Tag Archives: Vaccine

RFK Jr. shakes up COVID vaccine policy with new rules – Axios

RFK Jr. shakes up COVID vaccine policy with new rules  Axios FDA Approves Updated Covid Vaccines With New Restrictions  The New York Times The latest COVID vaccines come with new FDA limits  NPR Pfizer and BioNTech’s COMIRNATY® Receives U.S. FDA Approval for Adults 65 and Older and Individuals Ages 5 through 64 at Increased Risk for Severe COVID-19  Business Wire Looking to get a …

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'Stratus' COVID-19 strain surges in Bay Area as vaccine rollout sows confusion – SFGATE

‘Stratus’ COVID-19 strain surges in Bay Area as vaccine rollout sows confusion  SFGATE Why Covid Is Spreading Again This Summer  The New York Times Why COVID keeps roaring back every summer, even as pandemic fades from public view  Los Angeles Times COVID cases surge in California as Stratus variant spreads  San Francisco Chronicle Latest on COVID this week: Cases, deaths, variants, vaccines and more  USA …

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Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is likely to be more complicated this year

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is likely to be more complicated this year

Will you get a COVID-19 vaccine? That has become a complicated question for many people. The answer may depend on your age, insurance coverage, health and finding a health care professional who will give you the shot. A once-straightforward seasonal vaccine process has become muddled this year because of new federal guidance on who the shots are approved for. It …

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COVID vaccine questions and doubt linger amid nationwide surge – Axios

COVID vaccine questions and doubt linger amid nationwide surge  Axios America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr.  vox.com What Americans Need to Know About Covid Shots This Season  Bloomberg Questions abound as FDA set to approve updated COVID vaccine  NBC Bay Area CDC’s new COVID-19 vaccine guidance could limit access for many  KUSA.com Source link

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Cancer vaccine research in Oxford to be aided by AI supercomputer

Cancer vaccine research in Oxford to be aided by AI supercomputer

Researchers developing vaccines to treat cancer have been granted access to one of the UK’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers. The team at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine will be allowed to use the device, know as Dawn, for 10,000 hours as part of a government scheme. They will be analysing tens of thousands of data …

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US CDC taps vaccine skeptic to lead COVID committee – Reuters

US CDC taps vaccine skeptic to lead COVID committee  Reuters ACIP member critical of COVID vaccines to lead review  CIDRAP Vaccine skeptic to lead CDC COVID immunization working group  The Hill Covid vaccine critic tapped to lead CDC advisory committee on shots  Seeking Alpha Covid Vaccine Opponent Tapped to Lead Federal Review Team  The New York Times Source link

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Michigan schools are getting more vaccine waivers. How covered is your kid’s school?

Michigan schools are getting more vaccine waivers. How covered is your kid’s school?

School immunization waiver rates by county for 2024. An interactive version of the map is available in the story below.Justin P. Hicks | jhicks3@mlive.com The rate of Michigan parents declining to get their children fully vaccinated for school, as recommended by health experts, has doubled in the last decade. For the 2024-25 school year, nearly 6.2% of Michigan’s more than …

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The Shingles Vaccine May Be Helpful In Preventing A Common Age-Related Illness

The Shingles Vaccine May Be Helpful In Preventing A Common Age-Related Illness

Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Truth: You don’t want to get shingles, the condition that occurs when the dormant virus that causes chickenpox reactivates. Often, it leads to painful rashes and blisters. (Which makes the crazy, frustrating symptomatic itching of chickenpox seem like a walk in the park.) Fortunately, there’s a fast way to lower your …

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RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine

RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine

Image by Michael M. Santiago via Getty / Futurism About 10 weeks before his assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy — better known as Bobby, and the father of our current health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — delivered a rousing address at Vanderbilt University that came to be known as one of his greatest speeches. Quoting his presidential uncle John, …

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RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no

RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no

Robert F. Kennedy Jr wants a study about vaccines retracted.Credit: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa US via Alamy US health secretary and vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move for a US public official. Aluminium has …

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