CIDRAP newsletters options
Also, India is reporting an increase in potentially deadly fungal lung infections.
Mild COVID-19 infection was not linked to longer-term heart damage, according to a JACC Cardiovascular Imaging study late last week.
Use of infectious diseases (ID) telemedicine for management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) at 10 US hospitals resulted in similar outcomes compared with on-site consultation, researchers reported today in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
While states are becoming optimistic, experts continue to advocate for aerosol-related mitigations.
Israeli data show 92% effectiveness against asymptomatic COVID and 97% against symptomatic.
Also, India reports another daily record for deaths—4,197—along with 401,271 new cases.
Direct COVID-19 deaths may be more than double previous estimates, according to a report yesterday by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
Data from a cohort of US acute care hospitals (ACHs) reveal an association between total and broad-spectrum antibiotic use and hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Researchers estimate Canada's potential demand for tocilizumab, a potential COVID-19 drug.
The vaccines show either effectiveness or a strong immune response against variants of concern.
Also, mixed reactions swirled on the proposed IP vaccine waiver, and more Asian nations took steps to battle COVID-19.
Modeling from the CDC predicts the US will see a sharp drop in infections and deaths in the coming weeks.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a new MERS-CoV case, which involves a 36-year-old man who died from his infection.
The man was from Hafr Al-Batin in the country's northeast. An investigation found that the man had been exposed to camels. He wasn't a healthcare worker and isn't thought to have contracted MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) from another person.
The AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is associated with some increases in bleeding and clotting events, according to a BMJ study yesterday, but experts say the benefits outweigh the risks.
When polled a year ago, both groups markedly lowballed the pandemic's impact.
"The extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures."
Vaccines are just one of many COVID-disrupted services, a recent survey notes.
Nepal is recording 57 times more cases than at this time last month.
To mark World Hand Hygiene Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) today called for countries to reduce inequalities in the availability of good hand hygiene and other infection prevention and control (IPC) measures.
