Tag Archives: COVID19

Kidney transplant recipients still vulnerable to COVID-19 post-vaccination

Kidney transplant recipients are still at high risk of severe disease due to the coronavirus even after being fully vaccinated, disease experts have warned. “What we’re telling patients right now is, unfortunately, they’re going to have to take extra precautions of continuing to do all the things that we had to do early on, which… Read More: Kidney transplant recipients still vulnerable to COVID-19 post-vaccination »

‘Unjustified fears’: When COVID-19 anxiety stops making sense

Breadcrumb Trail Links World News Health Canada Polls keep showing that the public believes COVID-19 disease is way deadlier and more pervasive than it really is Author of the article: Tristin Hopper Publishing date: May 17, 2021  •  1 day ago  •  6 minute read  •  258 Comments Stittsville Golf Club, one of hundreds of Ontario… Read More: ‘Unjustified fears’: When COVID-19 anxiety stops making sense »

Scientists find new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy

The early immune response in a person who has been vaccinated for COVID-19 can predict the level of protection they will have to the virus over time, according to analysis from Australian mathematicians, clinicians, and scientists, and published today in Nature Medicine. The researchers from UNSW’s Kirby Institute, the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and… Read More: Scientists find new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy »

Pfizer COVID-19 shot expanded to US children as young as 12

U.S. regulators on Monday expanded the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 12, offering a way to protect the nation’s adolescents before they head back to school in the fall and paving the way for them to return to more normal activities. Shots could begin as soon as Thursday, after a… Read More: Pfizer COVID-19 shot expanded to US children as young as… »