Sunday, over 340,000 close contacts of COVID-19 cases in Shanghai have been screened out, and the situation is under control. The director of the Shanghai Health Commission said vaccination is proven to be effective in preventing severe and critical cases and suggested that sen...
Ours is the first pan-Canadian IMID assessment of how vaccine history and other factors affect serologic COVID-19 vaccine responses. These findings may help individuals personalize vaccination decisions, including consideration of additional vaccination when > 6 months has elaps...
A COVID-19 vaccine mandate is being introduced for health and social care workers in England, and those refusing to comply will either be redeployed from their patient-facing role or have their employment terminated. We argue that COVID-19 vaccination should not be mandatory for these workers ...
If you've got COVID, do you still need to get vaccinated? The answer is yes. And here's why. If you had COVID in the past, you do have some protection. There's natural immunity. And a lot of people are talking about it. The problem is, it's very variable. And by that,...
“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...
NEW YORK (AP) — Older U.S. adults should roll up their sleeves for another COVID-19 shot, even if they got a booster in the fall, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.
“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 ...
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 possible adverse events that can arise in each treatment modality. Our conclusion is that ca...
A man arrives with two young girls for his shot at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Toronto. Children under 12 are not yet being vaccinated and there is some debate among medical experts about the benefits of doing so. Photo by Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press/File...
also found that people of Asian ethnicities were more likely to end up in intensive care. I asked Manish Pareek, a co-author at Leicester university, whether ethnic background should be factored into the national vaccination strategy. “Given our work, I suspect JCVI will come back and look...