Infectious Diseases
Conference Coverage
Fauci: Cautious optimism for COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2020
Top health official is “cautiously optimistic” for vaccine distribution before end of year, pending favorable safety and efficacy data.
Conference Coverage
Four-week, 8-week CAB/RPV injections safe, effective in women
At 48 weeks, 3.6% of women in the 8-week group had at least 50 copies/mL of HIV-1 RNA.
From the Journals
Social factors predicted peripartum depressive symptoms in Black women with HIV
Those factors included having low income and experiencing intimate partner violence.
Conference Coverage
Heterosexual men likely to have unmet HIV treatment needs
In high-income countries, men with HIV who had sex with men were diagnosed earlier than men with HIV who had sex with women.
From the Journals
Dual therapy serves as well as triple for most HIV patients
Patients with a low viral load were significantly more likely to experience treatment failure on dual therapy than on triple therapy.
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Being HIV positive increases risk of death from COVID-19
For patients below the age of 70, the risk of mortality was double in people with HIV.
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Switch to integrase inhibitor regimen safe and effective
Forty-eight weeks after the switch, virologic suppression was maintained among 94.3% of those on an integrase inhibitor–based regimen.
Conference Coverage
Islatravir + doravirine maintains HIV viral suppression
ISL+DOR appeared to be “well tolerated,” according to the investigators.
News
C. difficile linked to surgery risk in pediatric Crohn’s
Patients who tested positive for Clostridoides difficile in the first year after diagnosis were more likely to go in for colectomy.
From the Journals
Fecal transplant linked to reduced C. difficile mortality
A hospital’s switch to fecal transplants was associated with reduced mortality in patients with severe or fulminant Clostridioides difficile...
Feature
What’s in a number? 697,633 children with COVID-19
Already-low hospitalization and death rates among children are getting lower.