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"Given the limited resources countries have, we need a new strategy."
Also, pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients calls a $10 billion funding package only "a start."
Two new studies detail long COVID symptoms, with one from France showing that 85% of patients who had symptoms 2 months after illness onset still had them at 1 year and some symptoms worsened, and one from China revealing that 12% of patients reported rheumatic symptoms at 1-year follow-up.
An analysis of antibiotic use for upper respiratory infections (URIs) in Ghana reveals the considerable economic impact of inappropriate prescribing can have on low-resource settings, researchers reported last week in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.
Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and Venatorx Pharmaceuticals are the first grant recipients.
The outbreak in Texas marks the southernmost spread to poultry so far.
In global COVID news, Shanghai's lockdown will be extended.
A new study in JAMA Pediatrics shows the Omicron variant has caused six to eight times the rate of Omicron infections in US preschoolers as the Delta variant, but cases were less severe with Omicron.
Incidence was 2 to 6 times higher after SARS-CoV-2 infection than after the second vaccine dose.
Throat swabs revealed fewer antibiotic resistance genes with shorter treatment.
Studies in Brazil and Sweden show good efficacy against illness and hospitalization.
Three new studies to be presented at the upcoming European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) conference at the end of the month demonstrate benefits of the antiviral molnupiravir against COVID-19 infections, including evidence that Merck's pill reduces symptoms of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by day 3 of administration.
Three already-affected states—Maine, South Dakota, and Wyoming—reported more highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks in poultry flocks, and Wisconsin reported its first detections in wild birds, according to updates from federal and state agriculture officials.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A study of Escherichia coli isolates from young hospitalized children in western Kenya found high levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), researchers reported yesterday in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Early treatment with ivermectin didn't prevent hospitalization for COVID-19.
The Medicine Supply Map uses more than 40 datasets to predict drug shortages and pinpoint what drives them.
Also, 44% reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless, and 55% noted domestic emotional abuse by an adult.
Among the 1,185 hospitalized kids and teens in the study, 88% were unvaccinated.
Four states—Iowa, Maine, New York, and South Dakota—reported more highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks in poultry, according to federal and state sources.
In an update, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) reported the state's 10th outbreak, which struck a fourth commercial farm in Buena Vista County in the northwestern part of the state. The new outbreak occurred at a turkey farm.
Hospitalized American Indian and Alaska Native COVID-19 patients died at a significantly higher rate than their Black and White peers early in the pandemic, despite being younger and having lower rates of underlying illnesses, shows a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
