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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... 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.... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... read more →

"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... 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... 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... read more →