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Get those COVID vaccines and boosters now, or you’re ‘going to get into trouble’

Get those COVID vaccines and boosters now, or you’re ‘going to get into trouble’

Anyone who hasn’t had all their COVID vaccination shots could be in for a difficult time as the colder seasons approach and the virus continues to spread, America’s top doctor has warned. “There are enough people who don’t fall into [high-risk] categories, that if they don’t get vaccinated, if they don’t get boosted, they’re going to get into trouble,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, told L.A. radio station KNX’s In Depth show on Tuesday. Almost… Source link

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White House lays out plan for kids’ COVID vaccines ahead of FDA meeting

White House lays out plan for kids’ COVID vaccines ahead of FDA meeting

The White House announced a plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccines for younger children — once authorized — ahead of next week’s FDA advisory meeting. The plan follows a similar strategy as those for adult and older kids’ vaccinations, including making doses available at pharmacies, hospitals, doctors offices and health clinics. “The Administration’s vaccination program for America’s youngest children will focus on addressing the specific needs of this age group and their… Source link

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Future COVID variants will likely reinfect us multiple times a year, experts say — unless we invest in new vaccines

Future COVID variants will likely reinfect us multiple times a year, experts say — unless we invest in new vaccines

For more than a year now, the original COVID-19 vaccines have held up remarkably well — even miraculously so — against a Greek alphabet of new variants: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta. But now experts say something is changing. Since the start of 2022, the initial version of Omicron, known as BA.1, has been spinning off new sublineages — BA.2, BA.2.12.1, BA.4, BA.5 — at an alarming pace. Earlier variants did this, too. But it never really mattered, because their offshoots “had no… Source link

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Guess who pays for all those millions of COVID vaccines

Licensed practical nurse Yokasta Castro, of Warwick, R.I., draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic, May 19, 2021, at Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Omicron happened this week. (You think?) And with the arrival of this new variant all the depressingly familiar potential pain points come tumbling back — along with some brand-spanking new ones. On Thanksgiving (just nine days ago) we could really believe that COVID was… Source link

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CDC ‘starting to see mix-and-match data’ for COVID-19 vaccines: Director

With the Pfizer (PFE)/BioNTech (BNTX) booster guidance in the rearview mirror, the CDC and the country’s other regulatory and public health agencies are gearing up to tackle Moderna’s (MRNA) and eventually Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) booster filings for recipients of those vaccines. Meanwhile, many have wondered why the U.S. is not following Europe’s and Canada’s lead in allowing mixing and matching of vaccine brands in order to be considered fully vaccinated or for booster doses. CDC Director… Source link

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‘It’s game over. It’s mRNA or nothing:’ Expert on future of vaccines

Pfizer (PFE) and its partner BioNTech (BNTX) recently got FDA full approval for the most widely-approved and sought after COVID-19 vaccine in the world, to date. It signals an important change in how vaccines of the future could look, according to Arnaud Bernaert, formerly head of Global Health and Healthcare at the World Economic Forum. Bernaert, now head of Health Security Solutions at Swiss-based SICPA, told Yahoo Finance, “I think it’s game over. I think it’s mRNA or nothing. [Other… Source link

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Google, Disney join growing list of employers mandating COVID-19 vaccines

As coronavirus cases in the U.S. begin a concerning climb upward and virus variants threaten a return to normalcy, a handful of businesses have announced COVID-19 vaccination mandates as they prepare to welcome workers back to the office. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission said employers can legally require COVID-19 vaccinations to re-enter a physical workplace, as long as they follow requirements to find alternative arrangements for employees unable to get vaccinated for medical… Source link

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Biden should not mandate vaccines for everybody

Nearly 80 million adult Americans remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, which is causing an upsurge in infections, hospitalizations and deaths as the highly contagious delta variant spreads. With most of the unvaccinated either indifferent or resistant to the idea of halting the spread of this now-preventable disease, calls are growing for the Biden administration to make vaccines mandatory nationwide. There are better ways to end the coronavirus pandemic once and for all. A federal vaccine… Source link

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Google Mandates Vaccines for Workers and Delays Return to Office

Google said Wednesday that it would require employees who returned to the company’s offices to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. It also said it would push back its official return-to-office date to mid-October from September, joining a host of other companies whose plans have been scrambled in recent days by the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced the news in a note to employees, which was… Source link

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