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Nearly two thirds of COVID-19 patients without bacterial or fungal co-infections in Michigan hospitals received antibiotics during the first wave of the pandemic, University of Michigan researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
All but 5 states have seen a rise in COVID hospitalizations due largely to unvaccinated patients, with Nevada, Arkansas, and Missouri hit especially hard.
Black men saw a 91% drop in prostatectomies; rates for White men dropped 17%.
In other developments, cases surge in Asia's hot spots, and infections continue to climb sharply in Europe.
In the wake of media reports from India that said the country has detected its first human avian flu case, the health ministry today confirmed that H5 was found in a child who had underlying health conditions and died on Jul 12. The ministry report in Hindi was translated and posted by Avian Flu Diary (AFD), an infectious disease news blog.
Patients with a history of COVID-19 were more likely to have side effects after their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine than those who were never infected, according to a Vaccine study yesterday.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 22
Multiple groups call for addressing major global vaccine inequality issues.
Also, ACIP continues to recommend the J&J COVID vaccine despite concerns over Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Two doses of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine were 80% effective against the Delta COVID-19 variant.
Children and teens spread COVID-19 to household adults after returning home from a sleep-away camp in June 2020, according to correspondence published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday.
Antibiotic-resistant blood infection in pediatric pneumonia patients was tied to a 17-fold mortality risk.
About 1 million have been orphaned, and 1.1 million lost a primary caregiver.
Nations seeing large jumps in cases include Botswana, Vietnam, the US, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the UK.
Hispanics saw the largest drop in life expectancy—3 years.
A study yesterday in the Journal of School Health finds that while 39 elementary and high school students in a Virginia public school district rode school buses while infected with SARS-CoV-2, investigators found no evidence of viral transmission to other students or adults.
The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and the country's Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Network have published a new One Health–focused report that proposes improvements to a pan-Canadian AMR governance structure and optimal models for responding to AMR.
Also, a new report says COVID-19 activity has driven India's excess deaths to 4 million.
Prescriptions for kids dropped 27.1% last year during COVID, with antibiotic prescriptions declining at twice that rate.
The rate is up from 50% for the week of Jul 3, and in some parts of the country the percentage is even higher.
