Data from the WHO show that 81% of patients with severe COVID-19 received antibiotics, while an NIH study finds a 32% increase in resistant, hospital-acquired infections.
Study suggests medical masks may offer similar protecion as N95 respirators, but experts say hold on.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
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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.
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.
All regions saw decreases in adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions, but especially the Midwest.
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.
As the pandemic has made hand sanitizer ubiquitous, perhaps it was inevitable that clinicians would report sanitizer-related eye injuries in children.
Twelve health departments said less than 32% of contacts were notified within 24 hours.
The ECDC raises the risk of spread of new variants to very high as the UK struggles with the B117 strain.
Biden says states will be reimbursed by FEMA if they use the National Guard for pandemic response.
Bamlanivimab paired with etesevimab was more effective than bamlanivimab alone.