CNBC (MAY 9 2022) – The U.S. will have to limit the next generation of Covid vaccines this fall to individuals at the highest risk of getting seriously sick from the virus if Congress fails to approve funding to purchase the new shots, according to a senior Biden administration official. The official, who spoke on […]

AMA (May 10th, 2022) – Physicians and other health experts have learned a great deal in the fight against COVID-19 over the last two years. “We made advancements in how we test, how we treat and how we care for patients infected with the virus,” said AMA President Gerald E. Harmon, MD. Researchers developed three safe, […]

NPR (May 10, 2022) – About 66% of Americans are fully vaccinated. But as the United States approaches a million deaths from COVID-19, the virus mortality rate is being driven mainly by people who are not vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationally, about one in six Americans say they “definitely will not get the […]

NPR (May 13th, 2022) – One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn’t have to. In Tennessee, 11,047 of the people who died could have survived if everyone in the state had gotten vaccinated. In Ohio, that number is […]

CNBC (FRI, MAY 6 2022) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating 109 cases of severe hepatitis in children, including five deaths, to determine a cause, with adenovirus infection as a primary line of inquiry, the public health agency said Friday. More than 90% of the children were hospitalized and 14% required […]

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh native authors book on development of COVID-19 vaccine. To develop a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 in record time, the United States brought together scientists, medical experts, military logistics officers and government health officials in a unique public-private partnership.

The Philadelphia Tribune (May 10, 2022) – With waning immunity and a coronavirus that seems to become more infectious with each new variant, the Biden administration predicts that up to 100 million more people could get Covid-19 in the fall and winter. That estimate makes it crucial that as many people as possible get booster […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 9th, 2022) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating mysterious cases of hepatitis among young children. In 109 cases since October being investigated, five children died and several more needed a liver transplant. About half of the children had confirmed cases of an adenovirus, a common class […]

CNN (May 6, 2022) – November 10 is a day Kim Ford remembers too well. It was the day last year when her 9-year-old son, Jack, was scheduled to get his Covid-19 vaccine at the school clinic. They were excited that he’d finally have some protection, but on November 9, he had the sniffles. “When […]

ABC News (April 27, 2022) – The World Health Organization and UNICEF are warning of a “perfect storm” of circumstances fueling the potential for large-scale measles outbreaks, underscoring worrying signs of increased risk as infections around the globe this year are far above what they were this time last year. In the first two months […]

The Associated Press (May 3, 2022) – Pfizer now hopes to tell U.S. regulators how well its COVID-19 vaccine works in the littlest kids by late May or early June. Pfizer is testing three extra-small doses of its vaccine in children under 5 after two shots didn’t prove quite strong enough. Initial results had been […]

Reuters (5/3) reports World Health Organization spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic on Tuesday “said…that it had received reports of at least 228 probable cases of child hepatitis with dozens more under investigation.” Jasarevic said, “As of May 1, at least 228 probable cases were reported to WHO from 20 countries with over 50 additional cases under investigation.” […]

The Los Angeles Times (5/3) reports “a pair of new Omicron subvariants” – BA.4 and BA.5 – “has emerged, raising the possibility that survivors of earlier Omicron strains can get reinfected.” The subvariants “have gained increasing attention in South Africa as weekly coronavirus cases tripled in the last two weeks, according to data from Johns […]

CNN (5/3) reports “COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising again in the United States.” CNN adds “cases are trending up in most states,” and “average daily hospitalizations are up about 10% since last week, according to data collected by” HHS. This time, “the culprit…appears to be a spinoff of Omicron’s BA.2 subvariant called BA.2.12.1, which […]

The AP (5/3) reports, “Pfizer now hopes to tell U.S. regulators how well its COVID-19 vaccine works in the littlest kids by late May or early June.” The company “is testing three extra-small doses of its vaccine in children under 5 after two shots didn’t prove quite strong enough.” The initial data “had been expected […]

WEDNESDAY, May 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you’re still wiping down groceries, doorknobs and light switches in an attempt to thwart COVID-19, maybe you can relax a little: You’re 1,000 times more likely to get COVID from the air you breathe than from surfaces you touch, a new study suggests. University of Michigan researchers […]

PBS News (Apr 30, 2022) – The United States is right on the brink of reaching 1 million COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic over two years ago. As this grim milestone approaches, health experts nationwide are debating whether or not a new phase of the pandemic has already started. Dr. Cindy Prins, […]

The New York Times – (April 29, 2022) Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising in a majority of American states, in what appears to be the first widespread increase since the peak of the Omicron surge in January. Reports of new cases were nearly flat in the United States at the beginning of April, but […]

WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) – Scientists and health officials by this summer should have a better sense of what type of COVID-19 booster will be needed to deal with the next phase of the pandemic and when it should be administered, top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pandemic-not-over-us-unlikely-eliminate-covid-19-fauci-2022-04-29/ 

The New York Times (4/19) reports, “Unvaccinated children from 5 to 11 years old were hospitalized with Covid at twice the rate of vaccinated children during the winter Omicron variant surge, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday.” Furthermore, the study, “based on data from hospitals serving about 10 percent of the […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 12, 2022) — From a Giant Eagle in McKeesport, to a Rite Aid in North Huntingdon, to the Heinz Field clinic, Kathryn Makay has been administering COVID-19 vaccines all around the Pittsburgh area. The second-year University of Pittsburgh pharmacy student was trained last year on how to administer vaccines — much sooner in […]

ABC News (April 21, 2022) – There is hope that parents will be able to vaccinate their kids under five years old soon — perhaps as early as June, according to top Biden administration officials. Neither vaccine companies, Moderna or Pfizer, have fully submitted their data to the FDA yet, the FDA said on Thursday. […]

MPR (April 11th, 2022) – Full approval of a COVID-19 vaccine by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had little impact on vaccination intentions in unvaccinated Americans, according to the findings of a survey recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Survey Suggests COVID-19 Vaccine Approval Had Little Impact on Unvaccinated (empr.com)  

Pocono Record (April 18th, 2022) – Lehigh Valley Health Network is getting some recognition from the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania for their COVID-19 vaccination strategy. HAP, a commonwealth-based membership services organization and “the leading voice for the health and well-being of Pennsylvanians,” included LVHN’s vaccine strategy as one of their top ten initiatives […]

Originally published on MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events ( April 14, 2022) – A COVID-19 vaccine effective against multiple variants is possible before the end of 2022, the head of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Wednesday. Chairman Albert Bourla said the firm was also working on producing a vaccine that could provide good protection for a whole year, meaning […]