ROCHESTER, Minn. — Getting a COVID-19 vaccine may not only reduce a person’s risk of getting long-haul COVID, but also could mean fewer symptoms for people who develop the condition. Mayo Clinic researchers discovered that long-haul COVID patients who were vaccinated before contracting the virus were less likely to experience […]
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BioNTech reduces drug development spend as COVID vaccine sales plunge
The logo of BioNTech is pictured at Biontech’s research laboratory for individualised vaccines against cancer in Mainz, Germany, July 27, 2023. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo FRANKFURT, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Germany’s BioNTech (22UAy.DE), Pfizer’s (PFE.N) partner on COVID-19 vaccines, cut its drug development budget for this year after quarterly revenues were […]
No organ transplants without a COVID-19 vaccine? 2 sue Michigan Medicine over policy
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Unexpected Ineffectiveness of BCG Vaccine Against COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers
The international BRACE trial, investigating the BCG vaccine’s efficacy against COVID-19, has found it does not reduce healthcare workers’ risk of contracting the disease. Future studies will explore the vaccine’s influence on other infections and COVID-19 vaccine responses. The international BRACE trial, investigating the BCG vaccine’s efficacy against COVID-19, has […]
University of Colorado School of Medicine researchers launch trial for new COVID vaccine for children
Colorado researchers launch trial for new COVID vaccine for children Colorado researchers launch trial for new COVID vaccine for children 01:43 Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine are enlisting families for a new COVID vaccine trial. While many of the signs we used to see linked to […]
Coronavirus vaccine should go to health care workers, long term care facilities first, CDC panel recommends
A panel of independent experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a public meeting on Tuesday voted that health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities will be the first to receive the long-awaited coronavirus vaccine. The vote was 13-1. The recommendations now must be approved […]
Community Hospital In Munster Will Be Among First In Indiana To Get COVID-19 Vaccine For Healthcare Workers – CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — With Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on track for approval as early as next month, Community Hospital in Munster could be among the first hospitals in Indiana to distribute the vaccine to frontline healthcare workers. The Indiana State Department of Health has identified five hospitals that will be the first […]
CDC panel says first Covid-19 vaccine doses should go to health workers, long-term care residents
Determining priority is crucial given the limited initial supply of vaccines and the surging U.S. outbreak. So far 13.6 million people in the country have been infected and nearly 270,000 have died. Health care workers have been hit hard, with at least 243,000 infections and 858 deaths, according to CDC […]
CDC committee recommends health care workers and long-term care facility residents be first in line for COVID vaccine
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially voted Tuesday to recommend that health care workers and long-term care facility residents should be the first Americans to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. “When a COVID-19 vaccine is authorized by FDA and recommended by ACIP, vaccination in the initial phase […]
Wayne State begins COVID-19 plasma studies; vaccine research expanded at Henry Ford, Beaumont, Michigan Medicine
COVID-19 treatment and vaccine clinical research is continuing in Southeast Michigan as Wayne State University, Henry Ford Health System, Beaumont Health and Michigan Medicine begin additional studies in an attempt to find biological ways to end the world’s worst pandemic in more than 100 years. Earlier this month, two outpatient […]
As rich countries hoard potential coronavirus vaccine doses, rest of world could go without
As a result, relatively wealthy nations will likely be able to vaccinate their entire populations, with billions of others relegated to the back of the line. People in low-income countries could be waiting until 2024. These deals between countries and drug manufacturers, known as advance purchase agreements, are undermining a […]
How Parents Feel About Their Kids in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Katelyn Evans, 16, has never met Randy Kerr—and there’s no reason she should have. It was 66 years ago that Kerr, then 6, became briefly famous, receiving the first injection of Jonas Salk’s experimental polio vaccine during the massive field trial of hundreds of thousands of children in the spring […]
The next vaccine challenge: Nationalism
Instead of a coordinated global effort among governments to prepare the world to produce and distribute a vaccine, the pandemic has set off a wave of “me first” health care nationalism. Early in the pandemic, nations scrambled to bring production “home” and to secure enough doses of a still-hypothetical vaccine […]