" Murthy said. "But no vaccine is perfect, and especially against a foe like Omicron, and we know there are going to be some people who despite getting boosted, they may get breakthrough infections."
Americans also appear to be increasingly worried about vaccine availability. Since the first wave of the survey in December—which was prior to the rollout and around the time that the COVID-19 vaccines were receiving FDA emergency authorization —researchers have seen a sharp increase in the numb...
If neither augmented vaccine is available, a standard influenza vaccine is also acceptable for older people, since any influenza vaccine is preferable to receiving none. Flu vaccines can also be given at the same time as COVID vaccines. How else can we protect against the flu? While influenza ...
“It has been chaotic, frankly. We have known for months that this was coming, but the communications from [NHS England and ministers] have been appalling. We are used to delivering the winter flu vaccine each year, but this is a different ball game entirely. “It ...
The North Country region still has the highest COVID positivity rate in New York at 5.98 percent. "We have the vaccine and can defeat this virus, but our success depends on getting more shots in arms. I'm urging everyone who's eligible to get their vaccine right away to protect their ...
The news about rare side effects from the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine may be alarming to your patients, even those who received one of the other vaccines. Here’s how to reassure them.
What are the concerns about the UK policy? Following the government announcement on face masks, the British Medical Association said it still wanted people to continue using face masks past July 19. And according to the WHO's Mariangela Simao: "Vaccine alone won't stop co...
Researchers have found that low vaccination rates allow COVID-19 to spread more easily, which thereby increases the possibility that the virus will mutate. And currently,1 only about 55 percent of the world’s population has received one vaccine dose, according to Our World in Data— and this...
Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission members raised concerns in a meeting Thursday (March 4) that if states don’t reimburse COVID-19 vaccinations at or above Medicare rates, there will be large swaths of people not getting vaccinated, putting people in other states at risk. MACPAC...
received the mRNA vaccines but that the benefits of vaccination still clearly outweighed the risks.1 The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) had received 1226 preliminary reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after about 300 million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines up to 11 ...