Health Min. considering moving booster shots up after nursing homes' request
3 years, 1 month ago

Health Min. considering moving booster shots up after nursing homes' request

NL Times  

Health Minister Hugo de Jonge is looking into whether Covid-19 booster shots for nursing home residents can be brought forward. We now see that residents are getting really sick again," Arend Pleysier of Sensire, with nursing homes in Gelderland, said to the program. Minister De Jonge said that he would look into speeding up the start of the next injection round in nursing homes. According to De Jonge, the admin that precedes a vaccination - nursing home residents must be invited, and they or a family member must give permission - takes time.

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Health council urges Covid booster for over 60s, care workers
1 year, 5 months ago

Health council urges Covid booster for over 60s, care workers

Dutch News  

The Dutch health council has said that the over 60s, pregnant women, and people with a medical condition should be offered a booster Covid shot each year. Three years after the Covid outbreak almost the entire Dutch population has built up a degree of immunity because of vaccination, infection, or both, the council said, but older people and people with …

Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end
1 year, 10 months ago

Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end

Associated Press  

— At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home’s doors — with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a thin red line appears indicating a positive COVID-19 case. An inspector subsequently cited it for violating the federal …

Repeat covid vaccinations opened to all as postive tests mount
2 years, 2 months ago

Repeat covid vaccinations opened to all as postive tests mount

Dutch News  

Everyone over the age of 12 is now being invited to sign up for another coronavirus vaccination, the health ministry has confirmed. With covid infections once again on the rise, health officials say getting the top-up jabs will help slow the spread of the virus. People aged 40 to 60 can make an appointment via website planjeprik.nl next week, while …

Repeat covid vaccinations opened to all as postive tests mount
2 years, 2 months ago

Repeat covid vaccinations opened to all as postive tests mount

Dutch News  

Everyone over the age of 12 is now being invited to sign up for another coronavirus vaccination, the health ministry has confirmed. With covid infections once again on the rise, health officials say getting the top-up jabs will help slow the spread of the virus. People aged 40 to 60 can make an appointment via website planjeprik.nl next week, while …

Half of Netherlands won't get repeat Covid vaccination
2 years, 3 months ago

Half of Netherlands won't get repeat Covid vaccination

NL Times  

About half of adult Netherlands residents see no need to get another jab against the coronavirus, NOS reports based on a survey by I&O Research. The researchers expect that the adults who didn’t get the booster shot will also not get the repeat shot. Of those who did get the booster, 17 percent said they wouldn’t or probably wouldn’t get …

White House: How about a COVID-19 boost with that flu shot?
2 years, 3 months ago

White House: How about a COVID-19 boost with that flu shot?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot. White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said this latest round of shots will offer protection during the busy cold and flu season, with the hope of transitioning people to get the vaccine yearly. “The goal very much …

Experts rue simple steps not taken before latest COVID surge
2 years, 5 months ago

Experts rue simple steps not taken before latest COVID surge

Associated Press  

With new omicron variants again driving COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths higher in recent weeks, states and cities are rethinking their responses and the White House is stepping up efforts to alert the public. “It’s well past the time when the warning could have been put out there,” said Dr. Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, who …

US health officials urge booster shots as COVID variants spread
2 years, 5 months ago

US health officials urge booster shots as COVID variants spread

Al Jazeera  

The administration of US President Joe Biden pushes vaccines as the best way to avoid potential disruptions from new BA.4 and BA.5 variants. “Staying up to date on your COVID-19 vaccines provides the best protection against severe outcomes.” Walensky said the US has seen a doubling in the number of hospitalisations due to COVID-19 since April, reflecting the spread of …

Health authorities ramp up COVID-19 booster and flu vaccine push as winter case numbers rise
2 years, 6 months ago

Health authorities ramp up COVID-19 booster and flu vaccine push as winter case numbers rise

ABC  

Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Paul Kelly, has issued a fresh plea to anyone who has not had either their COVID-19 booster or the flu shot to get the jabs, saying the "double whammy" of both illnesses is putting a strain on health systems. Key points: Around two-thirds of eligible Australians have had their COVID-19 booster shot Professor Paul Kelly warns …

US approves first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers
2 years, 6 months ago

US approves first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers

India TV News  

Highlights Pfizer’s shots had previously been the only ones available for those ages Now, U.S. kids under the age of 5 are eligible for the shots Vaccinations could begin as early as Monday or Tuesday U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. There’s one step …

