The Washington Post (March 29, 2022) – The nearly 17 million Americans who received the one-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine are less protected against serious illness and hospitalizations than those who got the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots, according to federal data released Tuesday. The latest data suggest Johnson & Johnson recipients should get a booster […]
CNN (March 25, 2022) – After circulating at nearly nonexistent levels last year, influenza is increasing in most of the United States. That’s according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent flu report, released Friday, which also notes that the number of reported flu-related hospital admissions has increased each week for the […]
Published March 22, 2022 | Originally published on The Conversation Health & Medicine A new omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19, BA.2, is quickly becoming the predominant source of infections amid rising cases around the world. Immunologists Prakash Nagarkatti and Mitzi Nagarkatti of the University of South Carolina explain what makes it different […]
KHN (APRIL 1, 2022) – The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from COVID — an almost incomprehensible number of lives lost that few thought possible when the pandemic began. Pennsylvania’s Mifflin County, with over 300 dead, offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community is coping. As US Nears 1 Million Covid Deaths, […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer (March 29) – The BA.2 subvariant has become the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the United States and the Northeast, new CDC data showed Tuesday — meaning an uptick in cases could be around the corner, just after COVID-19 spread had reached its lowest level since July. In New Jersey, the […]
PENNSYLVANIA, USA (March 30th, 2022) — Just one day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved a second COVID-19 booster for Americans 50 and older, Rite Aid announced all of its Pennsylvania locations are now offering the shot. According to a media release from […]
WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will weigh the benefits of authorizing a round of boosters of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to a broader population in the fall, a top official said on Tuesday. The agency authorized on Tuesday a second booster dose of either vaccine for […]
The New York Times (3/29) reports that according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, the Omicron subvariant BA.2 “is now the dominant version of the virus in new U.S. cases.” The variant “accounted for about 55 percent of new U.S. cases in the week ending Saturday, according to” the CDC. The Wall Street […]
Reuters (3/29) reports the “Food and Drug Administration will weigh the benefits of authorizing a round of boosters of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to a broader population in the fall…said” FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research director Peter Marks, MD, PhD. Dr. Marks said, “It would not be surprising if there […]
MedPage Today (3/29) reports that “fewer than 0.5% of children” had SARS-CoV-2 reinfection after a primary infection, “and reinfection was not associated with more severe disease, British researchers found.” According to the study findings published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, “reinfection rates were highest among adolescents ages 12 to 16 (0.49%), followed by […]