The combination of COVID-19 vaccination with immunotherapy by checkpoint inhibitors in cancer patients could intensify immunological stimulation with potential reciprocal benefits. Here, we examine more closely
The anti-vaccine movement’s targeting of COVID vaccination has long been underway, even thought the vaccines were estimated by the Commonwealth Fund to haveaverted 18 million hospitalizations and 3 million deathsin the U.S. in just their first two years of availability, d...
The vaccination rate is higher for adults 65 and older, at nearly 42%. “In each successive vaccine, the uptake has gone down,” said Dr. David Canaday, a Case Western Reserve University infectious diseases expert who studies COVID-19 in older people. “People are tired of...
Although most Americans are not eligible for a second bivalent booster, the CDC emphatically recommends that adults of any age who are unvaccinated or just received the monovalent booster get a first bivalent booster. For people who are up to date on their Covid-19 vaccines but are still worri...
“COVID-19 vaccination also reduces the chance of suffering the effects ofLong COVID, which can develop during or following acute infection and last for an extended duration,” the agency said. Related What causes long COVID? For nearly half of cases, new research suggests an answer. ...
“Careful attention to both questions suggests that we should not yet roll out COVID-19 vaccination to otherwise healthy children.” They acknowledge that in older adults, the benefits ofCOVID-19 vaccinesclearly outweigh the rare side effects. And in children with certain chronic or acute serious...
developed a little runny nose and a sore throat. When you woke up this morning you started coughing and had a fever. In the past year, your mind would have immediately jumped to Covid-19. But if you are already fully vaccinated, you might wonder: Should I still get tested for Covi...
Covid-19: Adults with learning disabilities should have priority access to vaccination, say lawyersLawyers are threatening to take the UK government to court for failing to include those with learning disabilities in the groups with high priority access to covid-19 vaccines. The law firm Bindmans...
"They will also reduce the chance an individual child gets COVID-19. This means vaccination is likely to reduce (but not eliminate) education disruption." The CMOs have asked for the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to look at whether second...
“Your new vaccine will protect you from serious disease and will very likely keep you from getting COVID-19 at all,” said Assoc. Prof. Emily Landon of the University of Chicago Medicine. “But you could still have a mild or asymptomatic infection, and that could still set off a chain...