A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that vaccination provides stronger and more reliable protection against the coronavirus than a past infection does, the agency said on Friday. Unvaccinated people who had previously recovered from a coronavirus infection were five times as likely to get Covid as people who had […]
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State and local health officials are girding not just for more vaccine hesitancy, but for possible fights over vaccine mandates in schools. “I think the contention we have seen over the mask issue is likely to pale in comparison to what we’re going to see over the idea of a vaccine mandate” for school children, […]
There are many things kids love about the fall — the cider, the pumpkins, the trick-or-treating and more. But with the rollout of annual flu shots and an impending authorization of the Covid vaccine for kids ages 5 and up, the fall season may not be so enjoyable for children who are terrified of needles. […]
“There are too many unknowns on that, whereas the vaccine is known — that’s my caution,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco. “Certainly, I wouldn’t put all my eggs into the previous infection, natural immunity basket.” As with the protection conferred by vaccines, immunity from natural […]
When BB visited and the waitress at lunch asked if we were siblings, my heart fluttered. The double helix diagram is a color-coded spiral ladder with chemical-base rungs. Every day, I climbed it and swung around, exploring, gobsmacked. Chromosomes are the tiniest, hugest things in the world. If you believe the nurture theory, they’re unimportant […]
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The pandemic dealt a serious setback to global efforts to immunize children against diseases like measles and polio, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday, reducing worldwide coverage for some vaccines to levels not seen since more than a decade ago. The proportion of eligible children who received a polio vaccine fell […]
My younger brother told me that he is proposing to his girlfriend of six years. He’s 25 — which, from my perspective as his older sister in a committed, unmarried relationship, is too young to propose. On top of this, his soon-to-be fiancée has extreme social anxiety, which has kept our family from getting to […]
MIS was first described in May 2020 in a letter published in the British journal The Lancet. A group of pediatricians described eight children, most of whom had some documented exposure to Covid-19, who came to a London hospital with unrelenting fevers, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Their blood pressures were extremely low, and testing showed […]
WASHINGTON — An expert committee advising the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended that regulators authorize Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds, bringing about 28 million children a major step closer to becoming eligible for shots. If the F.D.A. follows the panel’s advice in the coming days, as is expected — and the […]