Respiratory Infections News

SEATTLE — New hospital-onset cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection outpaced community-onset cases after England and Scotland stopped requiring hospitals to test asymptomatic patients at admission, researchers reported.

Heightened odds for a tuberculosis diagnosis were related to exposure to ambient air pollution that contained wildfire smoke, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

A survey of health care workers at nonacute-care facilities during the spring of 2021 revealed insight into their COVID-19 experiences, knowledge, beliefs and perception of risk during the pandemic.

The United States will commit $5 billion to develop new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments that will work against future variants of SARS-CoV-2, Biden administration officials told reporters.

In a survey, roughly one in five people diagnosed with COVID-19 reported symptoms of long COVID, and many of these patients described trouble accessing or paying for health care.

A machine-learning model showed excellent discriminative ability in predicting 30-day mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, according to study results published in CHEST.

COVID-19 remained deadlier than influenza this past season, although the difference in mortality shrunk compared with past years, according to a study comparing outcomes of patients hospitalized with the illnesses.

Infants born to people infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy were five times as likely to test positive for the virus from age 0 to 6 months during the omicron period than previous waves, according to research published in Pediatrics.

New data suggest that respiratory syncytial virus may be returning to its pre-COVID-19 seasonality — a winter peak — which could help determine when people should be vaccinated against it, researchers said.

Treatment with a monoclonal antibody within 2 days of a COVID-19 diagnosis reduced the risk for hospitalization or death by almost 40%, according to a study that assessed patient outcomes over a nearly 2-year period.