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Nearly 570,000 healthcare workers in the Americas have fallen ill with COVID, and more than 2,500 have died.
Iowa has replaced Texas, Florida, and Arizona as the nation's COVID-19 hot spot, with an almost 11% positive testing rate.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies has found that immunity conferred by the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine fades each subsequent year, suggesting that vaccination strategies should be revisited.
Healthcare workers, first responders, and adults with pre-existing conditions that put them at risk for severe symptoms of COVID-19 should be the initial recipients of the first approved vaccine in the United States, according to a framework from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) published yesterday. Today, NAM will hold a virtual public meeting on the recommendations.
AstraZeneca plans to test its vaccine in 30,000 healthy adults.
In other developments, Japan signaled it will participate in the WHO's COVAX program, as the US declined.
Ontario has an 84-week backlog of nonurgent surgeries delayed because of COVID-19.
New guidelines say mass azithromycin should be considered in infants in sub-Saharan African countries with high childhood mortality.
In response to COVID-19, the US government sold $1.5 trillion in obligations such as bonds and spent $1.3 trillion on public health, homeland security, and economic relief by Jun 30, according to an update yesterday from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
A "proactive hunting surveillance" approach of shooting and testing deer likely to harbor the causative agent of chronic wasting disease (CWD) without leading to undesirable population declines achieved a 99% CWD-free rate within 3 to 5 years, in comparison to 10 years using the typical preemptive sampling strategy, according to a Norwegian modeling study published today in Nature Communications.
At least 26 states are seeing 7-day case increases of more than 5%.
In one study, 27% of exhaled breath samples were positive for COVID-19 viral RNA.
"If countries are serious about opening up, they must be serious about suppressing transmission and saving lives."
A new paper in Open Forum Infectious Diseases lays out some of the lessons learned from cases of antibiotic-resistant infections treated with bacteriophage therapy.
US counties with large declines in cell phone activity at workplaces, transit stations, and stores and concomitant increases in home activity during COVID-19 lockdowns had lower rates of coronavirus infections 5, 10, and 15 days later, according to a study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The first COVID-19 case has been detected in northern Syria's Al Hol refugee camp.
The claim comes despite the fact that no major vaccine candidate has completed clinical trials.
In one study, 57% of patients got early antibiotics, but only 3.5% had a bacterial infection.
Scientists in New Delhi, India, report infections with worrisome multidrug-resistant Candida auris in 10 of 15 critically ill COVID-19 patients who also had candidemia over a span of several months, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
