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 […]