Highlights from WSPID 2023

The fundamental difference highlighted between HIV treatment and COVID-19 vaccine misinformation was the advent of social media, which circumvents editorial barriers and allows misinformants to easily communicate with one another. A systematic review and meta-analysis on long COVID in children and adolescents by Lopez-Leon and colleagues found that the prevalence of long-COVID was 25·24%, and the most prevalent clinical manifestations were mood symptoms (16·50%), fatigue (9·66%), and sleep disorders (8·42%). [...]vaccines overcome the evolution of resistant strains of pathogens, whereas when antibiotics are used resistance is inevitable; secondly, vaccines are in a golden era, whereas the new antibiotic pipeline has been limited over the past decades; thirdly, vaccines preserve the patient's microbiome, whereas antibiotics disrupt it; and lastly, there is existing empirical evidence that vaccines have considerable direct and indirect effects on resistance.