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US outcomes were poorer early in the pandemic, even in counties with low death rates.
While the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hoped that 50% of firearm hunters in the state's five chronic wasting disease (CWD) management zones would submit deer for voluntary testing, opening weekend saw well below 30% participation, according to a story last week in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
A 3-month follow-up study of 142 COVID-19 survivors in China showed that 85.9% of patients had abnormalities on computed tomography (CT) chest scans and 52 (36.6%) had chronic and fibrotic changes.
The first 20 million vaccine doses could be available in December, officials say.
The drug, which has antiviral properties in animals, shows promise in a small randomized controlled trial.
The practice was tied to increased macrolide resistance and increased resistance to other classes.
An antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) intervention led by ambulatory care pharmacists was associated with improvements in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing in a family medicine residency clinic, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
In a preliminary study conducted on 152 patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections, no patient in a group of 80 people who took a 15-day course of fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, reported clinical deterioration, as opposed to 6 (8.3%) of 72 who took a placebo.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The findings suggest the need to develop safer measures in similar settings involving young adults, such as for schools and camps.
Hospitalizations rose in all but 4 states this week, with the steepest increases in the Midwest, and deaths jumped by nearly 23%.
Of 176 patients, 32 (18%) tested positive via RT-PCR, but only 1 had infectious virus.
Also, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing another $70 million to a WHO vaccine initiative.
A meta-analysis of 50 studies and 18,728,893 US and UK patients with COVID-19 found that black people were 2.02 times more likely and Asians 1.50 times more likely to be infected with COVID-19 compared with white people. The researchers also found that Hispanic people had a 1.77 adjusted risk ratio (RR), but none of the applicable studies had been peer reviewed.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that worldwide measles deaths climbed 50% from 2016 to 2019, to an estimated 207,500 fatalities in 2019 alone, and cases that year rose to 869,770—the highest total in 23 years.
Also, Iran's third surge hits record levels and Sweden orders some restrictions.
About 52% of 128 COVID patients reported fatigue 10 weeks later, regardless of disease seriousness.
Forty-seven states are seeing uncontrolled spread and 2 are trending poorly, leading several governors to impose new restrictions.
Separate reports detail shortages of rheumatoid disease treatments and of drugs in France.
A PLOS One study yesterday showed that behavioral responses to the pandemic differ by age and change over time, with older people more likely to practice pandemic-mitigating behaviors—hygiene, quarantining, and physical distancing—and all age-groups demonstrating greater likelihood of engaging in risky behavior over time.
