The 10-year plan starts today and gives recommendations for a range of scientific disciplines to better address seasonal flu and prepare for the next flu pandemic.
The latest report looks at COVID-19 relief fund allocation, stockpiles, supply chains, and more.
Recommendations include bolstering worker well-being, reassessing priorities, and admitting when data are lacking.
More than two thirds of antibiotics prescribed for respiratory tract infections at primary care practices within an academic health system were inappropriate, with unnecessary prescribing strongly linked to respiratory infections that almost never require antibiotics, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The treaty's goal would be to shore up commitment in the battle against infectious disease outbreaks.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a new MERS-CoV case, which involves a 36-year-old man who died from his infection.
The man was from Hafr Al-Batin in the country's northeast. An investigation found that the man had been exposed to camels. He wasn't a healthcare worker and isn't thought to have contracted MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) from another person.
Hospitals were under serious strain during the 2017-18 flu season, yet no pandemic planning resulted.
Historian John Barry shares what's the same, what's different, and talks about good COVID-19 leadership.
Companies need to get study labor laws, take steps to ensure employee health, analyze supply chains, and more.
Health advocacy group says states are more prepared to handle a public health threat this year than last year.
