October 14, 2022 (Public Integrity) – We share the planet with over 380 trillion viruses right now. Some of these powerful pathogens can kill us and even bring the world to a halt — as the novel coronavirus did in 2020. Viruses teach us how “undeniably connected we are and how important it is to […]
October 20, 2022 (WASHINGTON) — Three late-breaking studies offered a promising glimpse of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines in the pipeline for older adults — including the RSVPreF3 OA vaccine, which showed an overall vaccine efficacy of about 83%. The latest results from the RSVPreF3 OA vaccine were initially announced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in a press release […]
Thu October 20, 2022 (CNN) – Covid-19 vaccines will be part of recommended immunization schedules in 2023 for both children and adults, after a unanimous vote by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/health/child-vax-rates-school-mandates/index.html
October 13, 2022 – Nearly 3.3 million people in the United States received updated COVID-19 booster shots over the past week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday. The CDC said 14.8 million Americans had received the shot as of October 12, in the first six weeks of the booster being […]
Oct 20, 2022 – A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel voted Thursday to include the COVID-19 vaccine on the list of routine immunizations for adults and children as young as 6 months. The agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously voted to add the coronavirus shot to the 2023 list, […]
10/11/2022 Lancaster, PA –Department of Health Acting Secretary and Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Denise Johnson today joined public health officials from Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health to encourage residents to get their flu shot and COVID-19 vaccination boosters as we enter the 2022-2023 flu season. “This flu season has the potential to be severe, so we […]
Oct. 19, 2022 (STAT) – The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has authorized a booster shot for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine. Unlike the latest boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which target both the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 and the Omicron BA.4/5 variants, the Novavax booster only targets the original strain. The company announced […]
Wednesday, October 12 – Today, CDC’s Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo expanding the use of updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5 through 11 years. This follows the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization of updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech for children ages 5 through 11 years, and from […]
The Washington Post (September 19, 2022) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all teenagers and adults get an updated coronavirus booster shot designed to target both the original virus and the omicron variant circulating now. When should you get the omicron booster? Your questions, answered. – The Washington Post
ABC News (September 21, 2022) – New boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds are just weeks away from authorization, the vaccine chief at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Peter Marks, said Tuesday. While primary vaccines are already authorized for children 6 months and older, the FDA has yet to authorize the newly updated booster shots […]