Respiratory Infections News

IDWeek organizers announced that the 2021 meeting will be entirely virtual again because of the continued presence of COVID-19 and related restrictions.

Identification of viral type and number may aid in predicting the duration of positive pressure ventilation in critically ill infants with bronchiolitis, according to results published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

In a revised estimate, AstraZeneca said in a news release Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate demonstrated an overall efficacy of 76% against symptomatic disease in a phase 3 trial conducted mostly in the United States.

Many pregnant women reported experiencing psychological stress stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shelter-in-place orders, according to research published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

The rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals increased significantly during the pandemic, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Among patients with CVD, influenza vaccination was associated with lower risk for all-cause and CV death and major adverse CV events compared with no vaccination, according to a meta-analysis.

SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to emerge. One variant, B.1.1.7, was predicted to become the dominant SARS-CoV-2 virus in the United States by March.

Corticosteroids are an important treatment modality for a multitude of indications. Currently, dexamethasone is one of the only proven treatment options for patients suffering from COVID-19.

Last April, clinicians in London reported a cluster of eight children in 10 days who developed hyperinflammatory shock with multiorgan involvement, which they described in The Lancet as being similar to Kawasaki disease shock syndrome.

I had veterinary virologists as parents. My dad studied and worked on rabies for his PhD, and my mother was a pioneer in India on buffalopox virus, which is very closely related to cowpox and smallpox, also earning her PhD.