MMWR Weekly COVID-19 Briefing for the Week of January 15, 2021

01/02/2021 7 min

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Episode Synopsis

This week’s episode covers four MMWR COVID-19 reports. In the first, I’ll describe how lapses in infection control likely led to an outbreak of a multidrug resistant threat in a hospital’s COVID-19 unit. The second report details how COVID-19 cases among nursing home residents and staff followed similar trends to those in surrounding communities. The third report demonstrates how European countries that implemented stricter mitigation policies earlier in the pandemic tended to report fewer COVID-19 deaths. Finally, the last report describes trends in COVID-19 incidence among children, adolescents, and young adults.