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U.S.nursing homes falling further behind on vaccinating patients for COVID

Wed, 2024-07-03 14:10 — mike kraft

Nursing homes falling further behind on vaccinating patients for COVID COVID-19 continues to menace nursing homes across the US, but a new report reveals just four out of 10 nursing home residents have gotten their updated COVID shot since last fall. NPR

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Regular vaccine boosts may help immunocompromised fight COVID-19 --study

Wed, 2024-07-03 09:30 — mike kraft

Study suggests regular vaccine boosts may help immunocompromised fight COVID-19 People who have received solid organ transplants and take immunosuppressant medications to prevent rejection are among those most susceptible to the damaging effects of COVID-19, including breakthrough ... Science X Medical Xpress

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Reminder messages, not free rides, are more effective in encouraging COVID-19 booster vaccinations --study

Fri, 2024-06-28 06:42 — mike kraft

Reminders—but not free rides—boost COVID-19 booster uptake Text messages increased 30-day COVID-19 booster uptake by 21%. CIDRAP

Nature has published a large study showing that text message reminders to receive a COVID-19 booster worked to increase vaccine uptake, but that offering free rides to pharmacies did not.

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U.S. CDC releases autumn 2024 COVID and flu vaccination recomendations

Fri, 2024-06-28 06:03 — mike kraft

CDC Recommends Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 and Flu Vaccines for Fall/Winter Virus Season | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC

CDC Newsroom Press releases, advisories, telebriefings, transcripts and archives. CDC

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Supreme Court rejected COVID-19 vaccine appeals from nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Wed, 2024-06-26 07:03 — mike kraft

Supreme Court rejects COVID-19 vaccine appeals from nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Supreme Court has rejected two appeals related to COVID-19 vaccines from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by independent presidential candidate Robert F. AP News

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The justices did not comment in letting stand rulings against the group from the federal appeals courts in New Orleans and Philadelphia.

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Latest XBB COVID-19 vaccine offers protection against hospitalization, deaths --study

Mon, 2024-06-24 17:06 — mike kraft

Latest XBB COVID-19 vaccine offers protection against hospitalization, deaths Today, JAMA Internal Medicine published a study calculating the protection offered by the latest Pfizer COVID-19 XBB vaccine compared to older vaccines against COVID-associated hospitalization and emergency department (ED) or urgent care (UC) visits. CIDRAP

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The authors compared outcomes among those who had received an updated XBB vaccine and those who had not received an XBB vaccine of any kind, regardless of prior COVID-19 vaccination or infection history.

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Cancer patients gain from staying current on COVID-19 boosters-- Spanish study

Fri, 2024-06-21 10:14 — mike kraft

Study suggests cancer patients should stay current on COVID-19 boosters Yesterday in Nature Communications a study shows cancer that patients who are up to date on vaccines and have received COVID-19 boosters are more protected against death and serious complications than unvaccinated patients. CIDRAP

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Women and people with heart disease identified as more prone to long Covid but vaccinations provide protection

Tue, 2024-06-18 15:30 — mike kraft

Study identifies female sex, heart disease as long-COVID risk factors, vaccination as protective Women and adults with preexisting conditions such as cardiovascular disease are less likely to recover from COVID-19 within 3 months, while vaccination and Omicron-variant infection were linked to a quicker recovery, reveals a study posted yesterday in JAMA Network Open. It also showed that more than one in five adults had protracted recoveries. CIDRAP

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USG awards $500 million to companies for developing spray, pill COVID vaccines

Mon, 2024-06-17 14:56 — mike kraft

Feds award $500 million for developing spray, pill COVID vaccines The vast majority of funds—up to $453 million—goes to Vaxart of San Francisco for developing an oral pill vaccine candidate. CIDRAP

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Bird flu wll become a pandemic, predicts former CDC Director

Mon, 2024-06-17 07:13 — mike kraft

Former CDC director predicts bird flu pandemic Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said he predicts a bird flu pandemic will happen — it’s just a matter of when that will be. Redfield joined NewsNati… lirwin The Hill

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“I really do think it’s very likely that we will, at some time, it’s not a question of if, it’s more of a question of when we will have a bird flu pandemic,” Redfield said.

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