Infection Control

In the period before China enacted travel restrictions, about 86 percent of all new coronavirus infections were undocumented, according to a new study published in Science.

Antibiotic don't necessarily improve outcomes for children discharged from the emergency department who are suspected of having pneumonia, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The novel coronavirus does not appear to pass on from mother to child at birth, according to a case study conducted in China.

Clinicians could consider using "convalescent serum" — the blood serum of recovered novel coronavirus patients — to prevent and treat COVID-19, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.

The new coronavirus can spread from one person to another in less than a week, and over 10 percent of patients are infected by an asymptomatic person with COVID-19, a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases shows.

The new coronavirus may cause "moderate to severe respiratory illness" in children, a study of six children in China shows.

In early January, a smattering of news reports detailed a mysterious pneumonia outbreak sickening about three dozen people in Wuhan, China. Researchers identified the source of the outbreak as a novel coronavirus strain later named SARS-CoV-2, which rapidly spread across Asia…

A universal influenza vaccine candidate proved to be potentially effective in a new study, according to news website Live Science.

Infants born to mothers with confirmed new coronavirus infections should be isolated, if possible, according to an interim guidance from the CDC advising healthcare personnel caring for pregnant patients in the midst of the new virus outbreak.

Physicians, nurses and other vaccine advocates are banding together to defend against anti-vaccine attacks online, reports The New York Times.