World Health Organization experts issued recommendations saying that the interval between administration of two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can be extended.
To get more first shots into people and give them at least some degree of protection, the UK says it’s OK to delay the boosters for as long as 12 weeks. But that strategy has been nixed in the U.S., where regulators say there’s no science backing the approach.
A major concern is that it’s unknown how long the partial protection from one dose can last. “There is no data to demonstrate that protection after the first dose is sustained after 21 days,” Pfizer said.
U.S. regulators agreed, saying too few people in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine studies missed their scheduled boosters to have enough data to show the strategy might work.
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physIQ announced today that Raquel C. Bono, M.D., a board-certified trauma surgeon and retired Vice Admiral of the United States Navy Medical Corps, has been selected as a member of the company’s Advisory Board. Dr. Bono retired from the Navy in 2019 as Chief Executive Officer and Director for the Health Agency. Most recently, she led Washington State’s medical and healthcare systems response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout her career, Dr. Bono has led the charge for disruptive change in the delivery of healthcare services.
Raquel C. Bono, M.D., a board-certified trauma surgeon and retired Vice Admiral of the United States Navy Medical Corps, has been selected as a member of physIQ’s Advisory Board. For more information, please visit www.physIQ.com. (Photo: Business Wire)
Why Didn’t San Antonio Police Immediately Apply First Aid To Darrell Zemault Sr. After Shooting Him?
Bystander videos show that officers waited a full minute before administering care.
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Courtesy Of Celeste Brown
San Antonio police officers waited more than 1 minute to apply first aid to Darrel Zemault Sr. after they shot him in front of his house.
The officers were attempting to arrest him for outstanding warrants when, they claim, he grabbed one of their guns, and an officer shot him in the back. But the San Antonio Police Department has not provided video footage and has refused to confirm that the alleged action was even captured on the body cams.
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TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. A transcript of the podcast is below the summary.
This week s topics include the impact of taxing and not taxing sugary beverages, who is using telemedicine, how often those with antibodies get reinfected with SARS-CoV-2, and health outcomes for wealthier Americans.
Program notes:
1:50 Reduction of about 90%
2:53 Second variant
4:24 Compared with 12 other developed countries