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Two peaks of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children — the rare but severe condition associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection — occurred 2 to 5 weeks after peaks of COVID-19 in United States, experts reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

Researchers estimated that contact precautions were associated with a nearly 50% reduction in the MRSA transmission rate among adult patients in more than 100 Veterans Affairs hospitals, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Researchers isolated Candida auris from a salt marsh and sandy beach in the Andaman Islands, suggesting that before its recognition as a human pathogen, it existed as an environmental fungus, they said.

The FDA recommended that facilities begin to move away from “crisis capacity conservation measures” implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as reusing decontaminated respirators.

Patients with substance use disorders who received navigation services in the hospital through 3 months after discharge had lower rates of ED readmission vs. those who received usual care, according to recent data from a single-center trial.

In a randomized controlled trial, tedizolid was noninferior to linezolid for day 28 all-cause mortality in the treatment of gram-positive ventilated hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia.

ASOLO, Italy — Italy, at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago, is still struggling, with hospitals under pressure despite encouraging signs of a decrease in the number of reported cases.

Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday that their COVID-19 vaccine was highly protective among children aged 12 to 15 years in a phase 3 trial.

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had shorter times to clinical improvement when treated with remdesivir, but the drug had no significant effect in a time-to-death analysis, even when given with corticosteroids, according to researchers.

A team of investigators who traveled to China did not find conclusive evidence of the origin of SARS-CoV-2, although they said humans were “likely to very likely” exposed through an intermediary animal host.