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The study did not determine that the antibiotic caused heart-related and other deaths, and its benefits outweigh the risks, experts say.
Meanwhile, the highest court in Oklahoma rejects a request to require masks and distancing at a Trump rally in Tulsa.
Symptoms or not, more than 90% showed steep declines in antibodies within 3 months.
More than 40% of Latinos in the Baltimore-Washington, DC metropolitan region who were tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were positive, a rate far higher than for any other racial/ethnic group, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported yesterday in JAMA.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A comparison of antibiotic sales data by members of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) shows that cattle and swine on US farms consume 44% more of medically important antibiotics than do humans.
Some isolates of the novel strain are resistant to both penicillin and ciprofloxacin, officials say.
The global total climbs to 8,410,682 cases and 450,835 deaths.
Black respondents were 3.5 percentage points more likely than whites to report COVID-19 infection.
Cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spike in at least 10 US states.
In the face of the increasing spread of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in the United States, tick surveillance and control efforts across the country are inconsistent and hampered by lack of infrastructure and financial support, according to a new survey of professionals in the field.
A genomic analysis of hundreds of European patients who had severe cases of COVID-19 pointed to two gene clusters—one of them related to blood type—that seemed to be associated with severe disease, according to a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"We need more therapeutics that can be used to tackle the virus."
Ten (28%) of 35 infected patients died, of whom 2 were asymptomatic.
Also, blacks in Atlanta have a much higher hospitalization rate than whites.
The prevalence of antibiotic prescribing in primary care was 52%—and 30% is recommended.
In a study with implications for COVID-19 transmission, mild coughing can expel small saliva droplets through and around a face mask and travel as far as 1 meter (3.3 feet), according to a study published yesterday in Physics of Fluids.
A change in the wording of antibiotic duration orders for neonatal sepsis led to a substantial decrease in the number of infants who received extra unnecessary antibiotic orders, pharmacists at a hospital in British Columbia reported today in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Underlying conditions place 22% of people at increased risk for severe COVID-19 and 4% at high risk.
Of the total, 3.8 million COVID-19 cases have been reported in the Americas, where the pandemic is accelerating.
Also, NIAID Director Fauci says speeding a vaccine through trials is not compromising safety.
