Respiratory Infections News

Most people supported stay-at-home orders, reported wearing face coverings appropriately and were accepting of restrictions put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19, according to findings from surveys conducted in New York City and Los Angeles that were published in MMWR.

As COVID-19 cases exceed 2 million in the United States, President Donald J. Trump’s decision to halt funding to WHO has drawn more criticism from experts.

A review in JAMA Neurology concluded that clinicians should monitor patients with COVID-19 for neurological disorders, but more research is needed to further examine the role of SARS-CoV-2 as a contributor to postinfectious neurologic complications, one of the review’s authors told Healio Primary Care.

Anti-contagion policies have prevented or delayed as many as 62 million confirmed COVID-19 infections, which corresponded with the prevention of an estimated 530 million cases in six countries, according to a study published in Nature.

As researchers work rapidly to develop vaccine candidates and therapeutics for COVID-19, examining the ethical issues related to studies in humans have become part of the process.

Although false-negative results from nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests are possible, they occur less often than previously observed, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In December 2018, Felipe Alonso Gomez died in an immigrant detention center after contracting influenza. Mark Travassos, MD, MSc, has been “alarmed” by the spread of infectious diseases in immigrant detention centers ever since.

A free video game titled Shadow’s Edge helps players cope with the isolation, desolation and fear caused by stressors like COVID-19, the game’s developer told Healio Primary Care.

Reports of influenza-like-illness increased during early March in areas of New York State with increased COVID-19 diagnoses, despite average rates of laboratory confirmed influenza declining, according to findings in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, yielded a false-negative rate as low as 20% and as high as 100% among patients who were tested for infection with SARS-CoV-2, according to a literature review and pooled analysis published in Annals of Internal Medicine.