Infectious Diseases
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Obesity, hypoxia predict severity in children with COVID-19
Race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status were not significant predictors of serious illness.
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Two consecutive negative FUBC results clear S. aureus bacteremia
The majority of cases had a limited duration of less than 48 hours of bacteremia.
Perspectives
Three pillars of a successful coronavirus vaccine program in minorities
Minority participation in COVID-19 vaccine trials is below the ideal when compared with U.S. census data.
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U.S. passes 1.3 million COVID-19 cases in children
Thanksgiving brought another weekly high in new child cases.
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CMS launches hospital-at-home program to free up hospital capacity
The agency will be giving more flexibility to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to provide hospital-level care.
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Patient health suffers amid pandemic health care shortages
More than half of clinician respondents to a survey said they saw a decline in patient health because of delayed or inaccessible care.
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FDA expands Xofluza indication to include postexposure flu prophylaxis
Clinical
Mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 for similar patients is declining over time
It’s unclear whether the drop in mortality rate is because of patients with fewer comorbidities or improvements in clinical care.
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Rationale for baricitinib’s use in COVID-19 patients demonstrated
“We went from modeling and mechanistic investigations to clinical tests in a number of settings and laboratory analysis in record time,” Dr....
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Antidepressant shows early promise for mild COVID-19
The findings on fluvoxamine “need to be interpreted as hypothesis generating rather than as a demonstration of efficacy,” the study authors wrote...