Respiratory Infections News

Individuals with vitamin D deficiency were more likely to develop COVID-19 than those who had sufficient vitamin D levels, data from a single-center, retrospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open show.

An analysis of records from more than 156,000 patient encounters in the Massachusetts General Hospital ED revealed that most included a general travel screening, but records rarely included documentation of where the patient traveled.

A perspective published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America analyzed the reasons why children are less likely to develop COVID-19 than adults.

In pregnant women with severe or critical COVID-19, inhaled nitric oxide therapy was well-tolerated and associated with improved respiratory rates and oxygenation, according to research published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Invasive fungal disease occurs often in critically ill patients with COVID-19 on mechanical ventilation, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

An outbreak of COVID-19 in an apartment building in China may have been caused by fecal aerosol transmission through bathrooms connected by drainage pipes, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

HIV and tuberculosis were independently associated with an increased risk for COVID-19 mortality in a South African study that included more than 22,000 patients with the new disease, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

CDC data show that primary care prescribers were responsible for more than half of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine prescriptions dispensed at outpatient retail pharmacies between March and April in the United States.

Sanofi announced that its IL-6 inhibitor Kevzara failed to meet primary and secondary endpoints in a phase 3 trial of patients outside the United States hospitalized with severe COVID-19.

Study results published in JAMA demonstrated no link between frequent in-person obstetrical visits and SARS-CoV-2 infection.