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What Is the Order of COVID Symptoms This Fall?
Very Well Health COVID-19 infections are expected to rise again now that fall is here and winter won’t be far behind. New variants like Eris (EG.5) and Omicron BA.2.86 are making the rounds, and many people are wondering if they’ll cause worse illness or different symptoms, and which symptoms they might experience first. Experts say that COVID symptoms have pretty much […]
Oct 4, 2023
mRNA COVID vaccines saved lives and won a Nobel — what’s next for the technology?
Nature In just three short years, mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives, achieved household recognition and, as of this week, become the subject of a Nobel Prize. Yet the field shows no signs of slowing down. In the wake of the technology’s dramatic success in generating quick-turnaround COVID-19 vaccines, investors have poured billions of dollars […]
Oct 4, 2023
CDC is no longer distributing Covid-19 vaccination cards, once a staple of the pandemic
CNN Do you know where your Covid-19 vaccine card is? If not, you may want to track it down, because getting a new one could be tricky. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is no longer distributing the white cards that were given out with Covid-19 vaccines earlier in the pandemic, according to […]
Oct 4, 2023
MRNA Could Reinvent Vaccines. The Flu Is Next.
Bloomberg Pharma companies that were Covid heroes see mRNA flu shots as a solution for falling sales. Brent Teichman was establishing himself as a promising young chef in Louisville, Kentucky, when he called his parents — a doctor and nurse — to tell them he was struggling to fight off a virus. They instructed him […]
Oct 4, 2023
Why the new COVID shot is a game-changer (and why the term ‘booster’ is obsolete)
National Geographic The latest vaccine formula is available in local pharmacies now. Experts say it will be like the annual flu shot: one and done. Here’s why. Unlike earlier in the pandemic, when the initial vaccines were followed by a seemingly never-ending stream of boosters, the recently updated COVID vaccine is simple: a single shot. […]
Oct 3, 2023
FDA Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted for use in individuals 12 years of age and older to include the 2023-2024 formula. Individuals 12 years of age and older previously vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine (and who have not already been vaccinated […]
Oct 3, 2023
Covid Is Back. Here’s What You Need to Know
Bloomberg While the Covid-19 public health emergency may feel like a distant memory, the virus isn’t done with us. Hospitalizations have climbed back up and experts predict Covid cases will rise further as the weather turns colder. But it’s not totally clear how we should prepare. When the darkest days of the pandemic passed, so […]
Sep 27, 2023
What Is Disease X? How Scientists Are Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Washington Post It sounds like something Elon Musk might have cooked up: “Disease X.” In fact, the term was coined years ago as a way of getting scientists to work on medical countermeasures for unknown infectious threats — novel coronaviruses like the one that causes Covid-19, for example — instead of just known ones, like […]
Sep 27, 2023
Merck Covid drug linked to virus mutations that can spread between people, new study says
NBC News A new study released Monday said Merck’s widely used antiviral Covid pill can cause mutations in the virus that occasionally spread to other people, raising questions about whether the drug has the potential to accelerate Covid’s evolution. The findings may increase scrutiny about the usefulness of the treatment, molnupiravir, which was one of the first Covid drugs available to doctors […]
Sep 26, 2023