.
The odds of having long COVID fell from 48% before vaccines to 16% after a third vaccine dose.
BA.5 now makes up 53.6% of cases, BA.4 makes up 16.5%, and both are highly transmissible.
All but 3 of 52 patients had lesions and rashes on their genitals or anal regions.
A new study shows that the proportion of children diagnosed as having COVID-19 and croup was significantly higher during the Omicron surge than in earlier waves dominated by other variants.
Croup is an upper airway infection generally affecting children. It causes swelling around the larynx, trachea, and bronchi, resulting in labored breathing and a "barking" cough.
