Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in French hospitals.

Objectives: COVID-19 vaccines have become the new hope for stemming the pandemic. We aimed to assess pre-launch vaccine acceptance among hospital workers in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Administrative Region of France.

Methods: We performed a cross sectional study involving all hospital workers in 11 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes hospitals in December 2020.

[Early rehospitalization of persons aged 75 years or older admitted to a post-emergency general medicine department: Rates and predictive factors].

Introduction: Given the implications of rehospitalization at the individual and societal level, it seems important to identify elderly persons (EP) at risk. We analyzed the predictive factors of early rehospitalization in EP aged 75 years or more hospitalized in a medicine department.

Methods: A single-center retrospective study that included EP aged 75 years or more hospitalized in a polyvalent medical department following an emergency admission.

Bilateral facial palsy in a case of leptospirosis.

When returning from a 5-month trip to China, a 21-y-old Dutch male developed clinical signs, symptoms, and an antibody response compatible with leptospirosis. On d 15 of disease, he also developed facial palsy with a bilateral Bell's phenomenon. Facial palsy is a rare finding in leptospirosis, and if a causal relation exists, the delay of onset in the present case would suggest vasculitis rather than a direct neurotoxic effect.