Category: Vaccine

Long COVID: An Explainer and Research Roundup

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, researchers are learning more about the long-term effects of the infection and about a collection of symptoms and complications commonly called long COVID. Shortness of breath, fatigue and “brain fog” are among the most common symptoms of long COVID. For some, these symptoms persist after getting infected…


Trio of New Studies Revives Question: Should Children Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?

Three newly published studies have revived concerns about COVID-19 vaccines for young children, many of whom are at little risk of contracting serious cases of the illness. Youth under 18 are the least likely age group to need hospital care after getting COVID-19 but Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was authorized in 2020 for those 16 and…


Nurse Who Lost Job and Family Over Vaccine Stance Finds New Career, Purpose

Refusing the COVID-19 vaccine cost B.C. nurse Svetlana Dalla Lana her job, her marriage, and access to her children, while straining other relationships. But she says she has found a new career in line with her passion, new relationships, and renewed hope. Two years ago, Dalla Lana worked as a primary care nurse at her…


Court Denies Biden Administration Attempt to Impose COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate on Navy SEALs

A federal appeals court on Feb. 28 rejected an attempt by President Joe Biden’s administration to partially lift the block on the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for a group of Navy SEALs. A federal judge in January blocked the mandate’s enforcement for 35 Navy members, many of them SEALs, ruling that the Navy provided a…


Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Goes Into Liver Cells and Is Converted to DNA: Study

The messenger RNA (mRNA) from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is able to enter human liver cells and is converted into DNA, according to Swedish researchers at Lund University. The researchers found that when the mRNA vaccine enters the human liver cells, it triggers the cell’s DNA, which is inside the nucleus, to increase the production of…


Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Less Effective in Children 5 to 11: Study

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was not effective in preventing infection among children aged 5 to 11, according to a new study. Researchers in New York also found indications that the vaccine effectiveness against severe disease plummeted. The researchers, with the New York State Department of Health and the University at Albany School of Public Health, examined…


World’s First Plant-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Approved

The Canadian government has become the first country in the world to authorize a plant-based COVID-19 vaccine. Canadian regulators said on Feb. 24 that Medicago’s two-dose vaccine is approved for adults aged 18 to 64. There is not enough data to give to adults aged 65 and older, officials said. In clinical trials cited by…


Hong Kong’s New COVID-19 Cases Top 10,000 in Spiraling Outbreak

HONG KONG—Hong Kong on Feb. 25 reported another sharp jump in new COVID-19 cases to more than 10,000 in the latest 24-hour period as it battles its worst outbreak of the pandemic. The new daily case count reached 10,010, health officials said, after topping 6,000 last week and 8,000 earlier this week in a spiraling…


Vaccinated People More Likely to Contract COVID-19, Go to Hospital in Recent Weeks: CDC Data

COVID-19 case and hospitalization rates increased among people who got a COVID-19 vaccine following the emergence of the Omicron virus variant, according to newly published data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the data, which is submitted to the CDC by health departments across the country, the COVID-19 case rate…


COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Jump Among Vaccinated: CDC Data

COVID-19 case and hospitalization rates increased among people who got a COVID-19 vaccine following the emergence of the Omicron virus variant, according to newly published data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the data, which is submitted to the CDC by health departments across the country, the COVID-19 case rate…