Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

This report describes the high COVID-19 attack rate among 92 attendees at a rural Arkansas church during March 6-11.

This report describes data analyzed from the Michigan Care Improvement Registry to assess changes in vaccine doses administered to children and the effects of those changes on up-to-date status for vaccinations recommended at milestone ages.

This report describes a new study that found universal hepatitis C testing in emergency departments identified a greater number of previously unrecognized infections, especially in persons born after 1965.

This report describes the percentage of deaths from all causes that occurred in a hospital, in the decedent's home, and in a long-term care facility in 2018.

Not all women who see a health care provider during or after pregnancy are asked about depression, which means opportunities to identify and treat women with depression might be missed.

Providing antiretroviral treatment to women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection before, during, and after pregnancy is critical for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and improving child survival.

This report describes the high attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 following a choir practice attended by 61 persons in Skagit County, Washington.

This report provides an estimate of excess deaths in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report describes efforts by the California Department of Public Health in screening travelers at airports and subsequent monitoring to prevent introduction of COVID-19 to California communities.

This report describes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases among incarcerated or detained persons in facilities in Louisiana and the COVID-19 Management Assessment and Response tool used to identify awareness and understanding of guidance.

This report describes the impact of the pandemic on pediatric vaccination in the United States by examining two data sources: Vaccines for Children Program and Vaccine Safety Datalink.

Piloted in Kenya, the Detection and Response to Respiratory Events (DaRRE) strategy could serve as a model for other countries in the region to build capacity for prevention, detection, and response to respiratory disease outbreaks.

This report describes the percentage of adults aged ≥18 years who had difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses in 2018.

Global measles elimination is hindered by recurrent outbreaks, emerging characteristically in undervaccinated populations.

This report indicates that hypertension is highest in rural areas (40%), compared with the most urban areas (29%).

This report describes confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 cases among incarcerated or detained persons or staff members across 420 correctional and detention facilities in the United States.

This report describes various factors that contributed to accelerated spread of coronavirus disease 2019 during February--April 2020.

This report indicates that coronavirus disease 2019 cases among workers in 115 meat or poultry processing facilities were reported by 19 states.

This report describes an investigation of coronavirus disease 2019 in residents and staff members from homeless shelters in four U.S. cities.

This report describes a COVID-19 outbreak detected at three affiliated homeless shelters in Seattle, Washington.

This report indicates that during 2000-2018, 45 countries achieved maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination, reported neonatal tetanus cases decreased 90%, and estimated deaths declined 85%.

This report indicates that incidence of infections caused by Listeria, Salmonella, and Shigella remained unchanged, and those caused by all other pathogens reported to the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network increased during 2019.

A 2018 cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe underscored the importance of community-wide water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions, as well as vaccination and outbreak detection in reducing cholera's impact.

This report indicates that in 2018, the U.S. suicide rate was 14.2 per 100,000 standard population, with rates varying by state.

This report characterizes a cohort of hospitalized adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Georgia in which black patients were overrepresented and one in four hospitalized patients had no recognized risk factors for severe COVID-19.

Exposures to cleaners and disinfectants reported to the National Poison Data System, a surveillance system of poison center calls, increased substantially beginning in March 2020.

This investigation highlights the importance of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) surveillance at sea to identify contaminated foods at sea not yet implicated on land and to prevent transmission of AGE illness through U.S. ports.

The percentage of employed adults who reported an average of ≤6 hours of sleep per 24-hour period increased from 28.4% during 2008-2009 to 32.6% during 2017-2018.

Circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses can emerge in settings with low poliovirus immunity and can cause paralysis.

This report describes clinical considerations for prescribing preexposure prophylaxis for human immunodeficiency virus prevention among adolescents.

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A recent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) outbreak among people who inject drugs in Cabell County, West Virginia, underscores the importance of HIV prevention, diagnosis, and care in communities with high rates of substance use disorder.

Investigation of COVID-19 cases in Chicago identified a cluster of 16 confirmed or probable cases, including three deaths, likely resulting from one introduction.

The Coronavirus Disease 2019-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET) was implemented to produce robust, weekly, age-stratified COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates.

This report highlights geographic differences in COVID-19 cases, deaths, incidence, and changing incidence in the United States.

Unprotected, prolonged patient contact, as well as certain exposures, including some aerosol-generating procedures, were associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection among health care personnel.

The number of children in the Eastern Mediterranean Region receiving 2 doses of measles vaccine increased during 2013-2018, but vaccination coverage remains below levels (≥95%) that the World Health Organization recommend for measles elimination.

In 2018, 23 states and DC had drug overdose death rates that were higher than the national rate of 20.7 per 100,000.

All milk should be pasteurized to prevent infections from harmful bacteria in raw milk.

From 2007 to 2016, incidence of cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx combined increased. The increase could be driven by increases in human papillomavirus-associated cancers.

Improving surveillance through routine reporting of occupation and industry not only benefits health care personnel, but all workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

During February 26-April 1, 2020, community mobility (a proxy measure for social distancing) in the metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans, and New York City declined, decreasing with each community mitigation policy issued and as case counts increased.

New report shows hepatitis C is increasing dramatically in the United States, especially among younger adults.

The report describes the percentage of persons of all ages who had a cold during the past two weeks in 2018.

Women at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus are eligible to use all hormonal contraceptive methods and intrauterine devices.

The epidemiology of hepatitis C is changing in the United States As a result, CDC now recommends one-time hepatitis C screening for all adults and screening of all pregnant women during every pregnancy.

Investigation of all 243 cases of COVID-19 reported in Singapore during January 23-March 16 identified seven clusters of cases in which presymptomatic transmission is the most likely explanation for the occurrence of secondary cases.

In this preliminary description of pediatric U.S. COVID-19 cases, relatively few children with COVID-19 are hospitalized, and fewer children than adults experience fever, cough, or shortnessof breath.

On February 27, 2020, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department (SCCPHD) identified its first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) associated with probable community transmission (i.e., infection among persons without a known exposure by travel or close contact with a patient with confirmed COVID-19)

In the Seattle, Washington metropolitan area, where the first case of novel coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) in the United States was reported, a community-level outbreak is ongoing with evidence of rapid spread and high morbidity and mortality among older adults in long-term care skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).