CIDRAP newsletters options
The global total climbs to 8,410,682 cases and 450,835 deaths.
Black respondents were 3.5 percentage points more likely than whites to report COVID-19 infection.
Cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spike in at least 10 US states.
Some isolates of the novel strain are resistant to both penicillin and ciprofloxacin, officials say.
A genomic analysis of hundreds of European patients who had severe cases of COVID-19 pointed to two gene clusters—one of them related to blood type—that seemed to be associated with severe disease, according to a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In the face of the increasing spread of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in the United States, tick surveillance and control efforts across the country are inconsistent and hampered by lack of infrastructure and financial support, according to a new survey of professionals in the field.
Also, blacks in Atlanta have a much higher hospitalization rate than whites.
The prevalence of antibiotic prescribing in primary care was 52%—and 30% is recommended.
"We need more therapeutics that can be used to tackle the virus."
Ten (28%) of 35 infected patients died, of whom 2 were asymptomatic.
In a study with implications for COVID-19 transmission, mild coughing can expel small saliva droplets through and around a face mask and travel as far as 1 meter (3.3 feet), according to a study published yesterday in Physics of Fluids.
A change in the wording of antibiotic duration orders for neonatal sepsis led to a substantial decrease in the number of infants who received extra unnecessary antibiotic orders, pharmacists at a hospital in British Columbia reported today in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Of the total, 3.8 million COVID-19 cases have been reported in the Americas, where the pandemic is accelerating.
Also, NIAID Director Fauci says speeding a vaccine through trials is not compromising safety.
Underlying conditions place 22% of people at increased risk for severe COVID-19 and 4% at high risk.
Unpublished data from a large randomized controlled trial in the United Kingdom indicate that dexamethasone, a cheap, widely available steroid, reduces deaths in hospitalized COVID-19 patients requiring respiratory support.
The agency says the drugs "are unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19 for the authorized uses."
For the past 2 weeks, more than 100,000 new global cases have been reported almost every day.
Data on passengers on the Diamond Princess reflect differences between symptomatic and symptomatic cases.
"What I'm afraid I see happening is people are kind of over it. This is old news; we're going to move on."
