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COVID-19 Delta Variant

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FDA unanimously votes to approve Covid Vaccine Boosters – but ONLY for High-Risk Populations – for now

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee voted unanimously Friday to recommend booster doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for those over age 65 and those at higher risk of exposure to the virus, including healthcare, frontline and essential workers, under emergency use authorization, but stopped short of recommending boosters for the general population. (Boosters have already been authorized for those with compromised immune systems.) Pfizer-BioNTech had originally requested that […]

todaySeptember 20, 2021

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Buckle Up, there’s a new COVID-19 Variant in the U.S.

Business Insider reports that a new variant of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization (WHO) says could have the ability to evade the immunity people get from vaccines and previous infections, has been detected in almost every US state, according to data from epidemiology and genomic database Outbreak.info.  Insider's Cheryl Teh reported the WHO noted in its weekly bulletin that further studies would need to be done on the mutated variant […]

todaySeptember 9, 2021

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Krispy Kreme Is Doubling Up on its Free Doughnuts for Vaccinations

Last week week, the FDA gave its full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. That official backing comes as the Delta variant continues to spread, coronavirus case rates are climbing again in many counties, and third doses of vaccines have been made available to immunocompromised people. Hopefully, all of those factors will encourage more Americans to get their first round of vaccination shots. But if not, Krispy Kreme has […]

todayAugust 31, 2021

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Internal CDC document leaked says Delta Variant far more Severe and Spreads as easily as Chicken Pox

The Washington Post obtained an internal CDC document that shows the new COVID-19 Delta Variant appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox. The internal federal health document also argues that officials must "acknowledge the war has changed." The “document” is an internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slide presentation. It captures the struggle of the nation's top public health agency to […]

todayAugust 2, 2021

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Due to Rising Cases and Delta Variant, CDC reverses course on Masks

Seventy-five days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that vaccinated people no longer needed to wear face coverings, the agency has reversed course, announcing that the rise of the Delta variant necessitates a return to masking, as reported by Yahoo News. “In areas with substantial and high transmission, CDC recommends fully vaccinated people wear masks in public indoor settings to help prevent the spread of the Delta […]

todayJuly 28, 2021

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Pfizer seeks FDA approval for a Third “Booster” shot to specifically target the Delta Variant

Pfizer hopes to obtain U.S. approval for a third booster shot as the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus continues to spread worldwide, according to Reuters. Mikael Dolsten, the company’s Chief Scientific Officer, said the vaccine’s effectiveness tends to decline after six months as antibodies begin to wane. Hence, Pfizer suggests administering a third shot since a recent study showed promising signs against the virus with a five-to-ten-fold increase in […]

todayJuly 15, 2021

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Five low-vaccinated Hot Spot States are putting US at risk as Delta variant spreads

Researchers have identified five undervaccinated areas in the United States where COVID-19 cases have been surging, as experts warn about the growing threat from the highly contagious Delta variant. An analysis by researchers from Georgetown University identified 30 clusters across the country that have low vaccination rates compared to their population sizes. Within those clusters, there were five hot spots across the South and lower Midwest that were experiencing a […]

todayJuly 14, 2021

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WHO warns that even Vaccinated people should still wear Masks to stop spread of COVID-19 Delta Variant

As reported in Business Insider, the World Health Organization announced on Friday said that people should continue to wear face masks and take other measures meant to curb the spread of COVID-19, raising concerns about the quickly spreading Delta variant of COVID-19. "People cannot feel safe just because they had the two doses. They still need to protect themselves," said Dr. Mariangela Simao, the assistant director-general for access to medicines […]

todayJune 28, 2021

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