NEW JERSEY (WABC) — A week after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order allowing New Yorkers easier access to COVID vaccines, New Jersey is now following suit.…
Read more NJ Department of Health takes action to ensure access to COVID vaccinesFour years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most dangerous infectious respiratory illness regularly circulating in the U.S. But a…
Read more Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?Every fall, when the air turns chilly and the leaves red, pediatric ICUs begin preparing for the onslaught of the virus known as RSV. Not flu, not COVID,…
Read more We Can Finally Do Something About the Third ‘Tripledemic’ VirusThis fall, millions of Americans might be lining up for yet another kind of COVID vaccine: their first-ever dose that lacks the strain that ignited the pandemic more…
Read more What Should Go Into This Year’s COVID Vaccine?Feb. 15, 2023 – After studying thousands of people’s symptoms post-COVID-19, researchers have found that getting vaccinated could potentially reduce the risk of long COVID. The new study…
Read more Vaccination Could Reduce Risk of Long COVID, Study ShowsFor all the legwork that public-health experts have done over the past few years to quash comparisons between COVID-19 and the flu, there sure seems to be a…
Read more COVID Vaccines Are Turning Into Flu ShotsFor months, the winter forecast in the United States seemed to be nothing but viral storm clouds. A gale of RSV swept in at the start of autumn,…
Read more Is the Worst of Winter Over for COVID?In the two-plus years that COVID vaccines have been available in America, the basic recipe has changed just once. The virus, meanwhile, has belched out five variants concerning…
Read more Is COVID Immunity Hung Up on Old Variants?By Cara Murez and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters FRIDAY, Oct. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) – In an unanimous vote on Thursday, a panel of U.S. vaccine experts recommended…
Read more Add COVID Shot to Routine Vaccine Schedule: CDC PanelLast week, just a couple of hours into a house-sitting stint in Massachusetts for my cousin and his wife, I received from them a flummoxed text: “Dude,” it…
Read more It’s Gotten Awkward to Wear a MaskOn one level, the world’s response to the coronavirus pandemic over the past two and half years was a major triumph for modern medicine. We developed COVID vaccines…
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