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Investigators finding high risk for cardiovascular complications post-acute COVID-19 urge increased monitoring and preparedness.

Final analysis of phase 3, placebo-controlled trial confirms efficacy and safety of single-dose adenoviral vector vaccine against COVID-19.

“People don’t recognize that at least 1 in 5 of the deaths from opioids may result from endocarditis,” said National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Dr. Nora Volkow, adding that endocarditis is “100% preventable.”

A new report based on samples from Texas and Kenya found significant proportions of samples from patients with CDI had nonsusceptible isolates.

Black Americans were more likely than White Americans to have a significant decrease in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy over time.

Associations between social determinants of health (SDOH) and COVID-19 mortality varied across racial and ethnic groups and community types.

The company’s investigational PF-06425090 vaccine did show benefits including decreased median infection period and no hospitalizations in the vaccinated cohort.

This week, one of the m-RNA COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness was shown to drop from 68% to 12% in children 5-11 years old within a month. This data raises concerns of what should be done to protect this pediatric population.

One study found people were more likely to take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously when they saw the overall number of infections, as opposed to being presented with only new daily cases.

Few patients hospitalized for COVID-19 developed concurrent infectious diseases or required antibiotics.

Minnesota hospitals established to care exclusively for COVID-19 patients saw lower rates of mortality than general hospitals.

A single-dose injection of nirsevimab before RSV season was proven to reduce infants’ risk of lower respiratory tract infection by 74.5%.

This findings present an opportunity for countries to critically review testing approaches to develop specific targeted HIV testing.

For the first time, a research team mapped C difficile’s outer “S-layer,” finding the dangerous bacteria’s chainmail-like shell enables it to be highly resistant.

“COVID-19 need no longer control our lives,” President Biden said, detailing a plan to immediately provide free antiviral pills to anyone who tests positive.

In the latest column from SIDP, handshake stewardship prioritizes face-to-face communication between frontline providers to enable feedback to assess the appropriateness of prescribed antimicrobials.

The Affordable Care Act can remove financial barriers and increase access to PrEP, the study authors said.

A major genetic risk factor for COVID-19, inherited from Neandertals, significantly reduces the risk of contracting HIV.

Due to decreased efficacy against the Omicron variant, the FDA is now recommending approved populations receive a higher dose of Evusheld (tixagevimab and cilgavimab) for COVID-19 prevention.

The federal agency cited chemistry manufacturing and controls issues with vials.

New research points to vaccine effectiveness against infection dropping from 68% to 12% in this pediatric population within a month.

This flu season, the CDC reported at least 2.4 million flu illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, and 1,400 deaths from flu so far.

A pair of studies released last weekend found the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by at least 2 zoonotic transmission events at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China.

A rare case of Pott puffy tumor occurs in an atypical patient with no risk factors, likely due to untreated sinus infection.

Although it is possible, a small Danish study showed the majority of these cases were often mild and in unvaccinated individuals.

The waning of protection after full vaccination matters more than the advent of the more transmissible Delta variant in subjects who tested positive for COVID-19.

This is broken down into counties that are either high, medium, or low level categories. Many areas of the US are able to go without masks.

Among fully vaccinated people, being older than 60 years and having kidney failure were the only consistent predictors of severe COVID-19 disease and death.