Immunization - Adult Immunization News

• Israel Says Has Not Found a Link Between Pfizer COVID Shot and Stroke Israel has not identified any evidence linking strokes to an updated coronavirus vaccine made by US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, according to a health ministry official.
  Reuters Health Information, January 19, 2023
• Combo of Previous COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination Gives Best Protection It’s called “hybrid immunity” and it offers better protection from COVID reinfection.
  WebMD Health News, January 20, 2023
• Highly Anticipated HIV Vaccine Fails in Large Trial "It's obviously disappointing," Anthony Fauci, MD, told MSNBC, noting that other areas of HIV treatment research are promising. "I don't think that people should give up on the field of the HIV vaccine."
  WebMD Health News, January 19, 2023
• What Older Americans Need to Know About Taking Paxlovid COVID-19 continues to hit seniors with disproportionate severity. Experts say Paxlovid is an effective therapy that is being underprescribed for people 65 and older.
  Kaiser Health News, January 19, 2023
• WA Medical Board: Idaho Doctor Peddled False COVID-19 Claims The Washington state Medical Commission has accused a medical doctor in Idaho of violating standards related to COVID-19 and patient care.
  Associated Press, January 19, 2023
• EU Drug Regulator Has Not Seen Signal of Possible Pfizer COVID Shot Stroke Link The European Union's drug regulator has not identified any safety signals in the region related to US drugmaker Pfizer and German partner BioNTech's updated COVID-19 shot, the agency said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, January 18, 2023
• Davos 2023: Moderna CEO Wants mRNA Factory on Every Continent Moderna chief executive Stephane Bancel said he would like to have factories making vaccines based on its messenger RNA technology on every continent as the US company prepares to build four facilities.
  Reuters Health Information, January 18, 2023
• Is It Time for Yet Another COVID Booster? It's Complicated When should we think about the next COVID-19 vaccine? Or should we?
  WebMD Health News, January 18, 2023
• Moderna Says RSV Vaccine 84% Effective at Preventing Symptoms in Older Adults Moderna said on Tuesday that its experimental mRNA vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus was 83.7% effective in a late-stage trial at preventing at least two symptoms, such as cough and fever, in adults aged 60 and older.
  Reuters Health Information, January 17, 2023
• 'Not Right' for Us to Be Key Global Health Funder: Gates CEO It is not right for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to play such a big role in global health funding, but the group will not back away until others step up, its chief executive said.
  Reuters Health Information, January 17, 2023
• COVID Dramatically Increases Death Risk During Pregnancy: Study Women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy are seven times more likely to die during childbirth or during the pregnancy than uninfected pregnant women.
  WebMD Health News, January 17, 2023
• COVID Death Toll Declined in 2022: Report COVID-19 accounted for about 270,000 deaths in 2022, according to death totals compiled by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
  WebMD Health News, January 17, 2023
• Study Calling Trump 'Main Driver' of Vax Misinformation Retracted The Redditor also looked at the reviews of the article which PLOS ONE made available, and concluded that "clearly neither reviewer actually read it in any detail."
  Retraction Watch, January 17, 2023
• ACG Publishes New Guidelines for Celiac Disease The update emphasizes precision in diagnosis and goal-focused disease management.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2023
• Belimumab for Pregnant Women With Lupus: B-Cell Concerns Remain The largest combined analysis of birth outcome data found no apparent increase in birth defects or pregnancy loss with belimumab.
  MDedge News, January 17, 2023
• Possible Bivalent Vaccine Link to Strokes in People Over 65 The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), "a near real-time surveillance system," raised a safety concern about the Pfizer/BioNTech booster.
  WebMD Health News, January 17, 2023
• Daiichi Sankyo Applies for Approval of MRNA COVID Vaccine Daiichi Sankyo Co said on Friday it submitted its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine for regulatory approval in Japan.
  Reuters Health Information, January 13, 2023
• Mainland Chinese Head to Hong Kong for MRNA COVID Vaccines Scores of mainland Chinese travelers are rushing to Hong Kong to receive mRNA COVID vaccines, which are not available on the Chinese mainland, as the country grapples with a torrent of infections.
  Reuters Health Information, January 12, 2023
• COVID, RSV and the Flu: A Case of Viral Interference? The 'tripledemic' unfolding this winter is one of several odd trends among respiratory virus infections these last years. Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
  Knowable Magazine, January 13, 2023
• CDC Frets Over Further Dip in Kindergarten Vaccination Rates MMR vaccination coverage for kindergartners is at the lowest level in over a decade, according to a new report.
  Medscape Medical News, January 13, 2023