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Antibodies from both recovered and vaccinated people neutralized the UK variant better than the South African one.
Also, Brazilian researchers warned of a link between the P1 variant and higher death rates in younger adults.
"We can win this by hanging in there a bit longer," medical adviser Anthony Fauci says.
Adults 20 to 49 years old may be sustaining the resurgence of COVID-19, according to a study published late last week in Science.
The results of a randomized clinical trial conducted in France indicate that 3 days of beta-lactam therapy is non-inferior to 8 days of treatment in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia who meet clinical stability criteria after 3 days, French investigators reported last week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Also, the CDC notes higher anxiety and depression in young adults during the pandemic.
The lawsuit involves the EPA's decision to allow widespread use of a medically important antibiotic to prevent and treat citrus diseases.
Antibody response was akin to that in non-pregnant women, with a similar safety profile.
The WHO issues an urgent request for countries to donate 10 million vaccine doses in a final push to get inital vaccine to all countries.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Interviews with clinicians at hospitals in three low- and middle-income countries highlight some of the barriers to appropriate antibiotic prescribing in these settings, according to a study published yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.
Researchers reporting on two non-peer–reviewed studies published this week on the preprint server medRxiv followed up months after adults' COVID-19 hospitalization and found that 55% to 71% have not fully recovered. Middle age and female sex were associated with a higher likelihood of worse recovery in both studies.
Today is Biden’s 65th day in office; his 100th will be on Apr 30.
Patients given the antiviral drug improved in 5 days, compared with 7 days in the control group.
Brazil's deaths crossed the 300,000 mark, the only country besides the United States to pass that number.
Experts say aerosols, the B117 variant, classroom density, and lunchtime all play a role.
Since the introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in 2006, rates of HPV infections among females fell 88% in teens 14 to 19 years and by 81% in those aged 20 to 24 by 2018, according to a study today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infects cells in the mouth, according to a study published today in Nature Medicine. This could change perceptions on how the virus travels to the lungs or the digestive system as well as how it is transmitted from person to person, the researchers write.
Until COVID, TB was the world's top infectious cause of death, and the pandemic threatens to derail efforts to curtail it.
The rise is led by cases in the Americas and Europe, with deaths leveling off after a 6-week drop.
