STAT (3/23, Branswell, Subscription Publication) reports, “Data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest the pandemic effect has pretty much worn off,” and that “TB is nearly back to pre-2020 levels” in the U.S. Philip LoBue, director of the CDC’s division of tuberculosis elimination, told STAT in an interview, “We’re getting […]
ABC27 (March 26th, 2023) – The CVS MinuteClinic in York saw less COVID this week, but more cases of viral bronchitis, strep throat and a stomach bug. Pediatricians at Penn State Health are seeing a lot of colds, stomach bugs and respiratory infections. They continue to see a handful of flu cases and RSV cases. […]
LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) – Some of the world’s leading makers of flu vaccines say they could make hundreds of millions of bird flu shots for humans within months if a new strain of avian influenza ever jumps across the species divide. One current outbreak of avian flu known as H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b has killed […]
BMC (March 20th, 2023) – (Opinion) A global surplus of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines exists as a result of difficulties in aligning the demand and supply for vaccine manufacturing and delivery. World leaders have accelerated vaccine development, approval, production and distribution as a pragmatic approach to addressing the immediate public health challenges of the […]
Healio (3/7, Feller) reports, “The rate of teenagers vaccinated against HPV is improving but a significant number of parents remain hesitant about their children receiving the vaccine, a study found.” According to the findings published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, “from 2011 to 2020, the rate of female teens receiving the HPV vaccine increased […]
Healio (3/9, Burba) reports, “Vaccination against COVID-19 is strongly recommended in patients with celiac disease, who are at greater risk for hospitalization due to SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with people who do not have celiac disease, according to research” published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. According to the findings, “24% of patients were hospitalized in the […]
The New York Times (3/7, Belluck) reports a large study suggests that patients with COVID-19 “were significantly more likely to experience gastrointestinal problems a year after infection than people who were not infected.” The study “compared medical records of 154,068” patients with COVID-19 “in the Veterans Health Administration system with about 5.6 million patients of […]
USA Today (2/25, Snider) reported the FDA “has authorized the first over-the-counter at-home test that can detect and differentiate between a test result for flu and a test result for COVID-19.” The “Lucira COVID-19 and Flu Home Test is a single-use test,” in which “a nasal swab is used as with an at-home COVID test; […]
By Janelle Chavez, CNN Updated 2:04 PM ET, Thu February 9, 2023 (CNN) Covid-19 shots are included in new schedules of routinely recommended vaccines released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. The immunization schedules summarize current vaccine recommendations for children, adolescents and adults, but do not set vaccine requirements for schools or […]
Article by Emily Kimber 22nd February 2023 PM Live Pfizer’s US application for its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) maternal vaccine candidate to help protect against the complications of the disease in infants has been accepted for priority review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The single-dose vaccine is administered in the late second […]