Covid vaccines – ‘spectacular’ impact on serious illness
[unable to retrieve full-text content]First evidence jabs are having major impact on serious illness as well as cutting transmission. BBC News – Health
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We need more Covid vaccine doses and it needs to be easier to get the shots, state and local health officials tell Congress
People wearing protective masks wait in line to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a large scale vaccination site in Sacramento, California, on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Scientists and health officials told Congress Friday the federal government needs to ramp up its supply of… Read More »
The second dose of Covid vaccine is needed for complete immunity, infectious disease specialist Dr. Paul Offit says
The second dose of Covid-19 vaccine is crucial in creating longer and complete immunity as well as preventing variants of the virus, according to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “We need to know that this is a two-dose vaccine, period,” Offit told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard… Read More »
T-cell response ‘lasts six months after Covid infection’
“Early results show that T-cell responses may outlast the initial antibody response, which could have a significant impact on Covid vaccine development and immunity research,” said Dr Shamez Ladhani, study author and consultant epidemiologist at Public Health England. BBC News – Health