WHO vaccine advisers update COVID vaccine recommendations
The World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine advisory group today announced its latest recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, which takes into account...
Month: March 2023
FDA authorizes Pfizer bivalent COVID booster for kids 6 months through age 4
Sebrae-SE, Silvia Belluzzo / Flickr ccAn analysis of mpox-related TikTok videos found the quality was low and the information provided was...
COVID vaccine efficacy against BA.4/5 hospital stay fell from 68% to 36% after 4 months
Vaccine effectiveness (VE) of three doses of the monovalent (single-strain) mRNA COVID-19 against hospitalization amid Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariant...
COVID infection within 60 days not tied to adverse postsurgical outcomes
COVID-19 infection within the previous 60 days was not tied to a risk of adverse postsurgical outcomes, regardless of timing,...
Global COVID activity mixed as WHO updates variant tracking
COVID-19 cases and deaths continue downward trends, but with some regional differences, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in...
Paxlovid 80% effective against severe COVID when taken in first 5 days
The antiviral drug combination nirmatrelvir–ritonavir (Paxlovid) was estimated to be 54% effective against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2, BA.4, and BA.5 hospitalization...
National Academies report reveals dire pandemic effects on at-risk kids, families
The latest report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlights the outsized pandemic burdens shouldered by racial-minority...
US maternal death rates jumped for second year in a row amid pandemic
The US pregnancy-related death rate shot up faster in 2021 than in 2020, nearly doubling from prepandemic rates in 2019...
WHO presses China to share previously undisclosed SARS-CoV-2 market samples
Following a fleeting appearance of SARS-CoV-2 sequences from environmental swabs from the Wuhan market that was the early outbreak epicenter,...
Survey: Most teens lacked sleep, struggled with schoolwork in 2021 during COVID
Three quarters of US high school students didn't get enough sleep, and two-thirds had difficulty completing schoolwork, in 2021 amid...