Respiratory Infections News

All clinicians, even those who do not immediately provide COVID-19 vaccines upon their FDA approval, will have a key role in ensuring maximum vaccine uptake, a CDC official said at the virtual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

Paul A. Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said there are three likely reasons why Americans may be hesitant to receive a COVID-19 vaccine when one is available.

After decades of inactivity following a deadly vaccine failure in the 1960s, “there’s been good progress” lately in research to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, according to a speaker at the Infectious Diseases in Children symposium.

A WHO guideline committee recommended against the use of remdesivir in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, regardless of how sick they are.

The first COVID-19 vaccine could be available for use in high-risk populations as early as mid-December after Pfizer and BioNTech announced plans to submit an emergency use authorization request to the FDA on Friday.

History indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic will likely worsen the United States’ rising rates of alcohol use, high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, experts said.

Patients with skin allergies who wear certain types of face masks may experience adverse events, according to a presenter at this year’s virtual American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

The CDC strongly advised against traveling this Thanksgiving after the United States reported more than 1 million new cases of COVID-19 in the last 7 days.

Among people with HIV and COVID-19, researchers linked noncommunicable comorbidities, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, as opposed to HIV alone, with an increased risk for hospitalization, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

An increase of 1 microgram per cubic meter in a U.S. county’s long-term average exposure to fine particle pollutants appeared to raise that area’s COVID-19 mortality rate, data from a preliminary ecological regression analysis show.