December 16, 2024 The summer COVID-19 surge is being linked at least in part to more people gathering inside to escape the heat. Should you get a booster now or wait for new versions to come out in the fall? Here’s what the experts are saying. ...
September 23, 2024 / 5:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous....
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that despite the summer surge of COVID, the "timing is about right" for the rollout of the new COVID booster and free tests that will be available in the winter.Aug 26, ...
"Even being infected with COVID-19 after receiving full vaccination, people are more likely to only suffer slight symptoms," he said. "Vaccination also drops the virus' infection ability for spreading to others. So we encourage...
Not everyone may really need a fall COVID booster, but "it's not wrong to give people options," John Moore said. "The 20-year-old athlete is less at risk than the 70-year-old overweight dude. It's as simple as that." Journal information:The Lancet ...
"There are new variants that keep evolving every few months. And as the new variants evolve, they (become) easily transmissible. That's the way the virus tries to survive," Mannepalli said. The FDA has announced a new COVID-19 booster shot is expected to arrive in August or September ...
Preparing for the virtual hearing has been an ongoing challenge, Patel said. Her client doesn't have a smartphone, doesn't speak English and has "almost no digital literacy," she said. Coronavirus updates I'm Eligible for a Second COVID Vaccine Booster. When Should I Get It?
There are reports of ocular inflammatory processes such as episcleritis being possible side effects of COVID-19 vaccination. Here we reported the first case of unilateral episcleritis in a Crohn's disease patient following her third mRNA COVID-19 vaccination booster shot. Patient and Methods A...
This year, there are also slight differences between Novavax and Pfizer and Moderna's updated vaccines. Both mRNA vaccines have been tweaked to target the KP.2 strain of COVID-19, which is a slightly more recent version of the virus than what Novavax targets, which is KP.2's "parent"...
With so much yet to be learned about the virus, using vaccines as the main weapon against Covid-19 could lead to new variants, Nabarro warned. What needs to be done is a “combination approach” of masks and other health interventions, “which is to do everything poss...