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Health Staff at great risk of infection
NHS staffing is being impacted by people with Covid passing it on before they realise they are infected, a health trust boss has warned, reported BBC [...]
Infections jump by half a million in UK
Covid infections are rising again across the UK, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show, reported BBC. An estimated 2. [...]
Omicron component advised for booster
The US Food and Drug Administration’s independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted Tuesday to support recommending i [...]
Covid is changing laws
MSPs (legislators) have voted to make some emergency Covid 19 powers permanent, including the ability to impose lockdowns and close schools, reported [...]
Updated boosters better against Omicron
Two Pfizer and BioNTech Covid 19 vaccine boosters updated to target the Omicron variant show a substantially higher immune response than the current [...]
Jabs cleared for kids 6 months old
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on Covid 19 vaccinations for children under 5 on Saturday, cl [...]
Authorized, Covid 19 vaccines for younger children
The Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines are now authorized for emergency use in young children, reported CNN. The US Food and Drug Administ [...]
Chinese forced to quarantine
Authorities in the Chinese province of Henan are suspected to be restricting some residents' movements using a Covid app, following rare protests, re [...]
WHO considers name change for virus
"WHO is working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of monkeypox virus, its clades and the disease it causes," WHO D [...]
WHO to discuss if monkeypox is of international concern
The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee meeting to assess whether the monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of in [...]