The Infection Control Today® COVID-19 page brings readers the latest information and clinical updates on the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, from case counts and hospitalization rates to data on effective treatments for severe disease and the circulating viral variants.
March 29, 2023
Joshua Rhein, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, discusses whether obesity affects vaccine response and what can be done.
March 29, 2023
Learn from your mistakes; reach for the stars. We all have learning to do. Just don't quit!
March 24, 2023
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending March 26, 2023.
March 22, 2023
The HAC and Hospital VBP penalties were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic but are now back in place. Are they forcing hospitals to rethink/reestablish previous practices, and what is the impact?
March 21, 2023
NIH News Release: "...findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an effect akin to that observed in earlier studies showing long-term damage to the immune system after infection with viruses such as hepatitis C or HIV."
March 20, 2023
Recently, an outbreak of Marburg virus disease occurred in Equatorial Guinea. Infection Control Today® learned more about this rare but severe and often fatal disease and what is being done to combat it.
March 18, 2023
Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today®’s highlights for the week ending March 19, 2023.
March 17, 2023
Is the global community in danger of a fungal pandemic, as portrayed in the series The Last of Us? Infection Control Today® finds out.
March 15, 2023
Saskia v. Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, CIC, gives updates on congenital syphilis, skunks and H5N1, and COVID-19 on this Ides of March.
March 15, 2023
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine must be administered at least 2 months after the primary vaccination series.