An increasing number of states and municipalities are changing how they report COVID-19 hospitalizations, cases, and other data, signaling a shift in how policymakers healthcare workers view the CCP virus. For example, in New Hampshire, the state reported seven COVID-19 hospitalizations, down from about two dozen reported during the previous week. Officials said the drop…
Growing Number of States Changing How They Report COVID-19 Hospitalizations
FDA Advisers Oppose Repeated COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters
Experts who advise the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 6 came out in opposition to a strategy of repeated COVID-19 vaccine boosters within a short period of time, during a meeting where FDA officials said they plan on deciding on the future vaccination strategy by June. “I do not believe that booster…
COVID-19 Beware: Cheap and Widely Accessible Drug Could Fight Virus
April 7, 2022
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Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered that the cheap and widely used drug, heparin, when inhaled can be a uniquely effective prevention and treatment method for COVID-19. Heparin is currently used to prevent blood from clotting and it is typically administered through an injection. However, early results of an ANU clinical study…
Large Study Finds That Protection Against COVID-19 From 4th Shot Drops Quickly
April 6, 2022
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An Israeli study found that a fourth dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t offer long-lived protection against the Omicron variant of the CCP virus. Using Ministry of Health data on more than 1.2 million people, researchers found that a second booster dose of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine offered protection against significant COVID-19 infections for six weeks….
Large Israeli Study Finds That Protection Against COVID-19 From 4th Shot Drops Quickly
April 6, 2022
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An Israeli study found that a fourth dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t offer long-lived protection against the Omicron variant of the CCP virus. Using Ministry of Health data on more than 1.2 million people, researchers found that a second booster dose of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine offered protection against significant COVID-19 infections for six weeks….
US Regulators Say Current COVID Vaccines Not ‘Well-Matched’ Against BA.2 Subvariant
The three COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the United States are not “well-matched” against the BA.2 virus subvariant, which has recently been estimated to have become dominant in the country, U.S. regulators said on April 6. “While currently available vaccines are not well-matched to the dominant circulating variant—which is the Omicron BA.2 sublineage—we do…
FDA Official Defends Bypassing Expert Panel When Clearing Fourth COVID-19 Shots
April 6, 2022
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A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official on April 6 defended the agency’s recent decision to authorize fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses for millions of Americans without convening its expert advisory panel. Dr. Peter Marks, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, downplayed the authorization, claiming it was not “a major expansion or a…
Biden Administration Stops Shipments of COVID-19 Treatment to All States
April 6, 2022
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The U.S. government on March 5 immediately halted all shipments of a COVID-19 treatment to states and ordered health care providers not to use the drug. The actions were taken because of the increasing prevalence of BA.2, a subvariant of Omicron, which is itself a variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2,…
FDA Floats Moving COVID-19 Vaccines to Flu-Like Model
April 5, 2022
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials have proposed a future model for developing new COVID-19 vaccines that would be built on the approach to creating influenza vaccines. Accumulating data suggest the current COVID-19 vaccines, based on a virus strain that is now generations old, “may need to be updated at some point to ensure the…
CDC Survey: 44 Percent of US High School Students Felt Persistently ‘Sad or Hopeless’ in 2021
April 4, 2022
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More than four in ten U.S. high school students felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, according to a CDC field survey released late last week. The number of high school students with persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness has grown steadily from 26.1 percent in 2009, to 36.7 percent in 2019, according to CDC…
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