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CDC panel backs COVID-19 boosters for nearly all adults
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FDA authorizes boosters for Moderna, J&J, allows mix-and-match
The move gives the vaccine experts on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices latitude to...
Managing Your Practice
COVID-19: Can doctors refuse to see unvaccinated patients?
In the end, every private practitioner will have to make his or her own decision on this question.
From the Journals
Few JAK inhibitor users have diminished immune response to COVID-19 vaccines
Most patients taking JAK inhibitors had seemingly adequate immune responses based on serologic assessment of detectable antibodies, but those...
News
FDA panel backs second dose for Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients
It will be up to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) panel to make more specific recommendations for who might need another shot....
From the Journals
Mixing COVID vaccine boosters may be better option: Study
"The antibody responses are so much higher [with mix and match], it's really impressive."
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FDA advisors vote to recommend Moderna boosters
The panel voted to authorize a 50 milligram dose — half the dose used in the primary series of shots — to boost immunity against COVID-19 at least...
Latest News
New safety data regarding COVID vaccines
The pharmacovigilance report “raises no safety warnings for pregnant or nursing women with any of the COVID-19 vaccines.”
Conference Coverage
Omega-3s tame inflammation in elderly COVID-19 patients
Those who received an intravenous infusion had significant decreases from baseline to end of treatment in the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio.
Conference Coverage
Lupus may confer higher risk of death from COVID-19
SLE had a greater impact on mortality and other poor outcomes than did all the other comorbidities considered in a cross-sectional study of COVID-...