LA Times (AUG. 28, 2022) – The next generation of COVID-19 booster shots — tailored specifically to combat the super-infectious family of Omicron subvariants — could roll out early next month. The long-in-the-works offering would mark an ambitious new phase in the nation’s vaccination campaign and, officials say, give residents another option to protect themselves ahead of […]

(Sun, August 28, 2022) – The monkeypox outbreak is showing early signs of waning, with some areas of the country — and world — reporting fewer cases on average. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told Yahoo Finance Friday that the agency has noted the decline in some regions, but that overall cases are still rising. […]

Aug 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday signed off on the use of Novavax Inc’s (NVAX.O) COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12 through 17. The recommendation follows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authorization for the vaccine for the age group last week. The protein-based vaccine received emergency use […]

The AP (8/23) reports, “Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as Omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday.” This updated analysis of “COVID-19 diagnoses between March and June in Pfizer’s ongoing study of the three-dose vaccine” found “21 COVID-19 cases among the 351 tots who got dummy shots – […]

The AP (8/24) reports, “The number of coronavirus deaths reported worldwide fell by 15% in the past week while new infections dropped by 9%, the World Health Organization said Wednesday” in “its latest weekly assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic.” WHO “said there were 5.3 million new cases and more than 14,000 deaths reported last week,” […]

COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Public Health Messaging, Patient Outreach Should Focus On Younger People With Lower Income, Educational Attainment, Study Says PatientEngagementHIT (8/24) reports, “As more COVID-19 vaccine boosters become available, public health messaging and patient outreach should focus on younger folks with lower incomes and lower educational attainment, according to a study published in JAMA […]

AAP News (August 18, 2022) – A bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster targeting the omicron variant could be available next month for children as young as 12 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a guide to help clinicians and jurisdictions prepare for a fall booster campaign. Both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have created bivalent […]

The AP (8/17) reports, “The pandemic magnified the fragility of mental health among American youth, who had been experiencing a rise in depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts for years, experts say,” but the pandemic also “raised awareness of the crisis and helped de-stigmatize talking about mental health, while also bringing attention to schools’ shortcomings in […]

PatientCare (Jul. 26, 2022) – Monkeypox virus (MPV) cases in the United States numbered 3487 as of July 25, 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They are widely distributed with the 5 largest case counts currently in New York (990), California (356), Illinois (344), Florida (273), and Georgia (268). The CDC says […]

NPR (July 21, 2022) – A case of polio has been detected in New York, the first instance of the virus in almost a decade. The case was confirmed in a resident of Rockland County, about 36 miles north of New York City, the first case since 2013, according to the state and county health […]

(Washington, DC – July 28, 2022) – Chronic underfunding has created a public health system that cannot address the nation’s health security needs, its persistent health inequities, as well as emerging threats, and, was a contributing factor in the inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to this TFAH report, The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on […]

AMA (Aug 1, 2022) – In today’s COVID-19 Update, Novavax vaccine dose, delivery, storage, side effects—and all the details doctors need to know with Sandra Fryhofer, MD, AMA’s liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and a member of ACIP’s COVID-19 Vaccine Workgroup. AMA Chief Experience Officer Todd Unger hosts. Learn more at […]

Fortune (Aug. 4, 2022) – Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined the electronic health records of nearly 800,000 U.S. children ages 0 through 17 who had COVID from 2020 through 2022, and compared them with that of nearly 2.5 million children who had not been diagnosed with COVID during the […]

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 […]