Biden gets his 2nd booster shot and urges Congress to spend more on pandemic: ‘We can’t wait’
2 years, 8 months ago

Biden gets his 2nd booster shot and urges Congress to spend more on pandemic: ‘We can’t wait’

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged lawmakers to secure more funding for his administration’s Covid-19 response and warned of severe consequences for the nation if Congress doesn’t authorize the money. “This isn’t partisan, it’s medicine,” Biden said in a speech from the White House while urging Congress to act “immediately.” The President said without the new funding, the …

Eighth of people who got their booster don't want further Covid-19 shots
2 years, 10 months ago

Eighth of people who got their booster don't want further Covid-19 shots

NL Times  

One in eight Netherlands residents who got a booster shot does not intend to get another booster against the coronavirus if it is offered. About 70 percent of this group already got their first booster shot, and 10 percent plan to do so. Of the people who go their booster or plan to, half said they would "certainly" get the …

Optimism at L.A. County’s nursing homes as coronavirus surge declines
2 years, 10 months ago

Optimism at L.A. County’s nursing homes as coronavirus surge declines

LA Times  

“The extraordinarily high case rate has not caused a similar high increase in deaths among residents compared to our previous surges. We attribute these lower numbers to very high vaccination rates amongst nursing home residents,” said L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. Los Angeles County’s nursing homes have observed an extraordinary increase in coronavirus case rates during the Omicron …

Lamont: Nursing home visitors must be vaccinated or tested
2 years, 11 months ago

Lamont: Nursing home visitors must be vaccinated or tested

Associated Press  

HARTFORD, Conn. — Beginning Saturday, visitors to nursing homes in Connecticut must show proof they’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19 or they’ve recently tested negative in order to enter the long-term care facilities. It comes as amid concerns the super-contagious omicron variant is leading to more positive COVID-19 cases among nursing home residents across the U.S. “We know that some of …

COVID-19 vaccinations for NSW children delayed or cancelled as Sydney clinics hit with delivery issues
2 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 vaccinations for NSW children delayed or cancelled as Sydney clinics hit with delivery issues

ABC  

Suzannah Nicholson's seven-year-old son, Angus, was due to get his first COVID-19 jab today at their local GP clinic in Glebe in Sydney's inner-west. Key points: Dr Danielle McMullen says vaccinations for 5-11-year-olds will not be completed before school starts Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says there are three million vaccines available for this age group In the 12-15-year age …

Booster programme 'up to speed' but not everyone will have one
2 years, 11 months ago

Booster programme 'up to speed' but not everyone will have one

Dutch News  

All adults in the Netherlands can now make an appointment for a booster vaccine and more than four million people have already received their third jab, according to government figures. Outgoing health minister Hugo de Jonge had promised that everyone over the age of 18 in the country would be able to make an appointment for their booster vaccine by …

Booster programme 'up to speed' but not everyone will have one
2 years, 11 months ago

Booster programme 'up to speed' but not everyone will have one

Dutch News  

All adults in the Netherlands can now make an appointment for a booster vaccine and more than four million people have already received their third jab, according to government figures. Outgoing health minister Hugo de Jonge had promised that everyone over the age of 18 in the country would be able to make an appointment for their booster vaccine by …

Ten percent of vaccinated do not want third jab
2 years, 11 months ago

Ten percent of vaccinated do not want third jab

NL Times  

In the Netherlands, nearly a third of all adults have had the Covid-19 booster shot, but according to the Outbreak Management Team, around ten percent of people vaccinated against Covid-19 do not want a booster shot. "People need to know what the advantages of a third shot are," Ben van der Zeijnst, vaccinologist at the Leiden UMC told RTL Nieuws. …

A third of Netherlands adults have had a booster shot
2 years, 11 months ago

A third of Netherlands adults have had a booster shot

NL Times  

Nearly one in three adults has received a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot according to data accurate through the end of Sunday. People who had coronavirus have to wait three months to get a booster shot, as do those who recently received their original vaccination shots. About 11.9 million adults in the Netherlands were fully vaccinated in the first round against …

A million adults over 60 need a Covid booster jab appointment; 9.2 million adults left to go
3 years ago

A million adults over 60 need a Covid booster jab appointment; 9.2 million adults left to go

NL Times  

One million people over 60 have yet to scheduel an appointment for a booster shot, said Mariska van Blankers, vaccinations program director for the RIVM. Including the 780,000 shots administered last week, more than 1.8 million booster shots have been given since the campaign started in late November, Van Blankers stated. That is why Van Blankers estimates that a total …

