NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health-care workers and nursing home residents.
The health and economic impact of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria has continuously grown over the past years, reaching an estimated peak of approximately 700 000 attributable deaths per year.
Neglected hygiene, poor compliance with infection control procedures, inappropriate antimicrobial use, and insufficient availability of diagnostics and new effective antibiotics have contributed to this inglorious global record.
Despite these alarming figures, infection prevention and treatment have not been considered top priorities on the agendas of most industrialised countries.
This mindset changed abruptly with the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
...America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura, which is menacing the U.S. Gulf Coast, because of a combination of increased coastal development, natural climate cycles, reductions in air pollution and man-made climate change, experts say.
ARIS (AP) — As the sun went down, their partying got into full flow, with an unwanted guest: the coronavirus.
An outbreak among 18- to 25-year-olds at a seaside resort on the Brittany coast is crystallizing fears that the virus is flaring again in France, on the back of vacationers throwing COVID-19 caution to the summer winds.
East End Cares is taking actions to lower risks of contracting COVID-19 by setting up a volunteer buddy system for those that are at higher risk.
“We are recruiting volunteers who are available for different needs. In particular, we have a volunteer buddy system,” says Berman. “If a person is older or is unable to go out, or has recently arrived from NYC and doing the right thing by quarantining for 14 days, that person is assigned a buddy or volunteer who will go out on their behalf and run errands, get groceries, and more.”
Image: Current predicted probability of tropical-storm-force winds from Tropical Storm Jose.
nhc.noaa.gov - September 15th 2017
Note: The time of the tropical cyclone's center location at the bottom of the graphic will be 3 hours earlier than the time of the current advisory. The forecast cycle for each advisory begins 3 hours prior to the issuance of the advisory products.
