Respiratory Infections News

People living with HIV were less likely to receive inappropriate antibiotics for acute respiratory infections compared with people without HIV, especially when treated by an HIV clinician, researchers found.

An extended course of antibiotics showed no short-term clinical benefit for children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia compared with a standard, shorter course, a study found.

Twenty-eight months after identifying its first case, the United States is nearing what President Joe Biden this week called “a tragic milestone”: 1 million COVID-19 deaths.

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine was found to be safe and effective among children aged 6 to 11 years, according to interim phase 2/3 findings from the KidCOVE trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers in the United Kingdom developed a novel tool they said can assess the symptoms of long COVID and help deliver clinical care.

The FDA has approved a new indication for Olumiant as a treatment for adults hospitalized with COVID-19 who require supplemental oxygen, noninvasive or invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

The results of a systematic review and meta-analysis suggest there is an increased risk for tuberculosis among people with cytomegalovirus infection, researchers reported in The Lancet.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America issued guidance to help clinicians manage drug interactions between Paxlovid and the 100 most prescribed medications.

The FDA has restricted the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine based on an updated analysis of the risk for a rare but potentially deadly blood-clotting syndrome.

Nearly 15 million people died as a direct or indirect result of COVID-19 during the first 24 months of the pandemic, according to a new estimate published Thursday by WHO.