Respiratory Infections News

Last week, the CDC relaxed its masking guidance to say that fully vaccinated Americans do not need to wear masks or socially distance indoors.

Around 10% of patients hospitalized for influenza and community-acquired pneumonia also had a community-onset bacterial coinfection, and these patients experienced worse outcomes and higher costs, according to a large U.S. study.

Messenger RNA vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna were 94% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 among health care workers after two doses and more than 80% effective after one, researchers reported in MMWR.

The AAP has endorsed giving childhood and adolescent immunizations at the same time as COVID-19 vaccines.

Fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks or socially distance indoors, the CDC said Thursday in updated guidance.

A CDC advisory panel voted Wednesday to recommend using the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 12 to 15 years, lowering the age of availability for the country’s only coronavirus vaccine available to kids.

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues, the CDC has continued to update its mask guidance for the public, recently revising recommendations for outdoor mask use and children’s summer and overnight camps.

Counties with low COVID-19 vaccination rates have significantly higher percentages of older adults living with certain social vulnerabilities, such as lack of access to a computer, according to CDC researchers.

The FDA on Monday authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 12 to 15 years.

The rate of in-hospital mortality was lower among pregnant women with COVID-19 than nonpregnant women with COVID-19, according to a new study in Annals of Internal Medicine.