Kathleen Doheny December 11, 2024 2122 Added to Email Alert Dec. 9, 2024 — The updated COVID vaccines for 2024-2025 are officially here, designed to target the latest variants and offer robust protection — but getting Americans to roll up their sleeves could prove harder than ever. With COVID cases on the decline, many people...
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New study provides insight to why COVID vaccines hit some harder than others
September 4, 2024 by Anna Zarra Aldrich, University of Connecticut Students receiving the COVID 19 vaccine at Hawley Armory on April 8, 2021. The rollout of the vaccines across the state in the spring helped set up a return to a more familiar university experience. Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn PhotoWhen you got the SARS-CoV2 vaccine to...
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New COVID vaccines arrive in Washington as respiratory virus season approaches
by Elise Takahama, The Seattle Times Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainWashington state’s summer surge of COVID-19 is showing early signs of waning after a particularly infectious couple of months—but don’t relax just yet, public health experts say. Respiratory virus season is right around the corner. Although rates are still nowhere close to where they were during...
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WHO Recommends Monovalent XBB.1.5 Covid-19 Vaccines For Boosters
By CodeBlue | 14 December 2023 WHO recommends monovalent XBB.1.5 Covid-19 vaccines across different platforms against circulating variants. Malaysia’s MOH has yet to issue an updated Covid-19 vaccine advisory for 2024 or to announce if the monovalent XBB.1.5 vaccine will be procured. Vaccination of a senior male patient at a hospital. Photo by aslysun/ shutterstock.com....
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New Covid vaccines are on the way as ‘Eris’ variant rises
By Michael Erman August 14, 2023 4:47 AM MST Updated 3 hours ago A vial labelled “VACCINE Coronavirus COVID-19” is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken on January 17, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) – A new COVID vaccine is due out next month, but health...
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New theories of possible link between Covid vaccines and tinnitus are emerging
Joseph Prezioso Thousands of people say they’ve developed tinnitus after they were vaccinated against Covid. While there is no proof yet that the vaccines caused the condition, theories for a possible link have surfaced among researchers. Shaowen Bao, an associate professor in the physiology department of the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson,...
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Covid vaccines didn’t work for many cancer patients — but researchers are designing a new shot for them
By Angus Chen April 12, 2022 Reprints Human T cells A. WALKER, L. SHARP & J. PRYDE./WELLCOME COLLECTION NEW ORLEANS — A couple months before the pandemic started, Joseph Ford started experiencing a rash of pinpoint polka dots around his lips, ankles, and lower legs. They were itchy, inflamed, painful, and, for him, the first...
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Scientists discover world’s first cure for heart attacks using the same mRNA technology as Covid vaccines
By STEWART CARR FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 21:04 EDT, 15 April 2022 | UPDATED: 02:46 EDT, 16 April 2022 Genetic tracking used to create Covid vaccines is now being adapted to help regenerate hearts damaged from cardiac arrests. Scientists at King’s College London have tracked genetic codes called mRNAs which produce proteins to generate healthy heart cells. The ground-breaking research could lead to...
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How COVID vaccines shaped 2021 in eight powerful charts
Smriti Mallapaty, Ewen Callaway, Max Kozlov, Heidi Ledford, John Pickrell & Richard Van Noorden A mobile vaccination team at work during a house call in a remote region of Turkey.Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty A year ago, vaccine drives against COVID-19 were just beginning. Now, more than 4.4 billion people have had one or more dose —...
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Moderna says tainted COVID vaccines sent to Japan contained steel
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Moderna said Wednesday that tainted batches of its COVID-19 vaccine sent to Japan were contaminated with stainless steel particles, but the company did not expect it posed “an undue risk to patient safety.” The US biotech firm is facing major setbacks in Japan, with hundreds of thousands of doses suspended following...