Respiratory Infections News

The White House announced a rollout plan to vaccinate children aged 5 to 11 years against COVID-19 should the FDA authorize the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in this age group.

Combining the immunomodulator interferon beta-1a with remdesivir did not improve treatment among hospitalized adults with COVID-19 compared with remdesivir alone, data from a clinical trial showed.

The ACP announced that it is working with YouTube to develop messages to counteract misinformation about COVID-19, its treatment and vaccines.

Nearly half of the world’s population, primarily in low- and middle-income countries, has little to no access to essential diagnostic tools for common diseases, according to findings published by The Lancet Commission on Diagnostics.

In a pooled analysis of the LEAP 1 and LEAP 2 trials, lefamulin was safe and its efficacy was comparable to that of moxifloxacin in patients with unilobar and multilobar community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

A rapid sputum-based assay accurately detected resistance to isoniazid, fluoroquinolones, ethionamide, amikacin, kanamycin and capreomycin in people with tuberculosis symptoms, showing its potential to diagnose drug-resistant TB.

An FDA advisory committee on Friday unanimously recommended that anyone who received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should be able to receive a second dose at least 2 months after receiving their initial shot.

An FDA advisory committee on Thursday unanimously recommended the authorization of a booster dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccine for certain people, to be given at half the regular dose.

Disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have reversed years of global progress in the fight against tuberculosis, leading to an increase in deaths from TB for the first time in over a decade, according to WHO’s 2021 Global TB report.

More than half of COVID-19 survivors experience symptoms consistent with long COVID up to 6 months after recovery, data from a systematic review published in JAMA Network Open showed.