Tag: Vaccines

For adults with two or more chronic conditions, booster dose of BNT162b2 or CoronaVac linked to reduction in mortality

Committee members also weighed a proposal to streamline the dosing schedule for COVID-19 vaccines by turning them into annual shots

Additional protection against symptomatic infection provided for people who had previously received monovalent vaccine doses

Authors found low adherence to CDC recommendations for boosters, with older adults more likely to receive at least four mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses

FDA also wants to switch all COVID-19 vaccines to target the same strains, making the shots interchangeable and simpler to administer

A second HIV vaccine trial has been halted after it failed to lower the risk for infection among high-risk people

Vaccination coverage decreased 0.4 to 0.9 percent compared with the 2020 to 2021 school year

Coverage with combined seven vaccine series decreased for children living below federal poverty level, in rural areas

Vaccine hesitancy varied considerably; 12.1 percent of vaccinated individuals hesitant about booster doses

Estimated 32.8 percent of individuals lose vaccine-derived immunity by age 18 years in the United States