Month: December 2021

U.S. Government Recommends Americans Get the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 Shots Instead of J&J’s

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Most Americans should be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot that can cause rare but serious blood clots, U.S. health advisers recommended Thursday. The strange clotting problem has caused nine confirmed deaths after J&J vaccinations — while the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines don’t come with that risk and … Read more

As Omicron Hits, COVID-19 Case Counts Don’t Mean What They Used To

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America has begun the gradual process of accepting that COVID-19 is going to be endemic—meaning it will always be present in the population to some degree—due to inherent properties of the virus (animal reservoirs, high transmissibility, long period of infectiousness, symptoms similar to other pathogens), and will remain so for the foreseeable future. However, the … Read more

Understanding omicron’s many mutations

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Scientists are just beginning to untangle omicron’s mysteries, but the locations of mutations in key places provide some clues to how fast it spreads, how well vaccines will work and how sick it might make us. View original article Contributor: Bonnie Berkowitz