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Another covid summer wave is here, but the future of vaccines is unclear  The Washington Post Florida COVID cases spike right before the start of schools  WLRN COVID-19 levels rise in U.S.; Vaccination hurdles emerge for Indiana and beyond  WBIW Source link

Amid uncertainty at the federal level, the Globe spoke with experts to guide readers on which vaccines are available, what doctors are recommending, and where to find reliable sources of information. Though the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has yet to officially weigh in on the COVID-19 vaccine, Kennedy announced on X in May that the CDC would no …

Reuters Police responded to reports of a shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, last Friday A man who fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters last week had expressed distrust of the Covid-19 vaccine, investigators say. Police officer David Rose, 33, who graduated from the police academy in March, died in hospital …

One of the targeted recipients, Tiba Biotech, had a $750,000 contract with BARDA that was slated to end October 30. The company was developing an RNAi-based therapeutic for H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu. RNAi is short for RNA interference and refers to small pieces of RNA that can shut down the production of specific proteins. The approach has …

Aluminum in Vaccines Study Won’t Be Retracted, Journal Says  MedPage Today Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy’s call for retraction of vaccine study  Reuters Journal Rejects RFK Jr.’s Call to Retract Study Showing No Health Risk of Aluminum in Vaccines  Democracy Now! U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Challenges Vaccine Study, Gets Rejected by a Prominent Medical Journal  Technology Org Medical Journal Refuses to …

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer. The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident, had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but …

2.5 Million Lives Saved: The Untold Story of COVID Vaccines’ Global Impact  SciTechDaily COVID-19 vaccine programmes have prevented more than 2.5 million deaths  Labmate Online Source link

Vaccines for older adults: Here’s what doctors recommend to people 50 and over  San Francisco Chronicle The Journey of Vaccines: From Smallpox to Cancer  the-scientist.com Critical vaccines that could prevent senior health crises  Rolling Out Source link

A neurochemistry journal has retracted a paper that claimed prenatal vaccine exposure caused autism-like behaviors in rats. The retraction comes more than a year after the paper’s publication and amid criticism of its methodology. The paper, which was originally published 10 January 2024 in Neurochemical Research, purported to show reduced sociability in rats born to mothers that received a human-sized …

Good morning. You may have heard a saying along the lines that “when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”. So when the US health department announced plans to cut half a billion dollars in vaccine research funding on Wednesday, the world took notice. The US is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, but this …