Pediatric ID News

Providers should “prepare for uncertainty” as common infections such as respiratory syncytial virus and enterovirus return in atypical seasons following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said.

Although adenovirus was isolated from most children with unexplained acute hepatitis, its role in the illnesses remains unclear, according to the authors of two new studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

More than half of surveyed parents said they were likely to follow the advice of their child’s primary care physician when it came to COVID-19 vaccination, according to results published in Academic Pediatrics.

The FDA has granted approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty for use in adolescents aged 12 to 15 years, according to a company press release.

The proportion of children with COVID-19-related croup increased during the period in which omicron was the predominant variant in the United States, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

A survey conducted last fall found that around half of parents of children aged 0 to 4 years said they were likely to vaccinate their children against COVID-19, researchers reported.

Healio Pediatrics Editorial Board Member Leonard R. Krilov, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island, answers some frequently asked questions about the vaccines.

A White House representative said during a press conference today that “more than enough” COVID-19 vaccine doses were being distributed for the country’s 20 million infants and toddlers.

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