FEB 22, 2023 Sara Berg, MS Senior News Writer AMA For nearly three years now, there has been nonstop discussion and emphasis on the importance of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. With many people developing COVID-19 booster fatigue, physicians must find ways to break through without adding further burden on their patients. Much like pandemic fatigue, this […]
PA Homepage by: Sydney Kostus Posted: Feb 2, 2023 / 09:59 PM EST Updated: Feb 2, 2023 / 09:59 PM EST EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — Beginning Friday, Lehigh Valley Health Network will close five of their COVID vaccine clinics in several counties including Luzerne, Monroe, and Schuylkill. LVHN says part of the reason is a lower number of patients […]
Updated: 1:36 PM EST Feb 9, 2023 WGAL8 This article is regularly updated with new numbers from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. It tracks COVID-19 cases and vaccinations across the state. Scroll to the bottom for information on how to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Read full article.
The Philadelphia Inquirer by Jason Laughlin Updated Jan 31, 2023 President Joe Biden on Monday announced the public and national health emergencies for COVID-19 will end May 11, nearly three years after the pandemic began. The public health emergency dates back to January 2020 and has been renewed by the Department of Health and Human Services a […]
Bethel AME Church in Ardmore is offering vaccinations Tuesday and on Feb. 22. See details of the vaccine clinics here. Max Bennett, Patch Staff Posted Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:14 pm ET ARDMORE, PA — Community members in the Ardmore area can get vaccinated at two upcoming events. Bethel AME Church in Ardmore is hosting […]
AMA (Feb 2, 2023) – While it may be a new year, the same problem remains: COVID-19. This time, though, it is a subvariant of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, known as XBB.1.5, that is the dominant strain in parts of the United States. The rise of the COVID-19 Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is the product of a […]
AMA (Feb 3, 2023) – With the COVID-19 pandemic and all its precautions—masking, physical distancing and staying home—influenza activity was drastically lower in 2020 and 2021 than in previous years. Now the flu is back, with hospitalizations at their highest levels and case counts continuing to rise across the country. Yet with a “tripledemic” of COVID-19, respiratory syncytial […]
Medscape (1/31, Subscription Publication) reports, “Although new COVID-19 cases in children, as measured by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, have remained fairly steady in recent months, data from the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention suggest that weekly cases took a big jump in early January.” These data “show that […]
Published on Jan 26, 2023 in Vaccine Update for Healthcare Providers Long COVID has been an ongoing issue related to SARS-CoV-2 infections. Following an infection, many people have reported experiencing lingering symptoms. The symptoms affect a variety of organs and can last for many months or even more than a year. Scientists and clinicians continue to work to […]
Reuters (1/26) reports the FDA “has withdrawn emergency-use authorization for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 antibody cocktail” tixagevimab/cilgavimab (Evusheld) “as the treatment is not expected to neutralize the currently dominant XBB.1.5 subvariant of Omicron.” The company “said it was informed that the agency will decide about reinstating authorization of Evusheld if the prevalence of resistant variants in the […]