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As ACIP deliberates, other data still show racial gaps among vaccination rates.
Effectiveness remained high despite underlying health conditions, frontline status.
Despite the major new pledge from the US, the world needs 2 billion doses to meet global vaccination goals.
A nationwide cohort study in Sweden found a twofold increased risk of acute liver injuries (ALIs) associated with oral fluoroquinolones in the first 2 months after starting treatment, researchers reported this week in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Overall SARS-CoV-2 attack rates in airplane flights under 4 hours were less than 1%, according to a study of 177 flights departing from Wuhan, China, in January 2020. The results, published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases, also indicated that people in the same row as an index case had the highest risk of infection.
Though kids' COVID cases aren't usually severe, cases are rising expotentially, and experts say data are ugently needed to gauge long-term effects of illness.
J&J released non–peer-reviewed data for boosters after 2 months, 6 months.
Opening remarks at the UN today come ahead of tomorrow's US-led online global summit to rally more support for the response.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday sent a Health Alert Network notice to health providers warning that cases of measles and mumps have been detected in people recently evacuated from Afghanistan.
A study of preterm newborns in Canada found high rates of antimicrobial use in the first 7 days after birth, researchers reported last week in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The development comes as welcome news, given India's importance as a global vaccine supplier, especially to COVAX.
The trial used a smaller Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine dose than the version used for older childen and adults.
Follow-up tests of blood samples found reactions to the PEG component, findings that could be used to guide possible reformulation, the authors said.
A rapidly growing Salmonella Oranienburg outbreak linked to an unknown food source has sickened 127 people, some of them part of restaurant clusters, from 25 states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Sep 17 announcement.
Experts approve a third dose for emergency use, and only for the most vulnerable.
Vaccine uptake among certified nursing assistants, who provide most direct care, is only 49%.
XDR Campylobacter cases might stem from improper antibiotic use in the commercial dog industry.
All FDA-approved vaccines, however, offer substantial protection against hospitalization.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Since March 2020, children's body mass index (BMI) has increased at almost double its prepandemic rate, according to a study today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
