CDC Recommends One-Shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine After FDA Authorizes Emergency Use - People

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"The vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is the third approved to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the United States  ... 

Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency use in the United States.

On Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to adults 18 years and older in the U.S., according to the Washington Post.

And on Saturday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the vaccine ... "

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FDA Takes Additional Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for Second COVID-19 Vaccine - FDA. gov

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According to the news release:

Action Follows Thorough Evaluation of Available Safety, Effectiveness, and Manufacturing Quality Information by FDA Career Scientists, Input from Independent Experts

The "U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the second vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The emergency use authorization allows the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to be distributed in the U.S. for use in individuals 18 years of age and older."

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FDA Takes Key Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First COVID-19 Vaccine - FDA .gov

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According to the news release:

Action Follows Thorough Evaluation of Available Safety, Effectiveness, and Manufacturing Quality Information by FDA Career Scientists, Input from Independent Experts

"The FDA’s authorization for emergency use of the first COVID-19 vaccine is a significant milestone in battling this devastating pandemic that has affected so many families in the United States and around the world,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. “Today’s action follows an open and transparent review process that included input from independent scientific and public health experts and a thorough evaluation by the agency’s career scientists to ensure this vaccine met FDA’s rigorous, scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality needed to support emergency use authorization. The tireless work to develop a new vaccine to prevent this novel, serious, and life-threatening disease in an expedited timeframe after its emergence is a true testament to scientific innovation and public-private collaboration worldwide."

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Officials urge vaccination with arrival of flu season - CNBC

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"Officials on Thursday urged—repeatedly—every person in the country over the age of 6 months to get vaccinated for the flu, noting that vaccines are the single best way to prevent getting sick from the bug and losing days of work and school."

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Gov. Jerry Brown signs bill to impose strict school vaccine legislation in California | abc7.com

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"The governor of California has signed a contentious bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country.

Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown says in a statement Tuesday that science clearly shows vaccines dramatically protect children against infectious diseases."

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Why Your Future Vaccination Might Not Be A Shot : NPR

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"Vaccines don't always make it into the people who need them the most. Many require a syringe and a needle to enter the bloodstream and create immunity. And that means a doctor or nurse has to do the job.

But with if a vaccine could be delivered by simply applying a patch? That's Mark Prausnitz's goal: creating a nickel-sized bandage-like device covered with 100 microscopic needles that would puncture the skin, then dissolve to get the vaccine into the body."

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Obama to parents doubting ‘indisputable’ science: ‘Get your kids vaccinated’ - The Washington Post

Read the full article: Obama to parents doubting ‘indisputable’ science: ‘Get your kids vaccinated’ - The Washington Post:

"In the face of a growing measles outbreak, President Obama is urging parents to heed modern science and vaccinate their children.

“There is every reason to get vaccinated — there aren’t reasons to not,” Obama said in an interview with NBC News. Excerpts from the interview were aired Sunday night and Monday morning.

“I just want people to know the facts and science and the information,” the president said. “And the fact is that a major success of our civilization is our ability to prevent disease that in the past have devastated folks. And measles is preventable.”"

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2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa - FDA.gov

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Read the full FDA article: Medical Countermeasures Initiative > 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa - FDA.gov:

"Fast Facts 

• Ebola is the cause of a viral hemorrhagic fever disease.
• Currently, there are no FDA-approved vaccines or drugs to prevent or treat Ebola.
• Ebola does not pose a significant risk to the U.S. public.

Treatment:
CDC recommends supportive therapy for patients as the primary treatment for Ebola. This includes balancing the patient’s fluids and electrolytes, maintaining their oxygen status and blood pressure and treating them for any complicating infections."

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Company tests a way to deliver vaccines by a skin 'patch' - Boston Business Journal

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"An Australian biotech startup with an office in Cambridge's Kendall Square has developed a way to deliver vaccines to patients without using a syringe or nasal mist. Vaxxas Inc. has developed the Nanopatch, which consists of thousands of vaccine-coated microprojections that penetrate the outer layers of a patient’s skin.

The nano-level sized microprojections are coated with vaccine and then released directly to key immune cells found just below the skin’s surface, according to Vaxxas CEO David Hoey."

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CDC - NIIW home page - National Infant Immunization Week - Vaccines

CDC - NIIW home page - National Infant Immunization Week - Vaccines:

"National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW), set for April 26 – May 3, 2014, is an annual observance to highlight the importance of protecting infants from vaccine-preventable diseases and celebrate the achievements of immunization programs and their partners in promoting healthy communities."

