Tense Decision-Making Over COVID-19 Booster Shots
CDC joins FDA in recommending Pfizer booster shot for 65 & up, people at high risk and those with occupational ...
Tag: Vaccines
Military Issues COVID Vaccine Guidance to West Coast Marines
Active duty personnel must be fully vaccinated by Nov. 24, and reserve personnel by Dec. 17 Marine Corps Installations West, ...
New J&J Data Shows Second COVID Shot Boosts Antibodies and Protection – But Single Dose Still Strong Against Delta Variant
On Sept 22, 2021, Johnson & Johnson released data that answers two questions many people have likely been wondering about ...
Massive Numbers of New COVID–19 Infections, Not Vaccines, Main Driver of New Coronavirus Variants
The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on daily life. But how mutations, random ...
Phase 1 Trial Begins for Oxford University’s ChAdOx1 Plague Vaccine
Researchers are recruiting healthy volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial (PlaVac) to test a new candidate vaccine against plague, ...
T Cells Primed Up From mRNA Vaccines Able to Recognize SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern
Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have found that T cells from people who have recovered from COVID-19 ...
Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccinations Resume: Understanding Risks and Benefits
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration lifted the pause on the Johnson & ...
What is Thrombocytopenia, the Rare Condition Possibly Linked to the AstraZeneca Vaccine?
The federal government has asked Australia’s medical and vaccine regulators to urgently consider the European Medicines Agency’s finding of a ...
CDC Awards $3 Billion in Wide-Reaching Campaign to Boost Vaccination Uptake
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded funding to support local efforts to increase vaccine uptake ...
New Insights on Cause of Rare Anaphylaxis Following COVID-19 Vaccination
On the first day of the UK campaign for COVID-19 vaccination, there were reports of two cases of anaphylaxis--a severe, ...
How Good Is the AstraZeneca Vaccine – And Is It Really Safe?
Over the past few months, there have been concerns over how effective and how safe the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine really ...
How Effective is the First Shot of the Pfizer or Moderna Vaccine?
As the COVID-19 vaccines reach more people across the country, some people have asked: Could we delay the second dose ...
Applying Lessons from Annual Flu Vaccine Strain Selection to COVID Variants
While the future of the pandemic remains uncertain, we’ll probably have to live with COVID-19 for some time. We face ...
Why We’ll Get COVID Booster Vaccines Quickly and How We Know They’re Safe
The United States’ drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said last week COVID vaccines updated for variants won’t ...
Confusion Reigns About Nigeria’s Distribution Plan for Its First Batch of COVID-19 Vaccines
Nigeria has started to vaccinate people after receiving its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines. Virologist and senior research fellow Dr ...
OSU’s New Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19 Capitalizes on Measles Vaccine’s Successful History
A new SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, developed by giving a key protein’s gene a ride into the body while encased in ...
New Evidence COVID-19 Antibodies, Vaccines Less Effective Against Worrisome Variants
New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that three new, fast-spreading variants of the virus ...
Texas Biomed Scientists Partner with DoD to Test SARS-CoV-2 Decontamination Technologies
Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) received two Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Health Agency subcontracts to assess the efficacy ...
AstraZeneca Vaccine: Careless Talk Has Dented Confidence and Uptake in Europe
At the start of the year, one of the main causes of the EU’s slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines was ...
3 Innovations Fueled By COVID-19 That Will Outlast the Pandemic
A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of ...
