While influenza has taken a backseat to COVID-19 over the last 2.5 years, flu season is here again and, with a significant reduction in social distancing, masking and other COVID-prevention measures, we'll likely see many ...
Oct 14, 2022
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One year after mass vaccination against COVID-19 was launched, inactivated virus vaccines accounted for half of the doses administered worldwide. Now, a large observational study performed in Brazil and co-led by Fiocruz ...
Oct 6, 2022
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There is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccination increases the incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Oct 4, 2022
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A nationwide U.S. study of more than 893,000 adults provides solid evidence confirming that mRNA booster immunizations extend protection against moderate and severe COVID for four to five months. These findings, published ...
Oct 3, 2022
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Flu season usually starts in the fall, peaks during the height of winter and tapers around spring. Other respiratory illnesses, including respiratory syncytial virus, enteroviruses, the common cold and COVID-19, also can ...
Sep 30, 2022
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In a Eurosurveillance paper, researchers look into the impact of COVID-19 measures on influenza circulation in Canada between 2020 and 2022 and the vaccine effectiveness against late-season influenza illness due to A(H3N2) ...
Sep 23, 2022
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A research team led by Matthias Preusser from MedUni Vienna's Division of Oncology had already demonstrated that cancer patients benefit from a third vaccination to protect them against COVID. A recent study now also supports ...
Sep 23, 2022
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Vaccination has played a substantial role in reducing the impact of COVID across the globe, and allowed life in most countries to gradually return to something like how we remember it before the pandemic. Researchers estimate ...
Sep 13, 2022
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Two vaccine doses provide only limited and short-lived protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the omicron variant. A study publishing September 1 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Mie Agermose Gram at Statens ...
Sep 1, 2022
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The Penn State Health Pediatrics team has a collection of Bugs Bunny Band-Aids to offer the recently vaccinated. And they don't call the injections shots. Some call them "little pinches." We're going to put a little medicine ...
Aug 19, 2022
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