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"The hardest thing to do as a doctor is nothing, even if nothing is the right answer."
Church events held between Mar 6 and 11 at an Arkansas church—where the pastor and his wife were positive for COVID-19 and showing symptoms—led to 35 confirmed COVID-19 cases among 92 people (38%) who attended events. The super-spreading event is described today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
In other developments, some recently reopened states report increased cases, while automakers return to work and National Parks reopen.
Patients with COVID-19 outside of Wuhan, China, shed virus RNA for a median of 17 days.
In other international developments, case surges stretch health systems in Russia and Brazil, and France reports illnesses associated with recent school reopenings.
The nearly 22% of US counties with higher proportions of black people accounted for 52% of COVID-19 cases and 58% of related deaths, according to a study published late last week in the Annals of Epidemiology.
The researchers accessed public data on Apr 13 to compare predictors of COVID-19 infections and deaths in counties with 13% or more black people and those with lower percentages.
CARB-X today announced an award of up to $1.26 million to Facile Therapeutics of Belmont, California, to develop a new oral drug for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections.
Brazil is poised to become the next pandemic epicenter, with almost 10,000 new cases reported today.
A major part of Operation Warp Speed will involve ramping up vaccine production.
Two options are decontaminating N95s or using elastomeric respirators.
The World Health Assembly gears up to meet virtually for the first time and will focus mainly on the pandemic.
One of the studies is the first published randomized controlled trial on the drug for COVID-19.
Four countries in the Middle East and Africa reported a total of nine new cases this week, according to the latest update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it's working with Abbott Laboratories to address potential false-negative results provided by the company's rapid coronavirus test.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News May 14
The federal pandemic response has grown increasingly divided and political.
Pro-vaccine groups on the social media platform are "fighting off to one side, in the wrong place."
France and Spain learn that relatively few people have been exposed to the virus.
Italian clinicians report 10 cases in about a month, a 30-fold increase.
Use of second- and third-line antibiotics and fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) of antibiotics increased over a 10-year period at two Indian hospitals, a team of Swedish researchers reported yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.
