Invasive Group A Strep in Children Surged After Pandemic Protections Relaxed

Cases of IGAS infections in children surged after decreasing early in the COVID-19 pandemic, which investigators attribute, in part, to reduced use of the protective measures imposed in the pandemic. The trend emerging from the case series,1 drawn from 3 decades of population-based surveillance of IGAS in Southern Ontario, Canada, was marked by an increase […]