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HHS rescinds FDA approval for COVID tests under an executive order from President Trump.
France, Germany, and Spain report their highest daily COVID-19 case counts since easing out of lockdowns.
Implementation of a pharmacist-led antibiotic time-out (ATO) at an academic medical center was feasible and well-accepted, but did not change overall antibiotic use, researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
University of California researchers studying the breast milk of 18 women with COVID-19 found coronavirus RNA—but not live virus—in 1 of 64 samples, suggesting that babies aren't likely to be infected through that route.
"Going back to school depends on the local epidemiology, the local transmission, the local profile of schools..."
Antibodies ranged from very high levels in 2 patients to undetectable levels in 10.
Only 1 in 7 US parents say their children will return full time to in-person instruction for the 2020-21 school year.
Surveillance will include more bacterial pathogens, animal species, and environment testing.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security today released an ethical framework for how to allocate and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine once it's been approved but is in limited supply.
The inclusion of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) and order set within the electronic medical record, in combination with the use of local urine antibiograms, was associated with improved antibiotic prescribing for acute cystitis at a veterans' health system in North Carolina, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The head of the WHO warns about "vaccine nationalism" and previews a basic strategy for deploying vaccine.
US nursing homes saw an almost 80% increase in cases since the week of Jun 21.
When underlying medical and other risk conditions are factored out, death rates are similar between blacks and whites.
One more Ebola illness and one more death from the virus have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
The new developments push the outbreak total to 89 cases and 37 deaths.
A review of 18 US and international public health and governmental websites with COVID-19 information for the public—including those of the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—has found that all exceeded the recommended reading level and used sentence structures and technical terminology that would hinder understanding.
Variables such as epidemiologic or social factors might be behind the weekly fluctuations in 6 nations.
The country has now surpassed 170,000 deaths.
For the fourth day in a row, South Korea reports a triple-digit increase in cases.
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported 2 more Ebola cases in its Equateur province outbreak, lifting the total to 88, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
The number of deaths held steady at 36.
A meta-analysis by Italian researchers published late last week in PLOS One shows that COVID-19 patients who have or are at risk for cardiovascular disease are more likely than others to develop cardiovascular complications and die from their infections.
