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(Reuters) - The European Union's drug regulator on Friday identified a possible link between rare cases of venous thromboembolism with Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and recommended the condition be listed as a side-effect of the shot. The European Medicines Agency also recommended that immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a bleeding disorder... read more →

David Sugerman, MD, MPH    All measles cases in the United States originate from international travel. Your patients are at risk for measles infection if they have not been fully vaccinated. The best way to protect them from this serious disease — and prevent potential measles outbreaks in the US —... read more →

Experts have have shed new light on a variant of COVID-19 discovered in a nursing home in Kentucky, which has infected at least 45 residents and health care staff. The strain has five mutations seen in other variants, plus many unique ones. © CDC/Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images File photo: A transmission electron... read more →

Samantha Lock   A new coronavirus strain has been declared a variant of interest by the World Health Organization (WHO) with mutations that may be resistant to vaccines. © MARVIN RECINOS/Getty Images File photo: An lab technician processes results of COVID-19 tests.Mu, or B.1.621, was first identified in Colombia and cases have... read more →

  CDC recommends that people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems receive an additional dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least 28 days after a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Currently, CDC is recommending that moderately to severely immunocompromised people receive an additional dose. This includes people... read more →

(Reuters) - Among fully vaccinated people who never had COVID-19, getting a third dose of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna would likely increase levels of antibodies, but not antibodies that are better able to neutralize new virus variants, Rockefeller University researchers reported on bioRxiv ahead of peer review.... read more →

Breakthrough cases in the U.S. are very rare and although the graphic below provided by Statista shows that around 6,000 people have contracted COVID after getting vaccinated, the number is still very small compared to the 165 million people who are fully vaccinated in the country.  

"The vaccine is doing exactly what we wanted it to do," Fauci clarified. "It's preventing people from getting seriously ill. That's the reason why you get vaccinated. However, this virus is so transmissible that it can infect, even though it's a small fraction, it can infect vaccinated people, almost invariably,... read more →

The Lambda variant of COVID-19 may be more resistant to vaccines and is highly infectious, researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo have warned in a new scientific paper published on July 28. The study is yet to be peer reviewed. Like the Delta variant, Lambda is highly transmissible but Japanese researchers... read more →

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, called the COVID-19 Delta variant "one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of" and reported more cases and hospitalizations.   "Today, I want to speak about our need to come together against a common enemy. SARS-CoV-2 and the Delta variant is spreading with incredible efficiency,... read more →