Keep in mind, I still lived with others at the time. Even after I moved out of my parents’ house, I went through a period in which I lived in shared houses and apartments with other people. Most were around my age. And for the most part, I got along with these people. At one ...
You told me I had no business questioning what infectious disease experts were telling us to do. (I’m paraphrasing here. What you actually said was: “How about staying in your lane and shutting the eff up?”) I got my vindication from Dr. Stefanos Kales, another from Harvard Medical S...
hearing this week he resigned in part because top brass sidelined his office to rush the full approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in August 2021, apparently to legally enable a vaccine mandate, then a booster under emergency use authorization over the objections of the agency’s outside ...
B.C. health authorities continue to operate scheduled appointment and walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics around the province. A list of clinic locations and hours by regioncan be found here. Registration and booking appointments in B.C.can be done here, or by calling 1-833-838-2323 betwee...
“Those folks all, when they become infected, still are more likely to get more serious disease, and that results in an increase in hospitalizations,” Schaffner said. But he added that there’s a reason the CDC recently recommended the new COVID booster for everyone, not just thos...
Vaccines! The UK aggressively deployed vaccinations and they did what I recommended months ago by maximizing the number of people getting first shots and delaying the second booster shot. This strategy worked incredibly well as you will see shortly in the more detailed discussion below. [An ...
Chenchula S, Karunakaran P, Sharma S, Chavan M. Current evidence on efficacy of COVID-19 booster dose vaccination against the Omicron variant: A systematic review. Journal of medical virology. 2022 Jul:94(7):2969-2976. doi: 10.1002/jmv.27697. Epub 2022 Mar 14[PubMed PMID: 35246846] ...
Those that completed the initial series of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine at least five months ago are now eligible to receive a booster. The previous time period was six months after. For those that received Moderna or Johnson & Johnson in their initial series, the six-month interval remains ...
The problem is not that the team has some players who have caught Covid-19. The problem is that the team has players thathaven’tcaught Covid-19! They might catch it in the future. So we need to have backups ready for those players. ...
A medical worker prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine booster dose at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 6. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images) The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine appears to be 94% effective against Covid-19 hospitalization among adolescents in the Uni...