Vaccines

The AAP released a public service announcement depicting parents who get their children caught up on vaccines as superheroes.

Researchers published data from a late-stage clinical trial of a once-promising HIV vaccine candidate more than a year after the trial was stopped early because the vaccine was not preventing infections.

The relationship between asthma and severity of COVID-19 remains unclear. Research continues to accumulate on the effect of asthma on COVID-19 severity.

The national vaccine exemption rate among children entering kindergarten in the 2019-2020 school year was 2.5% from at least one vaccine, the same rate as the previous year, new data published in MMWR showed.

The Healio editors have compiled a list of the most-read news from the virtual CHEST Annual 2020 Meeting.

While experts are optimistic that multiple COVID-19 vaccine products will be available in late 2020 or early 2021, ongoing questions remain surrounding safety, ethics and distribution, according to panelists at ACR Convergence 2020.

The intersection of immunology and rheumatology may be a fruitful source of information regarding COVID-19 therapeutic possibilities and vaccine development, according to the keynote speaker at ACR 2020.

COVID-19 took center stage at the virtual CHEST Annual Meeting, with a keynote by Anthony S. Fauci, MD.

An effective vaccine for the novel coronavirus likely will be identified in the next few months, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert told ESMO Virtual Congress 2020 attendees.

Recently, the AAP announced that pediatric cases of COVID-19 surpassed 500,000 in the United States.