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Clusters of acute hepatitis in kids—many resulting in liver failure—in Europe and the United States are triggering investigations from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as the illnesses appear to be linked to infections with adenoviruses.

Compared with a third vaccine dose, a fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine lowered the risk of infection, symptomatic infection, hospitalization, severe illness, and death 52% to 76%—depending on the measure—amid the Omicron surge among older adults, finds a new Israeli study.

The province is reporting an increase in long-term-care homes in outbreak, for a total of 115 or 18.4 per cent of the 626 LTC homes in the province, and 10 new COVID deaths in LTC.

Antibiotic overuse is associated with adverse neonatal outcomes. Many medically underserved centers lack pediatric antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) support. Telestewardship may mitigate this disparity. Authors of this study aimed to determine the effectiveness and safety of a nursery-specific ASP delivered remotely.

A study recently presented today at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Conference 2022 (SHEA) was one of the first to use hospital records to examine COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths by occupation.

Household transmission contributes to SARS-CoV-2 spread, but the role of children in transmission is unclear. We conducted a study that included symptomatic and asymptomatic children and adults exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in their households with the objective of determining how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted within households.

Infection prevention and control (IPC) in healthcare settings was already a vital specialty, but at the start of 2020, no one could have predicted just how important it was about to become.

Human inhalation exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), including the PM2.5 of outdoor origin, predominantly occurs indoors.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an extraordinary incidence of morbidity and mortality, with almost 6 million deaths worldwide at the time of this writing (https://covid19.who.int/). There has been a pressing need for research that would shed light on factors – especially modifiable factors – that could reduce risks to human health.

Today China reported 29,317 new COVID-19 cases, which include 26,318 asymptomatic cases. Shanghai has 85.7% of the symptomatic cases and 95.5% of the asymptomatic cases, according to officials.