‘Hung out to dry’: Groups urge extension for vaccine mandate in Maine
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 31, 2021
Five healthcare advocacy groups are asking Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) to extend the deadline for mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers across the state, citing a “severe and worsening essential support...
When COVID case counts are low, relax but prepare for future outbreaks: speaker
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 24, 2022
It’s OK to relax a little and take off that mask when community COVID-19 transmission rates are low. But an epidemiologist says that that’s also the time to prepare.
CDC: Unvaccinated should not travel this Labor Day weekend
Sep 01, 2021
The agency urges fully vaccinated people to travel with precautions and take infection risk into consideration.
State vaccine mandates expected to send some home healthcare workers for the doors
By
Diane Eastabrook
Aug 20, 2021
As angry healthcare workers descended on Maine’s state house all week protesting a looming state COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Care & Comfort President and CEO Mike Stair worried about the toll the rule...
mRNA COVID-19 vaccine less protective in elderly with comorbidity
Dec 23, 2021
At ≥7 days after the second dose, the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine was 69% against infection and 86% against related death.
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...
COVID booster shots must be available to all long-term care residents: governor
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 30, 2021
Bracing for the new omicron variant of COVID-19 to make its way across the border from Canada, the governor of New York is stepping up efforts to get booster shots into the arms of long-term care residents.
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...