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 ...
Tag: Vaccines
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 ...
Can Zika Trigger ADE? New Research Shows How Antibodies Stick To and Block Zika Virus
The Zika outbreak of 2015 and 2016 is having lasting impacts on children whose mothers became infected with the virus ...
DARPA Awards Nucleic Acids On-Demand (NOW) Contract to GE Research and Collaborators
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded project funding worth up to $41 million to GE Research and a ...
How Does the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Compare to the Other Coronavirus Vaccines?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine in adults. Maureen ...
Key Questions About South Africa’s Vaccine Rollout Plan
South Africa has recently started its COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. Around the country, frontline healthcare workers are getting a jab of ...
Watch: BARDA Director Talks About Emergency Use Authorization of Third COVID-19 Vaccine
Gary Disbrow, Ph.D., BARDA Director at HHS/ASPR, explains the public-private collaboration and platform technologies brought to bear for COVID-19 vaccines. ...
Can Vaccinated People Still Spread the Coronavirus?
So you’ve gotten your coronavirus vaccine, waited the two weeks for your immune system to respond to the shot and ...
COVID-19 Vaccination: What We Can Learn From the Great Polio Vaccine Heist of 1959
We find ourselves at a precarious time in global health. Many people are anxiously awaiting their turn to receive a ...
