A large body of data shows the high-dose vaccine yields greater protection than standard-dose vaccines.
A large study of childcare providers in Pediatrics today found that childcare staff were not at higher risk for COVID-19 during the early months of the US pandemic.
Daily infectious disease (ID) consultation in an Italian hospital was associated with reduced antibiotic consumption compared with weekly ID consultation, Italian researchers reported late last week in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Any flu vaccine delays have been largely due to the rate of delivery, not the supply.
"The message is be prepared for a bad flu season on top of a bad COVID season," says Edward Belongia, MD.
In one of the first large-scale studies of COVID-19 transmission in US childcare programs, no association was found between day care exposure and COVID-19 transmission risk for providers.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding up to $2.5 million to GangaGen Biotechnologies of Bangalore, India, to develop novel antibacterial proteins to treat hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Providers can do more to encourage vaccines, the CDC says.
Cases in school-aged kids rose in September, with infections in teens twice as common and racial disparities that mirror adult trends.
World Health Organization (WHO) flu vaccine advisors recently met to recommend the strains to include in vaccines for the Southern Hemisphere's 2021 season, which—when compared with the Northern Hemisphere upcoming-season version—swaps out the 2009 H1N1 strain.