(HealthDay)—The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines is borne out in new government data showing that more than 99.99% of fully vaccinated Americans have not had a breakthrough infection resulting in hospitalization or death.
Aug 2, 2021
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U.S. health officials said Thursday they now have evidence of an untreatable fungus spreading in two hospitals and a nursing home.
Jul 22, 2021
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Coronavirus infections in the Netherlands skyrocketed by more than 500% over the last week, the country's public health institute reported Tuesday. The surge follows the scrapping of almost all remaining lockdown restrictions ...
Jul 13, 2021
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Water-jet nozzles in electric toilets—commonly used in Japan and other parts of Asia—may be reservoirs for multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MDRP) in hospitals, increasing the risk of dangerous germ transmission ...
Jul 12, 2021
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While the prevalence of COVID-19 is declining in the United States, pediatricians at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt warn parents not to let their guard down.
Jun 24, 2021
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Two months after Portugal began to ease a prolonged lockdown, the Lisbon region is going into reverse due to a surge driven by the coronavirus' delta variant, which now accounts for more than 7 in 10 new infections in the ...
Jun 24, 2021
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South Africa's COVID-19 infections jumped by 13,246 on Wednesday, the highest daily total in five months, government said.
Jun 16, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) analyzed data at the 13-hospital University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and found public health measures designed to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 ...
Jun 14, 2021
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Nepal has reported its first death from mucormycosis or "black fungus", the highly deadly infection affecting thousands of coronavirus patients in neighbouring India.
Jun 4, 2021
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The very high use of antibiotics in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is often not necessary, and risks worsening global antimicrobial resistance.
Jun 3, 2021
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