Background: Minoritized communities in the United States have had higher COVID-19 mortality and lower vaccine uptake. The influence of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, initial disease severity, and persistent symptoms on COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Black and Latinx communities has not been examined.
Objective: To investigate whether initial COVID-19 severity, persistent symptoms, and other correlates affected vaccine uptake in a predominantly minoritized cohort hospitalized for COVID-19 during the early pandemic in New York City.
Novel viral load monitoring strategies are needed to help individuals maintain an undetectable viral load (UVL). In 2018, U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The need for early antibiotics in the intensive care unit (ICU) is often balanced against the goal of antibiotic stewardship. Long-course antibiotics increase the burden of antimicrobial resistance within colonizing gut bacteria, but the dynamics of this process are not fully understood. We sought to determine how short-course antibiotics affect the antimicrobial resistance phenotype and genotype of colonizing gut bacteria in the ICU by performing a prospective cohort study with assessments of resistance at ICU admission and exactly 72 h later.
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