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Are vaccine side effects overblown?

Anti-vaxxers say COVID-19 vaccines are risky due to side effects. Here are the facts

Salon

‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content

Platform’s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation

The Guardian - US

Biden faces COVID dilemma as a winter wave nears

Stealthy new COVID-19 variants, low vaccination rates and mixed messaging over the state of the pandemic threaten to thwart the Biden administration's efforts to contain a wintertime surge.

Axios

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As links to MS deepen, researchers accelerate efforts to develop an Epstein-Barr vaccine

Maybe you’ve never heard of the Epstein-Barr virus. But it knows all about you.

Tribune News Service

A new wave of COVID-19 cases may hit Texas this winter, infectious disease doctor says

DALLAS — Although COVID-19 is presently at one of its lowest rates in the Lone Star State, one Texas-based vaccine scientist is wary of what’s to come this winter.

Tribune News Service

Experts alarmed by COVID vaccination rates among America's youngest kids

"What's at stake really with this is that we're going to be setting up a bunch of kids for risk of severe disease in the future."

Axios

Lancet report claiming Covid could have come from US lab prompts anger

‘This may be one of The Lancet’s most shameful moments regarding its role as a steward and leader in communicating crucial findings about science and medicine,’ virologist says

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Whatever happened to the new no-patent COVID vaccine touted as a global game changer?

The inventors of Corbevax said it was cheap, easy to make, effective and safe. They hoped it could bring vaccine equity to countries that can't access costlier shots. Has it lived up to its promise?

WEKU

What are the side effects of the new Covid-19 bivalent booster?

Last week, the FDA authorized both Pfizer and Moderna's Omicron-specific jabs. Experts say to get them as soon as they are available to you.

Inverse

Monkeypox vaccine: What you should know about possible side effects and ‘the lump’

If you have any fears of potential side effects, don’t hesitate to discuss them with medical personnel at your vaccination site or your own health care provider.

Chicago Sun-Times

Monkeypox risk in schools: Here's what parents need to know

A 2005 study found that children under the age of eight are most likely to have severe outcomes from monkeypox, though experts say that’s far from definitive.

Inverse

Back-to-school, back to outbreaks

As students around the country start a new school year, providers say childhood immunization rates are too low, in some places, to prevent outbreaks of diseases like measles.

Axios

Fighting monkeypox, sexual health clinics are underfunded, ill-equipped

Sexual health clinics have been stretched so thin that many lack the staff to perform such basic duties as contacting and treating the partners of infected patients.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fighting monkeypox, sexual health clinics are underfunded and ill-equipped

Clinics that treat sexually transmitted diseases — already struggling to contain an explosive increase in infections such as syphilis and gonorrhea — now find themselves on the front lines in the nation’s fight to control the rapidly growing monkeypox outbreak.

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Inverse

BA.5 Covid-19 infections: What it means for the pandemic and booster shots

The new subvariant is responsible for a massive wave of new infections.

The Independent UK

For now, wary US treads water with transformed COVID-19

The fast-changing coronavirus has kicked off summer in the U.S. with lots of infections but relatively few deaths compared to its prior incarnations

Tribune News Service

Novavax missed its global moonshot but is angling to win over mRNA defectors

Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the small Maryland biotech startup had secured $1.6 billion in U.S. funding for its COVID-19 vaccine. Its moonshot goal: delivering 2 billion shots to the world by mid-2021.

The Independent UK

Alex Jones promotes false conspiracy that monkeypox outbreak is due to Covid-19 vaccines

The monkeypox outbreak theory is just the latest unproven claim to be promoted by the anti-vaxer

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The Independent UK

Alex Jones promotes false conspiracy that monkeypox outbreak is due to Covid-19 vaccines

The monkeypox outbreak theory is just the latest unproven claim to be promoted by the anti-vaxer

Axios

The high-stakes push to get COVID vaccines to young children

The Omicron variant and and anti-vaccine backlash are complicating the effort.

Tribune News Service

As Connecticut’s COVID-19 numbers improve, what’s next? Experts are optimistic — with some important caveats

HARTFORD, Conn. — For at least the third time in the past two years, Connecticut finds itself moving past a devastating COVID-19 surge and hoping its coronavirus nightmare may finally be reaching an end.

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