Moderna, Pfizer vaccines for under 5s overwhelmingly endorsed by FDA advisers
Children under 5 may finally get FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines. Enlarge / Boston Medical Center Child Life Specialist Karlie Bittrich sees to a baby while in a pediatrics tent set up outside of Boston Medical Center in Boston on Apr.....»»
Scientists provide a more strategic approach to COVID-19 testing
With few additional targeted tests and non-invasive surveys, public health agencies can better estimate disease occurrence and trends, changes in transmission, rates of hospitalization and death and effectiveness of vaccines and other control measure.....»»
White House May Work With Carriers To Screen Anti-Vax Messages
According to Politico, "Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are [...] planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media a.....»»
Unvaccinated health workers are “unethical and appalling”—experts want mandates
Health organizations call for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for health care workers. Enlarge / A person gets a sticker after getting a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: Getty | Joe Raedle) Leading public health organizations and a gr.....»»
Foxconn and TSMC Strike Deal To Buy 10 Million COVID-19 Vaccines For Taiwan
Foxconn and TSMC have agreed to buy 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for the island of Taiwan. "The two companies will be paying up to $35 a dose of the BioNTech vaccine and donating them to the government; each company has pledged to spend $175 mil.....»»
Health officials rail against Pfizer’s push for COVID boosters—for many reasons
"What part of 'this is a global crisis' are we not getting?" Enlarge / Vials of undiluted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: Getty | BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI ) Pfizer has planned to privately brief US health officials on its case for COVID-19 booster.....»»
Social isolation is beginning to decline since the introduction of vaccines
Prior to the introduction of vaccines, physical distancing was the major preventative measure to slow the spread of COVID-19. While necessary to protect the physical health of people and communities, for many people the resulting social isolation has.....»»
The Olympics Bars Fans, Pfizer Eyes Boosters, and More News
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Discovery shows how tuning the immune system may enhance vaccines and ease disease
A metabolic control pathway that regulates T follicular helper cells offers targets for drugs to stimulate the adaptive immune response......»»
Biomaterial vaccines ward off broad range of bacterial infections and septic shock
Researchers have developed a biomaterial-based infection vaccine (ciVAX) approach as a solution that could be broadly applied to challenges in infection medicine......»»
How vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) happens
Researchers recently discovered how, exactly, the COVID-19 vaccines that use adenovirus vectors trigger a rare but sometimes fatal blood clotting reaction called vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, or VITT......»»
Moderna Starts Human Trials of An mRNA-Based Flu Shot
Yesterday, Moderna announced that the first set of volunteers in a clinical trial have received its mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine. The Verge reports: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines were still largely experimental, even as they were her.....»»
mRNA vaccine technology moves to flu: Moderna says trial has begun
Moderna aims for one seasonal shot for flu, COVID-19, respiratory viruses RSV and HMPV. Enlarge (credit: Getty | Tom Williams) Moderna has given out the first doses of an mRNA-based influenza vaccine to participants in an early-phase clinical.....»»
Vaccines grown in eggs induce antibody response against an egg-associated glycan, study finds
Researchers have found that viral vaccines grown in eggs, such as the H1N1 flu vaccine, produce an antibody response against a sugar molecule found in eggs, which could have implications for the effectiveness of these vaccines......»»
New microfluidic device delivers mRNA nanoparticles a hundred times faster
The COVID vaccines currently being deployed were developed with unprecedented speed, but the mRNA technology at work in some of them is an equally impressive success story. Because any desired mRNA sequence can be synthesized in massive quantities, o.....»»
mRNA vaccines slash risk of COVID-19 infection by 91 percent in fully vaccinated people, study finds
People who receive mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are up to 91 percent less likely to develop the disease than those who are unvaccinated, according to a new nationwide study. For those few vaccinated people who do still get an infection, or 'breakthrough' c.....»»
COVID gets quantum treatment for drug discovery
Since the first known case of COVID-19 in December 2019, the disease has infected over 180 million people and killed nearly four million. A successful group of vaccines that target the coronavirus's spike protein has started to drive down global infe.....»»
COVID Vaccines To Reach Poorest Countries in 2023 -- Despite Recent Pledges
Most people in the poorest countries will need to wait another two years before they are vaccinated against COVID-19, researchers have told Nature. From a report: Around 11 billion doses are needed to fully vaccinate 70% of the world's population aga.....»»
Study finds 94 percent of patients with cancer respond well to COVID-19 vaccines
More than 9 of 10 patients with cancer showed good immune response to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines after receiving both doses, but subsets of high-risk patients did not, according to a new study......»»
Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines prime T cells to fight SARS-CoV-2 variants, study finds
Researchers have found that T cells from people who have recovered from COVID-19 or received the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are still able to recognize several concerning SARS-CoV-2 variants......»»
Success of COVID-19 vaccines may be convincing people not to get vaccinated
As delta spreads, experts worry about vaccination holdouts who are standing firm. Enlarge / A deserted walk-in COVID-19 mass vaccination site at the Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC, on June 1, 2021. (credit: Getty | ANITA BEATTIE ).....»»