AAP News (May 19, 2022) – Children ages 5-11 years are eligible for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine boosters. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) signed off on boosters for this age group Thursday after its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended the boosters in an 11-1 vote with one abstention. “With over 18 […]
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 […]