Pediatric ID News

Children who received two or more doses of COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccine were 40% less likely to be hospitalized or visit an ED due to the disease, according to findings published in MMWR.

Use of antivirals to treat influenza in children remains low despite their wide availability and guidelines recommending their use, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

COVID-19 caused a surge in premature births in California that “fully disappeared” by 2022, likely because of vaccines, researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Prenatal vaccination protects infants from COVID-19 up to age 6 months, real-world study findings published in JAMA Network Open suggest. The study found that vaccination prior to pregnancy did not protect babies from the disease.

Among people being treated for HIV, young children experience the highest rate of death — up to nine times higher than other age groups, according to study findings published in MMWR.

An outpatient antibiotic stewardship bundle initiative reduced unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections without increasing repeat health care contacts, a recent study showed.

Nearly half of infectious diseases fellowship programs were not filled on Match Day as the number of applicants declined despite an increase in certified ID programs, the Infectious Diseases Society of America announced.

We caught up with Mary Foote, MD, MPH, at IDWeek to ask how she got “Hooked on ID.”

NEW YORK — In this video, Sunil K. Sood, MD, discusses considering a diagnosis of the tick-borne illness babesiosis in pediatric populations.

Patients recovering from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children should receive a cardiology follow-up, study findings reported in Pediatrics suggest.