Respiratory Infections News

LISBON, Portugal — In this video, virologist Angela Rasmussen, PhD, discusses the steps she is taking to safely attend the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in person.

LISBON, Portugal — The risk for death from COVID-19 is three to four times higher than it is from influenza among hospitalized patients requiring oxygen therapy, researchers found.

LISBON, Portugal — A fully vaccinated and boosted health care worker tested positive for the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 just 20 days after testing positive for the delta variant, researchers reported here.

COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2021, while the differences in death rates between certain racial and ethnic minority groups remain, the CDC announced in a press release.

The wonderful thing about infectious disease medicine is how broad it is. Any part of the body can become infected. The terrible thing about infectious disease medicine is how broad it is. It seems vast and complicated.

SEATTLE — COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection, is linked to a wide range of conditions that affect neurological processes, according to an expert at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.

A federal judge in Florida overturned the CDC’s national mask mandate for public transportation — including on airplanes and trains — saying in her order that it was “unlawful.”

Health care personnel with COVID-19 were more likely to report exposure to SARS-CoV-2 at work than in their household or community, especially during periods of high community transmission, CDC researchers found.

The FDA recently announced that it has issued an emergency use authorization for the first diagnostic test that detects SARS-CoV-2 in breath samples.

Pfizer and BioNTech said Thursday that they will be asking the FDA to authorize a COVID-19 booster dose for children aged 5 to 11 years.