A new protein-based vaccine candidate combined with a potent adjuvant provided effective protection against SARS-CoV-2 when tested in animals, suggesting that the combination could add one more promising COVID-19 vaccine to the list of candidates for human use. The protein…
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Primary care provides clinical guidance, answers about COVID-19 testing, vaccine
Primary care’s historic role in vaccination and potential role in COVID-19 immunization programs
COVID precautions may result in more breast cancer deaths
A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institut e, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that disruptions in health care due to the COVID 19 pandemic may increase breast cancer deaths. In March 2020 public health measures…
Measures and clinical approach of COVID 19
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has spread throughout the globe and much time has passed since it was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). COVID-19: Diagnosis and Management provides clinicians and scholars all the information…
Prevention, detection and various approaches on coronaviruses
In this difficult period of the SARS-CoV-2 (and its variants) infection responsible for Covid-19 diseases, the importance of scientific works and reviews dealing with these viruses has never been more essential. This book Coronavirus brings together essential data regarding prevention…
Early perceptions of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania
Knowledge, perceptions, and preferred information sources related to COVID-19 among central Pennsylvania adults early in the pandemic: A mixed methods cross-sectional survey
July/August 2021 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Primary Care Poised to Provide Clinical Guidance, Answers About COVID-19 Testing, Vaccine Administration Researchers examined the role of primary care physicians and other clinicians in delivering vaccinations in the United States. They used two main datasets to create an in-depth…
What you say in the first minute after a vaccine can be key in reducing a child’s distress
As we look forward to a fall with hopefully one of the most important vaccination uptakes of children in a generation, a new study provides insights to help parents with reducing post-vaccination distress in younger kids.
One shot of the Sputnik V vaccine triggers strong antibody responses
A single dose of the Sputnik V vaccine may elicit significant antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2, finds a study published July 13 in the journal Cell Reports Medicine.
Allocating COVID-19 vaccines based on health and socioeconomic factors could reduce mortality
Study suggests spatial relationship between COVID-19 mortality and population-level health factors.
Highlighting the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines could hold key to converting doubters
Informing people about how well the new COVID-19 vaccines work could boost uptake among doubters substantially, according to new research.
Allocating COVID vaccines based on health and socioeconomic factors could cut mortality
Study suggests spatial relationship between COVID-19 mortality and population-level health factors
Allocating COVID-19 vaccines based on health and socioeconomics could reduce mortality
Study suggests spatial relationship between COVID-19 mortality and population-level health factors
Equity and Vaccine Allocation: Beyond Ethics in Prioritization to Equitable Production, Distribution, and Consumption
In a new paper in Ethics & International Affairs, Binghamton University Professor of Philosophy Nicole Hassoun first considers existing proposals for equitable vaccine allocation focusing on the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility. She then argues that to better promote…
PCORI approves $11 million for studies to boost COVID-19 vaccination among long-term care workers
Results could help boost immunization rates during and beyond pandemic among key health care workers
Sensitivity of the Delta variant to sera from convalescent and vaccinated individuals
COVID-19: analysis of the sensitivity of the Delta variant to monoclonal antibodies and sera from convalescent and vaccinated individuals
Disparities in vaccine acceptance among adults in China
What The Study Did: This survey study examined disparities in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and approaches to improve vaccination rates among adults in China. Authors: Jingjing Ma, Ph.D., of Peking University in Beijing, is the corresponding author. To access the embargoed…
Inhaled COVID-19 vaccine prevents disease and transmission in animals
In a new study assessing the potential of a single-dose, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, a team from the University of Iowa and the University of Georgia found that the vaccine fully protects mice against lethal COVID-19 infection. The vaccine also blocks…
Why we need to talk openly about vaccine side effects
We need to talk openly about vaccine side effects if we are to defeat the coronavirus pandemic
COVID-19 infections among health care workers before, after vaccination
JAMA Network Open
The Lancet: CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine is safe and protects against disease, interim analysis
Interim data from a phase 3 trial of a COVID-19 vaccine developed in China (CoronaVac) suggests that two doses offer 83.5% protection against symptomatic COVID-19. The preliminary findings, published in The Lancet and presented at this year’s European Congress of…
McMaster researchers identify how VITT happens
The work will have both diagnostic and therapeutic implications
The Obesity Society issues new position statement:
COVID-19 vaccines are effective in people with obesity
Study shows laboratory developed protein spikes consistent with COVID-19 virus
A new international study has found that the key properties of the spikes of SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 are consistent with those of several laboratory-developed protein spikes, designed to mimic the infectious virus.
