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Stay on top of coronavirus developments from March 10, 2020.

HHS announced that they will purchase 500 million N95 respirators over the next 18 months.

The abstract authors report that both HIV viral load in plasma and proviral HIV DNA in CD4 cells have remained below levels of detection for up to 30 months.

Reducing barriers to care is paramount for people living with HIV and one such barrier in some countries, such as Zimbabwe, is high treatment loads that affect health system efficiency.

The state of New Jersey has confirmed its first COVID-19 death.

The last confirmed patient with Ebola was discharged from care on March 4, 2020.

Women living with HIV who are on an antiretroviral therapy regimen of dolutegravir experienced persistently higher weight postpartum compared with women on efavirenz in Botswana.

Travel history may be useful as a fifth vital sign in detecting coronavirus or any novel infectious disease.

The impact of COVID-19 has started to trickle into the sphere of conferences and large events.

“There are structural drivers that are impeding prevention and treatment among people who inject drugs,” Strathdee said in an interview with Contagion®.

The FTC and FDA have issued 7 companies warning letters for marketing fraudulent COVID-19 products.

For African men living with HIV who are not virally suppressed, community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) significantly increased viral suppression compared with clinic-based ART.

Stay on top of coronavirus developments from March 9, 2020.

New Week 96 data from the FLAIR study indicate that once-monthly injections of cabotegravir and rilpivirine remains non-inferior and safe when compared with the daily, oral 3-drug regimen of ABC/DTG/3TC.

A team of investigators inadvertently discovered a way to preserve vaccines at room temperature for long periods of time.

A team of investigators hypothesized that prevalent syphilis infection in women with and without HIV may be a way to identify individuals who are at an elevated risk of a stillbirth over time.

Despite the high level of knowledge surrounding immediate initiation of ART, the practice is not yet the standard of care across clinics in NYC.

An international team of investigators shares 48-week results from ATLAS-2M, which tested out every other month dosing of the intramuscular injection compared with monthly dosing.

Two new papers highlight the importance of the gastrointestinal tract in symptoms and spread of coronavirus.

Investigators conducted 2 studies on intravenously administered GS-9722, 1 in HIV-negative participants and 1 in virally suppressed people with HIV.

A generic pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option would greatly expand coverage among vulnerable populations and may well be the most cost-effective and safe option.

CVS Health is opening a Crisis Response Line to ease coronavirus-related anxiety.

A study evaluated whether frequent antibiotic use is associated with reduced infection related hospital admissions.

Pets are not currently known to spread coronavirus, according to the CDC.

Growing evidence suggests that antimicrobials also interact with host innate immunity to provide potent indirect effects which enhance bacterial clearance and may result in more rapid and complete effects

"We're going to have to figure out what our American approach is to this to and how we're going to take more aggressive mitigation steps," Scott Gottlieb, MD, said in his keynote address.

All health carriers regulated by the Washington Insurance Commissioner must waive copays and deductibles for consumers requiring COVID-19 testing through May 4, according to an order issued Wednesday.

The World Health Organization says tens of millions of medical masks, gloves, and goggles will be needed each month as healthcare professionals attempt to deal with the spread of COVID-19.

Since the hospitalization of this patient, there are a reported 12 coronavirus deaths in the United States, with the majority in Washington state.

Here is a look at infectious disease-related US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) news from the week of March 1, 2020.