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More about vaccines, from the FDA:

• Vaccines for Children – A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
• Benefits and Risks
• Types of Routinely Administered Vaccines for Children
• Steps to Take When Your Child is Vaccinated
• Routinely Administered Vaccines for Children
• Parents and Caregivers are Asking

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CDC: 25 states, including Va., reporting widespread flu | WTVR.com

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CDC: 25 states, including Va., reporting widespread flu | WTVR.com:

"The number of states reporting widespread seasonal flu activity jumped from 10 to 25 last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

Widespread activity was reported in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington state and Wyoming, according to the CDC’s weekly flu advisory report, covering the week ending December 28.

“Widespread” means that more than 50% of geographic regions in a state — counties, for example — are reporting flu activity. It addresses the spread of the flu, not its severity."

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Shingles Vaccine for Seniors

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Shingles Vaccine Works in Older Adults:

"The CDC recommends that all individuals 60 and older receive the shingles vaccine -- which is approved for use in those 50 and older -- although immunosuppression is a contraindication to vaccination. "Given that [immunosupressed] individuals are at greatest risk of both herpes zoster and complications, [the current findings] may have important implications for policy," the researchers wrote."

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If You're Anti-Vaccination - Then Risk Deafness, Blindness, Brain Damage or Seizures

How quickly we forget.

According to this Susan Reimer Baltimore Sun article, Vaccine refusal -- you call this cautious?:

"Childhood immunizations are victims of their own success"

Consider erring on the side of caution.

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Flu Vaccination Week - Go To Flu.Gov

Flu Vaccination Week continues.

So go checkout another helpful and informative website: 

Flu.Gov (Know what to do about the flu).

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The Germ Freak's Guide to Outwitting Colds and Flu: Guerilla Tactics to Keep Yourself Healthy at Home, at Work and in the World

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Whooping Cough Outbreak In The US - CA Pertussis Hotspot

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Just in case you haven't heard, there's some kind of pertussis (whooping cough) epidemic in California. I live in California, and I take public transportation everyday. Call me phobic, and folks are coughing all around me without covering their mouths. The news about pertussis peaking resonates with me, as I've noticed within my workplace, many folks with peculiar and long-lasting coughs.

Pertussis (Whooping Cough) – What You Need To Know - From the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).  This has some great links to audio files of what whooping cough sounds like.

Here are some Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) - Notes from the Field: Pertussis --- California, January--June 2010. 

If you're really into learning more, from a science and medicine perspective, read this interesting Science-Based Medicine blog post, Californians give a whoop – or I hope they do.

Additional References:
The FDA webpages on Vaccines, Blood & Biologics

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Promising New HIV Antibody Discovered

This is an exciting new finding.

For more details, read this Medical News Today article, Antibodies That Prevent Most HIV Strains From Infecting Human Cells Will Advance HIV Vaccine Design, Antibody Therapy For Other Diseases.

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HIV AIDS - 97 US Medicines in Testing - PharmaTimes

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U.S. Pharmaceutical Companies Developing 97 New Drugs and Vaccines to Fight HIV/AIDS - MedIndia:
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This is a really nice snapshot of some of the clinical testing going on in the HIV AIDS field, PhRMA's Pharmaceutical Researchers Are Testing 97 Medicines And Vaccines for HIV and Related Conditions. The article provides a quick overview for medicines grouped by:

1. Anticancer
2. Antiviral
3. Gene therapy
4. Immunomodulators
5. Vaccines
6. Other

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Recent HIV Vaccine Study Results - Could be disappointing

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HIV vaccine research ‘at a crossroads’ after recent failures - Healio

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Optimism generated from a recent HIV vaccine study conducted by the US Army & Thailand, might not be justified after all, reports this Wall Street Journal article, Data Call Into Question HIV Study Results. The statistical analysis is discussed, and calls into question the conclusions reached and recently publicized. I think there's more to come on this. 

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New HIV Antibodies Hold Promise For Vaccines

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Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute report promising findings in their research report, Broad and Potent Neutralizing Antibodies from an African Donor Reveal a New HIV-1 Vaccine Target. According to this LA Times news article, Antibodies found that prevent HIV from causing severe AIDS, this means that they have isolated two so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) that can block the action of many strains of HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS. Other bNAbs against HIV have been discovered before, but PG9 and PG16 are the first to be isolated in over 10 years from donors in developing countries, where most new HIV infections occur. Also, the previously identified bNAbs bind to spots on the virus that are hard to target with vaccines. These new antibodies, which are more potent than other antibodies described to date while maintaining great breadth, attach to a novel, and potentially more accessible site on HIV to facilitate vaccine design. 

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Court Says MMR Vaccine Not A Cause of Autism (video)

A special court's recent ruling that no proven link exists between autism and certain early childhood vaccines seems to have done little to change the sometimes-passionate opinion fueling the debate. The panel of "special masters" ruled that these petitioners had not presented sufficient evidence to prove that the childhood vaccines (specifically the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative) caused autism in their children. Learn more about this court ruling in this ABC News Video report, WATCH: Ruling on Autism and Vaccines. 

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