Data: Pediatric hospital strain amid 2022-23 respiratory virus season not tied to decline in beds
A Yale University–led research team reports that high US pediatric hospital bed occupancy (bed strain) and large differences in between-hospital...
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CDC announces changes to COVID, childhood vaccines, touting ‘informed consent’
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it is now applying individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination instead...
US COVID activity falling
Another child has died from measles in Canada, this time a premature infant from Alberta, which has been experiencing a...
Infectious disease specialists lament ‘chaos’ of recent ACIP meeting
Experts with the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) today expressed alarm and concern about vaccine access now and in...
CDC advisers weaken COVID vaccine recommendations but stop short of requiring prescriptions
After at times contentious discussions over the science behind COVID vaccine and suspicions over its impacts, the vaccine advisory panel...
Universal COVID vaccination saves lives, averts 10% to 20% of disease burden, estimates suggest
A modeling study today in JAMA Network Open estimates that COVID-19 vaccination of all people in the United States in...
School report: Pre-K students, staff most likely to have acute respiratory infections
A study in the North Kansas City, Missouri, pre-K–12 public school system finds that pre-K (pre-kindergarten) and elementary students had...
Kids with COVID had a 50% to 60% higher risk of depression, anxiety in 2021, researchers say
Joice Kelly / Unsplash Relative to uninfected children, COVID-19 patients aged 8 to 17 years were at a 49% higher...
Senate committee to probe CDC shake-up; New Jersey eases COVID vaccine access
Sen Bill Cassidy, MD, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee yesterday announced a hearing for...
Minnesota, New York issue executive orders promoting access to COVID vaccines
Governors in Minnesota and New York are issuing executive orders in an effort to protect vaccine access in those states,...