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The FDA authorizes an emergency use authorization for the first point-of-care rapid test.
As supplies of equipment dwindle, healthcare workers are likely at increased risk.
Italy today reported a staggering 6,000 new cases, and confirmed global deaths have topped 10,000.
The phenotypic tests measure nucleic acid in bacteria after exposure to antibiotics.
Governors in New, California, and Illinois announced new restrictions.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Mar 19
A study today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology reports a high prevalence of antibiotic allergy labels (AALs) in Australian nursing homes.
There was a sharp uptick last week in US clinic visits for influenza-like illness (ILI), according to the latest FluView report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but CDC officials say that could reflect more people seeking care for respiratory illness as COVID-19 spreads across the country.
Spain, like Italy, has plans to support its overwhelmed health system with medical students and other surge staff.
President Trump is pushing the FDA to remove barriers to using an antimalarial drug.
While kids are less likely than adults to be infected and have severe illness, they are still vulnerable.
Raking or blowing fall leaves on a lawn's border with a wooded area can create the ideal habitat for blacklegged ticks to thrive and spread disease the next spring, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
The WHO announces a large international clinical trial to test 5 treatments.
Modeling predicts "a terrible dilemma of very long-term social distancing, or overloading healthcare systems, or both."
Trump announced that the USNS Mercy and Comfort Navy hospital ships, hospitals at sea, will be deployed to New York and the West Coast.
Vaccine effectiveness was 80.2% in the first 11 months and 73.3% in the first 17 months.
Fully 80% of US deaths so far have been in those 65 years and older.
A computerized clinical support tool implemented at an academic medical center helped reduce rates of Clostridioides difficile testing without an associated increase in adverse events in patients whose tests were prevented, researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine reported today in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Italy reports 3,526 new infections, boosting its total past 30,000.
The number of US COVID-19 cases tops 5,000.
