COVID-19

Findings from a new study suggest that fit tests for N95 masks can safely be done every 3 years instead of every year, researchers reported.

A fourth dose of a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine provided added protection for previously infected and SARS-CoV-2 naïve patients compared with a fourth dose of a monovalent vaccine, researchers in Singapore found.

As the United States settles into the endemic phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care professionals should continuously evaluate whether masking is necessarily and under what circumstances, according to an expert.

A study conducted by the Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium found that five modifiable risk factors accounted for more than half of cases of cardiovascular disease in men and women and 20% of deaths in both sexes.

For the latest story in our “Life during COVID” series, we asked experts to describe the impact the pandemic has had on patient health and the practice of medicine in the United States.

Patients with cancer experienced a greater burden of COVID-19-associated mortality during the winter Omicron wave than the general U.S. population, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been described by Anthony S. Fauci, MD, as “the most catastrophic acute infectious disease outbreak” in more than a century.

Patients with COVID-19 demonstrate a 43% increased risk for new-onset autoimmune diseases in the 3 to 15 months following acute infection, according to data published in Clinical Rheumatology.

Pulse oximeters more frequently overestimated arterial oxygen saturation among Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with white patients, leading to delayed COVID-19 therapy, a recent study found.

Among patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 community-acquired pneumonia, those with vs. without cardiovascular complications had a heightened mortality rate, according to results published in CHEST.