by Richard A. Hendricks | Apr 23, 2021 | Health News
Among 417 employees at Rockefeller University who were fully vaccinated with either the Pfizer or Moderna shots, two of them or about .5%, had breakthrough infections later, according to the study published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. “We have characterized bona fide examples of vaccine breakthrough manifesting as clinical symptoms,” the […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Apr 21, 2021 | Health News
But the study doesn’t show that at all, according to the lead author. “We didn’t find anyone with blood clots,” Dr. Eun-Ju Lee, an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, said of her study of Moderna and Pfizer’s...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Mar 19, 2021 | Health News
Researchers working to show when and how the virus first emerged in China calculate that it probably did not infect the first human being until October 2019 at the very earliest. And their models showed something else: It almost didn’t make it as a pandemic...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Mar 6, 2021 | Health News
The research, published by the CDC on Friday, comes at a time when several states are expanding business capacity and lifting or preparing to lift mandates for people to wear masks — with Texas and Mississippi joining those states this week. The new study takes...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Feb 25, 2021 | Health News
A study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Wednesday, found that people who tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies were at a decreased risk of coronavirus infection compared with those who tested negative for antibodies. “The results from the...
