Vaccines Needed to Stop COVID’s Spread

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, March 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Fewer than 1 in 10 people in Wuhan carried COVID-19 antibodies in their bloodstream four months after the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city that served as a harbinger of a global pandemic, a new study shows. Further, only about 40% of … Read more

Jonathan Van-Tam: ‘These vaccines save lives’

England’s deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam has said the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and saves lives, after concerns in Europe about it increasing the risk of blood clots. He urged people to take up their vaccine offer, saying “vaccines don’t save lives if they’re in fridges… they only save lives if they’re in … Read more

Can Vaccination and Infection Rates Equal COVID Herd Immunity?

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News Wednesday, March 17, 2021 (Kaiser News) — It’s been a long, dark winter of covid concerns, stoked by high post-holiday case counts and the American death tally exceeding 530,000 lives lost. But with three vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — now authorized for emergency use … Read more

Some With Long-Haul COVID See Relief After Vaccination

March 17, 2021 — Aaron Goyang thinks his long bout with COVID-19 has finally come to an end, several weeks after getting his second dose of a vaccine. Goyang, who is 33 and is a radiology technician in Austin, Texas, thinks he got COVID-19 from some of the coughing, gasping patients he treated last … Read more

Vaccines and the danger of religious misinformation

As coronavirus vaccines slowly roll out across the world, leaders are working hard to build confidence in them. Religious leaders in particular can play a crucial role in convincing people to vaccinate. Many are working hard to spread the news that vaccines are safe and effective, but as the BBC’s population reporter Stephanie Hegarty has … Read more

Pfizer’s Vaccine Plant Has History of Recalls

By Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News Wednesday, March 10, 2021 (Kaiser News) — Pfizer’s management knew last year there was “a mold issue” at the Kansas facility now slated to produce the drugmaker’s urgently needed covid-19 vaccine, according to a Food and Drug Administration inspection report. This story also ran on The Daily Beast. … Read more