Respiratory Infections News

The COVID-19 pandemic was not associated with changes in parental vaccine hesitancy overall, but there were other effects, including a polarization of vaccine attitudes and changes in trust about vaccine information, a study found.

Doxycycline reduced the risk for Clostridioides difficile infection by almost half compared with azithromycin among patients hospitalized with community-acquire pneumonia who had a C. difficile infection in the past year, a study found.

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Almost half of health care providers in the United States do not routinely test patients born outside the U.S. for tuberculosis, despite CDC recommendations that say they should, a survey found.

Antibiotic use among critically ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 declined between 2020 and 2022, researchers found.

Scientists have successfully developed the first vaccines against malaria and respiratory syncytial virus, but other vaccine targets remain.

Pediatric mental health emergencies increased with each COVID-19 wave in New York City, a study in Pediatrics found.

Remdesivir use is associated with increased survival among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 requiring supplemental oxygen, researchers found.

Treatment with convalescent plasma reduced 28-day mortality among adults undergoing mechanical ventilation for COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome, according to results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The FDA is set to review what could be the country’s first self-administered influenza vaccine.