— Bob Wachter, MD, breaks down the science by Serena Marshall and Lara Salahi While natural immunity from previous COVID infection is of scientific interest, it's also a political talking point that some have seized on to sidestep vaccination. What does the science...
President Biden says the variant is a 'cause for concern, not a cause for panic' By Edmund DeMarche Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, said in an interview published Tuesday that current vaccines for COVID-19 will likely be much less effective against the new...
By: Mitch Lagge People lined a portion of King Avenue West in Billings on Sunday to rally in opposition of a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers and employees of any company with more than 100 workers. “We’re opposed to the mandate. Everybody...
The European Medicine Agency (EMA) human medicines committee (CHMP) just recommended granting an extension of indication for the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty, the mRNA-based vaccine, to include use in children aged 5 to 11. The vaccine, developed by BioNTech and Pfizer,...
WHO chief says many vaccinated people wrongly think they no longer need to take other precautions against COVID. The chief of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and that some people were falling into a “false sense of...
In pockets of Europe, vaccine resistance has become the long tail of the populist nationalist movements that shook up European politics for a decade. By Katrin Bennhold Sven Müller is proudly unvaccinated. He thinks Covid vaccines are neither effective nor safe but a...
Regulators are set to clear extra doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine as soon as Thursday, after states began expanding eligibility on their own. By Noah Weiland and Sharon LaFraniere The Food and Drug Administration is aiming to authorize booster doses of...
The past two months have brought extremely good news in the fight against Covid-19. Two different oral treatments have proved effective at both preventing people newly diagnosed with Covid-19 from entering the hospital and from dying. “We’re accelerating our path out...
By Chris Masterjohn Phd on his site November 2, 2021 with Commentary by Mark Bricca, ND In his blog post below, you can really see Chris Masterjohn's amazing nerdiness when it comes to his ability to analyze data so well. He sought out to compare all available...
What does most research about whether there is natural immunity against SARS-CoV-2 have to say about this topic? While national, regional, and local governments focus on controlling the pandemic primarily through the use of testing, vaccination, emerging treatments,...
Depending on what media one follows, the world could be either viewed as one with a dire shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, such as what World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom described recently, or one increasingly awash in surplus...
It is hoped vaccine based on similar technology to Oxford Covid jab can protect against both Zaire and Sudan species of virus By Nicola Davis The first jab of a new Ebola vaccine that may protect against multiple species of the virus is to be given on...
The Mayo Clinic released a study on Nov. 1 revealing that Minnesota residents from Olmsted County who received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are 3.7 times more likely to develop blood clots. The Study Published by the JAMA network,...
There’s an interesting debate happening over vaccine mandates, and it’s in an unlikely place. The National Institute of Health, the workplace of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is a mandate advocate. According to a November 7th article in The Wall Street Journal, the...
— Experts outline three better ways to use limited resources by Molly Walker The resources used to implement a "boosters for all" COVID-19 strategy may be better invested in promoting initial vaccine uptake or increasing access to rapid testing, experts argued....