COVID-19 reinfections have seemingly become common since omicron and its sublineages took hold, The New York Times reported June 11. 

COVID-19 deaths will likely increase nationwide through the end of the month, CDC modeling suggests. 

Ivermectin did not significantly reduce recovery time among COVID-19 patients in a study of more than 1,500 people, The New York Times reported June 12. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare plans to open its eighth nursing education campus in partnership with Galen College of Nursing. 

The CDC is encouraging clinicians to look out for a broad range of symptoms that might be signs of a monkeypox infection as the national case tally grows, Politico reported June 10. 

Babies born to mothers who had COVID-19 during pregnancy were more likely to be diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder by their first birthday compared to those born to mothers who did not have COVID-19, according to preliminary findings published June 9 in JAMA Network Open.

The nation's seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases increased this week after falling slightly last week for the first time since late March, according to the CDC's COVID-19 data tracker weekly review published June 10.

The Biden administration will no longer require international travelers to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test before boarding flights to the U.S. — a rule that had been in place since January 2021, The Washington Post reported June 10. 

The overall expert consensus on the monkeypox outbreak right now is that it won't reach any level comparable to COVID-19. 

Numerous viruses that were seemingly dormant during the pandemic are returning in new and atypical ways, CNBC reported June 10.

The World Health Organization's advisory group studying the origins of COVID-19 said bats likely carried an ancestor of the coronavirus that may have then spilled over into a mammal sold at a market, but added that more data is needed to study how the virus spread to people, The New York Times reported June 9.

Hospital-associated COVID-19 infections may stem from airborne virus spread among employees and patients in hospital common areas, such as nurses stations, according to a study published June 8 in JAMA Network Open.

The risk of breakthrough COVID-19 infections was 28 percent higher in people who are HIV-positive, according to a study published June 7 in JAMA Network Open.

Global health officials are warning of the potential for monkeypox to become endemic outside of Africa if the current outbreak isn't contained, NBC News reported June 8. 

While fatigue is the most commonly reported symptom among adult and pediatric long COVID-19 patients, physicians at Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital have noticed another pattern in pediatric patients. 

Pending authorization from federal regulators, vaccinations for the nation's estimated 19 million children younger than 5 could be available as soon as June 21, The Wall Street Journal reported June 9. 

Global health officials have identified more than 700 probable cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin among children in 34 countries, the World Health Organization said June 8.

Hospitals now encouraged to leverage data to improve OR environments

Guidelines for diagnosing and treating long-COVID-19 cardiovascular complications were updated by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation on June 7. 

Ten Minnesota health systems have declared gun violence a public health crisis and are partnering on creative solutions to prevent gun violence at a local and national level.