SARS-Cov-2

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.

LISBON, Portugal — In this video, Luke B. Snell, MD, MSc, MBBS, from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, explains the case of a patient who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 for 505 consecutive days — thought to be a record.

The CDC held a media briefing regarding COVID-19 updates that included current cases and new data from a report published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on seroprevalence in the U.S.

LISBON, Portugal — A study conducted among health care workers in the United Kingdom demonstrated that longer intervals between COVID-19 vaccine doses produced higher antibody levels, researchers reported here.

LISBON, Portugal — The average number of daily COVID-19 deaths is 6% higher on weekends compared with weekdays, according to a global study presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Among people with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, women were more symptomatic than men — not just in the acute phase but also months later — according to a retrospective prospective study in the Journal of Women’s Health.

LISBON, Portugal — An analysis of antimicrobial resistance at more than 270 U.S. hospitals found some increase during the first 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the prior 8 months.

LISBON, Portugal — In this video, virologist Angela Rasmussen, PhD, discusses the steps she is taking to safely attend the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in person.

LISBON, Portugal — The risk for death from COVID-19 is three to four times higher than it is from influenza among hospitalized patients requiring oxygen therapy, researchers found.

LISBON, Portugal — A fully vaccinated and boosted health care worker tested positive for the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 just 20 days after testing positive for the delta variant, researchers reported here.