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As the US COVID surge continues, Anthony Fauci, MD, says, "The end game is vaccination."
The antibody cocktail reduced the risk of COVID-19 by 66% to 81%.
About 500,000 cases are being added to the global total each day, and the Delta variant is now in 135 countries.
A study involving simulated patients found that dispensing antibiotics without a prescription is common in Indonesian drug stores and pharmacies, despite regulations against it, researchers reported this week in BMJ Global Health.
Myocarditis and pericarditis both saw increased prevalence in COVID-19 vaccine recipients compared with a pre-vaccine period of January 2019 to January 2021, with the incidence still rare but higher than in previous studies, according to a JAMA research letter yesterday.
The global total nears 200 million cases, led by surges in Asia and the Middle East.
UK data show less than 1 in 20 kids with COVID-19 have symptoms that persist for longer than 4 weeks.
Tyson Foods and Microsoft announce that all employees will need to show proof of vaccination.
Discontinuing antibiotics for uncomplicated respiratory tract infections (RTIs) when a physician has determined that antibiotics aren't needed is a safe strategy for reducing unnecessary antibiotic use, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial published yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
COVID-19 patients who had received the flu vaccine 6 months to 2 weeks prior to diagnosis were less likely to have sepsis, stroke, and—with some time constraints—deep vein thrombosis (DVTs) and admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) or emergency department (ED), according to a study yesterday in PLOS One.
The milestone comes as the US continues to battle surging cases and hospitalizations.
While any text message helped, language encouraging ownership was most effective.
Wuhan is reporting its first local cases since May of 2020, as multiple cities track new infection clusters.
A single-center study of terminal cancer patients found a high rate of antibiotic use within the last 30 days of life, with significantly lower use among those who asked for limited antimicrobial treatment, researchers reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
A new study based on data from Hong Kong shows a rising incidence of myopia, or short-sightedness, in children during the COVID-19 pandemic, possibly linked to increasing time spent indoors and on screens. The study was published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
The mechanisms behind the strong link the researchers found could be from many factors, from impaired cardiac or respiratory function to impaired immune response.
The nation's cases are concentrated in area where vaccine uptake is low, with Florida and Texas making up one in three US cases in the past week.
Meanwhile, Indonesia says it is past its peak, though test positivity remains high, as is the threat to more rural areas.
Saudi Arabia reported a second MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case from Riyadh in the month of July, and, like the first case, involving a man who had contact with camels, according to notification from the country's ministry of health (MOH).
The patient is age 65, is not a health worker, and isn't thought to have contracted the virus from another sick person.
Researchers found that different age-groups had different associations with various COVID-19 symptoms, according to a Lancet Digital Health study late last week. The study was evaluating an artificial intelligence (AI) model for early COVID-19 detection (1 to 3 days of symptom onset).
