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About half of Americans plan to skip COVID and flu shots--"very concerning" --says medical speciaist .

Fri, 2024-09-13 17:45 — mike kraft
About half of Americans plan to skip COVID and flu shots. A doctor explains why that is "very concerning." It's critical to get COVID and flu vaccinations as we head into the fall and winter months, an infectious disease expert said. CBS News

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Three studies guage flu, COVID vaccine reluctance, and impact of mental illness on getting vaccinated

Fri, 2024-09-13 11:13 — mike kraft
3 studies uncover flu, COVID vaccine reluctance, impact of mental illness on uptake Three new observational studies on influenza and COVID-19 vaccine uptake find that more than a third of US adults say they don't need any vaccines, 64% of French healthcare workers got the flu shot but not the COVID vaccine in 2022-2023, and psychiatric illness is tied to a significantly higher likelihood of receiving a flu vaccine but lower odds of getting a COVID vaccine. CIDRAP

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https://www.who.int/news/item/13-09-2024-who-prequalifies-the-first-vaccine-against-mpox

Fri, 2024-09-13 09:46 — mike kraft
WHO prequalifies the first vaccine against mpox The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the MVA-BN vaccine as the first vaccine against mpox to be added to its prequalification list. The prequalification approval is expected to facilitate timely and increased access to this vital product in communities with urgent need, to reduce transmission and help contain the outbreak. WHO’s assessment for prequalification is based on information submitted by the manufacturer, Bavarian Nordic A/S, and review by the European Medicines Agency, the regulatory agency of record for this vaccine.

 

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U.S. Extremists keep trying to sabotage the electrical grid. What would happen if they succeed?

Tue, 2024-09-10 18:53 — mike kraft
Extremists keep trying to sabotage the electrical grid. What would happen if they succeed? Political extremists have attempted a number of attacks on electrical infrastructure and substations in recent years, with a goal of sowing chaos and civil conflict.  The plots have repeatedly… aneklason The Hill
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Measles: Oregon's measles outbreak highlights high vaccine exemption rate

Thu, 2024-09-05 17:41 — mike kraft
Oregon's measles outbreak highlights state's high vaccine exemption rate Oregon's recent measles outbreak — one of the largest in the state's history — is refocusing attention on declining childhood vaccination rates as kids head back to school. Meira Gebel,Tina Reed Axios Portland
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Commentary: Could Vaccine Misinformation Lead to a Worldwide Health Crisis?

Wed, 2024-09-04 13:41 — mike kraft
Could Vaccine Misinformation Lead To A Worldwide Health Crisis? - Health Policy Watch [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj26wKXNG1c?si=MfOvSdnRRoNbXhYM] Health Policy Watch

How did vaccines, once hailed as essential tools for global peace, security and international cooperation, become something that some now fear could kill them?

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Emphasizing harms of skipping COVID vaccines more effective than promoting benefits --study

Wed, 2024-09-04 09:45 — mike kraft
Study: Highlighting harms of skipping COVID vaccines more effective than promoting benefits In the personal-benefit group, 65.5% said they will likely get vaccinated. CIDRAP

A new study in the Journal of Public Health suggests that it is more effective to emphasize the harms that come from not getting vaccinated rather than emphasizing the benefits of vaccination at the individual or community level.

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Analysis: Journalists' articles often didn't communicate uncertainty of evidence on unproven COVID drugs

Tue, 2024-09-03 19:52 — mike kraft
Analysis: Journalists often didn't communicate uncertainty of evidence on unproven COVID drugs Scientific evidence of the efficacy of the unproven COVID-19 therapies hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, and convalescent plasma was often presented in US news stories in the first months of the pandemic, but scientific uncertainty was commonly omitted and only rarely appeared in headlines or ledes, with possible implications for public health, researchers reported yesterday in JMIR Infodemiology. CIDRAP

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Growing number of Americans distrust COVID and other vaccines--survey

Tue, 2024-09-03 19:44 — mike kraft
Survey reveals growing American distrust in vaccines for COVID, other infectious diseases A growing proportion of Americans believe COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and are unwilling to be vaccinated or to recommend it to others, according to the latest national health survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. CIDRAP
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Study descibes how how unproven therapeutics were portrayed in the media during the early phase of COVID-19 pandemic

Fri, 2024-08-30 10:55 — mike kraft
Analysis shows how unproven therapeutics were portrayed in the media during the early phase of COVID-19 pandemic A new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine is shedding light on how scientific evidence and the uncertainty surrounding three unproven therapeutics were portrayed by the ... Science X Medical Xpress

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The findings appear in the JMIR Infodemiology.

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