Hospital Medicine News

Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had higher rates of hospital mortality and discharge to hospice compared with white patients, according to a study in JAMA Open Network.

Anthony S. Fauci, MD, said 20% of new COVID-19 cases in the United States stem from the delta variant, which will become the dominant strain in the country within weeks.

Sotagliflozin increased the number of days alive and out of the hospital compared with placebo among patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk for intermittent hospitalization due to worsening heart failure, data show.

Almost a quarter of adults aged 18 to 39 years indicated they would not get vaccinated against COVID-19, researchers reported today in MMWR.

Regeneron’s antibody cocktail reduced the risk for death by 20% in patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 who had not mounted their own immune response, researchers from the phase 3 RECOVERY trial said Wednesday.

Boston Children’s Hospital was named Tuesday as the best children’s hospital in the United States for the eighth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report, which expanded its annual list this year to include state and regional rankings.

Last week, President Joe Biden urged young people in the United States to get vaccinated against COVID-19 amid a rising number of cases among people aged 12 to 20 years in the United Kingdom.

The first hospital system in the country to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for employees said this week that it had suspended nearly 180 personnel without pay for not getting vaccinated.

Moderna announced that it has requested an emergency use authorization from the FDA for its COVID-19 vaccine for use in adolescents aged 12 to 17 years.

The use of rapid respiratory pathogen testing for influenza-like illness in a pediatric ED did not reduce antibiotic prescribing, according to findings from a randomized clinical trial that were reported in JAMA Network Open.