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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
Modeling from the CDC predicts the US will see a sharp drop in infections and deaths in the coming weeks.
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.
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.
"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.
When polled a year ago, both groups markedly lowballed the pandemic's impact.
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.
Less than 0.1% of all COVID-positive patients in the Intermountain Healthcare system had probable or possible recurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to a PLOS One study yesterday.
The researchers accounted for potential confounding factors like crowded living conditions and poverty measures.
Also, Pfizer expect its mRNA vaccine to be approved soon for emergency use in children ages 12 to 15.
More states announce lockdowns as the country's daily cases top 300,000 for 2 weeks straight.
A bipartisan group of congressional representatives called on House appropriators last week to increase funding for the federal response to antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
In 2020, in-hospital mortality dropped from 19.1% in March and April to 10.8% in September through November in COVID-19 patients in the United States, according to a study yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
