COVID: Only One-Quarter Experience Systemic Vaccine Side-Effects
The systemic and local side-effects of Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccines. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: COVID19 Source Type: blogs
Post #55 COVID-19 Vaccine for 12 to 15 Year Old Adolescents
The Pfizer vaccine will soon be offered to 12-15 year olds, raising a mild conundrum for parents.Should they skip the vaccine, given that most children have fared well when infected with COVID-19 (many already having been infected)? Or should they immunize their child(ren), even though the vaccine is relatively new and doesn ’t have a long track record?Vaccines have had their missteps, most notably the recalled RotaShield immunization in 1999. However, the recall of RotaShield and the recent temporary pause of the Johnson&Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should instill confidence in the robustness and capability o...
Source: A Pediatrician's Blog - May 8, 2021 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
The tragic dance of the vaccine rollout
You would think that the vaccine rollout wouldn’t be so difficult. We had some brilliant scientists who raced against time and developed novel vaccines with technology never used before. Both Pfizer and Moderna used unique mRNA technology. The vaccine is administered into your arm muscle and enters your muscle cells. The mRNA instructs your muscle […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/dinesh-arab" rel="tag" > Dinesh Arab, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Your New Life In 2021 (Mid-Post COVID)
At the beginning of the pandemic, we wrote a lot about how the pandemic should and could be handled. In addition to providing real-world advice on what technology can do to support us (like Digital Health Apps To Use During Quarantine or The State of A.I. in the Fight Against COVID-19), we often provided forecasts (When And How Will COVID End?) and predictions about the management and the potential outcome of the epidemic (Will There Be A Second Wave). We even created an entire handbook to give away for free!
After drawing attention to the privacy and data protection issues raised by the pandemic (we issued a guide for ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 6, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast 3D Printing science telemedicine vaccination contact tracing cdc pfizer mask mRNA J&J herd immunity Uğur Şahin Karl Schroeder Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 vaccines for children and teens: What we do — and don’t — know
Vaccines have been heralded as a key measure to slow the COVID-19 pandemic and one day bring it to an end. Every day, millions of American adults are receiving one of the authorized vaccines proven highly effective at preventing severe illness that might otherwise lead to hospitalizations and deaths. In the US, most people over 65 have now been fully vaccinated, protecting the most vulnerable in our population.
As an infectious disease specialist, my responses to the questions below are based on what we know so far about infection and vaccines in children and teens. We’ll need to continue filling in gaps as research is d...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kristin Moffitt, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Parenting Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Using nano “couriers” to deliver PKD drugs to just the right address
The term “mRNA lipid nanoparticle” has become common of late, given the use of Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines make of nanoparticles to carry mRNA into cells. Once inside a cell, the mRNA instructs the cell to make pieces of the proteins that make up the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a process called “translation.” In so doing, […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/eun-ji-chung" rel="tag" > Eun Ji Chung, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
The Market Forces Behind Vaccine Passports
By SAURABH JHA
Unlike medical meetings, rendering Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony isn’t easy on Zoom, so the local orchestra has been furloughed and their members work for Uber. The opera house wants to reopen, preferably before we reach the elusive herd immunity threshold. They mandate vaccinations for their artists, not least because the performers can keep their masks off. Should they extend this requirement to their patrons?
Vaccine passports, proof of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, to work, dine, fly or watch shows, are controversial. Opponents say they blithely disregard decency, are operationally one...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Saurabh Jha vaccine passports Source Type: blogs
It ’s OK to Break the Rules Now and Then
This study introduces an augmented intelligence platform for the real-time synthesis of institutional knowledge captured in EHRs.” One caveat that the researchers acknowledge in the report was that they had yet to conduct prospective validation of the augmented EHR curation approach.A second nference-based investigation reviewed the records of patients who had received more than 94,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, more than 36,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, and 1,745 doses of the Johnson& Johnson vaccine. The study ’s goal was to determine the incidence of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), w...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - April 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Vaccine & Pregnancy
The coronavirus pandemic has had long lasting implications for everyone worldwide. For those pregnant, attempting pregnancy, or pursuing fertility treatment, there are many new questions to be considered, and answers can vary by region and situation.