Dutch speed up coronavirus booster campaign, cut waiting time to three months
3 years ago

Dutch speed up coronavirus booster campaign, cut waiting time to three months

Dutch News  

The Netherlands is to start giving people coronavirus booster vaccinations more quickly and cutting the time lag after the last regular dose from six months to three. The decision to embark on this ‘mega operation’ has been taken because of the uncertainty created by the Omicron virus, De Jonge said. ‘But it is more resistant to immunity and a new …

Dutch speed up coronavirus booster campaign, cut waiting time to three months
3 years ago

Dutch speed up coronavirus booster campaign, cut waiting time to three months

Dutch News  

The Netherlands is to start giving people coronavirus booster vaccinations more quickly and cutting the time lag after the last regular dose from six months to three. The decision to embark on this ‘mega operation’ has been taken because of the uncertainty created by the Omicron virus, De Jonge said. ‘But it is more resistant to immunity and a new …

De Jonge to announce faster Covid booster plan Tuesday; Child vaccinations underway outside NL
3 years ago

De Jonge to announce faster Covid booster plan Tuesday; Child vaccinations underway outside NL

NL Times  

The Cabinet wants to further accelerate the booster campaign against Covid-19. Caretaker Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said that he wants to speed the process up to prevent issues caused by a rise of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. De Jonge and Prime Minister Mark Rutte will give another press conference about the fight against the coronavirus on …

Should the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ be changed to include a booster shot?
3 years ago

Should the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ be changed to include a booster shot?

LA Times  

Social worker Jonathan De La Rosa gets a COVID-19 booster shot at a drive-up vaccination site in Mesquite, Texas. And with a worrisome new coronavirus variant threatening to erode vaccine-induced immunity further, health officials are debating whether the definition of “fully vaccinated” should be amended to include a booster shot. He added that while he didn’t see the official definition …

Pushing COVID-19 boosters, Biden says ‘we need to be ready’
3 years ago

Pushing COVID-19 boosters, Biden says ‘we need to be ready’

Associated Press  

— With rising numbers of COVID-19 cases predicted this winter, President Joe Biden on Thursday appealed for Americans to get their boosters and get behind his plan to tackle the new omicron variant through wider availability of vaccines and shots, but without new major restrictions on daily life. Biden wants to require private insurers to cover the cost of at-home …

First location offering Covid booster jab to over-60s without an appointment
3 years ago

First location offering Covid booster jab to over-60s without an appointment

NL Times  

The GGD Hollands Midden is now offering people who were born in 1961 or earlier a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot without an appointment on a limited basis. The organization could offer walk-in availability because there is currently more vaccine doses than there are scheduled appointments for the booster shot, and staffing levels can accommodate the expanded group. “We have decided …

Health Min. says 700,000 Covid boosters this week; GGD isn’t ready for “booster offensive”
3 years ago

Health Min. says 700,000 Covid boosters this week; GGD isn’t ready for “booster offensive”

NL Times  

Health Minister Hugo de Jonge expects that 700,000 Covid-19 boosters will be administered by the end of this week, including a third dose of vaccines for people with health issues affecting their immune system. However, the GGD municipal health services said they still are not ready to meet the “booster offensive” De Jonge promised during a press conference last week. …

Covid deaths in nursing homes back to pre-vaccines 2nd wave level, expert says
3 years ago

Covid deaths in nursing homes back to pre-vaccines 2nd wave level, expert says

NL Times  

One in five vaccinated nursing home residents who contracted the coronavirus in recent months has died. This autumn, the total number of infections in nursing homes was considerably lower than last autumn, during the second wave. "We've known from the start that vaccines are not 100 percent effective," said the professor, who is also a member of the Outbreak Management …

Slow booster shot rollout cost lives, experts say
3 years ago

Slow booster shot rollout cost lives, experts say

NL Times  

The Netherlands waited too long to start administering Covid-19 booster shots, which cost lives, experts told newspaper AD. The experts said that the country's hesitance around the third jab of Covid-19 vaccines gave the aggressive Delta variant more chance to spread. And in the meantime, the coronavirus spread like wildfire in nursing homes, with about 900 locations identifying at least …

Fauci says he believes the definition of being fully vaccinated will change to include booster shots
3 years, 1 month ago

Fauci says he believes the definition of being fully vaccinated will change to include booster shots

Daily Mail  

The nation's top infectious disease expert says he believes the definition of being 'fully vaccinated' against COVID-19 in the U.S. could change to include booster shots. Pictured: Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in Washington, DC, November 2021 Booster shots are not included in the definition, but Fauci says he believes this will change due …

