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Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-15-2021
October 15, 2021 03:00 - 5 minutes - 7.45 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 15th, 2021. A major study shows infections among school-aged children in England are “high and rising.” That probably ups the intensity of the debate over kids and vaccines. The reproduction rate of those aged 17 and younger was 1.18, meaning on average every 10 infected young people are passing it on to about 12 others. From the gee I wish we’d known this earlier department, two new international studies sho...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-14-2021
October 14, 2021 03:00 - 5 minutes - 7.08 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 14th, 2021. After a 19-month freeze, the United States will open its land borders with Canada and Mexico to non-essential travel. Fully vaccinated foreign nationals can enter the U.S. for whatever reason starting early November. Travelers will be asked about their vaccination status as part of the standard Customs and Border Protection admissions process, and no testing will be required to enter by land or sea. ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-13-2021
October 13, 2021 03:00 - 5 minutes - 7.47 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 13th, 2021. The British government didn’t get a very good report card from Parliament on how it handled COVID. A critical report said the country waited too long to impose a lockdown in the early days, and that missed a chance to contain the disease and led to thousands of unnecessary deaths. The delay attributed to a dangerous level of “groupthink” that caused dismissal of more aggressive strategies. The committ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-12-2021
October 12, 2021 03:00 - 4 minutes - 6.85 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 12th, 2021. Merck asked U.S. regulators yesterday to authorize the pill it has for treating COVID. If they hear what they want to hear from the FDA, and that could happen in a few weeks, that’d be the first pill shown to treat the illness. There are other drugs, but they require an IV or injection. Merck said earlier this month the pill cut hospitalizations and deaths by half among patients with early symptoms. ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-11-2021
October 11, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 7.28 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 11th, 2021. You might want to send Italy a congratulations. That country announced it’s reached its goal of 80% of the population over 12 being fully vaccinated. That amounts to 43 million people out of 60 million. However, a lot of people hit the streets not to celebrate, but to protest vaccine passports. Many of these gatherings turned into violent riots. A comprehensive CBS News poll shows that most Americ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-08-2021
October 08, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.43 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 8th, 2021. With the number of those killed by COVID having surpassed 700,000, among that number is a bonus tragedy. A study shows the number of children in the U.S. who were made orphans or partial orphans by the pandemic is larger than first believed. More than 120,000 lost a primary guardian or caregiver. Black and Hispanic children have experienced this the most. Finland joined Sweden and Denmark in haltin...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-07-2021
October 07, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 7th, 2021. As expected, Los Angeles leaders voted 11-2 to enact one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates. Vaccination is required for everyone entering bars, restaurants, nail salons, gyms, and indoor sporting events. Everyone needs to be in compliance by November 4. About 69% of the county’s 10 million residents are fully vaccinated. Sweden and Denmark, as a precautionary measure, stopped the use of...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-06-2021
October 06, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.57 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 6th, 2021. Amid the nationwide shortage in qualified, experienced healthcare workers, we’re losing them by the thousands due to vaccine mandates. Northwell Health, the largest health care provider in New York state, fired 1,400 of them for non-compliance. In Detroit, around 400 workers left the job at Henry Ford Health System. We’ll see if the same thing happens with teachers. The vaccine mandate for teachers...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-05-2021
October 05, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.62 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 5th, 2021. They had a dream, they gave it a shot, but it didn’t work out. New Zealand has admitted it will not be able to completely get rid of the coronavirus. They’ve had a zero-tolerance approach from the beginning with strict lockdowns and aggressive contact tracing. In a country of 5 million, only 27 virus deaths have been reported. But a delta outbreak has made the government realize they’re going to have t...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-04-2021
October 04, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.95 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 4th, 2021. More pressure on vaccinated citizens in Israel to go ahead and get their booster shot. Only those who do will be eligible for the "green pass" needed to get into restaurants, gyms, and other venues. They started giving boosters to everyone 12 and up at the end of August. For some unexplained reason, places like museums and libraries are exempt from the green pass requirement. Still a rough go of it...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 10-01-2021
October 01, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.87 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for October 1st, 2021. Time to get your vaccine. We’re not talking about your COVID vaccine although you’re supposed to get that too. It’s also flu shot time. And yes, health experts are very worried that there’s plenty of vaccine fatigue out there which could result in an atypical drop in the number of people getting their flu shots. It also could be a hard sell because flu cases are at historically low levels, at least par...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-30-2021
September 30, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 30th, 2021. YouTube had already censored videos containing what they deemed was vaccine misinformation. Now it’s gone an extra step and is censoring any video expressing any opinion about vaccines that suggest there are any possible health consequences to getting vaccinated. The 1996 Communications Decency Act that protects YouTube from liability claims is based on the notion the platform is merely a host and h...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-29-2021
