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While 10.1% of first responders and public service personnel in New York City reported positive COVID test results, 22.5% had COVID-19–specific antibodies in their blood, with even higher rates in prison staff and emergency medical technicians (EMTs), according to an Emerging Infectious Diseases study yesterday.
A Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreak in Kenya that began in the middle of November has led to 21 infections, 9 of them fatal, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said yesterday in its weekly outbreaks and health emergencies report.
All regions saw decreases in adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions, but especially the Midwest.
Also, Moderna says its vaccine likely protects against B117 and B1351 variants.
New reports touch on the pandemic's economic toll and on the benefits vaccine equity could have.
An intensive COVID-19 prevention and surveillance system that the National Football League (NFL) put in place this season identified certain types of risky in-club transmission, which helped officials revise its high-risk contact definition and improve its protocols.
Antibiotics were widely prescribed to hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Dijon University Hospital in France during the first wave of the pandemic but did not have any impact on outcome, French researchers reported yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Twelve health departments said less than 32% of contacts were notified within 24 hours.
A new UK study says the B117 variant might be more deadly than older strains.
Anthony Fauci, MD, however, says he's concerned about new variant viruses.
Five barriers to better antibiotic decision-making at hospital discharge emerged after John Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers interviewed healthcare workers and discharged patients.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
As the pandemic has made hand sanitizer ubiquitous, perhaps it was inevitable that clinicians would report sanitizer-related eye injuries in children.
Fixed-dose combinations account for 22.5% of total antibiotic consumption in 75 countries.
The ECDC raises the risk of spread of new variants to very high as the UK struggles with the B117 strain.
Bamlanivimab paired with etesevimab was more effective than bamlanivimab alone.
Biden says states will be reimbursed by FEMA if they use the National Guard for pandemic response.
New data published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) show routine vaccine uptake among kindergarteners across the United States during the 2019-20 school year was high, approximately 95%—but the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring that number down.
Six of 11 deceased patients—all but one of whom had COVID-19—had SARS-CoV-2 RNA in their corneas, but live virus was not detected, according to a study published today in JAMA Ophthalmology.
The WHO says further investigation is under way into two new variants recently detected in Brazil.
