mRNA COVID-19 vaccines immunogenic in immunosuppressed patients
Sep 08, 2021
mRNA-based severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines appear to be immunogenic in patients receiving immunosuppressive medications for the management of chronic inflammatory...
Immune response not inferior with coadministration of COVID-19, flu shots
Sep 14, 2023
A similar immune response and no increase in the rate of reactogenicity events was seen with coadministration versus administering the COVID-19 vaccine alone.
Review of booster shots for Moderna, J&J vaccines just weeks away: Fauci
Sep 20, 2021
Fauci says that data on booster shots for those vaccines are only a few weeks away from a review by the FDA.
ACR: Lupus patients can have low immune response to COVID-19 vaccines
Nov 15, 2021
Overall disease activity does not appear to change after vaccination, however.
Adverse events associated with BNT162b2 vaccination ID’d
Aug 27, 2021
Vaccination with the Pfizer–BioNTech mRNA vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is associated with an increased risk for myocarditis and lymphadenopathy, according...
Reformulated booster shots ready by September, White House says
Jul 29, 2022
The Biden administration is working on contracts for the reformulated booster doses.
FDA approves updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
Oct 04, 2023
The updated shot is expected to better target variants that are circulating now and help prevent hospitalization and death from the virus.
Antibody levels after COVID-19 vaccination inversely linked to body weight
May 23, 2022
An inverse correlation was sustained for up to six months following two doses of BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech) in a small cohort of healthy young and middle-aged adults.
mRNA Vaccine more effective booster to ChAdOx1 nCoV-19
Oct 22, 2021
“Our study shows a greater risk reduction for people who received an mRNA vaccine after having received a first dose of a vector-based, as compared to people having received the vector-based vaccine...
FDA could approve Pfizer booster shots for all adults this week
Nov 17, 2021
More than 30 million Americans already have gotten booster shots.