Respiratory Infections News

Nearly 6% of children who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after seeking care at an emergency department reported lasting effects from their infection, according to the results of a large study of pediatric long COVID published Friday.

I’ve wanted to be a doctor, to help people, since I was 5 years old.

Around 18 months after the first adults began receiving COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, the FDA authorized and the CDC recommended vaccines for children as young as age 6 months.

The CDC’s vaccine advisory committee on Tuesday voted to recommend Novavax’s two-dose COVID-19 vaccine for adults in the United States.

Emphysema is often present before spirometry findings become abnormal, with disproportionate rates seen in Black men, according to new findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

A third or fourth dose of one of the COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccines offer increased protection among adults during the early omicron wave, according to data from more than 270,000 patients reported Friday in MMWR.

Providers should “prepare for uncertainty” as common infections such as respiratory syncytial virus and enterovirus return in atypical seasons following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said.

The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for Novavax’s two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, making it the fourth COVID-19 vaccine available for use in the United States.

More than half of surveyed parents said they were likely to follow the advice of their child’s primary care physician when it came to COVID-19 vaccination, according to results published in Academic Pediatrics.

The Biden administration on Tuesday confirmed that it has had discussions about making second COVID-19 booster shots available to all U.S. adults amid a surge in infections driven by the omicron BA.5 subvariant.