September 29, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 29th, 2021. Pfizer has given the FDA research on the effectiveness of its vaccine in kids 5-11, but those shots may not come until November. First, Pfizer has to file its application, then U.S. regulators and public health officials review and consult with advisory committees. And all that takes time. Russia reported its highest Covid death toll in a single day yesterday with 852 coronavirus-related deaths...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-28-2021
September 28, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 28th, 2021. The U.S. President sought to lead by example as he received his booster shot on camera just one workday after the CDC and FDA recommended a third dose of Pfizer. You’re qualified to get one if you have pre-existing medical conditions, high-risk work environments, or are 65 and older. Let’s just say the President qualified. Pfizer started a large study testing its oral antiviral drug to prevent C...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-27-2021
September 27, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 27th, 2021. Health officials in the U.S. say supply isn’t a problem. There are more than 40 million doses of vaccines available, so that’s enough to give qualified older Americans boosters and the first rounds for young children when the vaccine is approved for them. More than 70 million Americans remain unvaccinated. Breakthrough cases in the vaccinated are still rare but growing less rare. In fact, expert...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-24-2021
September 24, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 24th, 2021. A CDC advisory panel recommended a booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine for Americans 65 and older and some adults with underlying medical conditions that put them at risk of severe disease. What it declined to do was recommend boosters for younger adults, including healthcare workers, who live or work in places with high risk of contracting COVID-19. Boy we hope this is true. The creator of the A...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-23-2021
September 23, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 23rd, 2021. A story for you optimists out there. An analysis by a consortium of researchers advising the CDC indicates the Delta surge looks like it’s peaking. Which means cases and deaths should decline steadily now through the spring as long as there’s not a big winter surge. The analysis was made by combining nine different mathematical models from different research groups. The optimistic model for the nex...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-22-2021
September 22, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.68 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 22nd, 2021. There are approximately 71 million unvaccinated Americans. And COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed to an average of more than 1,900 a day for the first time since early March. Many hospitals are full and health care workers demoralized, with patients dying and disbelief about the virus continuing. Dr. William Moss of Johns Hopkins said, “I think this is a failure of society.” Almost 400 Novant He...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-21-2021
September 21, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 21st, 2021. It is now official, at least according to the numbers from Johns Hopkins, COVID-19 has now killed as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu. 675,000 Americans died during the 1918 pandemic, in waves that played out over about two years. But back then there were no vaccines. It wasn’t until the 30s researchers even understood influenza was caused by a virus and not a bacterium. Finally, some much ne...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-20-2021
September 20, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.48 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 20th, 2021. Many are trying to get religious exemptions from the vaccine right now. But religious leaders are saying, we don’t agree with you. Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America said there’s no exemption for them for religious reasons. The Evangelical Lutheran Church said “there’s no evident basis for religious exemption.” The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York said any priest issuing an exem...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-17-2021
September 17, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.63 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 17th, 2021. Idaho public health leaders yesterday expanded health care rationing statewide. Individual hospital systems in Alaska and Montana have also implemented rationing policies. Increases in COVID-19 patients are exhausting medical resources so those resources are allocated to those most likely to survive. A government watchdog says the Department of Homeland Security must improve its COVID-19 respons...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-16-2021
September 16, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 16th, 2021. A tough statistic for the “it’s like the chicken pox” crowd. 19 months into the pandemic, 1 in 500 American residents has died from COVID-19. The death rate for certain demographics age 40-64 is even more stark; for black Americans, 1 in 480 has died, for Hispanics, 1 in 390, and 1 out of every 240 Native Americans have died. Public health officials in Los Angeles County will begin requiring proof of ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-15-2021
September 15, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.68 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 15th, 2021. The CDC released a new study that examined hospitalizations and deaths from Covid over more than three months and found the unvaccinated are more than 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die. The study also found that as the delta variant became more widespread, protection against initial infections fell slightly. Russian President Vladimir Putin went into self-isolatio...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-14-2021
September 14, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.93 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 14th, 2021. In a heartbreaking illustration of maxed out hospitals, the staff in one north Alabama hospital contacted 43 others across three states looking for a specialty cardiac ICU bed for patient Ray DeMonia. Most were full with COVID patients, which Ray was not. He wound up in Meridian, Mississippi, about 170 miles away, where he died of a cardiac event shortly after arriving. Looks like Americans are okay w...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-13-2021
September 13, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 13th, 2021. Guess who’s exempt from the US administration’s recently announced vaccine mandates for all federal employees and contractors? Congress, congressional staffs, and those in the federal court system. That’s because only the executive branch of government can be compelled under the executive order. Still, it creates an enormous layer of hypocrisy and suspicion that probably will not help reassure American...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-10-2021
