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New guidelines improved the ability to predict C. diff infection mortality
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the most common health care-associated infection in the United States, causing an estimated 12,800 deaths each year. The deadly and notoriously stubborn superbug, C. diff has been hard to spot and harder to stop. In 2017, two organizations leading the war on C. diff updated their guidelines for assessing patients and the severity of their infections.
Now a University of Houston team, led by Kevin Garey, professor of pharmacy practice and chair of the UH College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research, has proven that specific updates were well advised. Garey is reporting his findings in the journal
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Today, a bipartisan assembly of Governors representing 1 in 3 Americans issued support for a
Call to Action to Defeat COVID-19 and Promote National Recovery and Renewal, developed and released by the COVID Collaborative.
This is the first time since the crisis began that Governors have come together on a bipartisan basis to support a common, comprehensive approach to defeating COVID-19 within and across states. In so doing, these Governors recognized that combating COVID-19 is a calling for the nation as a whole, and encouraged their fellow Governors to join them.
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Although the country is in the midst of the darkest period of the coronavirus pandemic, with emergency authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine imminent and distribution of initial doses expected to start this month, the beginning of the end is starting to come into focus.
Today a panel of experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on drug approval is meeting to review data on the vaccine candidates from Pfizer-BioNTech. Emergency use authorization (EUA) for the vaccine could come shortly thereafter. The advisory committee will review data on the Moderna vaccine on Dec 17.
Officials with Operation Warp Speed, the US government s effort to develop and distribute COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, say distribution of the initial doses of the two vaccines 6.4 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and 12.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine will begin within 24 hours of EUA approval. Those initial doses will go to healthcare workers and resi