Bill would exempt healthcare workers from vaccination mandates
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 15, 2022
Healthcare workers in Tennessee who have religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine would be exempt from vaccination mandates if Republican-led bill moves forward in the state General Assembly and is...
16-state coalition seeks to block CMS vax mandate
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 08, 2022
Attorneys general from 16 states asked a federal judge Friday to block the U.S. government from enforcing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate in their respective states...
CDC backs full approval of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
Feb 07, 2022
The Moderna vaccine is the second COVID-19 vaccine to receive full approval from both the FDA and CDC.
Homologous, heterologous COVID-19 boosters are immunogenic
Feb 07, 2022
Antibody neutralizing titers against SARS-CoV-2 D614G pseudovirus increased by a factor of 4 to 73 for all combinations.
Republican effort to prevent ‘unlawful, sweeping’ OSHA mandates unlikely to succeed expert says
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 07, 2022
A new Republican effort to try to prevent what several senators called “further unlawful, sweeping mandates” from the Biden administration is unlikely to succeed, according to one legal expert.
Retiring Jewish HomeLife CEO talks about the importance of succession planning, diversification and vaccine...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 04, 2022
Harley Tabak (Photo courtesy of Jewish HomeLife) Harley Tabak will retire at the end of the year after two decades at the helm of Jewish HomeLife in Atlanta. In April, he’ll transition to the role of...
Intention to receive COVID-19 vaccine has grown faster among Black adults
Feb 02, 2022
A persistent lower vaccination rate in Black adults might be explained by other factors besides hesitancy.
FDA gives Moderna COVID-19 vaccine full approval
Jan 31, 2022
Vaccine, which has been available for the age group under emergency use authorization, will be marketed as Spikevax.
Three mRNA vaccine doses protective against delta, omicron
Jan 28, 2022
However, odds ratios were higher for omicron, suggesting that those booster doses are less protective than they are against delta.
Neutralization titers against omicron up with mRNA-1273 boost
Jan 28, 2022
After a mRNA-1273 (Moderna) boost, neutralization titers against the omicron variant were 20 times higher than than those at one month after second dose.