President Joe Biden has thrown his support to an international effort to waive drugmakers’ patent rights on the covid vaccines, but the pharmaceutical industry vows to fight back. Julie Rovner, KHN’s chief Washington correspondent, joins ... [Continue Reading]
‘A great milestone’: CDC says fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks in the US
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks outdoors and can avoid wearing them indoors in most places. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Latinos Are the Most Eager to Get Vaccinated, Survey Shows — But Face Obstacles
Use Our Content It can be republished for free. Hispanics who have yet to receive a covid shot are about twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites or Blacks to say they’d like to get ... [Continue Reading]
What the Slowing Vaccine Rates Mean for One Rural Montana County
KALISPELL, Mont. — The covid vaccination operation at the Flathead County fairgrounds can dole out 1,000 doses in seven hours. But demand has plummeted recently, down to fewer than 70 requests for the shots a day. ... [Continue Reading]
How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After the Pandemic’s Uncertainty
Kai Humphrey, 9, has been learning from home for more than a year. He badly misses his Washington, D.C., elementary school, along with his friends and the bustle of the classroom. ... [Continue Reading]
A vaccine from France is said to be ‘variant proof’ — here’s what we know about it
It sounds too good to be true: a vaccine that can protect against future coronavirus variants. But governments around the world are keen to learn more about the Valneva jab, writes Adam Taylor. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Could a French vaccine that’s said to be ‘variant-proof’ live up to the hype?
It sounds too good to be true: a vaccine that can protect against future virus variants. But governments around the world are keen to learn more about the Valneva jab, writes Adam Taylor. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Pakar Australia ‘Tidak Terkejut’ Melihat Kasus Pembekuan Darah Vaksin AstraZeneca. Haruskah Khawatir?
Jumlah kasus pembekuan darah yang dikaitkan dengan vaksin AstraZeneca bertambah seiring waktu. Namun, pakar mengatakan mereka telah memprediksi hal ini. Jadi sebenarnya amankah vaksin AstraZeneca? SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
05 | Patient Zero: Spillover In Suburbia
A sleepy suburb in Brisbane is the scene of a gruesome disease outbreak, where the streets literally run with blood. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Sharing Vaccines With the World
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. The Biden administration — keeping a campaign promise — announced it would back a temporary waiver of patent protections for the covid-19 vaccines, arousing the ire of the drug ... [Continue Reading]
For Kurdish Americans in Nashville, a Beloved Leader’s Death Prompts Vaccine Push
On a sloppy spring day in mid-March, hundreds of Kurdish Americans gathered in a field outside Nashville, Tennessee, under a sea of black umbrellas. Some of the men carried a stretcher to an open grave, where a yellow backhoe waited. ... [Continue Reading]
Five more Australians being treated for blood clots linked to AstraZeneca vaccine
Five more cases of blood clotting linked to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are identified in Australia, taking the country's total to 11. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Transmission of Covid-19 post vaccination
Executive Summary * A paper published in the BMJ in October 2020 reported that none of the Covid-19 vaccine trials were designed to test severity of outcome (hospitalisation, intensive care (ICU) or death) or transmission of the virus. * A study has ... [Continue Reading]
CVS and Walgreens Have Wasted More Vaccine Doses Than Most States Combined
Two national pharmacy chains that the federal government entrusted to inoculate people against covid-19 account for the lion’s share of wasted vaccine doses, according to government data obtained by KHN. ... [Continue Reading]
Journalists Track Biden’s First 100 Days
Chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Biden’s first 100 days on WAMU/NPR’s “1A” on Wednesday. She also joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Central Time” to talk about why hospitals aren’t ... [Continue Reading]
Despite All the Talk, Covid Vaccination Does Not Infect People With Shingles
“For #Covid vaccines, shingles and even more dangerous and painful skin conditions may be the new thrombocytopenia” Alex Berenson in a Facebook post, April 19 Posts are showing up all over social media tying covid-19 vaccinations ... [Continue Reading]
Some County Jail Inmates See Vaccination as Ticket to a Better Life — In the State Pen
LOS ANGELES — The inmates huddled near the front or lingered on the bunk beds lining both sides of their narrow, crowded dorm at the Men’s Central Jail, listening as Lt. Sheriff Dwight Miley and nurse practitioner Marissa Negrete offered them ... [Continue Reading]
Brett Sutton says a long-haul flight is riskier for clotting than the AstraZeneca vaccine. Is he right?
Amid all the talk of Australia's most abundant vaccine and rare cases of clotting we've got answers to some of the questions you might be grappling with. SOURCE: ABC News - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Only One Vaccine Is OK’d for Older Teens. It’s Also the Hardest to Manage in Rural America.
As states expand covid-19 vaccine eligibility to allow shots for 16- and 17-year-olds, teens in rural America may have trouble getting them. ... [Continue Reading]
Virtual Care Spreads in Missouri Health System, Home to ‘Hospital Without Beds’
When Tom Becker was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat in March 2020, the 60-year-old EMS helicopter pilot from Washington, Missouri, worried he would never fly again. ... [Continue Reading]
Doctors Scramble to Understand Long Covid, but Causes and Prognosis Are Elusive
One night in March 2020, Joy Wu felt like her heart was going to explode. She tried to get up and fell down. She didn’t recognize friends’ names in her list of phone contacts. Remembering how to dial 9-1-1 took “quite a bit of ... [Continue Reading]
Listen: A Rookie Doctor Starts Her Career, Forged by the Pandemic
On this week’s episode of “America Dissected,” host Dr. Abdul El-Sayed spoke with Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez, an emergency medicine resident at UCSF Fresno, and KHN senior correspondent Jenny Gold about the challenges Marin-Nevarez ... [Continue Reading]