Augusta Health Vaccine Clinic update: Week of July 19
Published Monday, Jul. 19, 2021, 7:29 pm
Join AFP s 100,000+ followers on Facebook
Purchase a subscription to AFP
Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify
News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com
Vaccinations for COVID-19 are now available in all
Augusta Medical Group primary care offices. Patients who prefer to receive a vaccination from their personal physician should contact their doctor’s office to be scheduled into the next available vaccination appointment block.
Community-Based Clinics
Augusta Health also provides off-campus, community-based clinics in partnership with local organizations, churches and schools. The number of these clinics has increased significantly.
Addressing vaccine hesitancy in Massachusetts hardest-hit community | NOVA pbs.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pbs.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Durable antibody response at least 8 months following vaccination with J&J COVID vaccine
A recent study by a team of scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Janssen Vaccines & Prevention has demonstrated that humoral and cellular immunity elicited by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine Ad26.COV2.S remains active for at least eight months.
Moreover, the vaccine exhibits potent neutralizing efficacy against more infectious variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), including B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta), B.1.617.2 (Delta), and P.1 (Gamma) variants. The study is currently available on the
medRxiv preprint server while awaiting peer review.
Background
The Ad26.COV2.S is a recombinant, replication-incompetent, human adenovirus type 26 (Ad26) vector-based COVID-19 vaccine that contains prefusion-stabilized, full-length spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 as an immunogen.
•‘I am not bothered because HIV is a different virus’, says NACA DG
•Vaccine effort has not yielded success due to antigenic changes, says NARD
•Without effective vaccine, it may be difficult to eradicate disease by 2030, says Agwale
•Lack of effective vaccine for HIV still represent public health danger, says Ojo
•HIV pandemic will not just go away by discovery of vaccine, says Idoko
Unlike COVID-19, which took less than two years for scientists to develop effective vaccines, there is yet no functional Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) jab, four decades after the first cases were documented.
Indeed, the month of June marks 40 years since the first cases of HIV/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were documented, in 1981. Since that time, researchers and scientists have made huge strides in HIV treatment and today it is no longer a deadly disease, but rather a manageable condition.
Covid-19: How does the single-dose Janssen vaccine work and when will we get it? stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.