Covid Vaccines
Federal officials are expected to give the go-ahead for updated COVID-19 vaccines that work against new virus variants within days, and with summer barbecues underway other shots would be available by Labor Day— creating a challenging adult immunization landscape reminiscent of last year.
Agency spokespeople were not allowed to disclose the timing of a regulatory action. For just about all, the CDC recommends freshened shots as a preventative approach for everyone aged 6 months and up.
The new vaccines arrive three months after a summer covid wave began slowing in some but not all areas.
Released too late, for those who already wanted it to bolster their immune system in anticipation of summer travel and return-to-school or because they are at higher risk due to older age or underlying conditions.
Over the past couple of weeks, news outlets have covered that one option available appeared to be a less effective early-generation vaccine or whether it would make more sense for some folks to wait till they could receive an updated targeting version.
Those who refused to wait found that all the existing shots were now hard to come by.
Thats just unfortunate timing, due to all of covid-19 circulating right now and de number are vulnerable have not been vaccinated months ago simply didn’t do it for vaccination doesn’t make them anxious kind of vaccines back when Kelly Moore president Immunize org, a nonprofit that trains doctors on vaccines said in an email.
Nearly all states have rapidly growing, high or very high levels of coronavirus prevalence in wastewater — the most accurate way to measure SARS-CoV-2’s spread around a community stride. New data released Friday showed that levels had started to fall in the South and Midwest but are increasing more slowly elsewhere.
The challenges posed by summer covid waves demonstrate the pitfalls of bundling new coronavirus vaccines with existing annual flu shots.
With coronavirus vaccine demand easing, federal officials see it as a workable move to encourage Americans who haven’t gotten around to getting vaccinated and get almost all covered in something of an orderly cadence (but not the ideal one).
while providing a fallback for older or immunocompromised folks next spring who already were recommended with booster shots.
In leaving the US with defenses weakened in a summer when it cuts loose against new mutations of the virus, however you want to style your decision on vaccine updates for fall.
Lab tests suggest existing vaccine is less effective against newer variants — it still works but mainly on XBB forms that no longer circulate These complement‐binding antibodies are typically present after a natural infection or in vaccines of the 1970’ and early ‘80s, suggesting that such older approaches should still provide protection against severe disease/hospitalization.
Existing vaccines with COVID19 will no longer be shipped. CDC vaccine finder website to locate pharmacies with coronavirus vaccines will be offline until new boosts are more available the company said the wipes are in-stock at some CVS stores but sold out at others.
Walgreens is not currently providing coronavirus vaccines until they receive the new versions.
“The influenza model is a technique of instead emptying the refrigerator between seasons, and while this works for flu, it does not work as well for covid,” said Moore.
Last year, the federal government stopped paying those costs and relied on doctors and pharmacies to order vaccine as they saw fit; free shots were no longer just around every corner.
Some of the locations giving shots will not participate in insurance plans. Federal-program shots for uninsured or underinsured to end at month’s close
Ron Miller and his daughter had covid last summer after he flew with her to start college at McGill University in Montreal; the virus upended the beginnings of countless adventures for both father and child.
A 57-year-old man in reasonably good health, he said covid isn’t something he’s afraid of, but that this time around “I’d prefer to not pick up another round” when taking his second daughter off to British Columbia for her first year at college.
But when he struck out at Rite Aid, Walgreens and Walmart looking for a coronavirus vaccine — Paschall had grown tired of people hounding him to get vaccinated — his search came up empty.
“Just looked everywhere and there is nothing to find,” Miller said. “
So, when a few friends and family members began catching covid this summer, Scott Orshan, 67-year-old high school teacher in New Jersey started to worry whether the defenses he got from his fall shot had worn off.
Labor Day and the start of a new school year looms. However, the Walgreens where he checked was sold out.
He’s holding his horses for the new vaccine, but he said it feels kind of rushed if updating is on a timeline similar to flu shots.
“Covid mutates when Covid is going to mutate, and you should deal with it as needed not based on a calendar year,”
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Otherwise, healthy young Americans who get the existing vaccine would receive only a few months of inadequate protection against being infected by any new strains, said Maria Sundaram an infectious-diseases epidemiologist.
The shots may be more useful in for high-risk older and immunocompromised patients to bolster their immune response against severe cases if they start showing symptoms.
“Basically, the take-home is don’t treat [vaccines] as the holy grail to never get covid,” said Sundaram,
who also serves as an associate editor at IDSA’s Covid Information Network.
Dr. Sterling Ransone Jr., a family physician in Deltaville, Va., said he had been counseling high-risk patients to wear masks and shun crowded locations. Local pharmacies no longer carry extras, and all of the extra vials Anderson’s office ordered when distributors halted shipments months ago have long since expired.
Most Americans should have waited for the new vaccine — at least those without high-risk conditions who are taking on high-risk activities like lots of travel, said William Schaffner,
a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University.
Vaccine concerns remain only a sliver of Americans overall, as interest in the coronavirus vaccine has ebbed.
Approximately 22 percent of U.S. adults and 15 percent of children received the latest vaccine by CDC counts; Thirty-seven percent of adults 65 and older got at least one dose, while 25% had two doses but the vaccination among nurses could have been delivered earlier.
For that reason, federal officials and some vaccine experts believe it may be reasonable to take the approach of treating a coronavirus shot like a flu shot—despite key differences in how those viruses behave.
“For the most part we can’t rely on people coming in every six months or three times a year to get vaccinated, so you do it once,” Schaffner said.
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