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News Scan for Jul 16, 2021

Half of hospitalized COVID patients developed complications, study finds

Half of patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 across 302 UK hospitals developed one or more health complications within 28 days or discharge, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet.

  • Complications during COVID hospitalization
  • Texas monkeypox case
  • MDRO reduction in nursing homes
  • Salad Salmonella outbreak
  • Polio in 3 countries

News Scan for Jul 09, 2021

Vaccination linked to COVID-19 decline in healthcare workers

In Orange County, California, COVID-19 vaccination in healthcare personnel (HCP) was connected with a 94% reduction in HCP cases 3 weeks after second doses of mRNA-based vaccines were administered, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter yesterday.

  • COVID vaccination in health workers
  • COVID-19 vaccine minority outreach
  • Vaccine-derived polio in 3 nations

News Scan for Jul 02, 2021

Pain associated with worse COVID-19 in sickle cell disease

A history of pain in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients—the disease's most common complication—is associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes in children and adults, according to a Blood Advances study yesterday. SCD-related organ comorbidities were also related to worse COVID-19 outcomes in children.

  • COVID-19 in sickle cell disease
  • COVID risk for emergency responders
  • Cyclospora prevention
  • Polio in Nigeria
  • Maine Powassan virus case

News Scan for Jun 25, 2021

Study: First COVID-19 case likely occurred in November 2019

A modeling study yesterday suggests that the first human case of COVID-19 likely occurred in or around November 2019 in China, with the most likely date of origin being Nov 17. The study was published in PLOS Pathogens.

  • Estimating the first COVID-19 case
  • ACIP on dengue, flu vaccines
  • Backyard poultry Salmonella
  • New UK monkeypox case
  • Polio in 4 countries

News Scan for Jun 18, 2021

CDC looking into TB outbreak in spinal surgery patients

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that it's investigating a cluster of tuberculosis (TB) infections in patients who've recently undergone spinal surgery that used a single lot of a bone repair product.

  • TB outbreak tied to spinal surgery
  • Excess deaths in Switzerland
  • COVID-19 convalescent plasma in cancer patients
  • Polio in 7 countries
  • Low global flu rates

News Scan for Jun 15, 2021

H1N1v flu infects German teen who had swine exposure

Germany recently reported a human variant H1N1 (H1N1v) case involving a 17-year-old boy who works on a pig farm, according to a recent weekly communicable disease update from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

  • H1N1v flu in Germany
  • Polio vaccine workers attacked

News Scan for Jun 14, 2021

Afghanistan launches 3-day polio vaccination campaign

Today officials from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan launched a 3-day polio vaccination campaign targeting 9.9 million children younger than 5 years, the third national campaign this year.

  • Afghan polio campaign
  • Ethiopia cholera vaccination
  • RSV rise in US South

News Scan for Jun 11, 2021

CDC-led study finds major racial disparities in MIS-C incidence

A surveillance study of US children during the first wave of the pandemic found that multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) was a rare complication associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, but incidence was significantly higher in non-White racial and ethnic groups, US researchers reported yesterday in JAMA Network Open.

  • MIS-C disparities in US kids
  • Muscle inflammation on COVID autopsy
  • UK monkeypox cases
  • More H10N3 avian flu case details
  • New polio effort, cases

News Scan for Jun 04, 2021

Bamlanivimab reduces risk of COVID-19 in nursing homes, study finds

Preventive use of bamlanivimab lowered the risk of symptomatic COVID-19 in staff and residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in the United States, according to a study yesterday in JAMA.

  • Bamlanivimab for COVID-19
  • Iowa H1N1v flu case
  • Polio in 3 countries

News Scan for May 28, 2021

GARDP urges nations to strengthen response to drug resistance

The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), on behalf of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, issued a statement this week that called on World Health Organization (WHO) member states to strengthen their responses to antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

  • Global AMR response
  • CWD in Pennsylvania
  • H1N2v flu case in Ohio
  • Polio in 6 countries

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