Allergy history may up risk for reactions to mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
Nov 04, 2021
The risk for allergic reactions within three days of vaccination is higher for those with history of high-risk allergy, but most completed the two-dose regimen. The mRNA vaccines approved for use against...
For fully vaccinated, immunity against SARS-CoV-2 wanes over time
Oct 29, 2021
The researchers found that among persons aged 60 years or older, the rate of infection was higher for those fully vaccinated in January 2021 (when they were first eligible) versus those fully vaccinated...
Booster dose of J&J COVID-19 vaccine may increase immunity
Sep 21, 2021
New research indicates two doses of the vaccine boosts immunity from 74 to 94%.
Second, third COVID-19 vaccine may up relapse in glomerular disease
Nov 07, 2022
The absolute increase in the 30-day relapse risk associated with the second or third vaccine dose is small.
Bell palsy incidence higher with SARS-CoV-2 infection than vaccine
May 02, 2023
The review, however, showed a significantly increased incidence of Bell palsy in vaccine recipients versus those receiving placebo.
Biden administration may stop buying COVID-19 vaccines, treatments by fall
Aug 17, 2022
Tests, vaccines and treatments would be provided through the regular healthcare system.
Cardiac complications up after SARS-CoV-2 infection versus vaccines
Apr 06, 2022
“[T]he risks for these complications were higher after infection than after vaccination among males and females in all age groups,” the authors write.
Massachusetts frontline workers resist COVID-19 vaccines as push to make shots mandatory gathers momentum
By
Joe Jancsurak
Mar 29, 2021
Thousands of first responders, frontline health workers and other public-facing employees in Massachusetts continue to pass on COVID-19 vaccinations, prompting a push for the state government and private...
COVID-19 boosters could be in the arms of healthcare workers and seniors by early fall
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 17, 2021
Healthcare workers and older Americans would be among the first to receive COVID-19 boosters as early as fall, according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D.
This shouldn’t be his decision to make
By
John O'Connor
Jan 20, 2022
This is one time when a governor’s decision to ignore the Supreme Court will come at a high cost. For others, that is.