Respiratory Infections News

In May, modeling commissioned by the Stop TB Partnership showed that a lockdown of just 3 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic could set the global fight against tuberculosis back at least 5 to 8 years.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America published new guidance on the use of SARS-CoV-2 serologic tests that included eight diagnostic recommendations.

Primary care physicians will need to deploy safe, creative measures to improve influenza vaccination rates amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an expert told Healio Primary Care.

The AAP updated and expanded its previous guidance on the reopening of schools, which was published in May.

Former CDC director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, recently described a hierarchy of controls — elimination, substitution, engineering, administration and personal protective equipment — that may help prevent COVID-19 among health care workers.

Deep-throat saliva, although advantageous for COVID-19 testing because it is self-collected, is suboptimal in sensitivity compared with sputum and pooled nasopharyngeal and throat swabs, according to study data.

The FDA issued an emergency use authorization to the Yale School of Public Health for a saliva-based COVID-19 diagnostic test, making the test available to any laboratory that wants to use it.

As COVID-19 spread early this year, experts voiced concerns about the spread of misinformation related to the disease on social media.

With COVID-19 cases surpassing 5 million in the United States and influenza season approaching, experts are weighing the prospect that hospitals will have to respond to surges of the two respiratory illnesses at the same time.

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were more likely to experience respiratory failure if they had gum disease before becoming infected, according to a paper in the Journal of the California Dental Association.