Summary What is already known about this topic? The 2022 monkeypox outbreak is associated with sexual and intimate contact. Survey data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), who have been disproportionately affected, are reducing one-time partnerships. What is added by this report? Modeling […]
Pharmacists can now prescribe nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) with certain limitations under a revised Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the COVID-19 antiviral treatment. The pills must be taken within 5 days of symptom onset, so enabling patients to obtain a prescription from pharmacists could expand access to timely treatment, Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD, director of […]
By testing for both SARS-CoV-2 spike and nucleocapsid antibodies, seroprevalence studies can estimate the proportion of a population with antibodies from previous infection (nucleocapsid antibody or infection-induced seroprevalence) and from infection or vaccination (spike antibody or combined infection- and vaccine-induced seroprevalence). US seroprevalence from July 2020 to May 2021 based […]
Black and Hispanic patients were respectively 29% and 23% less likely than white patients to have their treatment eligibility recognized by pulse oximetry A retrospective analysis of more than 7,000 patients with COVID-19 found that pulse oximeter devices—tools that measure oxygen levels in the blood and that are used in […]
The U.S. lost progress combating antimicrobial resistance in 2020 due, in large part, to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC COVID-19: U.S. Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance, Special Report 2022 [PDF – 44 pages], concluded that the threat of antimicrobial-resistant infections is not only still present but has gotten worse. […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state government will manufacture its own low-cost insulin to make the drug more affordable for residents. On Thursday, he said he had just signed a state budget that includes $50 million for development of the insulin and another $50 million for a place to make it. […]
Las farmacéuticas Pfizer y BioNTech han anunciado los resultados de una vacuna monovalente y otra bivalente administrada después de una serie primaria y una primera dosis de recuerdo frente a la variante ómicron BA.1. La primera vacuna generó un aumento de los títulos de anticuerpos neutralizantes de 13.5 y 19.6 veces a […]
En la revista Nature Biotechnology, científicos del Instituto de Salud Carlos III junto a otros del Hospital Mount Sinai de Nueva York y a la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Duke en Singapur, han llevado a cabo un estudio en el que han desarrollado un test que puede medir […]
The coronavirus death rate for white Americans has surpassed the rates for Black, Latino, and Asian Americans, according to a new report from The New York Times. Early in the pandemic, the virus had a disproportionate toll on Black and Latino Americans. During the initial months in 2020, the per capita death rate […]
The risk of developing myocarditis and other inflammatory heart conditions after COVID-19 vaccination is substantially lower than it is after SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to an analysis of electronic health records from 40 US health systems. Although it’s a rare complication, myocarditis has been associated with both SARS-CoV-2 infection and messenger RNA (mRNA)–based […]
