Vaccinations

Vaccines cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 90% in a huge real-world French study of 23 million people

Tue, 2021-10-12 09:30 — mike kraft

Vaccines cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 90% in a huge real-world study of 23 million people Real-world data from France shows COVID-19 vaccines give strong protection that lasts at least five months in people over 50. Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce YahooNews

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California coronavirus accumilative death count tops 70,000 as new cases fall to lowest national rate

Mon, 2021-10-11 19:59 — mike kraft

California coronavirus death count tops 70,000 as cases fall SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's coronavirus death toll reached another once-unfathomable milestone — 70,000 people — on Monday as the state emerges from the latest infection surge with the lowest rate of new cases among all states. AP NEWS

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Texas governor Abbott bars all vaccine mandates in state

Mon, 2021-10-11 19:51 — mike kraft

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans any COVID-19 vaccine mandates — including… Abbott also called on the Legislature to pass a law banning the expanded vaccine mandates. Rebekah Allen The Texas Tribune

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday issued another executive order cracking down on COVID-19 vaccine mandates — this time banning any entity in Texas, including private businesses, from requiring vaccinations for employees or customers.

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Moderna says it has no plans to share its COVID-19 vaccine formula but will scale up production

Mon, 2021-10-11 19:37 — mike kraft

Moderna has no plans to share its COVID-19 vaccine recipe ROME (AP) — Moderna has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up the company's own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the company’s chairman said Monday. AP NEWS

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Overview: International COVID relate4d briefs

Mon, 2021-10-11 12:20 — mike kraft

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus Merck & Co applied for U.S. emergency use authorization for its drug to treat mild-to-moderate patients of COVID-19, putting it on course to become the first oral antiviral medication for the disease. Reuters Reuters

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Moderna has been supplying vaccines to richer countries, keeping poor nations waiting.

Mon, 2021-10-11 11:26 — mike kraft

Moderna, Racing for Profits, Keeps COVID Vaccine Out of Reach of Poor Moderna, whose coronavirus vaccine appears to be the world’s best defense against COVID-19, has been supplying its shots almost exclusively to wealthy nations, keeping poorer countries waiting and earning billions in profit. After developing a breakthrough vaccine with the financial and scientific support of the U.S.

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A different approach to reach vaccination holdouts in rural areas

Mon, 2021-10-11 11:14 — mike kraft

New Ads Target Vaccine Holdouts in Rural Pennsylvania Three groups turn to local newspapers for public health messaging Jennifer Henderson medpagetoday

As rural counties in Pennsylvania continue to see lower COVID-19 vaccination rates than other parts of the state, three organizations have deployed a unique approach to hopefully reach more holdouts.

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Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines near

Mon, 2021-10-11 10:51 — mike kraft

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines near Lopsided rates across the individual services and a spike in deaths among military reservists illustrate how political division over the shots has seeped into a nonpartisan force with unambiguous orders. Alex Horton Washington Post

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USA TODAY Will the US face another bad COVID-19 winter? Experts are split

Mon, 2021-10-11 10:00 — mike kraft

Will the US face another bad COVID-19 winter? Cases are falling, but the virus isn't done with us, experts say COVID-19 cases are falling again in the USA. Whether they will rise again depends on how Americans behave and what the unpredictable virus does next. Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY YahooNews

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Study saying COVID-19 vaccines cause heart inflammation that was hyped by anti-vaxxers, withdrawn due to miscalculation

Sun, 2021-10-10 21:03 — mike kraft

Fact Check-Pre-print study that claimed 1 in 1,000 risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccine was withdrawn due to miscalculation Correction Oct. 4: corrects spelling of denominator in paragraph 13, and in the same paragraph corrects “25 orders of magnitude off” to “25 times smaller”. Changes 'magnitude' to 'factor' in verdict. Reuters Fact Check U.S.

A pre-print study which claimed that there is a 1 in 1,000 risk of contracting a heart inflammation condition known as myocarditis has since been retracted due to a calculation.

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