Respiratory Infections News

Research has shown that neither remdesivir nor hydroxychloroquine had any effect on COVID-19 mortality, and now findings indicate that the drugs had no significant effect on the rate of SARS-CoV-2 clearance in oropharyngeal samples.

Approximately half of adolescents and their parents either did not intend for the adolescent to receive a COVID-19 vaccine or were uncertain about it, according to survey results from April that were published in MMWR.

In updated guidance for K-12 schools, the CDC said returning to in-person instruction this fall is a priority “regardless of whether all of the prevention strategies can be implemented at the school.”

Nearly one in four deaths among inpatients with COVID-19 may be attributed to hospital strains caused by surging caseloads, according to a recent study in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Pfizer and BioNTech announced positive initial findings from an ongoing trial assessing a booster dose of their COVID-19 vaccine and said they plan to submit the data soon to the FDA.

Experts have been optimistic that the science and collaboration that went into developing numerous COVID-19 vaccines in record time may help spur development of vaccines against other long-time targets, like influenza.

Symptoms of neck inflammation are a common sign of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a serious condition associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, researchers reported in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Nearly 40% of patients who shared a hospital room with a patient with SARS-CoV-2 at one Boston hospital became infected within 14 days, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Potentially millions of people in the United States who received the first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine have not returned for their second shot, according to data shared by the CDC.

July 6 is World Zoonoses Day, which is observed each year on the anniversary of Louis Pasteur administering the first rabies vaccine to a human in 1885.