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 […]