#FDA panel supports updating fall #Covid#vaccines to JN.1 strain, so I guess the good news is there will be Novavax for us in the US and the bad? ambivalent? news is the strain will be outdated for everyone...
"The number of U.S. mpox cases has more than doubled compared with last year, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been urging clinicians across states to encourage vaccinations for those at risk.
As of May 25, the nation had seen a roughly 150% increase in cases of the disease formerly known as monkeypox — from 434 at that time last year to 1,089 this year, according to the CDC."
Trial results for longer-lasting Covid vaccines & more news - Next Generation Update 17.
3 sets of trial results: 1 is the first full report of a pancoronavirus vaccine, and it did pretty well, giving developers lots to go on for this ambitious type of vaccine.
18 new preclinical study reports - including another 2 showing intranasal vaccination reduced transmission among animals sharing the same air.
The board of trustees for the Cypress Fairbanks independent school district in Houston voted 6-1 earlier this month to redact certain chapters in science textbooks, including those about vaccines, human growth, diversity, and climate change.
The Texas Taliban are determined to ensure that the state remains rooted to the 15th century.
"In 2020, her abdomen bloated and her pelvis pulsed with pain. Ferrone called a half-dozen clinics near her former home in Auburn, Ala. Three attributed her distress to irritable bowels or heavy periods. A doctor in Georgia finally gave her a Pap test. She had stage-3 cervical cancer. Ferrone credits him with saving her life.
Swope said the news was harder to take than her own diagnosis. 'I can’t help but feel like I failed her,' she said."
Andrew Egger addresses the dishonesty of Trump telling Republican voters not to vote for RFK Jr. because he's (Trump says) pro-vaccine:
"Years before the 2015 political pivot that would somehow make him leader of the free world, Trump was already building up a base of goodwill among America’s cranks by spreading the spurious notion that childhood vaccinations were linked to autism."
Biden relies on a Vax-and-Relax strategy despite the fact that multiple modalities are needed (Swiss Cheese model) when the vaccine wanes after a few months, has limited protection against transmission, and studies only show protection against Long Covid as being somewhere between 25 and 40%. #COVID#vaccineshttps://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant
This is the article to read if you don't understand what's going on with #COVID19: "When people claim we are 'in a different place' because of 'the vaccines,' I know they have not engaged with the science around COVID since 2021. #Vaccines that were initially thought to prevent infection and confer long-term immunity were found to be capable of neither." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant
Daily Mail: "#AstraZeneca admitted in February that the vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome - which has been linked to more than 80 deaths in (#UK) (from 50 million doses)".