Vaccination

Dutch health body urges booster shots for those 60 and over

The Dutch health council advised the government Tuesday to begin giving COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to everybody 60 and older and residents of nursing homes, saying it was seeing indications that COVID-19 protection was ...

Vaccination

Q and A: High-dose flu vaccines

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I just turned 65 and had my annual physical. This year, my doctor recommended that I receive a high-dose flu vaccine. Why do I need a high-dose vaccine?

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Latvia to impose lockdown over Covid spike

Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said on Monday that the Baltic state will go into lockdown for a month due to surging coronavirus infections and a poor vaccination rate.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Viral loads similar between vaccinated and unvaccinated people

Anew study from the University of California, Davis, Genome Center and UC San Francisco shows no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated people who tested positive for the delta variant of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Four factors that increase the risk of vaccinated people getting COVID

Two weeks after your second COVID-19 vaccine dose, the protective effects of vaccination will be at their highest. At this point, you're fully vaccinated. If you still get COVID-19 after this point, you've suffered a "breakthrough" ...

Vaccination

COVID vaccines cut odds of hospitalization by two-thirds

(HealthDay)—If you're vaccinated against COVID-19, you may still get infected—but the odds you'll need hospitalization are reduced by about two-thirds compared to unvaccinated people, a new study reveals.

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