Oregon Health Authority held its monthly media availability Friday, providing an update on COVID-19 in Oregon and the status of state and federal reviews taking place through this weekend for vaccines for children under 5 years of age. Dean Sidelinger, M.D. MSEd, health officer and state epidemiologist at OHA, highlighted the latest data trends, showing that
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines are now authorized for emergency use in young children. The US Food and Drug Administration expanded the authorizations for the vaccines Friday to include children as young as 6 months. However, shots can’t be given until the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in favor of expanding the emergency use authorizations for the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines to include children as young as 6 months. All 21 members of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted “yes”
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht and Jen Christensen, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden’s chief medical adviser, has tested positive for Covid-19, the institute said Wednesday. Fauci, 81, has mild symptoms and has been boosted twice, the institute said in a statement. The institute told CNN
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration decided unanimously Tuesday in favor of expanding the emergency use authorization of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine to include older children and teens, ages 6 to 17, saying it would offer more benefits than risks. All 22 members of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Sunday that kid-sized doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines appear to be safe and effective for kids under 5, a key step toward a long-awaited decision to begin vaccinating the youngest American children. The Food and Drug Administration posted its
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN Many travelers in the United States and abroad have been waiting for it. The travel industry has been pushing for it. And on Sunday an end arrives to the requirement for travelers to test negative for Covid-19 before entering the US. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited a
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN The Biden administration is expected to announce Friday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lift its requirement for travelers to test negative for Covid-19 before entering the US, according to a senior administration official and a US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention official. The move, which
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released Thursday, reported 44,363 cases of infection during the month of May, more than half “vaccine breakthrough” cases. Of those cases, 21,100, or 47.6%, were unvaccinated people, and 23,246, or 52.4%, were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the breakthrough cases, 14,506, or
Continue ReadingCNN, NOVAVAX By Donald Judd and Betsy Klein, CNN The White House has announced a highly anticipated Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan for children under 5. The administration “has made 10 million vaccine doses available for states, Tribes, territories, community health centers, federal pharmacy partners, and others to pre-order,” according to a White House fact sheet
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN The White House issued a new warning to Congress Wednesday on the continued urgent need for Covid-19 funding, highlighting new “unacceptable tradeoffs” as it reallocates and reprioritizes remaining funding toward new vaccines in the absence of congressional action. “Due to a lack of additional funding,” a White House official told CNN
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Moderna said on Wednesday its bivalent Covid-19 vaccine booster that contained a vaccine targeting the Omicron variant showed a stronger immune response against the variant. Bivalent boosters address two viral strains in the same vaccine. The updated booster contains Moderna’s original vaccine, and a vaccine candidate that targets the Omicron variant.
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration decided Tuesday that authorizing Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine — which uses different technology from the three vaccines currently in use in the US — for emergency use in adults would be beneficial. Most of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Hospital officials in Washington are urging people to wear masks and warning that facilities are heading toward another COVID-19 case peak amid high spread in the community. Washington State Hospital Association CEO Cassie Sauer on Monday said at the end of last week, almost 600 people with COVID-19 were in hospitals across
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) — A recent Oregon State University study found that COVID-19 patients had a roughly 25% increased risk of developing a psychiatric disorder in the four months following their infection, compared with people who had other types of respiratory tract infections. The findings support previous research on psychiatric disorders among post-COVID patients, though
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WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Monday that the St. Charles Foundation will be receiving a total of $12.79 million in federal funds for past Covid-19 emergency response measures such as hiring additional staff, creating additional space for testing and treatment and more during the pandemic. “The economic fallout of
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard and Nadia Kounang, CNN After more than a year with two types of Covid-19 vaccines in use in the United States, another will be up for consideration by the US Food and Drug Administration next week. The FDA’s vaccine advisers are set to meet Tuesday to consider Novavax’s coronavirus vaccine for the
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The COVID-19 Biweekly Data Report, released Thursday, shows an increase COVID-19-related cases, hospitalizations and deaths since the previous biweekly period.
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal, CNN Covid-19 vaccination shots for the youngest Americans could begin as soon as June 21, the White House said on Thursday. The vaccination program for children younger than 5 would come more than 18 months after vaccines were first authorized for adults. Dr. Ashish Jha, White House coronavirus response coordinator, laid out
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters The World Health Organization has cast doubts on North Korea’s claims of progress in its fight against a Covid-19 outbreak, saying it believes the situation is getting worse, not better, amid an absence of independent data. North Korean state media has said the Covid wave has abated, after daily numbers of people
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