September 10, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.8 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 10th, 2021. In the U.S., the administration announced new steps, including mandates to tackle the pandemic. Those steps include mandating vaccines for federal workers, contractors and certain health care workers, mandates for employees at companies with 100 or more workers to be vaccinated or tested weekly, and a recommendation large venues require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test. The Los Angeles b...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-9-2021
September 09, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.56 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 9th, 2021. The World Health Organization is again calling for a moratorium on booster shots, saying rich countries with large supplies should not offer shots through the end of the year so first doses can go to poorer countries. So far that request has been ignored by countries like the United States. The Director General added, “We do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vac...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-8-2021
September 08, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.92 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 8th, 2021. Idaho public health leaders have activated “crisis standards of care.” That lets hospitals in the northern part of the state ration health care since there are more patients than they can handle. Residents have been warned they may not get the care they’d normally expect if they need to be hospitalized. Hawaii’s Governor signed an order last week releasing hospitals and health care workers from liabilit...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-7-2021
September 07, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 5.05 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 7th, 2021. Like healthcare workers, they are most at risk. And like many healthcare workers, they are reluctant to get the vaccine. No national statistics show the vaccination rate for America's entire population of first responders, but police and fire departments report figures far below the national rate of adults who have had at least one dose. Increasingly, mandates are putting jobs at risk for refusal to...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-6-2021
September 06, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 6th, 2021. Full steam ahead in the U.S. with booster shots, even though the EU, the World Health Organization, and even the CDC says it could be premature and possibly unnecessary right now. It’s believed boosters will be available September 20 for Pfizer, with Moderna’s rolling out a couple weeks later. The President said Americans should consider getting a booster 8 months after their second shot. Israel is so ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-3-2021
September 03, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.49 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 3rd, 2021. The CDC says if you’re not vaccinated, you should cancel any travel plans you might have for the long Labor Day weekend. Holidays have always been worrisome to health officials because they often result in spikes. But this spike would occur on top of the Delta surge. Last year, even without vaccines available, more than 3 million airline passengers were screened over the Labor Day holiday. More than 50...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-2-2021
September 02, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.64 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 2nd, 2021. The World Health Organization has another “variant of interest” to watch. It’s being called the Mu variant and there are concerns it may partially evade the immunity developed from past infection or vaccination. The variant has been detected in 39 countries. It was first identified in Colombia in January. A new survey shows most firms are now planning on having vaccine mandates for their workforce, an...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 9-1-2021
September 01, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.44 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for September 1st, 2021. The EU says it’s now hit its target of fully vaccinating 70% of adults by the end of summer. They’re calling it a great achievement, but the World Health Organization says the pace of vaccinations in the continent now appears to be faltering, and parts of Europe are at risk of fresh outbreaks and new restrictions. As far as Denmark is concerned, COVID is over. That country is set to remove all remainin...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-31-2021
August 31, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.7 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 31st, 2021. Take an area with high concentrations of COVID, with a shortage of ICU beds, patients on ventilators, and challenges keeping health care staff working. Then hit it with a Category 4 hurricane and you have the situation in Louisiana. Hospitals had to evacuate over 160 patients, the storm tore off parts of roofs, and left water leaking down walls to pool on floors. Generators kicked in for electricity and s...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-30-2021
August 30, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.8 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 30th, 2021. A UK study published in Lancet says people who get the Delta variant are more than twice as likely to be hospitalized as those infected with the alpha strain. Early studies of the Delta variant found it was 50% more transmissible than other strains. The study’s author said absent vaccination, Delta outbreaks will keep imposing a huge burden on healthcare. If you’re an American who had plans to trav...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-27-2021
August 27, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.76 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 27th, 2021. Kentucky and Texas joined a growing list of states seeing record numbers of hospitalized patients in a surge that’s afflicting more children. Wednesday, both reported more patients in their hospitals than at any other time since the pandemic began. In New Mexico, health officials warned they’re about a week away from rationing health care. And in Idaho, state leaders called on residents to volunteer to he...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-26-2021
August 26, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 26th, 2021. The international scientists sent to China by the World Health Organization to find the coronavirus’ origin said yesterday, get ready to not be surprised, the search has stalled and the window of opportunity for ever getting to the truth is “closing fast.” And the U.S. intelligence review ordered up by the US proved inconclusive. So the world’s scientists and governments have proven incapable of findin...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-25-2021
August 25, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 25th, 2021. Back to school didn’t go terribly well. A few weeks in, more and more school districts have given up on in-person learning or switched to hybrid models because of rising infections. More than 80 school districts or charter networks in more than a dozen states have made changes. The US President will be receiving a classified report on the origins of the coronavirus. The review was ordered back in May an...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-24-2021
