Experts address vaccination and children, safety, side effects, boosters, variants and long COVID. Authors: Lisa Esposito The COVID-19 vaccine has been publicly available in the U.S. since December 2020. Since then, vaccination has eased the pandemic by preventing infections, reducing severe disease and saving lives. More is known about vaccine effectiveness, safety and side effects, which tend […]
Is a toxic material hiding inside the COVID vaccines causing blood clots? Authors: Emerald Robinson Jun 13, 2022 As more and more people around the world share their stories of COVID vaccine injuries, the inevitable question becomes: what’s really in the experimental shots? This is not an academic question. In fact, it’s going to be […]
Authors: Stephanie Desmon Public Health On Call Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs HOW CAN WE PROTECT THOSE WHO ARE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED? We’re doing two things. First, we’re working on the vaccine aspect. We got NIH funding to run a clinical trial of people who thus far have failed to reach a reasonable antibody level with whatever […]
Authors: Mrinalika Roy Reuters The BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron are estimated to make up nearly 5% and 8% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of June 4, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday. The two sublineages, which were added to the World Health Organization’s […]
New blood assay provides critical information for revaccination strategies in vulnerable individuals Peer-Reviewed Publication THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL / MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Mount Sinai researchers have developed a rapid blood assay that measures the magnitude and duration of someone’s immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This test will allow large-scale monitoring […]
Authors: Xin Le Ng, MBBS, a Bjorn Kaijun Betzler, MBBS, b Ilaria Testi, MD, c Su Ling Ho, FRCS, a Melissa Tien, FRCOphth, a Wei Kiong Ngo, FRCOphth, a Manfred Zierhut, PhD, d Soon Phaik Chee, FRCSEd, e , f , g Vishali Gupta, PhD, h Carlos E Pavesio, FRCOphth, b Marc D. de Smet, PhD, i , j and Rupesh Agrawal, FRCS a , b , e , f , g , k Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2021 : 1–9. Published online 2021 Sep 24. doi: 10.1080/09273948.2021.1976221 PMCID: PMC8477588 PMID: 34559576 ABSTRACT […]
Authors: Anne Gardner1, Jennifer Debenham1, Nicola Clare Newton1, Cath Chapman Fiona Elizabeth Wylie2, Bridie Osman1, Maree Teesson, Katrina Elizabeth Champion The British Medical Journal Abstract Objective To examine changes in the prevalence of six key chronic disease risk factors (the “Big 6”), from before (2019) to during (2021) the COVID-19 pandemic, among a large and geographically diverse sample of adolescents, and […]
Authors: Ben Coleman, 1 , 2 Elena Casiraghi, 3 , 4 Hannah Blau, 1 Lauren Chan, 5 Melissa A. Haendel, 6 Bryan Laraway, 6 Tiffany J. Callahan, 6 Rachel R. Deer, 7 Kenneth J. Wilkins, 8 Justin Reese, 9 and Peter N. Robinson 1 , 2 World Psychiatry. 2022 Jun; 21(2): 319–320 2022 May 7. doi: 10.1002/wps.20992 PMCID: PMC9077621 PMID: 35524622 Recent publications have documented that a proportion of COVID‐19 patients develop psychiatric symptoms during or after acute infection 1 . We investigated this risk in the […]
Authors: Alana Biggers, M.D., MPH — Carolyn Farnsworth on January 24, 2022 Medical News Today Shingles is an uncomfortable common condition that causes a characteristic rash, among other symptoms. Some studies suggest a link between COVID-19 vaccines and reactivation of the virus that causes shingles. While evidence suggests this could be possible, it is at the very least […]
Authors: Gary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News Posted June 10, 2022 Two studies to be presented at upcoming professional society meetings suggest that some long COVID-19 symptoms may be related to the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on the vagus nerve and that the use of enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP)—which increases blood flow—can improve […]