COVID-19

Reminder messages, not free rides, are more effective in encouraging COVID-19 booster vaccinations --study

Fri, 2024-06-28 09:42 — mike kraft

Reminders—but not free rides—boost COVID-19 booster uptake Text messages increased 30-day COVID-19 booster uptake by 21%. CIDRAP

Nature has published a large study showing that text message reminders to receive a COVID-19 booster worked to increase vaccine uptake, but that offering free rides to pharmacies did not.

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U.S. CDC releases autumn 2024 COVID and flu vaccination recomendations

Fri, 2024-06-28 09:03 — mike kraft

CDC Recommends Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 and Flu Vaccines for Fall/Winter Virus Season | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC

CDC Newsroom Press releases, advisories, telebriefings, transcripts and archives. CDC

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U.S. is seeing a summer wave of COVID

Fri, 2024-06-28 08:51 — mike kraft

A summer wave of Covid-19 has arrived in the US | CNN Covid-19 levels have been rising in the United States for weeks as new variants drive what’s become an annual summer surge. Deidre McPhillips CNN

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Study of a specific gene indicates why some people never get COVID-19

Thu, 2024-06-27 10:08 — mike kraft

Scientists closing in on why some people never get COVID. That could help with future vaccines | CBC News Scientists describe high activity of a specific gene in volunteers who didn't get infected when exposed to COVID-19 on purpose. They hope better understanding early immune responses could help develop nasal spray forms of vaccines for the coronavirus. CBC

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Remdesivir lowered risk of death among hospitalized COVID patients by 54% --study

Wed, 2024-06-26 19:01 — mike kraft

Remdesivir tied to 54% lower risk of death among hospitalized COVID patients A comparison study based on two large, open-label studies links the antiviral drug remdesivir (Veklury) to a 54% lower risk of all-cause death and shorter hospital stays compared with standard of care (SOC) alone in hospitalized COVID-19 patients requiring supplemental oxygen in 2020. CIDRAP

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Gavi Includes Ebola, Meningitis, Rabies and Hepatitis B Vaccines in its Portfolio for high risk countries

Tue, 2024-06-25 12:24 — mike kraft

Gavi Includes Ebola, Meningitis, Rabies And Hepatitis B Vaccines In Its Portfolio - Health Policy Watch (healthpolicy-watch.news)

Gavi Includes Ebola, Meningitis, Rabies And Hepatitis B Vaccines In Its Portfolio - Health Policy Watch Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, announced last week that it will offer high risk countries the option of obtaining preventative Ebola vaccines, particularly for Health Policy Watch

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The COVID summer wave is here; What alarms doctors the most

Tue, 2024-06-25 11:25 — mike kraft

The Covid summer wave is here Infections are most likely rising in at least 39 states, driven in part by a trio of new variants. NBC News

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Several variants are likely to be contributing to the nationwide trend, said Dr. Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

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Latest XBB COVID-19 vaccine offers protection against hospitalization, deaths --study

Mon, 2024-06-24 20:06 — mike kraft

Latest XBB COVID-19 vaccine offers protection against hospitalization, deaths Today, JAMA Internal Medicine published a study calculating the protection offered by the latest Pfizer COVID-19 XBB vaccine compared to older vaccines against COVID-associated hospitalization and emergency department (ED) or urgent care (UC) visits. CIDRAP

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The authors compared outcomes among those who had received an updated XBB vaccine and those who had not received an XBB vaccine of any kind, regardless of prior COVID-19 vaccination or infection history.

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