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Should COVID continue to be treated differently than other respiratory viruses? CDC and ID physicians note that COVID is more highly transmissible than other URIs we have more history with, and the outcomes of severe illness and long COVID are important differences as well. And the US is still seeing some 300 deaths per day from COVID.

Are the findings a result of bacterial endocarditis? Resurgent sarcoidosis? An opportunistic fungal pulmonary invasion? Review the workup and cast your vote on what you think the diagnosis is.

The updated AAP guidance “recommends programmatic consideration of providing more than 5 consecutive doses of palivizumab depending on the duration of the current RSV surge in a given region of the country.”

Anthony Fauci, MD, reflects on the surprising and dramatic challenges faced by a medical specialty that was in the 1960s and up to the late ’70s predicted to be destined for obsolescence.

A trio of posters look at clinical effectiveness fostemsavir for multidrug-resistant patients, real-world efficacy of the dolutegravir/lamivudine combination as a switch strategy, and a newer drug in the pipeline, islatravir prodrug BRII-732.