Respiratory Infections News

An estimated 5.8 million children in the United States have had long COVID, which may occur in up to 20% of children infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to the authors of a new state-of-the-art narrative review published in Pediatrics.

COVID-19 may quadruple a person’s risk for chronic fatigue, new study findings suggest.

I wasn’t so much hooked as I was hoodwinked!

A 1-year fellowship for senior trainees and early career infectious diseases physicians can help establish relationships with public health agencies and is an effective career development pathway, according to a study.

Influenza vaccine manufacturers in the United States said this week that they have plans to remove a potentially extinct influenza B lineage from their vaccines and offer only trivalent shots next season.

Infants aged younger than 3 months and children with a history of prematurity experience the highest rates of hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus, according to study findings published in Pediatrics.

Despite the importance of the specialty of infectious diseases in modern medicine — made all the more evident by the COVID-19 pandemic — many rural areas of the United States do not have access to specialized ID care.

The updated COVID-19 vaccines were approximately 54% effective against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and offered protection against JN.1 and XBB viral lineages, according to early estimates published Thursday by the CDC.

On Tuesday, the CDC asked the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee to clarify its recommendations for protecting health care personnel, patients and others from respiratory infection transmission.

Many health care workers, including primary care providers, may have lingering questions surrounding the new respiratory syncytial virus vaccines for older adults.