A CDC health advisory warning of a bacteria in dental waterlines and five other infection control updates from the last seven days:
1. The CDC issued a health advisory Oct. 31 warning of a bacteria in dental waterlines after recent infections were linked to a pediatric dental office.
2. COVID-19 cases are projected to increase by nearly 40 percent over the next two weeks, though it's still unclear whether hospitalizations and deaths may follow suit in November, according to national disease modeling.
3. Flu activity is ramping up across the U.S., with 4,326 lab-confirmed flu patients admitted to hospitals for the week ending Oct. 29, according to the CDC's latest FluView report.
4. Pharmacist-administered COVID-19 vaccines have averted 1 million U.S. deaths and saved $450 billion in healthcare costs, according to estimates published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association.
5. Monkeypox spread may occur up to four days before symptoms surface, according to a recent BMJ study.
6. Wastewater testing in at least five of the state's counties has found polioviruses genetically tied to a case that left an unvaccinated Rockland County, N.Y., resident paralyzed this summer, according to a new CDC report.