By WPXI.com News Staff July 27, 2022 at 11:19 pm EDT ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — The Allegheny County Health Department is making the monkeypox vaccine available to more people in the county by distributing it in more locations. The county is offering the vaccine at four new locations. Those locations are: Central Outreach Wellness Center, 127 […]
Lehigh Valley Live (Jul. 29, 2022) – With monkeypox cases now in the Lehigh Valley, getting the vaccine to patients and high-risk residents is a key step to ending the current outbreak. Cases were previously reported in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh regions, and this week the Lehigh Valley Health Network, St. Luke’s University Health Network and […]
Medscape (July 11, 2022) – For years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stressed the importance of seasonal flu shots for adults aged 65 and older. Now, the CDC recommends certain stronger flu vaccines for seniors, the CDC reports. The CDC director has approved a new guideline that indicates that adults aged 65 and older should preferentially receive […]
NPR (July 15, 2022) – The BA.5 omicron subvariant, which is now the most prevalent coronavirus strain in the United States, is four times more resistant to COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study. The strain, which is considered “hypercontagious,” according to the Mayo Clinic, is more defiant against messenger RNA vaccines, which include Pfizer and […]
The Washington Post (July 10, 2022) – America has decided the pandemic is over. The coronavirus has other ideas. The latest omicron offshoot, BA.5, has quickly become dominant in the United States, and thanks to its elusiveness when encountering the human immune system, is driving a wave of cases across the country. The size of that wave is […]
Rheumatology Advisor (July 12, 2022) – Results of a longitudinal study confirmed that anti-receptor binding domain (RBD) antibodies conferred by COVID-19 mRNA vaccination decrease over time. In addition, women were more likely to produce antibodies at months 1 and 9 following COVID-19 vaccination compared with men. These findings were published in the International Journal of Infectious […]
Healio (7/12) reports, “More than half of surveyed parents said they were likely to follow the advice of their child’s primary care physician when it came to COVID-19 vaccination, according to results published in Academic Pediatrics.” This survey “found that 58% of all parents stated they would follow their health care provider’s recommendations on the […]
CBS News (7/14) reports, “More than half of Americans now live in communities where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges indoor masking and other measures to curb a surge in COVID-19, according to figures published Thursday by the agency.” The percentage of people living in areas with “high” COVID-19 community levels is “up […]
Politico (7/14) reports, “States where parents have hesitated to inoculate their children against Covid-19 are now ordering fewer doses of the vaccines for children under 5 than others,” and while “experts broadly agree states shouldn’t order more doses than they think they’ll use,” they also “worry the low demand in states such as Alabama and […]
The New York Times (7/14) reports about 25 million “children around the world, most of them in the poorest countries, missed some or all of their childhood vaccinations over the past two years because of a combination of conflicts, climate emergencies, misinformation campaigns, pandemic lockdowns and Covid vaccination efforts that diverted resources,” a new UNICEF […]