Pediatric ID News

An extended course of antibiotics showed no short-term clinical benefit for children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia compared with a standard, shorter course, a study found.

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine was found to be safe and effective among children aged 6 to 11 years, according to interim phase 2/3 findings from the KidCOVE trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

With the CDC suggesting that adenovirus should be considered in diagnosis of acute hepatitis in children, amidst a possible outbreak of cases in Europe and the U.S., some pediatricians are wondering what to look out for in their own practices.

Women with COVID-19 during pregnancy who subsequently received one mRNA vaccine dose had the highest levels of antibodies at delivery compared with infected, unvaccinated women and vaccinated women who were never infected.

CHICAGO — Although questions remain regarding SARS-CoV-2, including the number of boosters a person will eventually require and how to manage patients with long COVID, physicians have learned a lot about the virus.

Infants born to mothers who were immunized with an investigational vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus — or RSV — received antibodies across the placenta, with no “evident safety concerns,” results from a phase 2b trial showed.

LISBON, Portugal — Pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection passed antibodies to newborns in most cases, although there were no cases of neonatal infection in a study presented here.

The FDA has approved Veklury for pediatric patients aged 28 days and older who are hospitalized for COVID-19 or have mild to moderate COVID-19 and are at risk for severe disease.

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.

In this video, Andrew Pinto, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, MSc, discusses best practices for planning and implementing successful COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Canada and the United States.