The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Monday it had instructed a monkeypox vaccine manufacturer to deliver an additional 36,000 doses this week as part of a drawdown from a U.S. vaccine stockpile. In a statement, HHS said the doses will be added to the existing 36,000 […]
Americans may soon get a new COVID-19 vaccine option — shots made with a more tried-and-true technology than today’s versions. The big question: Why should they care? After long delays, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide within weeks whether to authorize Novavax’s vaccine. It’s late in the […]
A significantly stronger immune response against Omicron is seen, but it remains unclear how an updated vaccine will fare against future versions of the virus. Moderna released preliminary results on Wednesday on an updated coronavirus vaccine that targets the Omicron variant, calling it “our lead candidate” to serve as a U.S. booster […]
What is the current state of H5N1 infections among wild and domestic birds in the United States and internationally? In the United States, highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus has been detected in wild birds in 41 states. This includes migratory waterfowl, such as ducks and geese, as well as […]
David Ho, MD, managed to avoid contracting COVID-19 for more than 2 years. But SARS-CoV-2 finally got the best of the pioneering HIV researcher on an April trip to Paris for, of all things, a 2-day COVID-19 conference. The irony is not lost on Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond […]
The COVID-19 crisis publicly exposed systemic problems within the US nursing home system, where about 40% of deaths from SARS-CoV-2 infection occurred during the pandemic’s first year. Now, a major report provides a blueprint for overhauling what the authors concluded is an “ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable” approach to long-term and postacute care. […]
Overview Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are tracking multiple cases of monkeypox that have been reported in several countries that don’t normally report monkeypox (view global map), including the United States. For travelers, see: Travel Health Notice for Monkeypox in Multiple Countries. It’s not clear how […]
En un artículo aun en preprint, la farmacéutica Sanofi presenta los resultados de su vacuna adyuvada con AS03 frente al SARS-CoV-2, que incluye la variante beta administrada como dosis de recuerdo en aquellos que recibieron un priming, de 3 a 7 meses antes, con dos dosis de vacuna Comirnaty. Patrocinado por el […]
Seasonal influenza vaccines are updated every year, depending on what strains are circulating globally, leaving many people—especially those who still contracted COVID-19 after 2 booster shots—wondering why vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 haven’t changed as variants have come and gone. Currently available COVID-19 vaccines are based on the spike protein of Wuhan-Hu-1, […]
Food safety regulators in the United States and Canada are investigating a Hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the United States and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in Minnesota and North […]