The vaccines available in the US for protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19- produced by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, have not been specifically tested for safety in pregnancy. For drug trials to deliberately include pregnant women is ethically complicated, as we want to avoid any remote possibility of causing harm to the pregnancy or the i...
Source: Cord Blood News - April 20, 2021 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Chaya Rothschild, Andrologist Tags: Cord Blood medical research pregnancy safety vaccines Source Type: blogs
The missing link in the vaccine chain: caregivers
About half of America’s seniors are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and close to three-quarters have gotten at least one shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. This is good news. Seniors have suffered disproportionately from the coronavirus. They have become gravely ill, passed away, and passed t he time over the last year in complete isolation. When the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 18, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/romilla-batra" rel="tag" > Romilla Batra, MD, MBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Will the Supreme Court Overturn the Infamous Takings Decision of Kelo v. City of New London?
Trevor Burrus andSam SpiegelmanIn the infamous case ofKelo v. City of New London, the Supreme Court allowed the city of New London, Connecticut to take Susette Kelo ’s little pink house (also the name of a very good movie about the case) via eminent domain for the “public use” of furthering economic development in the town’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood. The fight in that case was over the meaning of the words “public use” in the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, and whether the words provide essentially any limit on what a municipality or legislature says is “public use.” InKelo, one of the major...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Trevor Burrus, Sam Spiegelman Source Type: blogs
Basic info on the J & J vaccine kerfuffle
I ' ve seen a lot of chatter to the effect that the FDA/CDC advise to pause administration of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is ignorant, counterproductive, foolish and contrary to the public interest. The same reaction followed when many countries in the EU halted administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine, accusing the authorities of succumbing to thepost hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy. Well no. There is a legitimate debate about whether this was an overreaction, I suppose, but it isn ' t simple.Here ' s a good summary of the issues. It isn ' t as simple as saying there have been six cases of the adverse effect --cerebral...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 14, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Blocking J & J and AstraZeneca Vaccines Shows the FDA Has Not Changed Its Stripes
Michael F. CannonThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recommending the federal government and state governments stop administering Johnson& Johnson’s Covid‐19 vaccine. Some 7 million Americans have received the vaccine, whose regimen requires only one dose. The FDA issued the recommendation afterreports that six women between the ages of 18 and 48 developed blood clots after taking the vaccine. One of the women is in a hospital in critical condition. Another died. While the FDA’s recommendation is merely advisory, it is likely to halt vaccinations at federal facilities. Statesincluding Ohio, New York, andC...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
American Industrial Policy in Action
Scott LincicomeIn case you haven't noticed, U.S. industrial policy is having (yet another) moment. Armed with the latest data and cross-country comparisons, a large and bipartisan cadre of industrial policy advocates in Washington are eager to shovel billions of taxpayer dollars into the open arms of American manufacturers of "essential goods" and "critical technologies." The risks (China, pandemics, whatever), so the theory goes, greatly outweigh any harms that a few, scattered industrial policy failures might cause along the way, so whynot just throw money at the (perceived) problems? These advocates, however, rarely ack...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
The Days of Miracles and Wonder
Here ' s a good overview by Derek Thompson in The Atlantic ofthe history of mRNA technology. This heretofore obscure field of biomedical research burst into view with the Covid-19 vaccines, but the apparent suddenness of vaccine development was misleading. As I have noted here before, the technology was decades in development. As the technology became more mature, Pfizer partnered with one of the speculative ventures, BionTech, originally to develop flu vaccines, and then of course pivoted to Covid-19. Unlike Moderna, Pfizer actually didn ' t take federal funding for that final stage of development. But for most of the dec...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 6, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
