Jan 21 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization on Friday recommended extending the use of a reduced dosage of Pfizer’s (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 5 to 11 years old. The recommended dosage for the younger population is 10 micrograms instead of 30 micrograms offered to those 12 years and older. WHO recommends reduced dose […]
CNBC (January 21st, 2022) reports that the number of children hospitalized with COVID hit a pandemic high during the omicron variant’s surge. While more children are hospitalized with COVID, due to omicron’s high level of transmissibility, they don’t appear to be getting sicker than they did with previous strains, physicians say. Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit […]
The Wall Street Journal (January 23rd, 2022) – Pressure has begun to ease on U.S. hospitals hit by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, while some European governments took steps to reopen activities that were closed during the worst of the wave. The seven-day average of total people in U.S. hospitals declined for the second consecutive day, […]
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The coronavirus can leave more than 40% of children hospitalized for COVID-19 with headaches and other lingering neurological symptoms, a new study claims. COVID Can Affect Brains of Hospitalized Kids – Consumer Health News | HealthDay
The Hill (1/18) reports, “At least 20 percent of Americans have now been infected with” coronavirus, “according to data from Johns Hopkins University.” The data reveal that “more than 66,400,000 Americans have been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic began in early 2020,” but the total number “could be much higher due to asymptomatic […]
The Hill (January 20, 2022) – Nearly 1 million children were infected with COVID-19 in the last week according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, four times the rate of the peak of last winters’ surge. The Hill adds, for the week ending Jan. 13, more than 981,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported, a 69 […]
Medscape (Jan. 14th, 2022) – Nearly all teenagers admitted to intensive care units because of COVID-19 were unvaccinated, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Two doses of the vaccine “were highly effective against COVID-19–related hospitalization and ICU admission or the receipt of life support,” the authors of the […]
Medscape (Jan. 14th, 2022) – The U.S. health care industry was already stretched thin by two years of the COVID-19 pandemic when the Omicron variant struck. As hospitals fill with patients again, experts and workers say damage to the industry may be long-lasting. A record 1.34 million COVID cases were reported in the United States […]
The Wall Street Journal (Jan 4th, 2022) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that many children with weakened immune systems get a booster from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE four weeks after their second shot. The agency issued the recommendation for moderately and severely immunocompromised children 5 to 11 years. CDC Backs […]
FDA (Jan. 7th, 2022) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to shorten the time between the completion of a primary series of the vaccine and a booster dose to at least five months for individuals 18 years of age and older. Coronavirus (COVID-19) […]