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A shot offering protection against a common childhood disease was one of the 20th century’s major public health advances. For the author’s young sister, it came too late.

Researchers find reduced functionality for CD8+ T Cells in people who got infected before they got vaccinated. But CD4+ T cells, perhaps more important in protection, were boosted by vaccination.

The Vermont socialist is upset the company may make a profit on its Covid vaccine.

Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the World Health Organization and Global Polio Eradication Initiative said.

The researchers noted that unvaccinated pregnant people are more likely to get severe COVID, and that prenatal and postnatal care were disrupted during the early part of the pandemic.

Health officials in Burundi have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time the paralytic disease has been detected in the east African country for more than three decades

With health systems no longer overwhelmed and more than a year of no surprise variants, many infectious disease experts are declaring a shift in the crisis from pandemic to endemic.

The focus must switch from eradication of the polioviruses to the development of new long-term immunization policies that will minimize the silent circulation of polioviruses, researchers say.

"In a young and healthy population, the risk of long COVID after Omicron infection, independent of vaccination status, is very low."

Two strategies based on electronically delivered letters or nudges were found to increase flu shot uptake compared with usual care, a new study shows.