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The ‘Kraken’ subvariant XBB.1.5 sounds scary, but behind the headlines are clues to where COVID’s heading

The XBB.1.5 subvariant, known informally as “Kraken”, is the latest in a menagerie of Omicron subvariants to dominate the headlines, following increasing detection in the United States and United Kingdom. But there have...

15 February, 2023

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COVID vaccine hesitancy linked to ‘nocebo’ side effects

Vaccine hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccines is a positive predictor of negative side effects with vaccination—an example of the “nocebo” effect—according to a study in Scientific Reports. Nocebo, a play on...

6 December, 2022

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Vaccelerate: EU-Commission funded academic consortium to speed up vaccine development

The COVID pandemic showed lack of preparedness in many public health areas all over Europe. One such gap – often overlooked – is the lack of tools to rapidly conduct clinical studies on new vaccines. This gap has...

6 April, 2022

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Arsenal against Omicron weakening

Omicron is very good at evading the immune protection conferred by vaccines, natural infection and agents such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) authorized to prevent serious infections, according to David Ho, MD, the...

17 January, 2022

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Study shows immune cells against COVID-19 stay high in number six months after vaccination

A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers provides evidence that CD4+ T lymphocytes — immune system cells also known as helper T cells — produced by people who received either of the two available messenger...

17 November, 2021

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New nanobody COVID vaccine design is easier to make, doesn’t need cold storage

Currently available COVID vaccines require cold storage and sophisticated manufacturing capacity, which makes it difficult to produce and distribute them widely, especially in less developed countries. A new type of...

9 November, 2021

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How advanced are COVID booster vaccines?

With ATAGI flagging that third doses and booster shots could soon be used to further protect against COVID, newsGP assesses preliminary results from Moderna and Pfizer’s ongoing clinical trials. Questions regarding...

29 September, 2021

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COVID vaccines protect against Delta, but their effectiveness wanes

The Pfizer–BioNTech and Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are effective against the highly infectious Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 — but their protection drops away over time, a study of infections in the United...

2 September, 2021

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New variant COVID findings fuel more worries about vaccine resistance

Scientists in the United Kingdom reported that a small number of B117 variants have developed the E484K mutation thought to help SARS-CoV-2 partly evade immunity, and another UK group said their lab experiments suggest...

3 February, 2021

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How climate change is contributing to skyrocketing rates of infectious disease

A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,”...

22 May, 2020

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