Folks might want to try timing their COVID-19 booster vaccine to coincide with a period of increased transmission in their area, a new study suggests. Doing so
It's that time of year when you're probably getting reminders about getting your flu shot. But there's also a new COVID vaccine on the market. So when should you get it? Good Question. Kirsten Mitchell went to the doctor to get an update.Sept 20, 2024 ...
Protect yourself againstCOVID-19 during fall travel.The CDC recommends everyone get the new COVID vaccine booster for fall 2023. Whatever you choose to do, your safest bet during travel is towear an N95 mask, in combination with being vaccinated and boosted. These masks are designed to filter...
States With Best COVID-19 Vaccine Rates More Matthew Hatcher|Getty Images Medical staff watch and advise walk-in patients who received their COVID-19 vaccination at a pop-up clinic at Western International High School on April 12, 2021, in Detroit. Communities with high vaccination rates are ...
Using a different covid-19 vaccine for the third "booster" dose than was used for the initial two doses provides a higher level of protection, a study has found.1 Researchers from Chile examined the country's national covid-19 vaccination programme, including over four million people who ...
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), condemned the idea of "booster" vaccine doses for people in rich countries when African nations will only have 17 percent of their populations vaccinated by the end of this year. The...
In addition to pushing the vaccine in developing countrieswhere storage is a problem, NVX-CoV2373 is now being pitched as a “universal booster” shot. Some analysts are coming up with other reasons for optimism. The company’s flu vaccine, dubbedNanoFlu, could be combined with its Covid-19...
In fact, you are far more likely to get myocarditis from a COVID-19 infection than either the Pfizer or Sinovac vaccine. Here is my comparison of the myocarditis risk of triple vaccination (two doses + booster) versus a single COVID-19 infection. ...
Even if we tried to answer this question, defining which vaccine is "best" is not simple. Does that mean the vaccine better at protecting you from serious disease? The one that protects you from whichever variant is circulating near you? The one that needs fewer booster shots? The one for...
The researchers looked at COVID-19 cases from the end of last May until mid-November, and calculated how often new infections happened in each group. As time went on, vaccine-only protection looked less and less impressive. By early October, compared with unvaccinated people who didn't have...