Medscape (February 24, 2022) – It may be helpful for some people to wait up to 8 weeks between the first and second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID vaccines, the CDC says in updated guidance. “An 8-week interval may be optimal for some people ages 12 years and older, especially for males ages […]
WASHINGTON (AP – February 27, 2022) — Nearly half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests the Biden administration recently made available to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test. Nearly half of Biden’s 500M free COVID tests still unclaimed | AP News
The New York Times (2/25) reported that on Friday, the CDC “offered a new strategy to help communities across the country live with the coronavirus and get back to some version of normal life.” These “new guidelines suggest that 70 percent of Americans can now stop wearing masks, and no longer need to social distance […]
HCPLive (February 25, 2022) – The CDC has estimated at least 2.4 million flu illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, and 1,400 deaths from flu so far this season. Influenza Activity Remains Sporadic Across United States (hcplive.com)
PatientCare (February 1, 2022) – The COVID-19 Omicron subvariant, known as BA.2, is circulating in the US at “low levels,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About half the states have confirmed its presence, with about 127 cases identified as of today. Omicron Subvariant BA.2: What We Know Now (patientcareonline.com)
CNN (February 4th, 2022) –Plummeting Covid-19 case counts across the United States are leading to lifted mask mandates and more conversations about steps toward normalcy — but more people are dying of the coronavirus now than during most points of the pandemic. More than 2,000 Covid-19 deaths have been reported in the United States each […]
The rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. increased by nearly 20% from 2019 to 2020 in a potential indication of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on maternal health outcomes. The gap between Black and white women also increased during the first year the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, new data shows. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-02-23/u-s-maternal-mortality-rate-surged-in-2020
USA Today (February 15, 2022) – Babies younger than 6 months old wouldn’t be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine even if the shots now under consideration for younger children were authorized. A new study indicates most of the infants wouldn’t need them to avoid severe disease as long as the mother got the vaccine during […]
Medscape (February 11, 2022) – This week’s announcements from several governors about easing COVID-19 mask mandates are “probably premature, but it’s a tough call,” President Joe Biden said on Thursday. He said the pandemic has had a “profound impact on the psyche of the American people” and called the changing guidelines “confusing.” Lifting Statewide Mask […]
CNBC (February 14th, 2022) -The Food and Drug Administration’s plan to fast-track Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for children under 5 years old was delayed because of a “low number of cases overall in the clinical trial,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday. “Most kids are not getting symptomatic Covid,” said the current Pfizer board member and […]
