Oct. 19, 2022 (STAT) – The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has authorized a booster shot for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine. Unlike the latest boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which target both the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 and the Omicron BA.4/5 variants, the Novavax booster only targets the original strain. The company announced […]
Wednesday, October 12 – Today, CDC’s Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo expanding the use of updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5 through 11 years. This follows the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization of updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech for children ages 5 through 11 years, and from […]
The Washington Post (September 19, 2022) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all teenagers and adults get an updated coronavirus booster shot designed to target both the original virus and the omicron variant circulating now. When should you get the omicron booster? Your questions, answered. – The Washington Post
ABC News (September 21, 2022) – New boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds are just weeks away from authorization, the vaccine chief at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Peter Marks, said Tuesday. While primary vaccines are already authorized for children 6 months and older, the FDA has yet to authorize the newly updated booster shots […]
LiveScience (9/19/2022) – A specific type of poliovirus has been spreading in Rockland County, New York, as well as in neighboring areas, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to add the United States to a list of countries(opens in new tab) where similar polioviruses have been detected. The list includes about 30 countries in Europe, Asia […]
CDC (Tuesday, September 13, 2022) – CDC today announced that polioviruses found in New York, both from the case of paralytic polio in an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County and in several wastewater samples from communities near the patient’s residence, meet the World Health Organization (WHO)’s criteria for circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) – meaning that […]
MedPage Today (9/19, Firth) reports “the state of physician wellbeing remained low 2 years into the pandemic,” according to survey results, revealing that “one in three physicians reported feeling hopeless or that they had no purpose.” The results showed that “for the second year in a row, 60% of 1,509 physicians who completed the online […]
MedPage Today (9/19, Hein) reports, “Early use of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) in children hospitalized with influenza was associated with better outcomes, according to a multicenter propensity score-weighted analysis.” Among the “over 55,000 children, treatment with oseltamivir upon arrival or on day 1 was linked with a shorter length of stay compared with treatment on day 2 […]
Erie News Now (Friday, September 2nd 2022) – Vaccine providers across Pennsylvania are prepared to begin administering updated COVID-19 booster vaccines as soon as they receive them, according to the state Department of Health on Friday. The vaccines provide additional protection against the original coronavirus and Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5. The Centers for Disease […]
The Washington Post (8/26, A1, Diamond) reported that following “three months of surging monkeypox cases, the worldwide outbreak may have peaked, amid evidence that” individuals are “curbing risky sexual behaviors and more people are getting vaccinated against a virus that spread by close contact.” New cases in the U.S. “have fallen by about 25% in […]