While incidence of community-associated and healthcare-associated community-onset MRSA bacteremia declined during the pandemic, hospital-onset cases rose substantially.
Overall, the hazard ratio for in-hospital mortality at 28 days was 0.73.
Although the risk was greater with moderate-to-severe infections, even mild cases were linked to more than double the risk.
Self‐reported physical activity was lower among those with long COVID.
Participants with ongoing long-COVID symptoms were more likely to report any productivity loss in the preceding 3 months than those without ongoing long-COVID symptoms.
Wastewater levels for COVID-19 are low, while for influenza A and RSV they are very low.
When CDC advisers widened their recommendation in 2023, most members were swayed by data, including those for long COVID, showing that no group is at low risk for the virus.
Both the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines carried the same 15% increased risk of an extended menstrual cycle.
More than half of participants had lung abnormality imaging at baseline.
Moderna's combination vaccine was intended for adults 50 and older.
The ARTIC 2.0 project will expand use of a low-cost, real-time genome sequencing technique used to detect COVID-19 variants to conduct surveillance on a wider variety of pathogens.
The agency told vaccine makers that COVID-19 vaccines used in the US starting in fall 2025 should be based on JN.1 lineage strains, preferably the LP.8.1 strain.
This is the first H5N1 human case reported in mainland China since July 2024.
Experts say illnesses don't seem more severe and more studies are needed to further assess the risk of antibody escape.
A retrospective analysis of hospitalized VA patients finds that prior flu or RSV infection more than doubled the odds of subsequent Streptococcus pneumoniae infection.
The company's "next-generation" COVID-19 vaccine, mNexspike, was approved for adults 65 and older and younger people at risk of severe disease.
30.6% of ICU patients experienced CMV reactivation.
The authors said the findings may help develop environmental risk alerts.
The authors saw a greater reduction and more extended fluctuations in sleep duration among people reporting long COVID with sleep problems.
In other developments, the ECDC today reported a slow rise in COVID activity in the Europe, which may partly reflect waning population immunity.
Older people, those in excellent health, and those who trust the healthcare system were most likely to say they would test.
The April RSV, meningococcal, and chikungunya vaccine recommendations from the previous ACIP panel are now official policy.
Spikevax will be available to kids 6 months to 11 years old who are at risk of more severe COVID-19.
US COVID wastewater detections ticked up slightly, from very low to low, and are highest in the West.
The surges in wastewater detection accurately predicted case counts for the following week.
