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News Scan for Jul 24, 2020

… to pneumonic plague. The WHO raised concerns that COVID-19 activity, scarce resources, and insecurity in Ituri … a 4-month pause on all vaccination activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Noting that vaccination will be done with …

Thailand finds Wuhan novel coronavirus in traveler from China

… symptoms and may go home soon. Infectious disease topics COVID-19 MERS-CoV SARS Body The first novel coronavirus …
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Influenza, General

… the US population becoming completely immobile for 1 day. COVID-19, flu an especially dangerous pair Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News   Adult COVID-19 patients also infected with the flu are 4 times more …

ASP Scan (Weekly) for Mar 12, 2021

… Grants for phage research Nursing home prescribing during COVID Antibiotics in the pipeline Antibiotic order sets in … release   Higher nursing home use of certain antibiotics, COVID therapies noted Originally published by CIDRAP News Mar … of residents were prescribed drugs being evaluated for COVID-19 treatment, according to a study yesterday in  …

News Scan for Aug 26, 2020

… countries. Outbreak responders are grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic and scarce resources for battling Ebola. … including Ebola, cholera, vaccine-derived polio, and COVID-19. The measles response involved mass vaccination …

Flu Scan for Dec 08, 2021

… under-vaccination and vaccine hesitancy are not limited to COVID-19," said Sinmileoluwa Okegbile, a PharmD candidate at … be interpreted with caution, due to potential impacts from COVID-19 measures and surveillance. Dec 6 WHO global flu …

Emerging flu virus in Chinese pigs has pandemic potential, researchers say

… on the study—published in the midst of an accelerating COVID-19 pandemic—say the situation warrants close …
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Pigs on farm

Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Aug 04, 2022

… Guideline-concordant UTI prescribing Body After early COVID peak, telehealth antibiotic prescribing for kids … following a peak during the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported today in Pediatrics . …

ASP Scan (Weekly) for Oct 21, 2022

… New funding for GARDP Drug resistance in US hospitals amid COVID One Health plan to address AMR Body Microbiome drug for … Antimicrobial resistance rates rose in US hospitals during COVID-19 Originally published by CIDRAP News Oct 17 A new analysis of data on US hospital patients during the COVID-19 pandemic finds that patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 …

Data suggest nCoV more infectious than 1918 flu, but what does that mean?

… each patient might infect. Infectious disease topics COVID-19 Body Research published late yesterday in The New …
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WHO sees no sign of nCoV peak in China as cases rise overseas

… ship quarantined in Japan. Infectious disease topics COVID-19 Body China today reported nearly 3,700 new novel …
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Diamond Princess

WHO decision on nCoV emergency delayed as cases spike

… of international concern. Infectious disease topics COVID-19 Body In a split decision today, a World Health …
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Doubts rise about China's ability to contain new coronavirus

… which has topped 1,400 cases. Infectious disease topics COVID-19 Body An updated analysis today casts doubt on …
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Women wearing masks in Beijing

Questions still swirl over China's unexplained pneumonia outbreak

… does not call for travel limits. Infectious disease topics COVID-19 Pneumonia SARS Body Investigations are still under …
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Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Oct 12, 2022

… (CPE) in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, by researchers with the Pan … wards and ICUs, where a high number of patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized during the first pandemic wave," …

Study shows low antibody response to monkeypox vaccine

… of infectious outbreaks," the authors concluded. "The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the challenges of viral … has now dropped for eight weeks in a row, but as with COVID-19, risks and uncertainties remain, and some countries …
Preparing man's arm for vaccination

Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Jan 11, 2021

… success rate for oral antibiotics be considered during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to free up hospital resources at a time of bed capacity shortages and to reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure for patients with uncomplicated …

News Scan for Oct 26, 2021

… however, that a steep increase in flu in the current COVID-19 pandemic setting could have serious consequences for … that nonpharmaceutical interventions that worked against COVID-19 are also effective against flu. Penttinen also urged …

News Scan for Nov 25, 2020

… levels than expected for this time of year, likely due to COVID-19 impacts, though some countries in temperate parts of … polio, measles, monkeypox, Lassa fever, cholera, and COVID-19. Currently, the yellow fever risk is high within …

Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Jul 15, 2022

… HIV, tuberculosis, and cancer has been introduced, and the COVID-19 pandemic has led to expedited assessments of clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments. Likewise, officials in Brazil have …

Vaccine remains in short supply as US monkeypox cases grow

… for testing is too late, and, in an eerie recall of the COVID-19 pandemic, a slow rollout of testing will help the …
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Specimen tube for monkeypox test

ASP Scan (Weekly) for Jun 12, 2020

… AMR Antibiotics for kids' pneumonia Early antibiotics for COVID-19 patients Azithromycin-resistant strep in Burkina … Infect Dis Soc   abstract   Early antibiotics for COVID-19 found to have no impact on death, infections … published by CIDRAP News Jun 10 A small study of COVID-19 patients treated at a community hospital in southern …

ASP Scan (Weekly) for Apr 16, 2021

… antibiotic development Antibiotic decline in Canada during COVID Partnership to reduce AMR in food animals … in British Columbia during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study today in  Open Forum … experienced a significant level change of -12.79 after COVID-19 restrictions were put into place in March 2020, with …

ASP Scan (Weekly) for Feb 04, 2022

… antibiotic prescribing for children, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The before-and-after study looked at … 2019 (baseline, P1), Nov 11, 2019, to Mar 20, 2020 (pre–COVID-19 pandemic, P2), and Mar 21, 2020, to Nov 10, 2020 … antibiotic use were observed in the pre–COVID-19 intervention period (P2) and were sustained during …

Philippines has first nCoV death outside of China as cases top 14,000

… pneumoniae , and flu B has died. Infectious disease topics COVID-19 Body The Philippines reported the first novel …
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