How COVID-19 Vaccines Work Available COVID-19 vaccines work in different ways. Vaccines that use mRNA give your cells the genetic instructions to make an important part of the virus. This triggers an immune response that protects you from infection. Protein subunit vaccines work by giving you ...
Three prior posts explained how the FDA seeks to delay for 75+ years full production of Pfizer’s pre-licensure safety data. While we have that fight, we submitted a request to the CDC, on behalf of ICAN, for the deidentified post-licensure safety data for the Covid-19 vaccines in the...
Perhaps more interesting is this particular study’s breakdown of different COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness. This data suggests differences in effectiveness between the two commonly used mRNA vaccines. The study indicates the Moderna vaccine is 95 percent effective at preventing COVID-19 hospitalization, ...
The identified trials were published between 2013 and 2023. The largest body of evidence focused on the immunogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines and how this may vary by type of cancer and cancer therapy. Nonrandomized studies have also evaluated the association between COVID-19 vaccination status and...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pushing new COVID-19 boosters, claiming that people who don’t stay “up to date” with shots – regardless of how many they’ve already taken –“are more likely to get very sick” while those who take them annually are “much less like...
Instead, the country relies on data from the UK and Israel to figure out how well COVID-19 can dodge our vaccines. This puts the US at a disadvantage as the virus continues to morph, doing its best to survive. With Delta around, we know vaccinated people are not as well protected as...
The mRNA vaccines distributed in the United States were the Moderna and Pfizer shots. The Johnson and Johnson vaccine was not an mRNA shot. The UK's mRNA shot, Astra Zenica, has also recently been admitted to cause dangerous side effects in some recipients. mRNA shots have ...
the reccomendations made by the ACIP Work Group for RSV prevention in adults have met once a month since July 2023 to consider its suggestions for RSV vaccination in adults. The committee used the Evidence to Recommendation Framework to make its final decision on RSV vaccine...
like countries, communities and public health institutions around the world, who has learned an enormous amount from this pandemic. covid has changed our world, and it has changed us. that's the way it should be. if we...
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