Immunization - Adult Immunization News

• Fauci: Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Decision Expected by Friday 'A decision almost certainly will be made by Friday,' Fauci said on CBS News' Face the Nation.
  WebMD Health News, April 19, 2021
• Australia: First Blood Clot Death 'Likely' Linked to AZ Vaccine Australia reported its first fatality from blood clots in a recipient of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot, and its regulator said there was a likely link between the 48-year-old woman's death and the vaccine.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• J&J Asked Rival COVID Vaccine Makers to Probe Clotting Risks: WSJ Johnson & Johnson had reached out to rival COVID-19 vaccine makers to join in an effort to study the risks of blood clots, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• Countries Seek More Moderna, Pfizer COVID Shots as Concerns Mount Wealthy governments are looking to COVID-19 shots from Pfizer and Moderna to keep their vaccination programs on track, as safety concerns and production problems sideline vaccines from AstraZeneca and J&J.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• How Three Families Enrolled Their Kids in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials "It takes a lot of commitment to enroll," says Emmanuel "Chip" Walter, MD, chief medical officer at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and an investigator for COVID-19 vaccine trials.
  WebMD Health News, April 19, 2021
• Concerns About COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy During Ramadan Concerns are being raised about acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination during Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting that runs April 12 to May 12.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• Half of US Adults Have at Least One COVID-19 Vaccine Shot In addition, 81% of adults ages 65 and older have received at least one dose, and 66% are considered fully vaccinated.
  WebMD Health News, April 19, 2021
• Biden Administration to Invest $1.7 B to Fight COVID-19 Variants "With the information from sequencing, the CDC and state and local public health leaders can implement known prevention measures to stop the spread," according to the statement.
  WebMD Health News, April 19, 2021
• Digital Divide Hampers Swedish Vaccinations; Elderly Struggle Thousands of vaccination slots in Stockholm for Sweden's oldest people are being passed on to younger patients, as those who don't use technology are being penalized for their lack of acumen.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• China's Sinovac Vaccine 67% Effective for Symptomatic Infection Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac was 67% effective in preventing symptomatic infection in the first real-world study of the Chinese shot, the Chilean government said.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• US Parents Begin to Ask: Should My Child Get a COVID-19 Shot? Health officials say vaccines are crucial to ending the pandemic. But many are concerned vaccine hesitancy in some adults will be even more pronounced when it comes to their children.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• J&J Refutes Idea That COVID-19 Vaccine's Design Linked to Clots Scientists at J&J refuted an assertion in a medical journal that the adenovirus-based design of their COVID vaccine may explain why both J&J and AZ vaccines have been linked to very rare brain blood clots.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• NFK 2021 20% of Dialysis Patients Are Hesitant About COVID-19 Vaccine An early 2021 survey of a representative sample of 1515 US patients treated with hemodialysis showed that one fifth had some level of hesitancy about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Next-Generation COVID Vaccines Have Many Different Targets As the world awaits evidence on the durability of the immune response of COVID vaccines, developers are already coming up with new approaches and delivery routes to offer more roads to protection.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• CureVac's COVID-19 Vaccine Attracts Rising Interest German firm CureVac said the number of requests for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine has increased over the past few days, as concerns over rare side effects have hit some other COVID shots.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• Denmark Looking to Share Unwanted AstraZeneca Vaccines: WHO Denmark is examining options for sharing AstraZeneca's vaccines with poorer nations after it halted use of the shots over concerns about rare blood clots, the WHO said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• Vaccines Designed for Virus Variants Show Promise in Mice Moderna vaccines designed to protect against the worrisome coronavirus variants identified in South Africa and Brazil have yielded promising results when tested in mice, according to new data.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• Most Antibody Drugs Ineffective Against Brazil Variant The coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil, known as P.1, is resistant to three of the four antibody therapies with emergency use authorization in the United States, according to a lab study.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• American Indians Receive $4 Billion to Combat COVID-19 The CDC reported that Native Americans and Alaska's indigenous people were 3.5 times more likely to get COVID-19 than the non-Hispanic white population, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, said.
  WebMD Health News, April 16, 2021
• Pfizer, Moderna Say Booster Shots Probably Needed Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people who've gotten both doses would likely need a third shot within 12 months and might need an annual shot thereafter.
  WebMD Health News, April 16, 2021