Category: Vaccine Headlines
Which Adults Need Polio Boosters
Precision Vaccinations The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee is discussing how to make the current polio vaccination recommendations easier to understand. On February 23, 2023, Sarah Kidd, M.D., MPH, presented to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) proposed language for adult polio vaccinations in the U.S. The CDC’s current recommendations for […]
Mar 7, 2023
Develop vaccines for all animal influenza strain, says incoming WHO chief scientist
(Reuters) Governments should invest in vaccines for all strains of influenza virus that exist in the animal kingdom as an insurance policy in case of an outbreak in humans, the incoming chief scientist at the World Health Organization said on Monday. Countries ranging from the United States and Britain to France and Japan have suffered […]
Feb 21, 2023
COVID-19 vaccination linked to fewer cardiac events
(Journal of the American College of Cardiology) Analyzing the most extensive datasets in the United States, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have revealed that vaccination against COVID-19 is associated with fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues among people who were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. […]
Feb 21, 2023
White House opposes bill to lift foreign air visitor vaccination rule
(Reuters) The White House said Tuesday it opposes legislation before Congress that would end a requirement that most foreign air travelers be vaccinated against COVID-19. The House of Representatives is set to vote on the bill on Wednesday. The Biden administration in June dropped its requirement that people arriving in the country by air must test negative for COVID […]
Feb 7, 2023
Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study
(NIH) A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine, developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, could someday be an important tool […]
Jan 31, 2023
Is the Bivalent Booster Any Better Than the Original?
(MedPageToday Video) In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, discusses his recent articleopens in a new tab or window diving into new studiesopens in a new tab or window on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 bivalent booster versus the monovalent booster. One thing that people are really interested in right now is this question as to whether […]
Jan 31, 2023
COVID Risk Up to 50% Higher for Nursing Home Residents Behind on Vaccination
(MedPageToday) Nursing home residents who were not up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines had a 30% to 50% higher risk of getting infected compared with those who were up to date, CDC researchers said. From Oct. 10, 2022 to Jan. 8, 2023, weekly COVID incidence rates ranged from 7.2 to 15.6 per 1,000 nursing […]
Jan 31, 2023
Do I need another booster? The CDC director answered your questions.
(Washington Post) With another covid winter upon us, a new variant, XBB.1.5, is dominating the latest coronavirus surge in the United States. Although hospitalizations have started to decline, public health experts warn the country still faces elevated levels of the coronavirus and other respiratory viruses. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, answered reader questions […]
Jan 24, 2023
Don’t wait for an Ebola outbreak to vaccinate people against it
(Nature) Uganda’s most recent Ebola outbreak should be a wake-up call to the world. Last October, just 3 weeks into the outbreak, the disease spread to Kampala, a well-connected city of 1.5 million people. From there, it might easily have entered other countries. As the incident manager at the Ugandan Ministry of Health, I coordinated […]
Jan 24, 2023
Long Covid Is Keeping Significant Numbers of People Out of Work, Study Finds
(New York Times) An analysis of workers’ compensation claims in New York found that 71 percent of claimants with long Covid needed continuing medical treatment or were unable to work for six months or more. Long Covid is having a significant effect on America’s work force, preventing substantial numbers of people from going back to […]
Jan 24, 2023