Respiratory Infections News

Researchers estimated that the COVID-19 pandemic shortened aggregate U.S. life expectancy by more than 9 million years, and Black and Hispanic individuals lost more than twice as many quality-adjusted life years per capita than white individuals.

Beginning in November, the Biden administration will loosen travel restrictions for people arriving from other countries who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a White House advisor told reporters Monday.

Because of pandemic-related disruptions in hepatitis C care, researchers said thousands of cases will remain unidentified with fewer patients initiating care and achieving SVR.

The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, voted 16-2 on Friday afternoon not to recommend a booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine to Americans aged 16 years and older.

Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 hospitalization among U.S. adults without immunocompromising conditions was highest for the Moderna vaccine compared with the other two available COVID-19 vaccines, researchers reported in MMWR.

Comorbidities can factor into severe COVID-19 in children, according to a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Investigators have launched the Twin 360 study to examine COVID-19’s impact on twins and perhaps better understand why some people continue to experience symptoms after their initial infection, according to a press release.

The NIH has allocated nearly $470 million to fund large-scale national studies of long COVID that it said could involve tens of thousands of patients.

President Joe Biden announced a six-pronged plan last week to combat a national rise in COVID-19 cases brought on by the delta variant.