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March 23, 2022
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Moderna seeks COVID-19 vaccine authorization for kids younger than 6 years

Moderna seeks COVID-19 vaccine authorization for kids younger than 6 years

Moderna said Wednesday that it will submit a request to the FDA “in the coming weeks” seeking authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine for children aged younger than 6 years.

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March 23, 2022
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Ophthalmological manifestations observed in one-third of COVID-19 cases at single center

Severe COVID-19 was associated with ophthalmological manifestations in more than one-third of patients who presented to a single center with the disease, according to a study published in Retina.

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March 22, 2022
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Top in ID: SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater, a look back on the early days of the pandemic

Top in ID: SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater, a look back on the early days of the pandemic

Data from the CDC revealed an increase in SARS-CoV-2 levels among 165 wastewater surveillance sites in the United States.

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March 19, 2022
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VIDEO: A clinician’s perspective of the early days of COVID-19

VIDEO: A clinician’s perspective of the early days of COVID-19

In this video, Amesh A. Adalja, MD, a senior scholar in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, describes his experiences during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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March 18, 2022
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Moderna seeks EUA for fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all adults

Moderna seeks EUA for fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all adults

Moderna announced that it is seeking an emergency use authorization from the FDA for an additional booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine for all adults.

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March 18, 2022
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‘This is gonna be bad’: An oral history of the early days of COVID-19

‘This is gonna be bad’: An oral history of the early days of COVID-19

What started as an outbreak of viral pneumonia that infected dozens of people in a city in central China has grown into a pandemic that has killed nearly one million people in the United States alone.

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March 17, 2022
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Pfizer-BioNTech seek EUA for fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine for older adults

Pfizer-BioNTech seek EUA for fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine for older adults

Pfizer and BioNTech announced this week that they are seeking an emergency use authorization from the FDA for an additional booster dose of their COVID-19 vaccine for older adults.

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March 16, 2022
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CDC: ‘Uptick’ in wastewater sites reporting increase in SARS-CoV-2 levels

CDC: ‘Uptick’ in wastewater sites reporting increase in SARS-CoV-2 levels

The CDC’s wastewater surveillance tracker shows that 165 U.S. sites have experienced an increase in SARS-CoV-2 levels in the last 15 days.

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March 11, 2022
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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine protects kids against infection, is less effective against omicron

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine protects kids against infection, is less effective against omicron

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine reduced the risk for infection with the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 by 31% among children aged 5 to 11 years and 59% among adolescents aged 12 to 15 years, according to data published Friday in MMWR.

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March 09, 2022
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COVID-19 disruptions led to steep declines in dengue cases

COVID-19 disruptions led to steep declines in dengue cases

Disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic led to steep declines in cases of dengue in endemic regions, with more than 723,000 cases averted in 2020, researchers reported in Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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