Infectious Disease

Six former advisers published opinion articles Thursday in JAMA detailing what needs to be done now to put a plan in place

Study focused on 30 people infected with COVID-19 at five workplaces that experienced likely outbreaks of the omicron variant last month

Change will be welcome news to people who refrained from traveling for fear they would get stranded in a foreign country

Compared with White inpatients, Black inpatients less likely to receive cefazolin, more likely to receive clindamycin for SSTIs

Full vaccination dose, younger age, female sex, and previously having had COVID-19 linked to greater odds of adverse effects

Both stores were selling the kits at cost or at a discount but now have raised the prices

Biden also announced that his administration is doubling its order of new Pfizer antiviral pill

Maternal anti-spike IgG levels detectable at delivery regardless of timing of vaccination; levels highest with early third-trimester vaccination

71.2 percent of the physicians answered incorrectly about who determined reasonable accommodations for patients with disability

Agency also endorses shorter time between shots