Respiratory Infections News

A study conducted in two U.S. states between May and November last year found that both vaccination and prior infection protected people against infection and hospitalization from COVID-19, researchers reported in MMWR.

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a plan to distribute 400 million N95 masks from the Strategic National Stockpile and make them available for free at tens of thousands of pharmacies and health centers in the U.S.

Organizers announced Tuesday that the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections will be an entirely virtual meeting for the third year in a row because of COVID-19.

COVID-19 vaccination in the United States saved nearly a quarter-million lives in the first 6 months that shots were available compared with a scenario in which there were no vaccines, researchers estimated.

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large private companies by a 6-3 vote. The mandate would have required employees to be vaccinated or get tested weekly.

A new study reinforced that influenza vaccination protects children from serious illness even when vaccines are a poor match for circulating viruses.

As of July, federally qualified health centers had administered 61.4% of their COVID-19 vaccines to people of races and ethnicities other than white, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it will send 10 million COVID-19 tests — five million rapid tests and five million lab-based PCR tests — to K-12 schools each month to help keep them open during the omicron surge.

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Long, daunting lines at COVID-19 test sites have many people turning to at-home tests, according to reporting by The New York Times.