by Elise Takahama, The Seattle Times Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainWashington state’s summer surge of COVID-19 is showing early signs of waning after a particularly infectious couple of months—but don’t relax just yet, public health experts say. Respiratory virus season is right around the corner. Although rates are still nowhere close to where they were during...
August 14, 2024 by Robin Foster Parvovirus B19, a seasonal respiratory virus that subsided during the pandemic, is making a comeback, U.S. health officials warned Tuesday. In a health alert issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency said it has received reports of higher test positivity rates in recent months:...
by Lindsay Smith Rogers, Johns Hopkins University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last year’s “tripledemic” of flu, COVID-19 and RSV left many of us wary of what the coming respiratory virus season might bring. But this year’s landscape is already different, with new vaccines and treatments, like the game-changing antibody that protects kids from RSV, offering new...
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA AT AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: DR. RAVINDRA KOLHE CREDIT: MICHAEL HOLAHAN, AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 1, 2021) – With mask wearing and social distancing on the decline and the cold and flu season upon us, researchers have developed a viral panel that enables the simultaneous testing for SARS-CoV-2 along with numerous common respiratory...
By Susan Emigh The N95 respirator masks should be preserved for health-care workers involved in inserting breathing tubes for patients with COVID-19. More common medical masks are fine for all other COVID-19 treatment, says preliminary research from McMaster University A systematic review of four randomized controlled trials on masks done between 1990 and last month...
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER DALLAS – Sept. 3, 2019 – Researchers may finally have an answer in the long-running controversy over whether the common surgical mask is as effective as more expensive respirator-type masks in protecting health care workers from flu and other respiratory viruses. A study published today in JAMA compared the ubiquitous surgical...
