Infectious Disease News Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.

Table of Contents

• COVID-19 pandemic ‘could be quite damaging’ to efforts to end other diseases Ken Downey Jr.
• All COVID-19 hospital data to be reported to Trump administration, bypassing CDC Eamon N. Dreisbach
• American Cancer Society recommends routine HPV vaccination starting at age 9 years Jennifer R. Southall
• Baloxavir shows promise as postexposure prophylaxis for flu Gerard Gallagher
• Biopharmaceutical companies launch $1 billion fund to develop new antibiotics Caitlyn Stulpin
• Congo’s Équateur Province Ebola outbreak alarms health officials Caitlyn Stulpin
• COVID-19 self-testing comparable to clinic-based testing Stephanie C. Viguers
• COVID-19 knocks HIV goals ‘completely off track’ Caitlyn Stulpin
• Donald Kaye, Infectious Disease News Editorial Board Member and mentor to many, dies at 88
• Less than half of COVID-19 patients report recent contact with infected person Eamon N. Dreisbach
• LRT panel provides specificity similar to traditional cultures with faster turnaround time Eamon N. Dreisbach
• Man achieves long-term HIV remission without bone marrow transplant Caitlyn Stulpin
• Medicaid expansion states report improved HIV care in ACA era Caitlyn Stulpin
• Q&A: Updated guidance expands access to transplants Eamon N. Dreisbach
• Questions remain about airborne transmission of COVID-19 Julia Ernst, MS
• Tocilizumab associated with lower mortality among ventilated patients with COVID-19 Eamon N. Dreisbach
• Traveling during COVID-19 pandemic ‘an opportunity to set a new normal’ Eamon N. Dreisbach
• Trial ‘definitively’ shows superiority of long-acting injectable PrEP Gerard Gallagher; Eamon N. Dreisbach
• Universal masking lowers SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers Katie Kalvaitis; Erik Swain
• Unsafe injection practices contribute to HIV outbreak among children in Pakistan Eamon N. Dreisbach
• Vaccine hesitancy could make it difficult to achieve herd immunity for COVID-19 Eamon N. Dreisbach
• Vitamin D does not lower TB risk in children Ken Downey Jr.
• Which disease will be eliminated or eradicated next?
• Hooked on ID with Carlos del Rio, MD Carlos del Rio, MD
• NIH study demonstrates safety of kidney transplantation between HIV+ donors, recipients Melissa J. Webb, MA
• One in three young adults at risk for severe COVID-19 Erin Michael
• Researchers report ‘extremely encouraging’ COVID-19 vaccine data Ken Downey Jr.
• Study suggests official COVID-19 death counts failed to show pandemic’s ‘true burden’ Erin Michael
• Trials test WHO recommendations on treatment for child pneumonia Ken Downey Jr.
• Evidence ‘strongly suggestive’ of in utero vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Ken Downey Jr.
• Intervention promotes PrEP uptake, adherence in Kenyan adolescent girls and young women Ken Downey Jr.
• New data show lower prevalence of neural tube defects in babies exposed to dolutegravir Ken Downey Jr.
• One-third of HIV PrEP users discontinued medication while sheltering in place John C. Schoen, MA
• Pregnant women on dolutegravir experience better HIV viral suppression rates vs. efavirenz Ken Downey Jr.
• New approaches to gram-negative infections: A look at the pipeline Axel A. Vazquez Deida, PharmD; Kati Shihadeh, PharmD, BCIDP