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The head of the WHO warns that rising cases are creating a volatile situation.
Excess deaths from external causes were highest in Native people and Black Americans.
The leading hypothesis suggests adenovirus as a cause, but COVID-19 could be a factor.
A study of three hospitals in New York City found that antimicrobial use in COVID-19 patients during the first year of the pandemic far exceeded the incidence of coinfections, researchers reported today in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology.
An observational study using a multinational database of 447 maternal COVID-19 deaths in Latin America reveals that over 90% were attributed to acute respiratory failure after severe infection and that 35% of the women who died were never admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), possibly due to lack of capacity.
In China, officials in Shanghai are tightening restrictions again in 4 districts where they had recently loosened them.
Also, the WHO provides updates on avian flu cases in a Colorado man and in a preschooler in China.
The proportion of overweight or obese low-income kids in Ohio climbed from 38% to 45%.
In a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, researchers showed canine olfaction—or dog sniffing—was both highly sensitive and specific when it came to identifying patients with COVID-19, even those who were asymptomatic or presymptomatic.
A coalition of 70 organizations in Australia is joining forces to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the food and agribusiness industries.
Shanghai says its outbreak is under control, but Beijing tightens measures in a hot spot district.
UK officials, meanwhile, tally more cases and add previous COVID-19 as a possible cause.
Budget documents indicate the Biden administration could run out of COVID vaccines by Sep 1.
One study finds 3-dose protection against severe BA.1 and BA.2 disease remaining above 80%.
The alliance aims to boost transparency, communication, quality, redundancy, and production.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued a report highlighting the threat of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and the role that infection prevention and control (IPC) programs can play in reducing that threat.
Over 40% of 79 stool samples from COVID-19 patients admitted to one of four hospitals in Spain contained SARS-CoV-2 RNA but no live virus, suggesting a negligible ability to replicate in this medium and a very low likelihood of fecal-oral viral transmission, finds a study published yesterday in Scientific Reports.
Data suggest the real COVID-19 number is nearly 3 times higher than officially reported.
Neither vaccine requires extreme cold chain storage, which makes them appealing for low-resource areas.
