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Should I get a COVID-19 booster?
On 12 September, a vaccine advisory group to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) once again will wrestle with the question of who in the United States should receive a booster shot to protect against COVID-19.
As several new variants and an uptick in COVID-19 hospitalization fuel concerns among some health officials and the public, three companies have made new COVID-19 vaccines that can be used as a booster (or as primary doses for the unvaccinated). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve at least one of these latest iterations before Tuesday’s meeting of CDC’s Advisory Com...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 8, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
With new flurry of clinical trials, NIH finally seeks treatments for Long Covid
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday announced
new clinical trials to test a diverse array of treatment strategies
—from an intravenous immune drug to light therapy and a dietary supplement—in people with Long Covid, the disabling syndrome that can follow infection with the pandemic coronavirus. The focus is on mitigating some of the most common and debilitating symptoms including brain fog and sleep troubles.
Most of the trials will include 100 to 300 people with Long Covid and will start to enroll this year, officials said. One, a multiweek study of the antiviral Paxlovid, has started to sign ...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 1, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
FDA Panel Recommends a Covid Vaccine Aimed at Only the XBB Variant
An F.D.A. advisory panel told manufacturers to aim the latest coronavirus vaccine for the fall at the dominant SARS-CoV-2 variant.
Source: NYT Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Jewett Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus Omicron Variant Deaths (Fatalities) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Food and Drug Administration Moderna Inc Pfizer Inc Novavax Inc United States XBB your-fe Source Type: news
When Adolescents Disagree with Their Vaccine-Hesitant Parents about COVID-19 Vaccination
This article discusses parental vaccine hesitancy and argues that permitting independent adolescent consent to COVID-19 vaccination should be an ethical and policy priority as we continue to confront the threat of Omicron and other variants of the coronavirus. We discuss the central role of the pediatric healthcare team in caring for adolescent patients who disagree with their parents about vaccination.PMID:37229735 | DOI:10.1086/724746
Source: Journal of Clinical Ethics - May 25, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Robert S Olick Y Tony Yang Jana Shaw Source Type: research
