Respiratory Infections News

The antidepressant fluvoxamine reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk patients with COVID-19, according to results of the randomized, placebo-controlled TOGETHER trial.

According to the guidance posted on the CDC website, people aged 18 years or older who are “moderately [or] severely immunocompromised” and who have received three doses of either one of the widely used messenger RNA vaccines may get a booster dose of those vaccines, or the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Counties with universities participating in the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament saw an increase in COVID-19 cases beginning 8 days after the final game of participation, data published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Approximately one-third of patients with tuberculosis-destroyed lung experienced postoperative complications, with certain subgroups at higher risk, according to new data published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

An FDA advisory committee on Tuesday voted in favor of authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in children aged 5 to 11 years.

Moderna announced Tuesday that it will sell up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at the lowest tiered price to the African Union in a deal the company said was partly facilitated by the White House.

Most people who were trying to become pregnant or attempted pregnancy before the COVID-19 pandemic but then changed their conception plans said they did so temporarily because of pandemic-related concerns, survey data show.

President Joe Biden on Monday ordered that restrictions on international travel to the United States be based on the vaccination status of travelers, not their country of origin.

Moderna on Monday announced positive topline data from a study of its COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 6 to 11 years, saying it generated a “robust neutralizing antibody response” and had a “favorable safety profile.”

The director of the CDC signed off on her vaccine advisory committee’s recommendations to allow booster doses of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines and emphasized that Americans can now choose their own booster shot.