By Jan Hoffman As parents around the country cancel well-child checkups to avoid coronavirus exposure, public health experts fear they are inadvertently sowing the seeds of another health crisis. Immunizations are dropping at a dangerous rate, putting millions of children at risk for measles, whooping cough and other life-threatening illnesses. “The last thing we want as […]
LONDON (Reuters) – More than 117 million children could miss out on immunisation against measles as the COVID-19 pandemic forces social distancing and piles pressure on health services, United Nations health agencies warned on Tuesday. Measles immunisation campaigns in 24 countries have already been delayed, and more will be postponed, potentially putting children in 37 […]
“The Shot Felt ’Round The World,” a film on Pittsburgh doctors conquering polio, is drawing renewed interest amid the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine. There’s precedent, after all, as we close in on Sunday’s 65th anniversary of Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh conquering polio. Read the full article here.
Parents and pediatricians across the US are not vaccinating their children during the coronavirus pandemic, leading experts to warn that such delays could cause outbreaks of preventable diseases later in the year. “Immunization is an essential health service which may be affected by the current Covid-19 pandemic,” the World Health Organization said recently in a statement. “Disruption […]
Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. “A devil’s choice.” That’s how Seth Berkley, head of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, describes the dilemma facing global health organizations in the past few weeks. They could either continue to support mass vaccination campaigns in poor countries and risk inadvertently helping to spread COVID-19—or recommend their […]
Peter Hotez has spent his career studying infectious diseases that others weren’t paying attention to, developing vaccines that “no one else will make.” Four years ago, Hotez and a team of Texas scientists developed a vaccine that he now believes could have protected against the new coronavirus, which has killed tens of thousands of people around the […]
By Meredith WadmanApr. 2, 2020 , 6:20 PM On the last day of its existence, the administration of former President Barack Obama made it much easier for people who sustain serious shoulder injuries from improperly administered vaccines to win cash compensation from a $4 billion government fund financed by an excise tax on vaccines. Now, after a surge […]
Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. The COVID-19 pandemic is imperiling the worldwide, 3-decade drive to wipe out polio. In an unprecedented move, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has recommended suspending polio vaccination campaigns to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. On 24 March, GPEI’s leadership called on all […]
A new potential vaccine against the coronavirus sweeping the world has showed promise in mice, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine said Thursday. In a peer-reviewed study published in the medical journal EBioMedicine, the researchers said their new development comes from earlier vaccines they had created to fight the two other deadly coronavirus […]
AAP News reported the AAP recommends that pediatricians “use either flu shots or nasal spray flu vaccines for their patients during the 2020-’21 season” for everyone who is at least six months old. Dr. Yvonne A. Maldonado, FAAP, chair of AAP’s Committee on Infectious Diseases, said, “Given that vaccine effectiveness can vary year-to-year and the […]