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Variants of Covid are springing up all the time, perhaps in people who have compromised immune systems and experience prolonged infection or in animal hosts. Stuart Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says right now with Delta and …

Omicron is not the last Covid variant, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Both vaccine developers and the FDA have agreed that as new Covid variants emerge and updated vaccines are required, the pathway for providing them should involve testing in far fewer people and over a shorter period of time. Jonathan Zenilman, …

New vaccines for Covid-19 should arrive much faster than their predecessors, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Why aren’t Covid vaccines, especially mRNA vaccines, being produced against variants such as Omicron as they emerge? Anna Durbin, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says this is what the technology promises. Durbin: I do think we have to …

What will it take for new vaccines against Covid variants to be manufactured and distributed? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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If you’ve had three doses of an mRNA vaccine against Covid you are much less likely to require hospitalization, require ICU level care, or die from Covid-19, even with the now dominant Omicron variant, than if you aren’t vaccinated at …

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Children younger than five comprise the last group in whom a vaccine against Covid is currently being tested. Jonathan Zenilman, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says late spring may be when enough data will be in for an …

Vaccines against Covid for the very young are just around the corner, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Vaccination against the human papilloma virus, or HPV, all but eliminates cervical cancer in those who receive the vaccine early and complete the vaccine series, a study from the UK finds. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at …

The benefits of the HPV vaccine are proven in a new study, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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The Covid-19 spike protein allows it to attach to cells and infect them, and it’s been a primary target for vaccines and antibodies. Now a new monoclonal antibody directed against a region of this protein that really doesn’t change very …

A new monoclonal antibody may work against many variants of Covid-19, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »