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Novavax COVID Vaccine will be available this fall as an alternative to Moderna and Pfizer

Mon, 2024-07-01 10:53 — mike kraft

....Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are

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As COVID Surges Now—This Is the #1 Symptom to Look Out For, According to Experts

Mon, 2024-07-01 10:33 — mike kraft

 

COVID Is Surging Right Now—This Is the #1 Symptom to Look Out For, According to Infectious Disease Experts You may have missed it entirely. Yahoo News

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Infectious disease experts and epidemiologists we spoke with agreed that the most common COVID symptom of the current surge is a sore throat.

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Fraud: Justice Department charges nearly 200 people in $2.7 billion health care fraud schemes crackdown

Fri, 2024-06-28 09:49 — mike kraft

 

Justice Department charges nearly 200 people in $2.7 billion health care fraud schemes crackdown The Justice Department has charged nearly 200 people in a sweeping crackdown on health care fraud schemes nationwide with false claims topping $2.7 billion. AP News

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Reminder messages, not free rides, are more effective in encouraging COVID-19 booster vaccinations --study

Fri, 2024-06-28 09:42 — mike kraft
Reminders—but not free rides—boost COVID-19 booster uptake Text messages increased 30-day COVID-19 booster uptake by 21%. CIDRAP

Nature has published a large study showing that text message reminders to receive a COVID-19 booster worked to increase vaccine uptake, but that offering free rides to pharmacies did not. 

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U.S. CDC releases autumn 2024 COVID and flu vaccination recomendations

Fri, 2024-06-28 09:03 — mike kraft

CDC Recommends Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 and Flu Vaccines for Fall/Winter Virus Season | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC

CDC Newsroom Press releases, advisories, telebriefings, transcripts and archives. CDC

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U.S. is seeing a summer wave of COVID

Fri, 2024-06-28 08:51 — mike kraft
A summer wave of Covid-19 has arrived in the US | CNN Covid-19 levels have been rising in the United States for weeks as new variants drive what’s become an annual summer surge. Deidre McPhillips CNN

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Study of a specific gene indicates why some people never get COVID-19

Thu, 2024-06-27 10:08 — mike kraft
Scientists closing in on why some people never get COVID. That could help with future vaccines | CBC News Scientists describe high activity of a specific gene in volunteers who didn't get infected when exposed to COVID-19 on purpose. They hope better understanding early immune responses could help develop nasal spray forms of vaccines for the coronavirus. CBC

 

 

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Remdesivir lowered risk of death among hospitalized COVID patients by 54% --study

Wed, 2024-06-26 19:01 — mike kraft
Remdesivir tied to 54% lower risk of death among hospitalized COVID patients A comparison study based on two large, open-label studies links the antiviral drug remdesivir (Veklury) to a 54% lower risk of all-cause death and shorter hospital stays compared with standard of care (SOC) alone in hospitalized COVID-19 patients requiring supplemental oxygen in 2020.  CIDRAP

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Supreme Court rejected COVID-19 vaccine appeals from nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Wed, 2024-06-26 10:03 — mike kraft
Supreme Court rejects COVID-19 vaccine appeals from nonprofit founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Supreme Court has rejected two appeals related to COVID-19 vaccines from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by independent presidential candidate Robert F. AP News

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The justices did not comment in letting stand rulings against the group from the federal appeals courts in New Orleans and Philadelphia.

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Gavi Includes Ebola, Meningitis, Rabies and Hepatitis B Vaccines in its Portfolio for high risk countries

Tue, 2024-06-25 12:24 — mike kraft

Gavi Includes Ebola, Meningitis, Rabies And Hepatitis B Vaccines In Its Portfolio - Health Policy Watch (healthpolicy-watch.news)

Gavi Includes Ebola, Meningitis, Rabies And Hepatitis B Vaccines In Its Portfolio - Health Policy Watch Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, announced last week that it will offer high risk countries the option of obtaining preventative Ebola vaccines, particularly for Health Policy Watch

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