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COVID-19 vaccine boosters

…be pretty tricky, and it sort of changes its coat constantly. And as we’re seeing now with delta sometimes these new variants may to some degree resist our vaccines. So I do think going forward we’re probably going to need to continually adapt our vaccines to changes in the virus, perhaps very much like we’re…

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SARS-CoV-2 variants

…mRNA-based vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna), and more challenging for others, like the virus-vectored vaccines (AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson). Eventually, it would be desirable to develop vaccines that target regions of the SARS-CoV-2 spike where mutations would prevent the virus from functioning, such as the S2 region. Influenza A virus vaccines provide a useful analogy….

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Ticks, mosquitoes, and human health

…the intention is to prevent transmission, maybe reduce the burden of the disease by using vaccines – which could be, of course, preventive vaccines or even therapeutic or immunomodulating type of immune therapies – it is crucial that we really focus on not only evaluating current technologies, but also developing what we so call the…

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Emerging COVID-19 challenges: long-COVID and viral variants

…how it interacts with immunity conferred by the vaccines that we have been using, the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines. The next variant of concern was first described in South Africa. It shares some mutations with the variant described in the U.K. It is from a different lineage, B.1.351, and this emphasizes the point that…

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COVID-19: Learning from the past, defining our future

…How should journalists write about the issue of vaccine hesitancy in communities of color? Do we know whether current vaccines are effective against emerging variants? What are the best- and worst-case scenarios for the future of COVID-19? What is one take-home message for reporters covering the past and future of COVID-19? A year after much…

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Vaccine testing

Vaccines in general: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains a list of all the vaccines currently approved for use in the United States. In addition to routine childhood vaccines, this includes vaccines given exclusively to adults, such as the shingles vaccine, as well as some that are typically given after exposure…

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Monkeypox update

…pointed out. It was introduced into the United States in 2003, and that outbreak led to the development of a lot of the diagnostic tools that are currently being used in the Laboratory Response Network to support diagnosis. We have two preventative vaccines and two antiviral treatments that can be used. One of the vaccines,…

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COVID-19 vaccinations for young children

…that. And yet we’re still going to have to build in the COVID-19 vaccines. We know that we can give them together with things like flu vaccines, so it’s very likely that we can give them together with the commonly used vaccines as well. And we don’t have uniform recommendations for that yet that are…

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Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic

…about an infectious disease like COVID-19, we cannot think about individuals in isolation. Research is showing us that the available vaccines right now (Moderna and Pfizer) are very good at making it so people do get not sick from the virus, SARS-CoV-2. However, what is still not clear is if vaccinated people can still be…

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Monkeypox update

COVID-19 vaccinations for young children

Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic