Infectious Diseases
Feature
Inflammation and immunity troubles top long-COVID suspect list
“I think that it’s a much more complex picture than just inflammation, or just autoimmunity, or just immune dysregulation,” says expert.
Feature
COVID emergency orders ending: What’s next?
There will be cost-sharing changes for COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and certain treatments.
News from the FDA/CDC
Children and COVID: Weekly cases may have doubled in early January
Preliminary CDC data show an increase in new cases that was not reported by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital...
Opinion
Managing respiratory symptoms in the ‘tripledemic’ era
Is it COVID-19, flu, or even RSV?
From the Journals
Novel nomogram distinguishes pneumonias
Adenovirus patients were more likely to be men, with bilateral lung lesions, than those with Chlamydia psittaci.
Feature
Long COVID affecting more than one-third of college students, faculty
A new study is unique for evaluating mostly healthy, young adults and for its rare look at long COVID in a university community.
From the Journals
Flu, other common viruses linked to neurologic disease
Researchers found 22 links between viruses and common neurological conditions often seen in older people.
News
FDA wants annual COVID boosters, just like annual flu shots
The booster’s formulation would be selected in June targeting the most threatening COVID-19 strains.
Feature
Is it time for yet another COVID booster? It’s complicated
Would getting a sixth COVID-19 shot even be enough, or would it be too much?
News
Possible bivalent vaccine link to strokes in people over 65
The CDC and FDA do not recommend people change their vaccine practices.