by City of Hope National Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A COVID-19 investigational vaccine, developed by City of Hope scientists and now licensed to GeoVax Labs Inc. (Nasdaq: GOVX), produced a robust neutralizing antibody and T cell (an immune cell) response against SARS-CoV-2 with no significant side effects in a Phase 1 clinical trial...
by Kaiser Permanente Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New Kaiser Permanente research published February 21, 2022 in Nature Medicine shows that while Moderna COVID-19 vaccine protection is strong against coronavirus infection by the Delta variant, it is not as strong against infection from the Omicron variant. Three doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were highly effective against hospitalization...
by NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (gold) within endosomes of a heavily infected nasal epithelial cell. Credit: NIAID In adults who had previously received a full regimen of any of three COVID-19 vaccines granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center A medical assistant prepares a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to a patient. Credit: Public domain image courtesy of Lisa Ferdinando, U.S. Department of Defense The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person’s physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with no...
by Tanner Stening, Northeastern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For many immunocompromised people, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a living nightmare—and the omicron variant may make life even more unsettling. Authorities and drug manufacturers alike have warned that the protection conferred from being fully vaccinated may not be sufficient to ward off the omicron variant in certain...
by Yale University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Pregnant people who contract COVID-19 have an increased risk of disease severity and death, yet only 31% of pregnant people in the United States had received vaccines as of September 2021. One barrier to vaccine acceptance is the concern that vaccination might disrupt pregnancy. A Yale co-led study,...
By: Melissa Blasius Posted at 3:29 PM, Sep 22, 2021 and last updated 6:23 PM, Sep 22, 2021 A University of Arizona researcher is looking for commonalities in hundreds of people who have reported sudden or worsening tinnitus after receiving COVID-19 vaccines. “The risk is small, but it seems to me that it is there,”...
By: Melissa Blasius Posted at 9:30 PM, Dec 31, 2021 and last updated 9:40 AM, Jan 01, 2022 PHOENIX — After thousands of people reported ringing in the ears after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, one manufacturer now lists tinnitus as a reported side effect on its vaccine fact sheet. The ABC15 Investigators spotted Johnson &...
by Cardiff University Violin plot illustrating anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody response following complete COVID-19 vaccine course, according to DMT. The plot shows distribution of results according to tertiles, using the “no DMT” group as a reference. Circle indicates median, bold line indicates interquartile range. (A) All samples (B) seropositive samples only. COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019; DMT...
by Gillian Rutherford, University of Alberta Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ever since Canada approved the child-sized Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 and started to distribute nearly three million doses, some parents have jumped at the chance to get their kids vaccinated, while others still have questions. “Even before it was approved, about 50 percent of parents...
