Respiratory Infections News

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.

Northeastern cities, including New York and Washington, D.C., have seen a surge in COVID-19 cases, but increased immunization, low hospitalization rates and a growing armamentarium against infection may serve to temper calls for alarm.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, launched a multi-billion dollar plan to accelerate the development and production of vaccines during the next pandemic, with a goal of making them available in just 100 days.

Researchers uncovered gaps in the care cascade for latent tuberculosis in the United States, including that less than half of people diagnosed with latent TB in 2016 and 2017 initiated treatment.