Alejandra and Marisol Gerardo are nine years old but already making a little bit of history. The twin sisters are among the first young children to get vaccinated with a COVID-19 shot in Pfizer-BioNTechs study of its vaccine in kids under age 12. Alejandra and Marisol had their blood drawn in the morning on March […] More
Plenty of drama in Europe this past week as the AstraZeneca vaccinea crucial component of the continents vaccination planswas paused by more than a dozen European countries after a few reports emerged of blood clots in people after receiving the vaccine. Europes FDA equivalent, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), says that it is still safe […] More
WASHINGTON Results from a U.S. trial of AstraZenecas COVID-19 vaccine may have used outdated information, U.S. federal health officials said early Tuesday. The Data and Safety Monitoring Board said in a statement that it was concerned that AstraZeneca may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data. AstraZeneca reported Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine […] More
In an unusual move, on March 23 the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) issued a strongly worded statement asking AstraZeneca to ensure the most accurate, up-to-date efficacy data be made public as quickly as possible. On March 22, AstraZeneca released the results of its long-awaited U.S. trial of its COVID-19 vaccine, […] More
Andrea Norred wasnt too surprised to learn that many of her friends, as well as her 18-year-old son, have decided not to get vaccinated against COVID-19. She lives in Santa Cruz, Calif., a coastal city with an above-average rate of vaccine skepticism. Norred attributes that phenomenon to the areas hippie, free love vibe; in many […] More
Last March, friends and neighbors began stopping Emily Smith in her town outside of Waco, Texas, with questions about the coronavirus. An epidemiologist at Baylor University, Smith knows all too well how viruses are transmitted. But as the wife of a pastor and as a woman of faith, she also holds a trusted position in […] More
If youre like most Americans, the past year has been a time of fear, anxiety and often profound tediumbut also of worsening dietary habits. Take 328 million people and confine them to their homes for weeks and months on end and theyre going to start eating more and exercising less. That means, no surprise, weight […] More
When Ghenya Grondin starts rattling off the symptoms she still experiences a year after getting sick with what she believes was COVID-19, she has to pause to consult a list she keeps on her phone for occasions like this one. Exhaustion. Fevers. Headaches. Body aches. Chest pain and shortness of breath. Nausea and gastrointestinal problems. […] More
Its the last thing public health officials want to see in the midst of a pandemic: more than two months after pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University scientists released their COVID-19 vaccine, countries in Europe and elsewhere are pausing its use amid disconcerting reports that a small number of recipients have experienced blood clots, some […] More
In one of the first large studies exploring immunity from natural infection with COVID-19, researchers in Denmark found some surprising trendsincluding evidence that even those who previously contracted the disease should still get vaccinated. In the study, published March 17 in medical journal The Lancet, researchers took advantage of repeated coronavirus test results from about […] More
In March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its long-awaited guidance for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Those lucky enough to have received both vaccine doses (or one dose of Janssen/Johnson & Johnsons single-dose vaccine) can now hang out in a private home, blissfully mask-free, with other fully vaccinated folks, according […] More
Now that nearly 60% of Israels roughly 9 million residents have gotten at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, the New Jersey-sized Middle Eastern country is offering the rest of the world an enviable glimpse of a future where most people are inoculated against the coronavirus. While its still too early to tell the […] More