Evaluation of messenger RNA from COVID-19 vaccines in human milk
What The Study Did: COVID-19 v accine-associated messenger RNA (mRNA) wasn’t detected in 13 human milk samples collected after vaccination from seven breast feeding mothers. Authors: Stephanie L. Gaw, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, is the…
Sixth Joint Science Conference of the Western Balkans Process
10 Point Plan to control coronavirus pandemic in the region
Health safety net for undocumented kids works, study finds
California experienced a 34% reduction in the rate of uninsured, non-citizen children in the first two years after an expansion in public health coverage, an SDSU School of Public Health study shows
Lottery-based incentives do not increase COVID-19 vaccination rates
(Boston)–Would you be more willing to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus if you could participate in a lottery for cash and prizes? The answer was surprisingly no, according to Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers who found that…
Evaluation of health equity in COVID-19 vaccine distribution plans in US
What The Study Did: Researchers in this study aimed to determine how each state and the District of Columbia planned to ensure equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Authors: Juan C. Rojas, M.D., of the University of Chicago, is the corresponding author.…
Researchers find potential path to a broadly protective COVID-19 vaccine using T cells
Using a method developed for HIV, researchers have identified stable T cell vaccine targets in SARS-CoV-2
Vaccines grown in eggs induce antibody response against an egg-associated glycan
Researchers have found that viral vaccines grown in eggs, such as the H1N1 flu vaccine, produce an antibody response against a sugar molecule found in eggs, which could have implications for the effectiveness of these vaccines.
94% of patients with cancer respond well to COVID-19 vaccines
Small subsets of high-risk patients produce few or no antibodies, however
New research should prioritize vaccination strategies for organ transplant recipients
In a new Editorial, Peter Heeger, Christian Larsen, and Dorry Segev discuss recent evidence – including a recent Science Immunology study by Hector Rincon-Arevalo and colleagues – that points to a diminished immune response to COVID-19 vaccines among organ transplant…
Computational analyses reveal 200 drugs that could be repurposed to treat COVID-19
Identification of SARS-CoV-2-induced pathways reveals drug repurposing strategies
COVID-19: Reduced sense of taste and smell lingers
Patients with mild Covid-19 infections experience a significantly increased longer lasting reduced sense of taste and smell.
COVID-19: Reduced sense of taste and smell lingers
Patients with mild COVID-19 infections experience a significantly increased longer lasting reduced sense of taste and smell; this is also the case for long-term shortness of breath, although relatively few people are affected
COVID-19 vaccine generates immune structures critical for lasting immunity
A new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, published June 28 in the journal Nature, has found evidence that the immune response to Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 is both strong and potentially long-lasting.
Study finds structural changes in the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Beta variants
Changes to the ‘spike’ protein explain Alpha’s faster spread, and how the Beta variant evades immune responses, suggesting the need for a booster with an updated vaccine
UCI professor wins Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias award for scientific research
Irvine, Calif., June 24, 2021 — Philip Felgner, Ph.D., professor in residence of physiology & biophysics at the University of California, Irvine, is one of seven scholars worldwide to win Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in recognition of their contributions to designing COVID-19 vaccines.
Demystifying COVID-19
In this book ‘Demystifying COVID-19- understanding of the Disease, its diagnosis and treatment’ basic points are discussed from case examples to the main principles followed in diagnosis and treatment, real scenarios in the course of the disease, issues that need…
Had COVID-19? One vaccine dose enough; boosters for all, study says
Two mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 have proven safe and effective in clinical trials, as well as in the millions of people who have been vaccinated so far. But how prior SARS-CoV-2 infection affects vaccine response, and how long that response…
Vaccine side effects should be welcomed as a sign of efficacy, immunologists say in new focus
The rapid development of safe and efficacious vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 has offered hope that the global COVID-19 pandemic may soon be under control. However, vaccinations remain incomplete in many developed nations, and lag further still in the developing world. In…
Covid-19 vaccine efficacy study named AJPM’s most influential paper of 2020
Computational model showing needed vaccine efficacy levels to be sole intervention continues to be used as a barometer by decision makers
New research finds ways to improve accuracy of Lateral Flow Tests
Research published in the journal ACS Materials and Interfaces has provided new understanding of how false-negative results in Lateral Flow Tests occur and provides opportunity for simple improvements to be made. Lateral Flow Devices were introduced late in 2020 on…
Study reveals recipe for even more powerful COVID-19 vaccines
NEIDL, Broad Institute scientists say next-generation vaccines could stimulate another arm of the immune system, imparting better protection against coronavirus variants
Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers After 1st Dose of Moderna Vaccine
What The Study Did: This study demonstrated an association between receiving the mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccine and a reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers beginning eight days after the first dose. Authors: Michael E. Charness, M.D., of the VA…
$1 million grant to address cold storage logistics in vaccine delivery
COVID-19 vaccines have been tested, validated and administered to millions of people around the world. But in some countries, the vaccines have yet to arrive in great enough numbers. One significant hurdle is that the vaccines must be stored between…
SARS-CoV-2 Worldwide Replication Drives Rapid Rise and Selection of Mutations
The number of COVID-19 variants is growing rapidly, so much that the scale and scope of mutation may pose a threat to the continuing successful use of the current vaccines and therapies. The findings, by an international team that includes University of California researchers, are being published in the June edition of the peer-reviewed journal EMBO Molecular Medicine. The pace of variation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus strains makes plain the threat that rapidly evolving new strains might give rise to escape variants, capable of limiting the efficacy of vaccines, therapies, and diagnostic tests.