Emerging Diseases News

Comorbid acute ischemic stroke and COVID-19 increased the rate of stroke mortality in 2020, researchers reported.

Although nearly 19 million adults in the United States may have long COVID, recent research has suggested that barriers to care remain.

Pregnant women with COVID-19 infection at delivery in the U.S. experienced substantial adverse outcomes early during the pandemic, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

SEATTLE — The first U.S. cluster of pediatric Candida auris cases was likely caused by shared mobile medical equipment that was not properly sanitized after being used for adult patients, an investigation found.

SEATTLE — New hospital-onset cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection outpaced community-onset cases after England and Scotland stopped requiring hospitals to test asymptomatic patients at admission, researchers reported.

A survey of health care workers at nonacute-care facilities during the spring of 2021 revealed insight into their COVID-19 experiences, knowledge, beliefs and perception of risk during the pandemic.

More than 40% of patients with long COVID reported having mild to severe sleep disturbances, with Black individuals and those hospitalized for COVID-19 at greater risk for worsened sleep, a recent study found.

The United States will commit $5 billion to develop new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments that will work against future variants of SARS-CoV-2, Biden administration officials told reporters.

In a survey, roughly one in five people diagnosed with COVID-19 reported symptoms of long COVID, and many of these patients described trouble accessing or paying for health care.

Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 had a “modest increased risk” for long-term gastrointestinal symptoms and irritable bowel syndrome compared with control patients, according to research published in Gut.