August 24, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.73 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 24th, 2021. As expected, now that the Pfizer vaccine has full FDA approval, the Pentagon will require all service members to get vaccinated. Over the past month, the number of service member deaths from COVID jumped from 25 to 34 – more than a one third increase. The head of the World Health Organization is calling for a 2-month moratorium on booster shots to reduce global vaccine inequality. He says he’s “really di...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-23-2021
August 23, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 7.21 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 23rd, 2021. By the time you hear this podcast, the Moderna vaccine may have full FDA approval. And that’s going to likely result in many more vaccine mandates from businesses, municipalities, education facilities, venues, etc. Why? Because it removes some of the risk of successful legal challenges. The FDA has been conducting months of additional safety and efficacy data on the vaccines. Not to be forgotten amidst a...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-20-2021
August 20, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 6.96 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 20th, 2021. The World Health Organization is making it clear it is not happy with countries like the United States moving on to third booster shots. The Africa director warned such countries “make a mockery of vaccine equity.” Less than 2% of Africa’s population is fully vaccinated. In Alabama, there aren’t any more available ICU beds. The state has run out. In fact there were negative 29 ICU beds available Wednesda...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-19-2021
August 19, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 6.49 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 19th, 2021. As expected, U.S. health officials announced booster shots of Pfizer and Moderna should be available for all U.S. adults starting next month. It is an acknowledgement that the effectiveness of the vaccines could wear off significantly in as little as eight months. Officials said those who got the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine will also probably need another shot, but they aren’t releasing plans fo...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-18-2021
August 18, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 6.47 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 18th, 2021. Not all nations are reluctant to lock down, and New Zealand's one of them. The entire nation was put into strict lockdown for at least three days yesterday after discovery of one single case of infection. The Prime Minister said, "We’ve seen what happens elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it. We only get one chance.” Round three. The U.S. government is reportedly about to offer booster shots to all Am...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-17-2021
August 17, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 6.85 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 17th, 2021. For the first time since February when things were pre-vaccine, the US reported more than 900,000 cases last week. Cases are on the rise in 46 states. Just yesterday the US reported 382 deaths. Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, reported its worst day of the pandemic yesterday with 478 new infections and seven deaths. Two of the dead had gotten one dose of a two-shot vaccine. The res...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-16-2021
August 16, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.8 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 16th, 2021. The director of the National Institutes of Health said the U.S. could decide in a couple of weeks to offer booster shots to Americans this fall. First in line to get them would be health care workers, nursing home residents and other older Americans. It’s been peer reviewed, published in the American Journal of Therapeutics, and is the most comprehensive review of data taken from clinical, in vitro...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-13-2021
August 13, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.84 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 13th, 2021. The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest federal agency requiring employees who provide care or services for patients be vaccinated. That affects more than 25,000 clinicians, researchers, contractors, trainees, and volunteers. The Supreme Court said yes, universities can impose a vaccine mandate on students and faculty. It declined to block a mandate at Indiana University or provid...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-12-2021
August 12, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 12th, 2021. California will become the first state to require all teachers and school staff to be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. That applies to public and private schools, and it will also apply to school volunteers. California’s two largest teachers’ unions announced their full support. The FDA is expected to in the next day or so authorize vaccine booster shots for the immunocompromised. That’d be a ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-11-2021
August 11, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.9 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 11th, 2021. New state level data analyzed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association shows cases among children are rising, with kids accounting for roughly 15% of all newly reported cases across the U.S. for the week ending August 5. Comedian Chris Rock may call it the McDonalds of vaccines, but a trial involving almost 480,000 health workers in South Africa shows the Johnso...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-10-2021
August 10, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.94 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 10th, 2021. As anticipated, members of the U.S. military will be required to get the vaccine starting next month. Memos have been distributed to all troops this is necessary to maintain military readiness. The Defense Secretary said that deadline could be accelerated if the vaccine gets final FDA approval or infection rates keep rising. A couple of good bits of news for Moderna. Its vaccine has been granted a ...
Coronavirus vaccine and Delta variant updates for 8-09-2021
August 09, 2021 09:00 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBThis is Vaccine 411, the latest coronavirus vaccine information for August 9th, 2021. Hospitalizations are reaching all-time highs, especially in parts of the South. Some patients and their doctors are struggling to find hospitals that will take them, even if it’s out of state. Louisiana set a new record for hospitalizations last week. Florida's hospitalizations recently jumped 13% above the previous peak and 60% of the state’s hospitals expect a "critical staffing shortage" by this week. H...