Patients who recover from COVID-19 and then retest positive for the new coronavirus are not infectious and cannot transmit the virus, a new study shows, according to Bloomberg.
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Many medical leaders have reported widespread antibiotic use for COVID-19 patients at their hospitals, which may contribute to rising rates of antibiotic resistance, according to the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis.
A large-scale clinical trial has shown a systemic, long-acting HIV drug to effectively prevent HIV, according to findings from a large National Institutes of Health study published May 18.
Seattle Children's Hospital has closed some of its operating rooms after again detecting mold, detailed in a May 12 self-report to the state Department of Health, according to The Seattle Times.
Droplets generated by speech could be another mode of transmission for the new coronavirus, as a new study finds droplets created when speaking normally can linger in the air for up to 14 minutes, according to The New York Times.
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Researchers translated an informative hand-washing song into 26 different languages to help promote hand hygiene compliance during the pandemic, according to an article published in The Journal of Hospital Infection.
A CDC strategy for releasing COVID-19 patients from isolation that relies on symptom checking instead of testing may result in patients returning to their communities too soon, according to a letter from researchers in the Journal of Infection.
The U.S. should require all Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to promote herd immunity, an emergency medicine physician wrote in an op-ed for STAT.
About 51 percent of children with COVID-19 who underwent testing had co-infections with other respiratory pathogens, a study to be published in the journal Pediatrics shows.
The new coronavirus can be present in the semen of infected patients, but this does not necessarily prove it can be transmitted sexually, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.