Respiratory Infections News

Almost 90% of patients who recovered from COVID-19 reported at least one persistent symptom, according to a study of 143 patients published in JAMA.

The United States needs to control COVID-19 before it will be safe to resume in-person schooling and college sports, an expert said Thursday.

According to a new AAP report, there were 179,990 new pediatric cases of COVID-19 between July 9 and Aug. 6 in the United States — a 90% increase over 4 weeks.

Artificial intelligence can help predict the chance of resistant organisms appearing in sputum cultures in the ER, helping to guide therapy, according to findings presented during the ASM Microbe virtual meeting.

African American and Latino health care workers should start discussing COVID-19 vaccines with underrepresented groups to help ensure these groups are vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 when a vaccine is available, members of a panel at the National Medical Association’s virtual convention said.

A nursing home in Pennsylvania rapidly contained a COVID-19 outbreak by implementing a universal testing strategy for all residents and staff, according to study findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Children born in the months of September through December were significantly more likely to receive an influenza vaccination than those with earlier birthdays, researchers reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that his country has approved a COVID-19 vaccine, apparently without completing clinical trials to fully test its safety and efficacy, according to multiple news reports.

Frontline health care workers are at least three times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than the general community, with the highest risk for infection occurring among Black, Hispanic and Asian health care workers, according to a recent analysis.

People with HIV do not have a higher or lower risk for severe COVID-19 than the general population and should receive a similar treatment approach, according to a study published in The Lancet HIV.