Respiratory Infections News

Maternal COVID-19 infection during pregnancy was not associated with an increased risk for stillbirth or early infant death, according to research published in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The risk for invasive mechanical ventilation, hospitalization and death in those with COVID-19 increased with BMI, according to research published in MMWR.

In new guidance, the CDC said Monday that fully vaccinated people can gather indoors with other fully vaccinated people without wearing masks or staying 6 feet apart.

Between April and July last year, there was a more than 80% decline in the incidence of reported norovirus outbreaks in nine U.S. states, likely the result of nonpharmaceutical interventions to combat COVID-19, researchers reported.

The agency authorized the test for non-prescription, home use in adults for self-swabbing and for children aged 2 years and older when swabbed by an adult.

Investigators determined that just 32 SARS-CoV-2 infections occurred in 11 North Carolina school districts during a 9-week period of in-person learning last year, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed by the House last weekend and sent to the Senate contains $47.8 billion to expand testing, contact tracing and other measures to combat COVID-19.

The NIH said people with HIV should be considered a high-risk group when making decisions about COVID-19 vaccine priority. The recommendation was part of the NIH’s updated interim guidance for COVID-19 and HIV.

The NIH announced that it is ending a clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 convalescent plasma in ED patients with mild to moderate symptoms.

Increased incarceration rates in counties across the U.S. were linked to increased risk for mortality from infectious diseases, chronic lower respiratory disease, substance abuse, suicide and multiple other causes, according to research published in Lancet Public Health.