Respiratory Infections News

Unvaccinated adolescents are hospitalized for COVID-19 at 10 times the rate of their vaccinated peers, and ED visits and hospital admissions for COVID-19 are highest in states with low vaccine coverage, according to two new MMWR reports.

Researchers in the United Kingdom reported “reassuring” data on the 1-year outcomes of dozens of children who had a serious inflammatory syndrome triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The incidence of some health care-associated infections increased significantly in 2020 due to pandemic-related disruptions, according to U.S. data reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Over the course of 10 influenza seasons from 2009-2010 through 2018-2019, Black patients had the highest rate of influenza-associated hospitalization in the United States, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Several medical organizations said they were vehemently “against the ordering, prescribing or dispensing of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19” when it is not being used in a clinical trial.

As COVID-19 continues to surge in the United States, there has been an increase in hospitalizations, deaths and capacity issues at hospitals across the country.

With the delta variant threatening children as they return to school, a COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged younger than 12 years could be approved by December, according to several experts.

Nearly 90% of adults with chronic inflammatory disease who were taking immunosuppressive medication had an antibody response after receiving an mRNA vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, according to findings in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Increased crowding in Massachusetts state prisons led to an increase in COVID-19 cases, researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Intravenous artesunate was safe and effective in treating severe malaria in adults in the United States, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.