Covid booster plan accelerated; To start Nov. 19 with elderly, healthcare
3 years, 1 month ago

Covid booster plan accelerated; To start Nov. 19 with elderly, healthcare

NL Times  

Elderly people, residents of healthcare institutions, and healthcare staff with direct patient contact will be eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot from next Friday, Health Minister Hugo de Jonge announced on Friday. Other healthcare workers will also be vaccinated by healthcare staff operating from GGD locations. The GGDs indicated earlier this week that they were ready to begin …

Radboudumc calls for earlier booster vaccines to relieve pressure on healthcare
3 years, 1 month ago

Radboudumc calls for earlier booster vaccines to relieve pressure on healthcare

Dutch News  

Nijmegen’s Radboudumc teaching hospital has called on the government to speed up the rollout of coronavirus booster jabs to help drive down infections. Chantal Bleeker, professor of infectious disease outbreak, said the first week of December was ‘too late’ to prevent a crisis in the health service with the number of coronavirus patients rising by around 35% a week. Nearby …

Radboudumc calls for earlier booster vaccines to relieve pressure on healthcare
3 years, 1 month ago

Radboudumc calls for earlier booster vaccines to relieve pressure on healthcare

Dutch News  

Nijmegen’s Radboudumc teaching hospital has called on the government to speed up the rollout of coronavirus booster jabs to help drive down infections. Chantal Bleeker, professor of infectious disease outbreak, said the first week of December was ‘too late’ to prevent a crisis in the health service with the number of coronavirus patients rising by around 35% a week. Nearby …

Effectiveness of Covid vaccines declining somewhat
3 years, 1 month ago

Effectiveness of Covid vaccines declining somewhat

NL Times  

The effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccines in protecting vaccinated people against severe illness and transmission is declining somewhat, RIVM director Jaap van Dissel said to parliament on Wednesday, NOS reports. The vaccines' effectiveness in protecting against transmission dropped from 75 percent in June to 50 percent now, Van Dissel said. More people are being hospitalized in the big cities, Van …

Opinion: The case for Covid boosters just got stronger
3 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: The case for Covid boosters just got stronger

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. CNN — The Covid-19 pandemic recently passed two very different milestones: More than half of the world has received at least one vaccine against the infection while at the same time, the 5 millionth person has died of the disease. …

Hospitals must get ready for Covid overload the next few months: RIVM
3 years, 2 months ago

Hospitals must get ready for Covid overload the next few months: RIVM

NL Times  

Dutch hospitals need to be ready if there is a sharp rise of coronavirus cases, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Control Jaap van Dissel and RIVM chief modeler Jacco Wallinga said in an interview with NOS. Van Dissel said the OMT did not see enough reason currently to impose stricter measures. The expected peak is still far enough …

Covid-19 Booster Shots Not Imp, Govt Focusing on Vaccinating Adult Population: ICMR DG
3 years, 2 months ago

Covid-19 Booster Shots Not Imp, Govt Focusing on Vaccinating Adult Population: ICMR DG

News 18  

Union Health Ministry on Thursday said the rollout of the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine or booster shots was not important and the government is focusing on providing complete vaccine cover to the entire adult population in the national inoculation drive. Announcing the decision, top Israeli health officials said the effectiveness of the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine …

Some US governors say Covid hospitalizations are going down but warn of what could come next if more people don’t get vaccinated
3 years, 2 months ago

Some US governors say Covid hospitalizations are going down but warn of what could come next if more people don’t get vaccinated

CNN  

CNN — Some governors are beginning to report encouraging signs in their state’s Covid-19 numbers, but warn of what could come next if more people don’t get vaccinated. Kaiser noted that the bulk of the interviews for September’s poll happened before Pfizer announced on September 20 that its Covid-19 vaccine was safe and generated a “robust” antibody response in children …

Booster doses recommended for select groups
3 years, 3 months ago

Booster doses recommended for select groups

China Daily  

A middle school student receives a COVID-19 vaccination shot in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Wednesday. WU JUNJIE/CHINA NEWS SERVICE COVID-19 booster shots are currently recommended for the elderly or immunocompromised, people planning to travel to foreign regions with surging infections and workers in high-risk sectors, a Chinese health official said on Friday. Whether the wider population should receive an additional …

Vaccine boosters for certain people are on the horizon. But the unvaccinated remain the biggest obstacle to curbing the pandemic, officials say
3 years, 3 months ago

