Despite soaring cases and record-high COVID-19 hospitalizations, the United States is approaching the "threshold" of transitioning to living with the coronavirus as a manageable disease, Anthony Fauci said Tuesday.
Jan 11, 2022
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A target trial emulation study found that in an elderly population of U.S. veterans with high comorbidity burden, mRNA vaccine efficacy at preventing infection with COVID-19 was substantially lower than previously reported ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Levels of neutralizing antibody to prevent omicron infection reduced and vaccine efficacy against severe disease predicted to drop says new report.
Dec 17, 2021
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As the world faces an impending wave of COVID cases due to omicron, scientists are racing to assess vaccine efficacy against the new variant. In a new study, Rockefeller scientists report on their comprehensive analysis of ...
Dec 17, 2021
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The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone's lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine efficacy and effectiveness. These are not the same thing. And as time goes on ...
Dec 16, 2021
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No one knows how effective vaccines will be in stopping people catching the newly discovered and fast-spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 or how well they will protect against severe illness.
Dec 4, 2021
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Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday their COVID-19 vaccine remained 100 percent effective in children 12 to 15 years old, four months after the second dose.
Nov 22, 2021
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The United States is set to become the latest country to widen COVID booster eligibility beyond the immunocompromised, elderly and high risk.
Nov 18, 2021
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When new Emory University faculty member Natalie Dean posted a primer on Twitter last year to demystify vaccine efficacy, she earned herself a fanbase outside the scientific community. Biostatisticians like Dean are challenged ...
Oct 22, 2021
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As a medical student working with Alberta Health Services to vaccinate people against COVID-19, I have been asked my fair share of questions about the COVID-19 vaccines—from the need for booster doses to rare side effects.
Sep 2, 2021
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