RAC Vaccines and Vaccination Group

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Wed, 2021-01-13 11:16 — mdmcdonald

RAC Workgroup Efforts Focused on Vaccines and Vaccination

The Resilient American Communities (RAC) Vaccines and Vaccination Group is examining and acting on the issues surrounding vaccines development, distribution, vaccination logistics and execution, as well as vaccination strategy, safety, efficacy, trust, and hesitancy. Special attention is currently focused on COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination.

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Hank Rappaport

Jan Booher

John Girard

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Analysis: Covid boosters are a gamechanger – if they are free for everyone

Wed, 2024-04-03 18:31 — mike kraft

Covid boosters are a gamechanger – if they are free for everyone Only private jabs are available to most, but annual shots could reduce healthcare costs and prevent deaths The Guardian

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Supreme Court rejects fired AstraZeneca employee’s appeal over refusal to take COVID-19 shot

Wed, 2024-04-03 13:13 — mike kraft

Supreme Court rejects fired AstraZeneca employee’s appeal over r The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a former AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals employee fired in 2022 for not taking the COVID-19 shot, which she declined on religious grounds. Alex Swoyer The Washington Times

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Bird flu: U.S. officials prepare for additional cases, testing components for potential vaccine

Wed, 2024-04-03 13:00 — mike kraft

How prepared the U.S. is for a bird flu pandemic Federal officials are preparing for the possibility of additional human cases of bird flu, testing components to create an H5N1 vaccine after a Texas dairy worker was infected with the highly virulent virus. The Washington Post

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A more broadly protective coronaviruse vaccine developed by U.S. researchers

Tue, 2024-04-02 09:57 — mike kraft

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-broadly-coronavirus-vaccine.html#google_vignette

Researchers develop more broadly protective coronavirus vaccine

Scientists have been searching for the optimal coronavirus vaccine since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The mRNA vaccines developed through the federal government's "Operation Warp Speed" program were a massive innovation; however, annually updating those boosters for specific SARS-CoV-2 variants is inefficient for scientists and patients.

SARS-CoV-2 is just one member of the Sarbecovirus (SARS Betacoronavirus) subfamily (others include SARS-CoV-1, which caused the 2002 SARS outbreak, as well as other viruses circulating in bats that could cause future pandemics).

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Tracking increasing number of measles cases in the United States

Mon, 2024-04-01 19:16 — mike kraft

Tracking measles cases in the United States | CNN There have already been more reported measles cases in 2024 than there were in all of 2023, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Matt Stiles, Deidre McPhillips, Christopher Hickey, Curt Merrill, Byron Manley CNN

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Mpox vaccine boosters necessary to restore faded protection -- Swedish study

Mon, 2024-04-01 17:38 — mike kraft

Mpox vaccine boosters necessary to restore faded protection, study shows - UPI.com Vaccine protection against mpox fades quickly in the human immune system, even in people who've received the full two-dose regimen, a new real-world study shows. UPI

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Antibody levels fell to low or near zero within the first few months of getting the vaccine, unless the person had previously received a smallpox vaccine, scientists reported Saturday at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Barcelona.

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Misinformation issue: Four years after shelter-in place, COVID misinformation continues

Mon, 2024-04-01 11:49 — mike kraft

Four Years After Shelter-in-Place, Covid-19 Misinformation Persists - KFF Health News False claims that covid vaccines cause deaths and other diseases are still prevalent despite multiple studies showing the vaccines are safe and saved lives. khnkit KFF Health News

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Moderna reports higher immune response for next-generation COVID vaccine

Fri, 2024-03-29 17:55 — mike kraft

Moderna reports promising findings for next-generation COVID vaccine The new version offers longer shelf-life advantages and paves the way for a flu-COVID combo vaccine. CIDRAP

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The mRNA-1283 vaccine showed a higher immune response—including in seniors—than its currently licensed vaccine, called mRNA-1273.222. Response was higher against Omicron BA.4/BA.5 as well as the original SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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