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Implications of New COVID Variants Escaping the Immune System.

Thu, 2023-01-19 21:47 — mike kraft

New COVID Variants Are Escaping the Immune System. Here’s What That Means. Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyBA.5, BQ.1.1, and XBB? It’s no wonder people are struggling to keep all the circulating variants of COVID-19 straight right now. Whether you want to call them “alphabet soup,” “Scrabble,” or “Kraken,” we’ve been reminded time and again that it’s not the name of the subvariant that matters, but rather the way it interacts with our immune systems.

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RSV vaccine: Moderna, Pfizer’s race to obtain FDA approval process

Thu, 2023-01-19 05:32 — mike kraft

Moderna, Pfizer’s new race: The RSV vaccine FDA approval process

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Pfizer’s vaccine is already in the FDA approval process and Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel told CNBC from Davos on Wednesday that it will be filing for FDA approval for its vaccine soon — it even had a plan in place for top executives to be ready to submit over the holidays if needed.

ALSO SEE: Moderna says its RNA vaccine was nearly 84% effective in preventing symptoms in adults 60 and older

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You can you get COVID and the flu at the same time

Wed, 2023-01-18 23:59 — mike kraft

Can you get COVID and the flu at the same time? And what about a cold or RSV? With all the illness spreading, it's virus soup out there these days. Some people feel so sick they're wondering if they're fighting more than one germ at once. NPR.org

... Yes, it can happen. There's plenty of evidence of people testing positive for, say, COVID and the flu or flu and RSV simultaneously.

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When young children test positive for Covid-19 and another respiratory virus, their illness may be much more severe--new study

Wed, 2023-01-18 21:37 — mike kraft

When young children test positive for Covid-19 and another respiratory virus, their illness may be much more severe, a new study suggests | CNN When Covid-19 patients younger than 5 also test positive for another respiratory virus, they tend to become sicker and develop more severe disease, a new study suggests. Jacqueline Howard,Janelle Chavez CNN

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Covid-19 antibody levels jump among elderly after autumn booster--British study

Wed, 2023-01-18 21:19 — mike kraft

Covid-19 antibody levels jump among elderly after autumn booster The 35-49 age group now has the lowest estimated level of antibodies. Ian Jones, PA AOL

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Some 96.3% of people aged 80 and over in England were likely to have antibodies at the start of December 2022, up from 89.2% in early September.

For 75 to 79-year-olds, the proportion stands at 95.8%, up from 87.4%. ...

The figures are “likely a result of the vaccination booster campaign”, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which has published the data.

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