Vaccine boosters for certain people are on the horizon. But the unvaccinated remain the biggest obstacle to curbing the pandemic, officials say

CNN  

CNN — While more people are likely to be eligible for Covid-19 vaccine booster shots, the most glaring issue prolonging the pandemic is the large swath of unvaccinated people, who are filling up hospitals and dying from the persistent virus, officials and health experts said. Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday greenlighted recommending emergency use authorization …

Dutch Health Council officially recommends extra Covid booster for some with immune disorders
3 years, 3 months ago

Dutch Health Council officially recommends extra Covid booster for some with immune disorders

NL Times  

The Dutch Health Council advised an extra Covid-19 vaccine dose for people with serious immune disorders, to give their immune system a boost in protecting against the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The Health Council also advised that preparations should be made to eventually also give other groups a booster vaccination, in case the vaccines' effectiveness in preventing …

Maryland OKs boosters for 65 and older in congregate care
3 years, 3 months ago

Maryland OKs boosters for 65 and older in congregate care

Associated Press  

— Maryland is authorizing COVID-19 booster shots for all residents 65 and older who live in congregate care settings, Gov. Residents in nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, residential drug treatment centers and developmentally disabled group homes are eligible in the state for boosters, the governor said. “Boosters can now be immediately administered.” While the federal government has yet to say when …

Study shows 80% COVID-19 antibodies lost six months after second Pfizer vaccine dose; what this means
3 years, 3 months ago

Study shows 80% COVID-19 antibodies lost six months after second Pfizer vaccine dose; what this means

Firstpost  

The results support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s, recommendation for booster shots especially for the elderly due to fading immunity COVID-19 antibodies produced by the Pfizer vaccine decreased more than 80 percent in senior nursing home residents and their caregivers six months after receiving their second dose, a US study has found. “With nursing home residents’ poor initial …

80 per cent COVID-19 immunity lost in 6 months in some after Pfizer shot: US study
3 years, 3 months ago

80 per cent COVID-19 immunity lost in 6 months in some after Pfizer shot: US study

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington: COVID-19 antibodies produced by the Pfizer vaccine decreased more than 80 per cent in senior nursing home residents and their caregivers six months after receiving their second dose, a US study has found. The research led by Case Western Reserve University and Brown University in the US studied blood samples of 120 nursing home residents and 92 health care …

Antibodies decrease by more than 80% six months after second shot of Pfizer vaccine: US study
3 years, 3 months ago

Antibodies decrease by more than 80% six months after second shot of Pfizer vaccine: US study

India Today  

A US study has found that a decrease in Covid-19 antibodies produced by the Pfizer vaccine was found in senior nursing home residents six months after receiving their second dose. The study was conducted on 120 nursing home residents and 92 health care workers by Case Western Reserve University and Brown University in the US, as reported by PTI. During …

Covid-19 booster shots not urgently needed, EMA says
3 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 booster shots not urgently needed, EMA says

NL Times  

It is not urgent to give fully vaccinated people a booster against the coronavirus in general, said the European Medicines Agency. The EMA also stressed the importance of “physical distancing, hand and respiratory hygiene, and using face masks.” This was especially true, it said, for places at high-risk of infection or where people are at a higher risk of developing …

After US, UK Okay Additional Jab, Israel to Begin Covid Booster Shots for Over 40s
3 years, 4 months ago

After US, UK Okay Additional Jab, Israel to Begin Covid Booster Shots for Over 40s

News 18  

Israelis aged 40 and over will be able to receive coronavirus vaccine booster shots starting this weekend, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said Thursday, as the country battles a spike in infections. To try and contain the spread, authorities last week began administrating a booster shot to those aged 50 and older, after starting a campaign for over-60s late last month. …

People already lying to get third Covid shot, health service says
3 years, 4 months ago

People already lying to get third Covid shot, health service says

NL Times  

Health service GGD Zeeland has had multiple incidents of people trying to sneak in a third dose of Covid-19 vaccine by lying about how many shots they've already had. An increasing number of countries are recommending these booster shots, in some cases only for vulnerable people with weakened immune systems, to better protect against the highly contagious Delta variant of …

Biden to require COVID vaccines for nursing home staff
3 years, 4 months ago

Biden to require COVID vaccines for nursing home staff

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that his administration will require that nursing home staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for those facilities to continue receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funding. Biden unveiled the new policy Wednesday afternoon in a White House address as the administration continues to look for ways to use mandates to encourage …

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